I had one employee this past year who called me "old man" and I enjoyed that, even more so when I was able to out-work him and his brother. I let him shoot my .50BMG and now he's headed for the service--wants to shoot something bigger--I guess he'll be assigned to a mortar crew or something. I guess trying to shoot over that old smokestack did it.
Did they tear down the old stadium? You could see it from the south end of the Point. And the area between there and the Bay Bridge was mostly empty, a few cranes, open space. Is Treasure Island still open? I think they processed submariners out of the service through there.
I was just kidding about the age.
The "old stadium" (built in the early 60's and called Candlestick Park) out at Candlestick Point is still there. The 49ers still play there.
The Giants play at the new baseball park, SOUTHERN BELL COMPANY (SBC Park), formely PACIFIC BELL (PacBell Park). It's about 1/10 of a mile south of the bay bridge. Nice park, they did a nice job. It holds only 42,000 folks and is state of the art. Reminds me of the Orioles park in Bal'imore.
Treasure Island is now home to:
project housing for welfare, Firefighters training and other odd assortment of things.
It's so beautiful and expensive a piece of property that the in-fighting in the political, legal and real estate circles is ferocious, even worse than the in-fighting over the Hunter's Point area.
In other words, everything is normal.