Seals Stadium and Hamm's Brewery: Difference between revisions

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Unfinished History

Seals Stadium from corner of Bryant and 16th looking northeast, c. 1958, during the first year of the Giants in San Francisco.

Photo: Shaping San Francisco

Seals Stadium from the air, 1950s.

Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library

Seals Stadium anchored the block between Bryant and Potrero on 16th St. for about 30 years, and was home to the SF Giants in 1958 and 1959 when they first arrived in San Francisco. When Candlestick Park opened in 1960, Seals Stadium was destroyed, and replaced by a White Front department store, which in turn made way for an Auto Center and Safeway, and is now known as the Potrero Center, a new mall opened at the end of 1996.

Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA

The former Hamm's Brewery (before that the Rainier Brewery), now an office building, used to anchor the northeast corner of the Mission at 15th & Bryant, adjacent to the Freeway and former Seals' Stadium. For a brief time it was home to a thriving punk rock scene and known as "The Vats."

Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco

Until the late 1970s/early 1980s the northeast corner of the neighborhood was still home to a large pocket of industrial sites with their blue-collar jobs, including breweries, a mayonnaise factory, a cement factory, several steel mills, and so on. This same corner was targeted by the pro-business Mayor Jordan as a "Biotech Development Zone," but community opposition derailed that. By the mid-1990s the area was being converted into offices and lofts, largely serving small media companies and their employees (e.g. SF Bay Guardian, KQED, etc.)

The Hamms Brewery, 1960s, with its famous giant beer glass made up of yellow and white light bulbs that filled and emptied all day every day.

Night shot of the famous cup.

Hamms Brewery at night, visible to all near and far thanks to the famous illuminated beer mug on top.

Photo: Shaping San Francisco

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+[[Image:Seals-Stadium-with-downtown-full-color-72dpi.jpg|720px]]
+'''Seals Stadium from corner of Bryant and 16th looking northeast, c. 1958, during the first year of the [[1958-1994: The Giant Years|Giants]] in San Francisco.'''
+''Photo: Shaping San Francisco''
+[[Image:Aerial Seals Stadium AAA-4899.jpg]]
+'''Seals Stadium from the air, 1950s.'''
+''Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library''
 [[Image:mission$1951-seals-stadium.jpg]]
-[[Post WWII Demise | Seals Stadium]]''' anchored the block between Bryant and Potrero on 16th St. for about 30 years, and was home to the SF Giants in 1958 and 1959 when they first arrived in San Francisco. When [[Candlestick Swindle | Candlestick Park]] opened in 1960, Seals Stadium was destroyed, and replaced by a White Front department store, which in turn made way for an Auto Center and Safeway, and is now known as the Potrero Center, a new mall just opened at the end of 1996.'''
+[[Post WWII Demise | Seals Stadium]] anchored the block between Bryant and Potrero on 16th St. for about 30 years, and was home to the SF Giants in 1958 and 1959 when they first arrived in San Francisco. When [[Candlestick Swindle | Candlestick Park]] opened in 1960, Seals Stadium was destroyed, and replaced by a White Front department store, which in turn made way for an Auto Center and Safeway, and is now known as the Potrero Center, a new mall opened at the end of 1996.
+''Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA''
-''''''
+[[Image:RAINier-brewery.jpg]]
-== Photograph of Seals Stadium which was home to the Giants when they first arrived in San Francisco in 1958. The stadium has since been torn down and is now the site of a mall. ==
+'''The former Hamm's Brewery (before that the Rainier Brewery), now an office building, used to anchor the northeast corner of the Mission at 15th & Bryant, adjacent to the Freeway and former [[Post WWII Demise | Seals' Stadium]]. For a brief time it was home to a thriving punk rock scene and known as [[M.D.C. AND THE VATS|"The Vats."]]'''
-Seals Stadium photo courtesy Greg Gaar Collection, San Francisco, CA
+''Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco''
+Until the [[Industrial San Francisco in the 1970s|late 1970s/early 1980s]] the northeast corner of the neighborhood was still home to a large pocket of industrial sites with their blue-collar jobs, including breweries, a mayonnaise factory, a cement factory, several steel mills, and so on. This same corner was targeted by the pro-business [[Mayor Frank Jordan|Mayor Jordan]] as a "Biotech Development Zone," but community opposition derailed that. By the mid-1990s the area was being converted into offices and lofts, largely serving small media companies and their employees (e.g. ''SF Bay Guardian'', KQED, etc.)
+[[Image:HAMMSALL.jpg]]
+'''The Hamms Brewery, 1960s, with its famous giant beer glass made up of yellow and white light bulbs that filled and emptied all day every day.'''
+[[Image:HAMMSCUP.jpg]]
+'''Night shot of the famous cup.'''
+[[Image:Hamms-at-night-via-FB.jpg]]
+'''Hamms Brewery at night, visible to all near and far thanks to the famous illuminated beer mug on top.'''
+''Photo: Shaping San Francisco''
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