Philly Spectrum to be demolished

[89Hen]

http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=nhl/news/newstest.aspx?id=4164957

Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) - The Spectrum, home of the NHL's Philadelphia Flyers and NBA's Philadelphia 76ers for nearly 40 seasons, is set to close its doors next spring and will be demolished.

The building in South Philadelphia opened on September 30, 1967 with the Quaker City Jazz Festival. It was the home of the Flyers and 76ers until both teams moved into the nearby state-of-the-art Wachovia Center in 1996.

Inevitible, but still sad. Growing up it was JFK, the Spectrum and the Vet in a row. The sad part for me is it was 'born' the same year as I was (Flyers too) so I kinda feel like my days are numbered too. xeekx :p

[dbackjon]

http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=nhl/news/newstest.aspx?id=4164957

Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) - The Spectrum, home of the NHL's Philadelphia Flyers and NBA's Philadelphia 76ers for nearly 40 seasons, is set to close its doors next spring and will be demolished.

The building in South Philadelphia opened on September 30, 1967 with the Quaker City Jazz Festival. It was the home of the Flyers and 76ers until both teams moved into the nearby state-of-the-art Wachovia Center in 1996.

Inevitible, but still sad. Growing up it was JFK, the Spectrum and the Vet in a row. The sad part for me is it was 'born' the same year as I was (Flyers too) so I kinda feel like my days are numbered too. xeekx :p

Don't worry, you are not on the "to-be-demolished" list...

[89Hen]

I was getting worried. Can you name the movie I had in mind?...

http://www.weblogsinc.com/common/images/1364827626193572.JPG?0.25409615200301483

[bluehenbillk]

Here's a Spectrum Trivia Question for ya:

Who was the first employee that had their office moved from the Spectrum to the then-CoreStates Center, and then have it moved back to the (Core States) Spectrum?

[andy7171]

I saw the Harlem Globetrotters crush the Washington Genereal in the Spectrum way back when!

[89Hen]

Here's a Spectrum Trivia Question for ya:

Who was the first employee that had their office moved from the Spectrum to the then-CoreStates Center, and then have it moved back to the (Core States) Spectrum?
Clarke?

[aust42]

Many fond memories of the Spectrum growing up in South Jersey and going to the U of D. Saw many a Flyers/Sixers game and several great concerts. I can now say "back when I was a boy" I attended events at the Spectrum, Vet, and JFK in Philadelphia, now all gone. Of course now our new Stadiums are much nicer.

[Ivytalk]

I remember when the roof blew off! It had only been open for a couple of years then. Lots of fond memories, but it is obsolete. What will they replace it with? More parking?

[BlueHen86]

I was getting worried. Can you name the movie I had in mind?...

http://www.weblogsinc.com/common/images/1364827626193572.JPG?0.25409615200301483

Is that Logan's Run?

[89Hen]

I remember when the roof blew off! It had only been open for a couple of years then. Lots of fond memories, but it is obsolete. What will they replace it with? More parking?
Says restaurants and shopping. Not sure how that will go over. I can't imagine anyone going there on dark nights. xconfusedx xeyebrowx

[SunCoastBlueHen]

I have probably been to the Spectrum a dozen times -

One Flyers game, one Sixers game and ten or so concerts. :)

I guess I won't actually miss it that much. xpeacex

[Go...gate]

Probably the right thing to do but sad. I saw a lot of events there and always liked the place. Easy to get to, as well.

[TwinTownBisonFan]

http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=nhl/news/newstest.aspx?id=4164957

Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) - The Spectrum, home of the NHL's Philadelphia Flyers and NBA's Philadelphia 76ers for nearly 40 seasons, is set to close its doors next spring and will be demolished.

The building in South Philadelphia opened on September 30, 1967 with the Quaker City Jazz Festival. It was the home of the Flyers and 76ers until both teams moved into the nearby state-of-the-art Wachovia Center in 1996.

Inevitible, but still sad. Growing up it was JFK, the Spectrum and the Vet in a row. The sad part for me is it was 'born' the same year as I was (Flyers too) so I kinda feel like my days are numbered too. xeekx :p

forgive my Philly ignorance (i lived in bucks county for a mere 6 months). JFK? I know the Spectrum, I know the Vet... but what was JFK?

I feel like this is pretty obvious, but I'm not familiar with it.

[LeopardFan04]

JFK was home to the Army-Navy game for many years, and the Eagles played there briefly...also hosted Live Aid...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JFK_Stadium

http://eaglefans.com/eagles/stadiums/jfk.jpg

[Go Lehigh TU Owl]

JFK was home to the Army-Navy game for many years, and the Eagles played there briefly...also hosted Live Aid...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JFK_Stadium

http://eaglefans.com/eagles/stadiums/jfk.jpg

JFK was a pretty cool looking stadium. I somewhat remember it as a kid going to Phillies/Eagles games before it was torn down in 1992. My uncle attended the last event there, the Grateful Dead concert on 7/7/89. What a great concert that was too.

Here's an awesome pictorial someone did before JFK was torn down.

http://www.geocities.com/jfkstadiumphilly/

[ngineer]

Many wonderful memories there. I will be sad to see her go, but her time has come...:(

[93henfan]

My uncle attended the last event there, the Grateful Dead concert on 7/7/89. What a great concert that was too.

I "attended" that one as well. I put attended in quotations because I don't remember all of it!

Luckily someone recorded it: http://www.archive.org/details/gd89-07-07.sbd.wiley.7855.sbeok.shnf

JFK was an enormous stadium, btw. After Live Aid, they left a lot of the billboards up, so even at the GD concert years later, there was still a large Feed The World sign running the entire top of one side of the stadium. It was really falling apart before it was condemned.

[93henfan]

RIP Spectrum. You will be missed:

The Flyers Win The Stanley Cup - 2 Million Celebrate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-feMY5gi1M


Dr. J Throws One Down
http://www.phillymag.com/blogs/philly/wp-content/uploads/0108DailyExaminer/drjspectrum.JPG


Greatest Shot in NCAA History
http://www.bu.edu/alzresearch/team/faculty/images/laettner2.jpg


Flyers beat Soviet Red Army Team
http://tenderslounge.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/bernie_parent_cover-of-time-magazine.jpg

The Hammer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2n6hjH3Ze4
http://www.iplayedthegame.org/images/P_122_SM_DaveSchultz154-155_300X236.jpg

[BlueHen86]

I'll miss the Spectrum. I had Flyers season tickets for many years, the Spectrum had a lot of character - much more than the Wachovia Center IMHO.

[Go...gate]

JFK was home to the Army-Navy game for many years, and the Eagles played there briefly...also hosted Live Aid...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JFK_Stadium

http://eaglefans.com/eagles/stadiums/jfk.jpg

Also The Who's 1982 tour stop in Philadelphia.

[ngineer]

I think one of Marciano's famous title defenses was held at, then, Municipal Stadium.

[89Hen]

Also The Who's 1982 tour stop in Philadelphia.
Was there for that one, The Clash got booed big time. Saw The Police there in 1984 too, little known REM was the opening, opening, opening band.

[BlueHen86]

Also The Who's 1982 tour stop in Philadelphia.


Was there for that one, The Clash got booed big time. Saw The Police there in 1984 too, little known REM was the opening, opening, opening band.

I was there too.

I saw The Who three times: 1979 in the New Haven Coliseum, 1982 at JFK in Phila, 1989 at the Vet in Phila. - none of the three venues are around today - but The Who still is.

[AshevilleApp2]

Also The Who's 1982 tour stop in Philadelphia.

I went to a "Welcome Summer" concert in JFK in the mid-'70's. Lynyrd Skynyrd, Peter Frampton, Dicky Betts and Great Southern and The J.Geils Band. Pretty cool stadium.

[89Hen]

I was there too.

I saw The Who three times: 1979 in the New Haven Coliseum, 1982 at JFK in Phila, 1989 at the Vet in Phila. - none of the three venues are around today - but The Who still is.
So who is the harbinger of death? You or The Who? I saw them last spring at the Phone Booth in DC. xthumbsupx I completely missed the VH1 show last night though. xoopsx xbangx xoopsx xbangx

[89Hen]

Pretty cool stadium.
Somebody else said that too, didn't they? WTF are you guys smoking? That place was a friggin dump. Sure it was nostalgic, but c'mon.

[93henfan]

I remember camping in the JFK parking lot to get tickets to see Pink Floyd at the Vet in ~1989. I saw both Floyd and The Who that year at the Vet. Even in the cavernous Vet, The Who was unGodly LOUD!!!

Used to love the shows at the Vet. As soon as the lights went down, the security ringing the field was always bum-rushed by the lower bowl running on the field. It was futile to try to stop it. Then the 500, 600 & 700 level folks would come down to take the lower level. By the end of the show the upper deck was usually only half full.

I also was arrested for underage drinking before the summer 1992 Metallica show at the Spectrum. IIRC, it was about two months before my 21st birthday. I had to pay a fine, which was reduced by attending a seminar at UPenn. Worst part was having to dump a case of Mickeys.xsmhx

[AshevilleApp2]

Somebody else said that too, didn't they? WTF are you guys smoking? That place was a friggin dump. Sure it was nostalgic, but c'mon.

It was the mid-'70's, what do you think I was smoking? xnodx

[ngineer]

I was at the Army-Navy game in 1969 as a guest of the now defunct Philadelphia Evening Bulletin as one of the Delaware Valley 'scholar athletes' representing Owen J. Roberts H.S.:D We were given a luncheon at the "Blue Line Club' at the Spectrum before the game. I thought I'd made the big time..xrotatehx xrolleyesx