Boston Garden is an arena in Boston, USA. Designed by boxing promoter Tex Rickard, who also built the third iteration of Madison Square Garden in New York, opened on 17 November 1928 as "Boston Madison Square Garden" (later shortened to "Boston Garden") and outlived its original name by 30 years. It's above the North Station, the railway station which was originally central to the Boston and Maine Railways and is now the center for the Railway and Amtrak Commuter Train train.
The Garden hosts home games for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League (NHL) and Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA), as well as rock concerts, amateur sports, boxing and professional wrestling matches, circuses and ice shows. It was also used as an exposition space for political rallies such as John F. Kennedy's speech in November 1960. Boston Garden was destroyed in 1998, three years after the completion of its new replacement arena, TD Garden.
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History
Establishment
Tex Rickard, a famous businessman and boxing promoter who built and operated the third Madison Square Garden, seeks to expand his empire by building seven "Madison Square Gardens" across the country. On November 15, 1927, Homer Loring, chairman of Boston & amp; Maine Railroad, announced that the plan had been completed for construction of a new North Station facility, which would include a sports arena. A group led by Rickard, John S. Hammond, and William F. Carey of Madison Square Garden Corporation, and Boston businessman Charles F. Adams and Huntington Hardwick, signed a 25-year contract for the arena. Sheldon Fairbanks was elected the first general manager of the arena.
Boston & amp; Maine shareholder Edmund D. Codman challenged the legality of trains that built a non-railway building. The Massachusetts General Court passed a law extending Boston's corporate power & amp; Maine Railroad signed by Governor Alvan T. Fuller on March 6, 1928. Codman's bill in equity was dismissed by Massachusetts Supreme Court Justice John B. Crosby in October 1928.
Built at a cost of $ 10 million - more than double the cost for the New York arena three years earlier - Boston Garden turned out to be the last of Rickard's proposed series, a decision triggered by the high cost and death of Rickard in 1929.
The Garden's first show was on November 17, 1928, a boxing card directed by Boston Native "Honey Boy" Dick Finnegan beat Andre Routis. The first team sporting event was held three days later, an ice hockey match between the Bruins and the Montreal Canadiens, won by Canadiens 1-0. The game was attended by 17,000 fans, 2,000 more than capacity, as fans without tickets stormed in. The game starts 25 minutes late. The windows and doors were damaged by fans in the action. The first non-sport event, a conclave featuring Rodney evangelist "Gipsy" Smith, was held on 24 March 1929.
Initial years
During the early years of Boston Park, the arena was owned by Boston and Maine Corporation and controlled by Rickard and Madison Square Garden. In 1934, Madison Square Garden Corporation sold its interest in Boston Park to Boston Arena Corporation, led by Henry G. Lapham. This resulted in the creation of the Boston Garden-Arena Corporation. George V. Brown served as general manager of the Garden under the Boston Garden-Arena Corporation until his death in 1937, when he was succeeded by his son Walter A. Brown.
During the early years of Boston Garden, the main result of the building was boxing, wrestling, and Bruins hockey. Johnny Indrisano, Lou Brouillard, Ernie Schaaf, Al Mello, and Jack Sharkey are one of the boxers who fought in Boston Garden. Wrestling became big due to Gus Sonnenberg's popularity. Sonnenberg beat Ed "Strangler" Lewis in the Park in 1929 in a bout that set attendance records for wrestling matches (19,500) and drew a record gate ($ 77,000). Paul Bowser promoted wrestling in Boston today and when the sport began to lose popularity, he brought Danno O'Mahony from Ireland to Boston. O'Mahony became a popular attraction in the Garden.
In 1930, the construction at Hotel Manger, a 500-room hotel connected to Boston Garden via an elevated elevated highway, was completed. The hotel (later known as the Madison Hotel) was closed in 1976 and demolished in 1983.
The park suffered economically during the Great Depression. Boxing was at a low point in Boston, as fighters chose to work in other cities, wrestling attendance down, and hockey attendance diminished after Ace Bailey suffered a severe head injury in the hands of Bruin Eddie Shore in 1933. During this period Sonja Henie Hollywood Ice Revue and Ice Follies managed to attract and make the Park afloat. In 1939, a financial dispute between Henie and his manager led Walter Brown and eight other arena managers to find Ice Capades.
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Design
Rickard built a special arena with boxing in mind, believing every seat should be close enough to see "sweat on the boxer's eyebrows". Due to this design theme, fans are closer to the player during the Bruins and Celtics games than in most arenas, leading to different hometown profits. This physical proximity also creates spectacular acoustic effects, such as the Chicago Stadium. When the team makes a playoff appearance, and the sold-out crowd chants or screams, the impact is huge.
Due to the success of the Celtics in the 1980s, Boston Garden was one of the most difficult buildings to visit the NBA team. During the 1985-86 season, the Celtics were 40-1 at home, setting an NBA record for home field tenure (before the San Antonio Spurs tied a record 30 years later in the 2015-16 season). They also completed unbeaten post-seasons at home. Combined with the next regular season, the Celtics Park record is an incredible 79-3 between the regular seasons of 1985-86 and 1986-87.
While the parquet floor is an important part of Celtics history, it was originally not part of the Park. The parquet floor was built and installed at the Boston Arena (the first house of the Bruins hockey team) and moved to the Garden in 1952. It said the Celtics knew which way basketball would bounce off every part of the floor; this is one of the factors that contribute to many NBA Celtics championships. The floor becomes part of Boston's sporting knowledge as the Green Monster of Fenway Park. Parquet flooring was used at FleetCenter until December 22, 1999. The original flooring section is integrated with new parquet.
The floor is cut into small pieces and sold as a souvenir along with chairs and bricks. The Naden/Day Industries overhead scoreboard (which is electro-mechanical, not electronics, due to the newer arena used) is hanging in Boston Garden themed food court from Arsenal Mall in Watertown, Massachusetts. The old Celtics championship banners and retirees now hung on team training facilities in Waltham, Massachusetts; a new banner set was created to move to FleetCenter (now TD Garden). Similarly, the Bruins made a new set of banners when they moved to FleetCenter, once again replaced after the 2011 Stanley Cup Final with six new banners, each using a Bruins contemporary logo when every Cup victory took place.
Disabled
Park hockey sized less than 191 feet (58.2 m²-25.3 m), about nine feet shorter and two feet narrower than standard (200Ã, ft ÃÆ'â € "85Ã, ft or 61 mà ¢ â,‰" € "26 m), because the arena built at the time of the NHL does not have a standard size for the niche. This size is even smaller than the standard arena of 200-by-80-foot (61 m * r-24-m) in the Boston Arena arena, still used in the 21st century for college hockey with new, widened 90-foot (27 m) improved in 1995, as the Boston Arena was the first arena to host the Bruins in 1924-25. Visiting players are often thrown from their games by different settings of the player benches are on the opposite side of the ice, as well as the non-standard penalty box location. The smaller ice surface allows the Bruins to throw the pieces in the offensive zone and then smash their opponents with inspection along the board. The shorter arena is perfect for the Brinins Bobby Orr climber; he can get from one end of the ice to another faster than in the standard size arena. The visitor locker room is very small, hot, and not serviced by pipes.
Tim's "Sports Timer" game system Bulova made by Garden used to design the typical analog clock-type clock dial that was said to have been installed in the Park in the early 1940s, and basically the same in appearance and function with one used at the Chicago Stadium until September 1975, was removed and replaced by a digital all-digital display unit created by Day Sign Company Toronto in time for the 1970 Stanley Cup playoffs, and remained in use until the Garden's closure. Today, the all-digital Garden game clock is a public display on the Arsenal yard in Watertown, Massachusetts.
The Garden does not have air conditioning, so fog builds up on ice for some Bruins' playoffs. During Game 5 of the 1984 NBA Finals, the heat of 97Ã, ° F (36Ã,  ° C) at the facility was so strong that the oxygen tank was given to the weary players.
The Stanley Bruins' Cup final appearance in 1988 and 1990 was both interrupted by a power outage. On May 24, 1988, a power transformer at the North End exploded during Game 4 of the Final between the Bruins and the Edmonton Oilers: the contest decided a 3-3 tie. Two years later, on May 15, 1990, the lights went out during the final match of overtime between the two same teams. However, the lights use automatic self-timer and can be played back now with the match ending with 3-2 overtime triple wins for visiting Oilers.
Important event
Music
Rudy VallÃÆ'Â © e and his orchestra performed in the Garden on April 21, 1932. VallÃÆ' Â © e returned to the Garden on 23-24 October 1938 for "battle bands" with Benny Goodman who withdrew 25,000.
The first rock concert held at the Garden was on 30 November 1956, when it hosted the "Freest's Biggest Show of 1956".
The Beatles played a show at the Garden during their first US/Canada tour on 12 September 1964, staying at the attached Madison Hotel.
James Brown played an important show at the Garden on April 5, 1968, the night after Martin Luther King Jr. killed. Only 2,000 attended the sold-out event, because the mayor, Kevin White, and community leaders have encouraged people to get refunds on their tickets and instead watch hasty television broadcasts from concerts at WGBH-TV local public stations. Mayor White appears on stage, asking Garden and city attendants to remember King peacefully, and James Brown's words and his presence are credited with helping to keep the peace in Boston. WGBH replayed the concert twice that night, an action that helped keep people off the street when other big cities erupted in riots. The show was released on DVD as Live in Boston Garden: April 5, 1968 .
Elvis Presley appeared in Boston only once, in the Park on November 10, 1971 drew a full crowd of about 16,500 and received high praise from Rolling Stone journalist Jon Landau for his performance.
In 1972, The Rolling Stones were scheduled to perform in the Park when two members were detained by the Rhode Island police. Fearing that an angry Stones fan (already at the Garden awaiting the show) will be noisy, mayor Kevin H. White intervenes with the Rhode Island authorities and guarantees the release of the musicians so they can play in Boston. The band also played at the venue in 1965 and 1969 and will return again in 1975.
In 1973, The Who was scheduled to appear in the Garden and barely featured because the band was detained by police after destroying hotel rooms in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where they had appeared the night before. The band was finally released from prison and managed to arrive in the Park in time for their performances and exhaust their frustration of being arrested the night before by providing a blistering set and mocking the Montreal police, dedicating their performance "Will Never Get Fooled Again" to them. Who drummer Keith Moon (for the rest of the Quadrophenia tour) changed one of the lyrics to "Bell Boy" from "remember the gaff where the doors we destroy" to "remember Montreal in our" destroy "hotel or a variation of the captured band.Almost three years later in March 1976, the Moon collapsed in his drum kit during the second song "Substitute" after down the muscle relaxants and brandy before the show.The band had to reschedule the show for early April and scheduled performances The birthday turned out to be one of The Show's best performances.
The Who's last appearance at the Garden was in December 1979 on their first tour after Moon's death. The performance was almost canceled after several fans at Yang's event in Cincinnati died trying to enter early for a public reception event. The Boston City Council held a televised hearing on whether to allow the event to continue and decided to allow it because there was no public reception in Boston. The show was colored by a fan who threw firecrackers onto the stage, causing Pete Townshend to scream in the general direction of the source before continuing with the tension-filled event.
In 1975, Led Zeppelin was banned from performing in Boston Park after concert fans were allowed in the lobby due to under-freezing temperatures while waiting for tickets to be sold for the band's performances. Activating the generosity of their host, some fans riot, break into the Park and destroy the seating area, ice, and most of the refreshment stands, leading the mayor of White to cancel the upcoming show and ban the group for five years. year.
In 1976, KISS was banned from performing in the Garden because the band refused to disobey the pyrotechnic venue policy after fire marshals witnessed their flamethrowers over the ceiling in the Orpheum.
Pink Floyd was the first band to appear in Boston Garden with a stage set that cost more than $ 1 million on their 1977 Animals tour (they first played there in 1975 on the band Wish You Were Here tour). According to Pink Floyd Nick Mason's drummer Pink Floyd, Pink Floyd is almost banned from Boston Garden after their 1977 show because the band, unknown to the venue owners, used fireworks during the their show (a pig that explodes for "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" and displays fireworks on "Sheep" and "Money"). However, the band's road crews outsmarted the fire marshals by removing pyro props quickly after they used them in the show to prevent the band being banned and also according to Mason's book ever since their manager had an Irish name (Steve O'Rourke), the band escaped capture. The band will no longer play the place, but chose Providence Civic Center and Foxboro Stadium on their 1987/88 and 1994 tours respectively.
The Grateful Dead performed in Boston Garden more often than any other band, with 24 shows from 1973 to 1994 (as an opening or middle bill or headliner), and intended to be the last band to play in the Garden, with six performances scheduled for September 1995, which was canceled due to the death of Jerry Garcia on August 9, 1995. The Dead did not play in the Park for several years after the incident in which they were caught roasting lobster on a fire escape before the performance. The Grateful Dead has released Dick's Picks Volume 12 and 17 taken from the show at the Garden on 28 June 1974 and 25 September 1991.
Detroit rocker Bob Seger recorded most of his double live album in 1981 Nine Tonight at The Boston Garden in October 1980. Five years earlier, The J. Geils Band recorded most of their November, 1975 shows in The Boston Park for their 1976 double live album Blow Your Face Out . The band Geils returns again, and has historical differences as the first band in history to sell three nights standing in 1982 in the Park featuring the favorite hometown of Jon Butcher Axis as an opening act.
Band Hometown Aerosmith performed at Boston Garden ten times from 1975 to 1995 and twice played New Year's show there, ranging in 1990 and 1994 New Year.
Other actions taken in the Park include Pavarotti, Frank Sinatra, Liberace, Duke Ellington, Judy Garland, Arthur Fiedler and Boston Pops, U2, Bruce Springsteen, Guns N 'Roses, Grace Slick with Jefferson Airplane, Jethro Tull, Bob Dylan with Band, Diana Ross & amp; Supremes, The Jackson 5, Styx and George Burns and Gracie Allen among others.
The opening of Worcester Centrum and Great Woods Amphitheater led to a massive decline in concerts in the Garden from the early 1980s to the early 1990s. The age of glam metal practically passes the Park completely, as most bands of that era play Centrum in the winter and Great Woods in the summer. Poor acoustics, busy exercise schedules, expensive booking fees, and difficulties with local unions all contribute to migration to more modern places outside of Boston.
Under the new Garden President Larry Moulter, the band began to return to the Garden in the late 1980s and early 1990s, highlighted by Pearl Jam's multi-night stand in 1994, and the long Dead residence there before Garden finally closed. The last New Year's Eve show at the park was performed by Phish on December 31, 1994. On this night, the band rode a gigantic hot dog over the audience; hot dogs are now at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.
Sports
The facility hosted games in 1929, 1930, 1932, 1939, 1941, 1943, 1946, 1953, 1957, 1958, 1970, 1972, 1974, 1977, 1978, 1988, and 1990 Stanley Cup Finals in which the Bruins won two of they were championships in the Park in 1939 and 1970. The 1929 Stanley Cup Championship was won at Madison Square Garden (III) New York. The 1941 Stanley Cup Championship was won at the Detroit Olympia Stadium. The 1972 Stanley Cup Championship was won at Madison Square Garden of New York. The 2011 Stanley Cup Championship was won at the Vancouver Rogers Arena. The facility also hosted games in 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1974, 1976, NBA, Final, in which the Celtics won nine of their championships in court The park also hosted the NBA All-Star Game in 1951, 1952, 1957, and 1964, and the NHL All -Star Game in 1971. The NCAA Frozen Four was opposed there from 1972 to 1974. Starting in 1955, the Beanpot tournament, featuring four major college hockey programs in the Boston area, is held in the Park every year in the first week of February.
Boston Garden was the first arena to host the Stanley Cup Final and the NBA at the same time in 1957. It happened again in 1958 and 1974.
The Boston Garden often hosted WWF Vince McMahon for years throughout the 1970s and 1980s, in the form of "home show" wrestling, and superstars like Hulk Hogan, Andrà © © the Giant, Randy "Macho Man" Savage , Tito Santana, Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat and many others regularly appear there. But apart from this relationship, Boston Garden is the host of only one pay-per-view pro wrestling in its history: Survivor Series 1993. WWF held their last home show at Boston Garden on May 13, 1995.
Conclave and speech
The Boston Park hosts many religious meetings. Evangelists who appear in the Park include Aimee McPherson (1931), Billy Graham (1950) Bishop Fulton J. Sheen (1953), and Jimmy Swaggart (29-31 July 1983).
The Garden is also home to a number of political demonstrations. 20,000 people attended 55th birthday celebrations for President Franklin D. Roosevelt on January 29, 1937. FDR also withdrew another 20,000 for the 1940 political rally. On May 2, 1943, the night after the Hollywood Victory Caravan came through the city, an anti-Jewish Rally-Nazi held in the Park. The Union War Fund organized a rally entitled Jimmy Durante, Greer Garson, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. A day before the 1960 presidential election, a rally for John F. Kennedy drew 20,000 while police estimated there were 100,000 more on the streets outside the Park. Other politicians to stage rallies in the Park include presidential candidates Thomas Dewey and Dwight D. Eisenhower and former Boston mayor and Massachusetts governor James Michael Curley.
Former Irish Prime Minister and President Eamon De Valera speaks in the Park On 24 March 1948 (Easter Sunday). The British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, spoke there on March 31, 1949 as part of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Convention.
Last year
In the early 1970s, Boston Garden got worse. The building was not air-conditioned and chairs were blocked by structural pillars. The chairs were decades old and very narrow. With a capacity of less than 15,000, it is one of the smallest major league sports arenas in the country. The Garden also does not have luxury suites, which has become an important and much-needed source of income for teams in professional sports. In 1972, Boston Mayor Kevin White announced plans for a new 18,000 seater to be built near South Station. Plans for the arena fell when Storer Broadcasting, owner of Boston Garden, announced that they would not be able to pay the $ 24 to $ 28 million needed for the new arena. In 1977, the Boston Celtics negotiated with the city of Quincy to have a $ 30 million arena, 21,000 seats there.
In 1979, the owner of Boston Celtics, Harry T. Mangurian, Jr. threatening to build a new arena unless Boston Bruins, the owner of the Garden, agrees to lower the rent. The team meets Ogden Corp, owner of Suffolk Downs, who proposes a $ 20 million arena, 18,000 seats to be built near the racetrack. They also met with the Boston Redevelopment Authority, which proposed $ 40 million, 15,000 arena seats to be built behind existing Parks and paid with state bonds. The Bruins meanwhile announced plans to move to a $ 50 million sports complex on the former Rockingham Park site in Salem, New Hampshire. Plans for the Salem site were eventually murdered by the New Hampshire General Court.
Responding to the Bruins' plan to leave the country, US Senator Paul Tsongas set up a committee to put forward a plan for the new Boston arena. The committee, headed by Tsongas, proposed an arena of $ 56.8 million, 16,000 seats to be paid by tax-free bonds submitted by the Arena Authority and by raising the hotel's commonwealth tax from 5.7% to 8%. The naming rights to the proposed arena were sold to the Sheraton for $ 2 million. Tsongas' proposal died in the state legislature.
In 1985, North Delaware Park owners and developers Rosalind Gorin each submitted proposals for the new arena, hotel, and office development. Both proposals were rejected by the Boston Redevelopment Authority and Major Raymond Flynn. The two groups then sent back the plan, with Northern Delaware calling for a Garden renovation instead of being demolished. Gorin's plan asks the city to claim the Garden by a prominent domain, as Delaware North refuses to sell Bruins and Parks to a group led by Gorin, Paul Tsongas, and former Bruins Wayne Cashman and Bobby Orr. North Delaware was awarded the right to build a new arena, but poor economic conditions delayed the project.
On May 8, 1992 Delaware North announced that it had secured funding for the new arena in the form of a $ 120 million loan split evenly between Bank of Boston, Fleet Bank of Massachusetts and Shawmut National Corporation. In December, a bill that approved the construction of a new arena was killed in the Massachusetts Senate by Senate President William M. Bulger. Legislative and Northern Delaware leaders sought to reach agreement on a plan for a new arena, but in February 1993, North Delaware owner Jeremy Jacobs announced he was stepping down from the project as a result of his company's legislative demands of paying $ 3.5 million in "relationship payments". Two weeks later, after a series of new negotiations, the two sides reached an agreement, and on February 26 the Legislature passed a bill allowing the construction of a new sporting arena. Construction began on 29 April 1993. Bank Shawmut purchased the naming rights for a new building with the intention of calling it the "Shawmut Center" but was purchased by FleetBank before the new arena opened, and thus "FleetCenter" opened on September 30, 1995. In 2005, FleetCenter changed name becomes "TD Banknorth Garden", as Bank of America has acquired Fleet Bank and abandoned the naming rights of its predecessor, selling it to TD Banknorth. In 2009, it was known as TD Garden.
The last official match played in the Park took place on Sunday, May 14, 1995. It was the fifth game of the NHL Eastern NHL quarter-final series between Boston Bruins and New Jersey Devils where the New Jersey Devils defeated the Bruins, 3-2, winning the four-game series into one and eliminated the Bruins from the Playoffs of the Stanley Cup 1995. The final show at Boston Garden was a pre-season game between Boston Bruins and Montreal Canadiens on 26 September 1995. In a special post-match ceremony, which included many former Bruins great players, banners and retirement numbers have been removed. The Garden sat empty for three years before being demolished in 1998. The place where it once stood is now a parking lot adjacent to TD Park.
References
External links
- The Boston Garden: Basketball
- The Boston Garden: Hockey
- Flickr. Photo disassembly 1998
- Boston Public Library. Boston Garden info & amp; photo.
- Concert Database
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