Nieto is a retired preschool teacher and president of the San Diego Madres who lives in Temecula. Visit sdmadres.org for more information.
I have been a Padres fan since I was a young girl watching the Pacific Coast League with my father and brothers at Westgate Park (where the Fashion Valley Mall is now). I still remember the sound of foul balls hitting the tin roof and playing in the grassy right field. I lived in Mission Village and, when I was older, I would walk down Mission Village Drive to watch the Padres at Jack Murphy Stadium aka “The Murph.” I remember the gates would be open after the seventh inning and we would go and watch the end of games. My brother Mike and I got season tickets in Loge section 31 in the late 1970s. I learned to keep score from another Padres fan and since then, I find it helps me keep my head in the game.
– Ronald Reagan
June 27
1778 – The Liberty Bell is returned to Philadelphia from Northampton Town (now Allentown) where it is hidden until after the British depart following the Revolutionary War.
1833 – Prudence Crandall, a white woman, is arrested for conducting an academy for black females at Canterbury, Connecticut.
1893 – The New York stock market crashes. By the end of the year 600 banks and 74 railroads have gone out of business. This is why the period of time following the stock market crash of 1929 is called the “Great” Depression.
1922 – The first Newbery Medal for the year’s best children’s book is presented to Hendrik Van Loon for “The Story of Mankind.” The award is named for the eighteenth-century English bookseller John Newbery.
It’s a trick question.
So far as we can recall, no official complete live album was ever recorded at the now largely demolished Mission Valley stadium that used to be fondly known as “The Q” and “The Murph.” But The Who
did record three songs at The Murph for the English band’s 25th anniversary 1989 live double-album, “Join Together.” And part of Coldplay’s October 2017 SDCCU Stadium show was broadcast live at a Mexico City benefit concert on behalf of victims of that September’s Puebla earthquake.
The booming slap-back echo, an unmistakable trademark of the 67,544-seat stadium, did not lend itself well to live albums. Even so, the largest outdoor-events venue in San Diego County hosted dozens of memorable and not-so-memorable concerts over the decades. Its razing is expected to be completed by the end of summer, with San Diego State University’s new 35,000-seat Aztec Stadium set to open in September 2022.
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San Diego s landmark stadium in Mission Valley is disappearing in front of our eyes. For one man, the pieces are a reminder of his past of the project he helped bring to life as the stadium s architect.
For many San Diegans, the stadium is a link to their past, too. And since it ll soon be nothing more than a memory, many San Diegans who watched games, concerts, and fireworks in the stands are feeling a healthy dose of nostalgia these days.
But one San Diegan’s stadium memories go back further than most.