Great news though it will be in a few years...
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/kezar-pavilion-makeover-planned-18694520.php
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/kezar-pavilion-makeover-planned-18694520.php
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Good stuff. Put new boilers in there in 2017. I would assume they will not touch that room although it is the City so wouldn’t shock me if that changed as well.Great news though it will be in a few years...
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/kezar-pavilion-makeover-planned-18694520.php
Renovation of Kezar Pavilion is long overdue but reducing the seating capacity below 4,000 isn't. I was hoping it would eventually be replaced with a larger facility and some added decks of parking.Great news though it will be in a few years...
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/kezar-pavilion-makeover-planned-18694520.php
if you got natural bounce, you dont need enhancements....I've been on that floor, after a game... REALLY bouncy!
Funny thing, tho... Years ago, I talked to a guy who played some high school ball there, he didn't like it. He said it felt like you were running uphill from your own baseline to halfcourt, then felt like you were running downhill to the other end. He did like the bounce, tho...
I didn't... at least not with a one-foot leap like actual athletes... At a hair under six feet tall, I could actually stand under the rim and then jump two-footed and curl the fingers... If I ran up, I didn't have the coordination to get UP off one foot and often couldn't touch the rim at all.if you got natural bounce, you dont need enhancements....
god had a plan for you... its been fulfilled on your game reporting...I didn't... at least not with a one-foot leap like actual athletes... At a hair under six feet tall, I could actually stand under the rim and then jump two-footed and curl the fingers... If I ran up, I didn't have the coordination to get UP off one foot and often couldn't touch the rim at all.
Such is life, being a non-jock...
It was Sacred Hearts home court form when I went in 1987 up until the new gym was built. Not sure what years previous to that was it the home court. I remember first time JV year we played SI at home. It was jam packed at the end of our game. Loved the floor unless your head was on the floor during warmups while stretching. And there used to be this old character that would constantly yell REBOUND IRISH about 100 times a game. Saw some great WCAL games and believe Riordan versus McAteer one time when Wilson Stephens was at Mac.They use to play some of the Riordan - SHC - SI WCAL games there back in the 70s / 80s from what I have been told as the school gyms didn't have the requisite capacities. Not sure when they stopped hosting any of the in-city WCAL games there though.
Sacred Heart used Kezar at least since the early 40's. Maybe the 30's as well. During the 1920's, they used the original gym for games. It was where the auditorium used to be on the old building's site.It was Sacred Hearts home court form when I went in 1987 up until the new gym was built. Not sure what years previous to that was it the home court. I remember first time JV year we played SI at home. It was jam packed at the end of our game. Loved the floor unless your head was on the floor during warmups while stretching. And there used to be this old character that would constantly yell REBOUND IRISH about 100 times a game. Saw some great WCAL games and believe Riordan versus McAteer one time when Wilson Stephens was at Mac.
But was that for every league game is what I would wonder. And non league as well.Sacred Heart used Kezar at least since the early 40's. Maybe the 30's as well. During the 1920's, they used the original gym for games. It was where the auditorium used to be on the old building's site.
Makes the 75 year old Crusader Forum at Archbishop Riordan more impressive. Still the best HS gym in the area for both players and fans. Kudos to the planners of this venerable venue.The SH on-campus gym back in the day, though very cramped and lacking much seating at all, was OK for non-league ballgames if there were going to be few customers in attendance.
He means the 1952 gym. You should have seen the 1923 gym. (We all know which gym is the best in the Bay Area as though I haven't said it enough for the past 21 years).Makes the 75 year old Crusader Forum at Archbishop Riordan move impressive. Still the best HS gym in the area for both players and fans. Kudos to the planners of this venerable venue.
1) Bring back the WCAL Jamboree.Makes the 75 year old Crusader Forum at Archbishop Riordan more impressive. Still the best HS gym in the area for both players and fans. Kudos to the planners of this venerable venue.
Well, "Riordan" is an Irish name.I like the parquet... and there are more than a few places besides Boston with parquet anyway. I don't even know if Bahstin was first.
Plus sections can easily be replaced.I knew there were others... One that I've seen several times this season, the place where Caitlin Clark calls home at U of Iowa.
And I think the Orlando Magic's home court is parquet.
While I was looking around for info, I found that Boston *might* be first... The parquet floor was installed in 1946, and the pattern was chosen out of necessity. Homes were being built everywhere during the postwar boom, and quality long boards weren't easy to get.
In the late 80’s Bellarmine had a terrible floor. The sidelines and baselines were like a really sharp which and combine that with the fluorescent lighting it was strange.Im in the camp of the lighter wood floors as it makes the gym brighter. Bonus if the key/paint is same and not colored in. To the best of my knowledge, Bellarmine, Mitty, VC, SI, SH and SF have the light floors, Riordan the parquet, and Serra has the darker wood.
Before Livermore High recently unveiled their new gym, they had used an old airplane hangar as a gym for more than 80 years (since 1941).Before they built their nice new gym at Monte Vista Christian, the "gym" they had was built using an old Quonset hut, tin corrugated roof and all... This roof tended to condensate and drip on to the floor, which warped 'em up... The building was also wayyyyy too small, making the court's dimensions roughly 60-40... maybe... The roof didn't even cover THAT, so the walls were extended out... with a LOW ceiling.
Unaware players (the visitors) taking the ball out on the sideline often touch the ceiling with the ball if they raised it overhead. Also, heater units were placed so that unaware corner-shooters often hit the heaters with their shots, turning it over.
Adding to this was lighting that would have made this place a perfect setting for those film-noir movies.
Needless to say, the visitors didn't win often there.
The floor-warping got so bad that they had to rent gyms from around town in the years just before they got the new place set up. Oh, and those gyms were pretty awful too. In one case, whoever lined the court had ZERO idea what a basketball court looks like. I think the court was about 80' by 80', with one of the sidelines being well UNDER the stands.
It was like a B-movie version of the "hoosiers" gyms.
Farmer's hall in Gridley has been used since forever. Hence the name " Farmers Hall " It is part of the Fair Grounds. They bring Tractors in during the fair.Before Livermore High recently unveiled their new gym, they had used an old airplane hangar as a gym for more than 80 years (since 1941).