Old Arena Images & Beginnings

BigBadBruins7708

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Wow. Is that what high school kids looked like back then? Some of theses guys look like 30 something divorced tax attorneys spending most of their time in the pub complaining about their ex-wife and child support.

hahaha, to be fair in 1902 an 18 year old could've easily had those issues
 
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blood gin

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Wow. Is that what high school kids looked like back then? Some of theses guys look like 30 something divorced tax attorneys spending most of their time in the pub complaining about their ex-wife and child support.

Yep, and smiling wouldn't be invented for another couple of decades either
 
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James Laverance

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The St. Bon's Forum in St.John's, Newfoundland opened on January 23rd, 1923 and is the 5th oldest arena in the World after the Calumet Colosseum(1913), the Sage Rink, Clinton NY(1922), Galt Arena(1922), and the Hobey Baker Memorial Rink(1923) and is attached to St.Bonaventure College.
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People playing Hockey on a rink next to the College in the early 1900's
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Tarantula

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The Allman Arena in Stratford opened on December 15th 1924.(The 6th oldest Hockey Rink)
It's where Howie Morenz (the Sratford Streak) first played and where Wayne Gretzky scored his first goal, at age 9.
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Been to this place numerous times, decades ago. Considering a trip out next fall to see a game here and at Galt. Thanks for posting!
 

blood gin

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Chicago Stadium

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Size wise it just seems like such a small venue. The layout was different from say a Boston Garden. But they crammed 17k+ in there rather than the 14,500 or so the Garden sat

Almost looks like if you jumped out of your seat in the upper deck you'd hit your head on the roof

Supposedly with standing room you could get it up to 18,400. Where on earth did they find standing room?

What was that Canadian Club? Some sort of early luxury suite? Or lounge?
 

blood gin

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Met Center in Bloomington. Reminds me a lot of the pre renovation Nassau Coliseum. Met Center only sat around 15,000 or so. Seems to have great sightlines though. I remember it always came across very bright and crisp on TV

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DJ Man

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Hockey played on Jackson Square Hamilton in the 1960's.
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Not the bus at the far left side of the picture: it's electric. It has antennae (or whatever those diagonal things are called) in contact a track of overhead wires.

I remember such buses used in Chicago when I was very young (i.e., later 1950s). These were, of course, limited to the streets where the tracks ran, up there near the telephone and other electrical wiring. I think that they were capable of turning corners while staying connected, though they mostly ran on straight lines anyway.

They dropped sparks all the time. Some times the contacts would come loose and the bus would stall, so the driver had to get out, go up on the bus roof and shove the towers back into position, with much more sparking. Once. we got stuck until a repair crew came out.

Upon seeing a bus running without the connection, I was amazed. Adults explained to me that the new ones were the buses of the future, powered by gasoline just like an automobile or truck. Indeed, within a few years (my perception), the electric buses and their tracks had been entirely replaced. I'll bet that they were gone by 1960, or a short time afterward.

Maybe Hamilton was behind Chicago in this regard.
 

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