CANDLESTICK PARK IS TORN DOWN AFTER 55 YEARS OF LEGENDARY EVENTS INCLUDING THE BEATLES' LAST CONCERT AND TWO WORLD SERIES

• Candlestick park, which has been home to the San Francisco Giants and San Francisco 49ers, has been torn down
• It opened in 1960, and the last game was played there in Dec 2013 by the 49ers 
• The area is now set to become houses, a hotel and a shopping center
• It is where The Beatles played their last concert in 1966 
• Paul played the last concert at Candlestick Park on August 14, 2014

Candlestick Park is no more.

The iconic sports field, completed in 1960 and home to first the San Francisco Giants and later the San Francisco 49ers, has been torn down to make way for houses, a hotel and a shopping center. 

And in 55 years there was a lot of wind and a whole lot of fog, but there were also some remarkable moments thanks to the one of the greatest to every play football, the music of The Beatles, and one incredibly ill-times natural disaster.

Candlestick park, which has been home to the San Francisco Giants and San Francisco 49ers, has been torn down

The area is now set to become houses, a hotel and a shopping center

As for baseball, two World Series were played at Candlestick, in 1962 and 1989, with the Giants losing to the New York Yankees and Oakland raiders respectively.

The 1989 World Series went down in history however when during Game 3 a massive earthquake, which measured 7.1 on the Richter Scale, occurred shortly before play began. 

It was later said that the design of the stadium saved the thousands of fans who had turned out for the game.

The Giants left however at the end of the 1999 season, and the 49ers after 2013, and the last appearance at the park came not from an athlete, but a musician.

The Beatles made an unannounced live appearance in January 1969 but their final live concert took place on August 29th, 1966 at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, California. Only 25,000 tickets were sold despite the fact that Candlestick Park has a capacity for 42,500 people. A local company called Tempo Productions was in charge of the arrangement and due to the low ticket sales and other expenses this concert resulted in a loss for them. At 9:27pm the Beatles finally took the stage and proceeded to sing 11 songs: Rock And Roll Music, She's A Woman, If I Needed Someone, Day Tripper, Baby's In Black, I Feel Fine, Yesterday, I Wanna Be Your Man, Nowhere Man, Paperback Writer and Long Tall Sally. Knowing that this would be their last concert members of the band took measures of their own to capture their last moments on stage. Each brought a camera and Paul asked Beatles' press agent Tony Barrow to successfully make a rough audio tape recording from the field. The recording of this final concert is now widely circulated on bootlegs.

 

Policemen clear the field of enthusiastic fans as The Beatles perform on August 29, 1966

Paul performs live at the last event Farewell to Candlestick concert at Candlestick Park on Aug 14, 2014

Paul shut down the stadium with a performance on August 14, 2014.

Making the moment even more poignant was the fact that McCartney had a history with the park, as The Beatles played their last ever commercial concert there on August 29, 1966, almost 50 years earlier.

That tour was marked in controversy as it occurred after John Lennon had commented that the band was 'more popular than Jesus.'