Does it have to be a big public event, or just the building being open? The only likely daytime sports thing is going to be practice, but think in terms of conventions and the like for daytime off-season use.
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amych - Aug 31, 2011 5:56:07 pm PDT #7302 of 10434
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
§ ita § - Aug 31, 2011 5:59:58 pm PDT #7303 of 10434
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Boston Garden was demolished in '97. When is your story set?
amych - Aug 31, 2011 6:01:17 pm PDT #7304 of 10434
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
The Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Bailey Circus has two afternoon performances a day the weekend of October 15-16.
Relatedly, it depresses the shit out of me when stadium names get sold to the richest corporation, ferfucksake.
§ ita § - Aug 31, 2011 6:02:37 pm PDT #7305 of 10434
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
There's a new Boston Garden?
amych - Aug 31, 2011 6:04:08 pm PDT #7306 of 10434
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
There's a TD BankNorth Garden. Which everyone calls the Garden/Boston Garden, but it's a huge and possibly irrational thing of mine.
Amy - Aug 31, 2011 6:04:26 pm PDT #7307 of 10434
Because books.
TD Bank, I think.
§ ita § - Aug 31, 2011 6:04:43 pm PDT #7308 of 10434
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I remember when that was the Fleet Center. I didn't know it had been renamed.
amych - Aug 31, 2011 6:05:34 pm PDT #7309 of 10434
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Yeah, banks? Not actually as eternal an institution as we once thought!
Juliebird - Aug 31, 2011 6:06:39 pm PDT #7310 of 10434
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Well, TD Bank Garden, but they still call it the Garden (damn, I took too long posting!), so wikipedia tells me. Modern day. June.
(ita, close your eyes)
I just want to have it there in the background, something they're hearing from a nearby shop, so that when I get a character actually in it, it'll be known that it's a sports/concert arena, and I'll get to be punny about it being a reference to the Garden in Supernatural's Heaven without having to stop and explain the building too much.
For some random reason (mostly so I don't get called out on inaccuracies) I've been going out of my way to not actually outright say the story is set in Boston (also so that I don't get too hung up on details while still drawing on what's there and what I remember growing up near there).
amych - Aug 31, 2011 6:06:45 pm PDT #7311 of 10434
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
But you're totally right - it's not the Garden.