Boston Garden was demolished in '97. When is your story set?
Mal: You know, you ain't quite right. River: It's the popular theory.
'Objects In Space'
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§ ita § - Aug 31, 2011 5:59:58 pm PDT #7303 of 10434
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
Amy - Aug 31, 2011 6:07:52 pm PDT #7312 of 10434
Because books.
Everything has a name/corporate sponsor now, and I hate it, too. But I try to console myself by thinking of things like Schlitz Playhouse of Stars and the like.