It was in the Hemisfair Arena that the Baseline Bums were truly drunken and disorderly..! They were located right over the visitor entrance/exit onto the floor.
(no offense to present day Baseline Bums)
Moved to San Antonio just a few weeks before Hemisfair was demolished, never got to set foot inside. Any time I would see a game on tv I remember thinking what an odd arena it was with all the stairs/ramps in the upper level, shame I never got to see it firsthand.
Fun times at Hemisfair! Saw my first Spurs game ever there during Robinson's rookie season.
In the 86/87 season our high school band played played the National Anthem for a game. The seats they gave us were the worst, and the rest of the Arena was a ghost town. Don't remember who they played, but the Spurs got annihilated.
Very fun, though.
checkin in...
+1 on sneakin' in past the ushers...
Gervin was unstoppable when he was on...
george karl #22 with the long hair
red white & blue ball
good times
I wonder who were the architects that planned the roof raising! Bad job so many obstructed view seats and just looked bad, that being said the electricity was magical at spurs games and rock concerts, wish there would be a way to create another 10,000 seat or so arena for concerts and maybe UTSA basketball when and if they ever can become a mid major type school.
Not to be nit-picky but it was properly led 'HemisFair Arena' for the world's fair.
I was young but I have a few memories of HemisFair. My most vivid memory is of, what felt like, the entire stadium doing the wave. The seats were the type that would fold back up when someone was not sitting in them. I must've fell on my ass about 3 times when trying to sit back down.
Also, I think every game I went to see at HemisFair was against the Jazz. I think we lost every one of them. I hated the Jazz for that reason.
Why do I remember Convention Center Arena as well?
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My dad took me to the Spurs Lakers game when the Spurs won a protest and had to replay the ending of their previous meeting.
THis is the same day the Coyote debuted.
UTSA is in the process of drawing up plans for one as well as other projects because they are expanding like crazy.
Great place to watch a game. It never felt the same once they went to the cavernous Alamodome. Regular season games in Hemisfair were louder than Finals games at the Dome or AT&T.
Yep. Pre- and Post- raising the lid on it.
Present
I remember the loudness of what used to be the Baseline Bums. I remember when you could smoke in the arena, sometimes the smoke was so thick you couldn't see the players.You can't forget the $2.00 beer.
I've got one. I will try to scan it in and post it.
They were more concerned with getting the arena NBA-ready. The obstructions added to the uniqueness.
I still remember my first spurs game against the Bucks in Hemisphere Arena and I also remember going to the last two games played there against the Suns in the playoffs.
My sweetest memory of HemisFair Arena is the first and only time I got my dad and 2 of his surviving brothers of 7 to join up for game night there, must have been around '87. That was their first NBA experience.
Used to sit in the cheap seats with my dad and brother. Moved to SA right when the lid was being raised. Lots of memories.
So did I. Too funny. Those ramps were really cool. They were like large walking highways. Had we done some of the outlandish things now that we did back then, we would've been permanently banned from the facility.
WOW! No ?
Please do. I think everyone would like to see that again or for the first time.
I remember once purchasing a cheap obstructive view aisle seat. However, the view was so bad that I just gave up sat in the aisle.
I saw Metallica there.
And yes, it got loud in that place.
Unlike the Alamodome, the Arena was a great place to go to a concert. The acoustics were much better than the Alamodome will ever be.
I was once told that they screwed up when they were installing the acoustic tiles in the Alamodome and installed them wrong side out.
Neil was quoted saying that was his intention, to be "the loudest band you've ever heard!" He succeeded!
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