excaliber
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http://theeyeopener.com/2011/01/university-in-talks-to-name-mlg/ there just sneaking things in now
http://theeyeopener.com/2011/01/university-in-talks-to-name-mlg/ there just sneaking things in now
When did the awning get nixed? It's in all of the renders, and I figured it would be gone by now if they really wanted to remove it.
This is true. eyeopener has an article about it. They're looking for a sponsored name.
Lets go over the things they told us and changed
A) The original lobby would exist - GONE
B) the original scoreclock would be re-tooled - GONe. maybe 1 face of it was saved for the HHOF
c) the seating would be sold or reused - no answer yet
d) the awning on the front would remain - it appears not.
e) it would still be called "Maple Leaf Gardens".. It WONT be just Maple Leaf Gardens anymore.
f) They were going to sell pucks of the ice pad..... Never happened.
I don't remember reading anything about keeping the lobby (what's to keep?), the name of the building or concrete ice pucks. Several thousand seats were auctioned or sold for a period of time several years ago. Losing the scoreboard sucks, but the average person would never see it anyway, same with losing the awning as it does hold special significance although it's been renovated several times over the decades.
Anyways..It was an oversized piece of junk
Unlike something like this from the Chicago Stadium that was worth keeping.
Ryerson isn't managing public expectations very well at all: the PR people should have issued gag orders on promises relating to anything of historical value. Now the perception (rightly so) will be that Ryerson and Loblaws can't be trusted with important heritage sites.
Anything is better then what happened to the Montreal forum.
So if they fix up MLG and do not keep the centre display (which apparently had no historical significance) they can't be trusted with "important heritigage sites"?
It had significance to me. And most leaf fans that remember going there! So its BS. I'm not sure the old scoreclock wasent modified into the new one.. who knows. Either way. I hate Loblaws and Ryerson for butchering this place to death. Its character is dead.
Not sure what all the fuss is about here. As others noted, the iconic "original" (if it even was the original) clock shown above was replaced/revamped long before the Leafs moved out of the Gardens.
Would there have been any way to retain the character you want and still turn it into a grocery store with a university icepad on top?