Candlestick Park (San Francisco 49ers)

Blanks are shredded bits of the plastic stadium seats mixed with complementary team-colored resin.

Available Sizes:

• Pen Blanks: Minimum 3/4" x 3/4" square
• Bottle Stopper and Ring Blanks: 1-1/2" round
• Full Pen Blocks: 6" x 5" and a minimum of 7/8" thick
• Knife Scale Pair: 2@ 5" x 1-1/2" x 3/8" minimum

All blanks include one Certificate of Authenticity (COA) per blank—a 4" x 6" card stock with foil-embossed seal, protected in a hard-shell plastic sleeve. Full Pen Blocks come with 10 COAs.

Most blanks are cut to order for freshness. Pen Blocks require a 2-3 week turnaround.

Candlestick Park: Niners' Windy Wharf of Gridiron Gold

Candlestick Park, the bay-breeze battered bastion of San Francisco sports, juts into the foggy fringes of the city's southeast, a multi-sport monument born of mid-century ambition. Conceived in 1957 as a baseball beacon for the Giants fleeing Polo Grounds, groundbreaking sliced the marshy landfill on June 20, 1958—fashioned from 26 million cubic yards of dredged bay mud into a $24 million concrete horseshoe by John Bolles. It flung open on April 15, 1960, with the Giants topping the Dodgers 3-1 before 42,253 fans under Willie Mays' watchful eye, instantly dubbing "The Stick" for its windswept whimsy and seismic shakes—evolving to embrace the 49ers in 1971 amid Bay Area's NFL fervor.

Ballooning from 32,000 baseball bleachers to a howling 70,207 football faithful on AstroTurf (standard 120x53.3-yard NFL turf, later grass in 2006), Candlestick brewed bone-chilling bay blasts where jets from SFO roared overhead and fog horns wailed—dimensions a passer's paradise: 100 feet to sidelines, 300 to corners under those quirky cove lights. Facelifts fogged in: 1971's $4 million football fix with upper decks and suites for Niners' arrival, 1986's $50 million seismic retrofits post-Loma Prieta quake (interrupting '89 World Series), 1990s' luxury lofts and club seats boosting to 69,732, and 2000s' turf swaps and videoboards—blending raw, rattling intimacy with quake-proof punch amid dual-sport scars till Giants' 2000 Oracle exodus.

Niners' nest from 1971-2013, Candlestick cradled five Lombardi triumphs (1981, 1984, 1988, 1989, 1994—all dynasty dashes), Joe Montana's "The Catch" (1981 NFC), Jerry Rice's records, and Steve Young's wizardry amid 400+ home wins and sellout streaks. Record roars hit 65,891 for 1984's NFC clinch, pulsing with playoff pandemonium, 1994's Super XXIX seal, and 2011's Harbaugh magic. Beyond gridiron gales, it hosted Beatles '66, Stones '75, and Ali-Spinks II, etching SF's eclectic edge into lore. Demolished in 2015 for a housing harbor, Candlestick endures as a windy testament to tenacity, triumphs, and timeless bay breeze in NFL's nautical north.