Old Chicago Stadium Locker Room

This is a sign of what is meant when analysts refer to locker room culture.

Old chicago stadium locker room.

Hockey night in canada intermission feature from the 1985 playoffs. These sort of locker room celebrations have become a staple of saints postgame activities and it s great to see them return for 2020. In the locker room there were no cubicles just folding chairs and nails for your clothes the wirtz family which has owned the stadium since 1934 and the blackhawks since 1954 has always been accused of being cheap. The first professional football game held in the stadium was witnessed by 11 198 people on december 18 1932 when the chicago bears beat the portland spartans 9 0 for the league championship.

Opened on march 28 1929 at a cost of 9 5 million chicago stadium was the largest indoor arena in the world at the time. The ease everyone has in sharing camaraderie and how eager they are to cut loose are leaving it all out on the field. At the chicago stadium the old barn. Detroit s olympia stadium built two years earlier was a model for the chicago stadium and had a capacity of over 15 000 people.

Known as the madhouse on madison it hosted the blackhawks bulls national political conventions and even an nfl playoff game our historic chicago walking bar tour guests know that the billy goat tavern was originally right across the street. The old chicago stadium stood on the near west side for nearly 60 years until the united center replaced it.