Friday, August 7, 2009

A couple quick images

The site is still being worked on, so I have an unrelated park render at the bottom as a placeholder until Fenway comes into being a little better virtually.

Here is the current progress taken directly from Vectorworks of Fenway Park, 1934. There are a few clear notable changes from current-day Fenway, namely in the left and right field corners. Before the 1940 renovation that added the Williamsburg section of bullpens in front of the RF bleachers, bullpens were on the field tucked against the foul line. In 1940 the left field area was filled in partially, though the 1934-era wall remained. In the mid-60s, the wall was removed for better access to the seating section, creating the look we know today.

In right field Osborne had a harder task: fitting in additional seats in an oddly-shaped corner. They ended up adding a set unit of 5 or so rows onto the front of the existing bowl, then adding individual rows on a case by case basis to make it fit with the 23' bullpen addition.

Here is a quick rendering directly from Vectorworks with rough skinning of the Green Monster without ads, before the installation of the screen in 1936. This version does not include the 1930s-era ads on the monster.



And finally, the monster's general state from the 40s through the sixties, and the current rough state of the park. The monster is missing ads for the 1940s version, and the light standards for post-1946.

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