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If I recall, Wrigley Field was open for pedestrians, every day during business hours. They were trying to cultivate it as a lunch and hang-out spot...as well as keep business good for concessionaires.
This was in the day when people could be trusted to come to such a place, and NOT just start ripping seats, passing out from fentanyl, or fornicating on the field. Or, even, shooting the grounds crewmen, from the stands.
I never lived in Chicago, but I'd heard stories. It was part of their unique atmosphere. You'd have never seen that with Cleveland's Municipal Stadium, which was well off the regular paths, on the lakefront, cut off by a 1940s freeway.
If I recall, Wrigley Field was open for pedestrians, every day during business hours. They were trying to cultivate it as a lunch and hang-out spot...as well as keep business good for concessionaires.
This was in the day when people could be trusted to come to such a place, and NOT just start ripping seats, passing out from fentanyl, or fornicating on the field. Or, even, shooting the grounds crewmen, from the stands.
I never lived in Chicago, but I'd heard stories. It was part of their unique atmosphere. You'd have never seen that with Cleveland's Municipal Stadium, which was well off the regular paths, on the lakefront, cut off by a 1940s freeway.