Closing and Demolition
Six days after the Grateful Dead's 1989 show, then-Mayor Wilson Goode condemned the crumbling JFK stadium. The stadium was demolished on September 23, 1992.
The 1993 Philadelphia stop for the Lollapalooza music festival was held at the JFK Stadium site on July 18, 1993. The site was an open field as construction had not yet begun on the then still tentatively named "Spectrum II" (Wells Fargo Center). This was the show at which Rage Against the Machine did not play, in protest of the Parents Music Resource Center.
The Wells Fargo Center now stands on the site, which is part of the complex that also includes Lincoln Financial Field and Citizens Bank Park.
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Famous quotes containing the word closing:
“Our two eyes do not make our lot better; one serves us to see the good things, the other the evils of life. A lot of people have the bad habit of closing the first, and very few close the second.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)