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Beaver Stadium, 1964

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Beaver Stadium 1964.

While I was waxing nostalgic in that previous article, I recalled that I had some old photos of Beaver Stadium from my time at Penn State. So, I thought I would share them with you. You’ll find them here

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  1. Tom Patton says

    As I was born (1955) and raised in SC and began going to PSU games when I was about 10 yrs old, you have provided a window into my past and triggered some great memories with your photos.

    Thank you.

  3. Jeff Koppel says

    Very nice photos, great memories. I was a high school senior in NJ in ’64 ‘ and just growing in to my PSU fan-hood. It was forever cemented in 1970 when i moved to Huntingdon, Pa. to teach at Juniate College. My first house was 30 mins door to door to the stadium.
    JK

  4. Bob Carmody says

    Definitely not as intimidating of a place to play as it is today, but great shots!

  5. Goose says

    The pictures are great! I would love to see more posted as I have been very interested in seeing the progression of downtown through the years. The idea of big old ’60s (and earlier) cars driving around SC sounds really cool

  6. Parkeyboy says

    Hey Turkey,
    I forwarded these pics to my parents. Both class of 63. I am sure they will get a kick out of them.

    My dad and I had a laugh awhile back when he told me that he ate breakfast every day at the Diner. The owner would always run him a tab when he had no money. “Ah those were the good days.” I then told him that I too was a frequent patron of the Ye Olde College Diner in the early 90’s. He then told me that he went to the New College Diner. Hello Geezerhood!

  7. The Nittany Turkey says

    Thanks, Goose. I’ll look around to see if I have any more photos, but if I have them they would be buried under several layers of sedimentary rock! Glad you enjoyed them!

    —TNT

  8. The Nittany Turkey says

    Parkeyboy,

    I used to hang out at the NCD after hours back then. I wouldn’t have run into your dad, though, because I got there the year after he graduated.

    —TNT

  9. TFrank says

    Great photos. I often miss the days before the Jumbotrons, piped-in noise, and luxury boxes. Of course it’s a lot easier now to make it to a bathroom during a game than when I started coming to Beaver Stadium 20 years ago…..

    Thanks!

  10. The Nittany Turkey says

    Ahhhh, yes…forgot all about those men’s room lines in the 60s. As I recall, rather than wait in line after the game, I used to water the grass in one of the fields on the way back to the dorm.

    —TNT

  11. Joe Semon says

    Great pictures. I was there in ’63 and after the Army to graduate in ’78. I remember being one of the colored blocks. I was wondering if you had any old pictures of Nittany Halls.? That’s where I stayed and they are now long gone.

    Thanks for sharing what you do have.

  12. The Nittany Turkey says

    Joe,

    I did take pictures of the Nittany Halls, but it was on a volunteer assignment for The Penn Statesman and Lord only knows where they might be. I don’t even have a copy of The Penn Statesman with my pictures in it!

    —TNT

  13. Bob Zang says

    I guess I am a real old geezer. Used to stand by the water tower and guys like Leon Gajecki, Pepper Petrella would give us youngsters a helmet to carry and then they would keep the campus cops at bay until we were inside the stadium. The team used to dress in the water tower.I was looking to see if I could find pictures of the old Beaver stadium. The new stadium,I believe, is on the site of the old cow and horse barns that wer there when I lived at State College(1935-1942)

  14. The Nittany Turkey says

    Bob, you sure have me beat for memories of PSU history. I don’t have any pictures of the old Beaver Stadium, but I do have a picture of the water tower. I hope it enhances some of your pleasant memories!

    —TNT

    PSU Water Tower

  15. Bob Zang says

    Nittany Turkey, Perhaps someone reading your website will come up with some. My Dad was a Evangelical minister at State college(now an Methodist church on the corner of Beaver and I forget the other street). The other sreet ran across College Ave and right up to Rec Hall. My oldest sister graduated Penn State class of ’38, and later was Dean of Freshman women until WW2 broke out. She was 3 years in Calcutta, India until the end of the war. I Enjoy your blog

  17. Bob Zang says

    Nittany Turkey,
    Thanks for the info. By the way, my brother Bill owned and operated the Mt Mittany Inn on RT 144 obove Center Hall from 1975 to 1990 when he sold it. It has burned down twice since then and I do not know whether it hasd been rebuilt.

  18. Bob says

    I was in the Block S in 1964. As a freshman, Blcik S enabled one to get much better seats.

    This must have been band day. Seeing the photo brought it back to me. It’s almost scary – a captured slice of time.

    A little smaller then I remembered, but then, I was a freshman.

    Graduated in ’68. The world had already started to change.

    Thank you.