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Celtics Fans Get Creative
Two factors in the 1980s contributed toward an explosion of fan banners: older arenas that did not have enormous advertising signage, and televised games where producers looked for interesting things ...
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Good Neighbors at the Garden
Boston Garden sat across Causeway Street from the historic Bulfinch Triangle neighborhood. The mixed-use area was laid out by famed architect Charles Bulfinch on the grounds of the former Mill Pond. I ...
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Green Line To Go Green
Many fans arrived to cheer for the Celtics on what became known as the Green Line with its outdoor station on the Causeway Street elevated tracks. The station opened in 1912 to serve North Union Stati ...
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Hats Off to an Old Friend
While nearly everyone understood that the old Boston Garden could not continue to house the Celtics, it was still a sad day when the venerable arena closed in 1995. The team’s last home game took plac ...
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Home Court Advantage
A piece of the old parquet floor was on display at FleetCenter (now TD Garden) for the Celtics 50th anniversary in 1996. Over the years, many opponents – and even some Celtics players – complained of ...
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Honoring the Garden Tradition
Imagine what the final season of the Boston Garden could have been with Len Bias and Reggie Lewis. Bias would have been just 31 early in the 1994-95 season and Lewis just 28. The loss of these young s ...
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How Many Fouls?
In the years before high-definition scoreboards posted every statistic imaginable, manual signs helped keep track of the proceedings at Boston Garden. Boston sports fans, familiar with the manual scor ...
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Improvements, but Still 24 Seconds
While original NBA shot clocks were made from scratch, manufacturers had a chance to make improvements by the 1970s. Some of the advances included a black background as opposed to grey for better sigh ...
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In All of Its Garden Glory
With countless banners hanging from the rafters and a huge crowd in the stands, Boston Garden made a name for itself in sports history with all of that glory. Celtics fans enjoyed the arena for nearly ...
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In the Green Paint
Green-painted parquet is highly coveted among Celtics fans and collectors. This section had added value with autographs from some of the greatest players in franchise history. See if you can make out ...