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I hope everyone reading this blog is taking note of the magical San Francisco Giants (yet again). Here at Bay Area Installations, we have been around so long that we have a special connection to our local rally points, and the Giants are no exception.
If you've looked around our site, you might have seen that there is an old picture of 128 King St, San Francisco, which is billed as our original warehouse. In fact, that was our warehouse when we were founded back in 1983. At that point, the district was drastically different. No sports bars, no fine dining, no Amici's pizza...and of course, no AT&T Park.
The old warehouse, which is now Pedro's Cantina, was rented by Bay Area Installations from it's inception in 1983, until 1996 when the powers that be decided that the new ballpark would be built. So people knew that there was money to be made on the real estate and they pulled our lease. We spent a couple of difficult months in the summer of '96 sweeping out expansive wooden floors of that building which had been our home for over a decade. Some of our more senior employees will tell you how they used to go up on the roof and look out over the water. What is now McCovey cove was then just a vacant dock. What is now the Giant's dugout was an empty strip of asphalt where we would park our cars in the morning to start the day.
When times are up, BAI had season tickets to the Giants, which would be given out as prizes or gifts to employees. So it is no wonder that a BAI contingent was in the crowd at Candlestick Park in 1989 when Will Clark hit a 1-2 pitch off off Mitch "Wild Thing" Williams to send the Giants to their first World Series since 1962. BAI employees were also at Candlestick when the 1989 earthquake caused a delay in the "Battle of the Bay" series. In the aftermath of the quake, getting out of the city was quite difficult to some of our team went to the King St. warehouse and spent the night.
Day in, day out, we try to provide good service to our customers, and do our part in the larger experience of America's economy. And it is very satisfying, especially during magical baseball seasons such as this one, to look back and remember how this spirit has been with us for over thirty years.