Visiting the CVHS Stadium

Your Boulevardier wandered down Redwood Road to check on progress toward completion of the new stadium at Castro Valley High School.

While the site is still a very active construction site, certain things looked very good: specifically, the artificial surface of the playing field, the bleachers on both sides.

The grand entryway is lacking its finished stucco coat, the parking lot and its landscaping are still unusable for parking and planting, the fencing around the stadium is not in place, and the temporary fencing around the site remains in place. To wit, some photos:




Your Boulevardier has some memories of the old Castro Valley field. Specifically, an old friend -- now a respected Doctor of Chiropractic and Christian Minister in the Sierra Foothills, but a bit of a hellion in his day -- knew how to turn on the old sod field's sprinklers, and would traditionally do so on Thanksgiving evening. The irrigation would run all night, and the next morning the field would be a soggy mess. Then the friend would host a "Turkey Mud Bowl" -- a football game whose sole purpose was to coat the players with as much mud and grass as possible. Such antics will not be possible on the pristine new artificial surface, but there's still the field at Canyon.