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| Title: | Can the old Boston Garden scoreboard be saved? Or should it rest in pieces? |
| Link: | Original article on nytimes.com |
| Region: | US |
| Topics: | celtics; saved; tye; look; big; garden; ink; td; pieces; scoreboard; rest; boston; old; Boston Garden; TD Garden; Scoreboard; Tufts University; Boston Celtics; Los Angeles Lakers; Incandescent light bulb; Mass (liturgy); Basketball; Stanley Cup Finals; Phil Esposito; Ray Bourque; The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; Bobby Orr; Jumbotron; Bill Russell; St. Louis Blues; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; NBA Finals; Gillette Stadium; Boston Bruins; Mixed-use development; Mother's Day; Boston Herald; National Hockey League; Overtime (sports) |
| Datetime: | 3/26/2026, 8:30:20 AM |
| Summary: | BOSTON — Perhaps you were at Boston Garden on the muggy Mother’s Day afternoon of May 10, 1970. You’d think the scoreboard from the old Garden would be on permanent display at the new Garden. Alas, most of what’s left of the old Garden scoreboard sits upside-down on a platform outside a warehouse south of Boston, closer to Gillette Stadium than TD Garden. With its various bulbs, circuits and wiring having been removed, it only looks like the scoreboard from the old Boston Garden if you show up there looking for the scoreboard from the old Boston Garden. However, act quickly, before time runs out on the scoreboard from the old Boston Garden.... |
