Need some stadium lights? A scoreboard? Candlestick cast-offs heading to auction block

The flame is burning low at Candlestick Park, and with the final event there just a couple of weeks way — Paul McCartney’s farewell concert — the owners are holding an “everything must go” online auction.

An aerial photograph of Candlestick Park from 2008. An online auction will give everyday fans a chance to pick up some not-so-everyday items from the stadium before it is shuttered for good.

And by everything, the auctioneers mean everything. The coveted stadium seats went up for sale a few weeks age, but some not-so-obvious keepsakes will now go the highest bidder — including the copper wiring, scoreboards and laundry machines nestled deep in the bowels of the storied stadium.

The auction, hosted online from Sept. 10 through 12, will be administered by Heritage Global Partners, which has overseen the sale of assets from such famous and infamous entities as Solyndra, Amway Arena in Orlando and Enron.

When Enron hit the auction block, the 5-foot, crooked, stainless steel “E” icon, which was ubiquitous in media coverage of the company’s misdeeds, sold for $44,000, said Nick Dove, director of sales for Heritage Global Partners.

The items up for sale from Candlestick may not be quite so iconic. Among them are more than a few 150-foot-tall stadium light towers, boilers, generators, broadcast equipment and a 9-by-18-foot scoreboard — perfect if you have a couple hundred square feet of wall space you’re trying to fill in your sports den.

Need more illumination for that pick up game of flag football? This 150-foot, cage-style bank of roughly 120 stadium lights can be yours if the price is right.

Despite the non-sentimentality of bringing home a 60-foot light pole from the Candlestick parking lot, the auction will be a special one for Dove, whose family has run the company for 80 years and has been a 49ers season ticket holder for as long as he can remember.

“We’re Bay Area natives,” he said. “We’ve had season tickets to the Giants and 49ers for years, so this sale means something special for our family.”

Perhaps the crown jewel in the auction lot is this 18 by 9 foot scoreboard from the south side of the stadium. Now all you need is a place to mount this monstrosity and your game day experience will be infinitely enhanced.

To see which piece of industrial memorabilia you might want to bid on, check out the slideshow above or the full list of items up for sale.

Or, of you want to check out some of the items in person, there will be a public preview from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 9 at Candlestick.




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