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The world's first baseball park designed to include extrawide, "fan-fitting" seats for the ultimate in spectator comfort, is nearing completion in San Francisco, California. When the Giants move into new Cancllestick Park, fans will sit in the most comfortable, modern and widest stadium chairs in the world. A total of 40,000 comfort-contoured seats, 20 to 22 inches wide, ratl,er than the usual l9-inch seat, are being installecl by American Seating Company, world's largest producer of public seating.

The stadium, when completed, will have more width seats than any other ball park. This assures comfortable seat, regardless of indiviclual size or variations. Placed side-bv-side. the seats would form tinuous row,27 miles long.

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. The seats, with riser attached to facilitate cleaning and washing down stands after games, are designed to require a minimum of maintenance. A special water-repellant chemical treatment of the natural wood finish seats protects them from damage and warpage due to rain or dampness. This saves San Francisco taxpayers an additional sum in original painting and periodic repainting of the 320,000 individual pieces of selected hardwood contained in seat backs and rails.

The largest single order for stadium seat installation on record, a total of 300,000 board feet of lumber was required to mauufacture tl,e Candlestick Park seats. The 300 softtextured elm trees, harvestecl for the wood, if laid end to end, would reach a distance equal to six times the length of the Golden Gate Bridge.

To transport parts for the 40,000 seats, 34 railroad boxcars carried 296 tons of cast-iron seat standards, 5,000 pounds of aluminum nuts and bolts, lumber, and other seat parts from Grand Rapids, Michigan, home of American Seating, to San Francisco.

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