Re: FleetCenter might replace parquet floor

[Dan Forant Sr <dforant1@nycap.rr.com>]

It's time to move on. Send it to the Smithsonian or offer to sell pieces to
stock holders and fans. 

At 11:40 AM 11/9/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Parquet floor might be off to the Hall of Fame: 
>
>http://cbs.sportsline.com/u/wire/stories/0,1169,1556686_54,00.html
>
>Excerpts: 
>>    Nov. 9, 1999 10:55 AM
>>    AP 
>> 
>>    FleetCenter and team officials are exploring the possibility of
>>    replacing the crosscut oak floor that is as old as the NBA.
>...
>>    Opposing players have complained over the years of so-called "dead
>>    spots" - areas where they say the basketball doesn't bounce the
>>    way it should.
>...
>>    Some of the sample floor panels the team and the FleetCenter are
>>    examining are much bigger, measuring 4 feet by 9 feet.
>> 
>>    "Whatever is done, we'd like there to be a continuity with the
>>    Celtic tradition," Delaney told The Boston Globe.
>> 
>>    Rick Pitino, Celtics president and coach, said he didn't know
>>    about the floor being replaced, but team spokesman Jeff Twiss
>>    confirmed that replacement samples have been examined.
>> 
>>    Original Celtics owner Walter Brown had the floor built for about
>>    $11,000 by the East Boston Lumber Co. in 1946. The floor was built
>>    from crosscut oak scraps from a Tennessee forest because of a
>>    post-World War II shortage of materials.
>
>Jon Mc