While the football team that calls itself the Chargers prepares to depart San Diego in a matter of weeks, the ghosts of stadium politics recent past are reconvening over Mission Valley and the Kevin Faulconer-led City Hall downtown.
This isn’t clear-skied 1965, for sure.
Back then, a stadium measure got 72 percent of the public vote. San Diego Stadium opened in 1967 as a scenic home to the Chargers and the San Diego State football Aztecs. The Padres made it a threesome in 1969.
Advertising its city as a can-do place, San Diego Stadium opened on time and on budget for the price of about $195 million in today’s dollars.