Veterans’ Stadium, the Vet, the Octorad, the dump, was notable for it’s awfulness. But, perhaps, it should be notable for another reason, too. While it had a transient population as high as 70,000, like most stadiums, it didn’t have a permanent population.
Or so we thought.
In The Secret Apartment: Vet Stadium, a surreal memoir, Tom Garvey explains that he, in fact, lived at the Vet from October 1979 to December 1981, in a hidden ramshackle apartment he had built out of a disused concession stand.
I’ll pause here and let you re-read that last paragraph.