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Olympic Stadium (Hoquiam)

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football team. With an overflow capacity of 10,000, the stadium hosts baseball and football fields and receives plenty of use from teams such as the Bearcats football team, Hoquiam High School football team, Hoquiam Youth Baseball and Youth Football, the Comcast Outdoor Cinema, the Push Rods event,
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The all-wooden park appears to be one of the more unusual in the country, with the shingled exterior, the completely covered L-shaped grandstand extending all the way down the line in right and extending into the outfield. The seats are wooden grandstands, which overlook the fields which are in
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grant. In 1932, the grant was approved. Construction began in early 1938, with the stadium officially opening to the public on November 24, 1938. A renovation grant was awarded through the "
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which opened in 1938. The City of Hoquiam first got the idea for an all-wood stadium in the early 1930s when it applied for a
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opened for business. Prior to that the stadium last hosted professional baseball in the late 1990s when the
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shingles siding. Built in a truncated U-shape with angled corners, the open portion of the
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Event venues on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington (state)
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called this park home and is now the home of the Grays Harbor Bearcats, a
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National Register of Historic Places in Grays Harbor County, Washington
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The physical structure of Olympic Stadium is an old-growth
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Sports venues on the National Register of Historic Places
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