Video: Kings vs Houston 1985/86 Playoffs

[Ryan]

This is great stuff! I just found this on youtube. Footage from out first season in Sacramento. CLASSIC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgcF-glJy2E

 

[Darren]

Hhahah. Why was Woodson booed?

 

[Nikefutbolero]

Is that Arco? Why does it look so different?

 

[Ryan]

Is that Arco? Why does it look so different?

No, that's where they played before the current Arco. I forgot what it was called.

 

[Warhawk]

No, that's where they played before the current Arco. I forgot what it was called.

ARCO I.

Current arena is ARCO II.

 

[nebs]

On the matchups screen Eddie Johnson was matched up against Olajuwan.

I remember going to Arco I a few times as a kid. I think it used to be a hospital before they turned it into that arena? Only held something like 10k people.

 

[nebs]

Hhahah. Why was Woodson booed?

It sounded more like a play on his name.. Wooooooooooooodson?

 

[DocHolliday]

Hahaha...I didn't even remember that the Kings were in the playoffs in 85/86. I was a kid growing up in Daly City. I actually grew up a Lakers fan, so right about then I was a Lakers fan still.

My family moved here in 87, and I ddin't really start paying attention to the Kings until 93-94. That was a little while after the old guard of the Lakers had gone away and the new thug team started to be built, and I didn't really respect or like them, so I turned my attention to the Kings.

Looking back, I would have been filled with a lot more Joy staying a Lakers fan in all those Kings and Lakers battles haha.

 

[WVF]

Isn't Arco I still standing?

 

[Nikefutbolero]

Arco 1? Where was/is this?

 

[6th]

Fantastic! Talk about memories. The noise meter was lit up and I think it stayed that way. This 1st playoff game in Sacramento Kings History. Remember the painted wooden stairs and the wooden floors?

1985.....what a great year in Sacramento history. I never sat in the lower level of ARCO until there was an ARCO II.

 

[6th]

Arco 1? Where was/is this?

It was right out by what is now ARCO II. They built the current ARCO while we had games in ARCO I.

 

[WVF]

Wikipedia has all the answers:

http://basketball.ballparks.com/NBA/SacramentoKings/oldindex.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARCO_Arena_(First)

On December 19, 2005, the California Department of Consumer Affairs moved their headquarters into the building.

EDIT: Is this Arco 1?

 

[6th]

That looks about right, WVF. I know it was on North Market Blvd. We used to get there by taking Northgate off of I-80. There was no Truxel Rd originally.

 

[Mike0476]

Yeah, that's the location of the old arena. I might take a drive up there, take some pictures later this week and post them here.

 

[Ryan]

And if you click on that blue dot on Arco Arena, you can see a picture that I took.

 

[supamari0]

Weird to see the days when Ralph Sampson was an all star. My how he fell apart quickly.

 

[Circa_1985_Fan]

I think it used to be a hospital before they turned it into that arena? Only held something like 10k people.

Arco I was an arena first, it held 10,333. When Arco II was built in '88, Arco I then was bought by Foundation Health, gutted, re-designed, and served as a medical facility until Sprint bought it.