Shoreline Amphitheatre
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Shoreline Amphitheatre is an outdoor amphitheater in Mountain View, California, USA, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It has a capacity of 25,000 with 6500 reserved seats and the balance as unreserved lawn seating. It was built from 1985-86 by the city of Mountain View in cooperation with local promoter Bill Graham. The premier season was during the Summer of 1986 and opened with Julio Iglesias. Each row of fixed seating at the amphitheatre has a pitch of three feet providing ample legroom.
The year it opened, a fan attending a Steve Winwood concert flicked a cigarette lighter and ignited methane that had been leaking from a landfill underneath the theatre. Several small fires were reported that season. After those incidents the city of Mountain View commissioned methane testing studies to define the locus of methane vapors emanating from the soil within the Shoreline Ampitheater[1]. These tests were used in developing a design for improved methane monitoring and more efficient methane extraction to assure the ampitheater became safe as an outdoor venue. Ultimately the entire lawn was removed to allow the installation of a gas barrier and better methane removal equipment. [2].
It has also been the site of every one of the Bridge School Benefit shows except one.
A close examination of the plan view of the site, i.e. the aerial photo, reveals that the amphitheater was a tribute to Bill Graham's favorite band. The design reflects the Grateful Dead's Steal Your Face logo.
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- ^ Methane testing in the vicinity of landfill environs, EMI prepared for the City of Mountain View, Ca., 1986-87
- ^ "20 Things You Didn't Know About... Garbage" DISCOVER Vol. 27 No. 06 June 2006, URL (google cache) retrieved 23 June 2006
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