The photo for today is an aerial view of old City Stadium in 1952, four years before the Packers stopped playing at that field. As mentioned before, Green Bay’s City Stadium was located behind East High School, and is still in use by their football team to this day. The grandstands were torn down decades ago, but the field remains the same.
The team could not remain a viable long-term franchise in the NFL while playing at the older field (and using the high school locker room for the visiting teams), so a drive was initiated to get a new stadium built, which happened in time for the 1957 season.
While the old City Stadium field was home to stars of a bygone era like Arnie Herber, Johnny Blood, and Don Hutson — a few of the Lombardi years stars played there as well, including Bart Starr.
