Baseball

They would get dinged up with sticks, skates, equipment or maybe shooting pucks - whatever.

Year after year, they'd just throw on another coat of paint - never sanding/scraping/surface preparation. By the 60s, there was about 1/4" thick layer of paint all over the locker room. The wood surface was kind of rippled or puddled with it as it had shifted/melted a little with time and pitted with previous gouges.

I was also surprised by how dirty it seemed to be. The coat of paint was the cheap way to clean it up I guess.

It's a lot different in pro locker rooms today.

My father had done engineering for that rink and knew the back ways to get to that locker room.

Why would I remember something trivial like the thickness of the paint in a locker room?