Seattle Kingdome Tour (1992)

[@balsamwoods]

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[@chrisstenshoel5233]

Because I'm a dork, I cross referenced the scores on the scoreboard. The actual date of this video, is Thursday, June 18th 1992.

[@maxsilver8148]

I remember that the next day Batman Returns was open in theater. On a Wednesday too no less.

[@nickelasso]

At 14:16 he say's it's a Saturday. kzbin.info/www/bejne/h5-Xq31qocpraLM

[@oso7767]

That's today.. crazy I searched this up

[@davidsekowski1710]

That is awesome 👏

[@TTOMO]

Guess if it was Saturday, it was June 20th, and the scores from their last home game at the time, on June 18th, were left up until the next homestand (It says they started a road trip on the 19th.).

[@masterbspace]

Thank you so much for posting this!!! This is amazing! Brings back so many memories. I’ve been trying to find cool footage like this for years!

[@PopExpo]

Man look at Seattle back then. There's I5, Mt Rainier, etc. I was seven years old when this was taken, my mom was still alive, and my Grandpa was still alive. We just lived a little south from the dome in Auburn, Wa. I miss you Seattle.

[@Nickgantz12]

Thank you so much for posting this. For someone born in 1998, getting to visit the Kingdome was never in the question for me. As a stadium enthusiast, getting to live vicariously through you in the video is going to be the closest I can get to it. I love how it shows many of the unseen areas that aren't in photographs or other videos. Really puts me in your shoes and I feel like I was there. I bet it would've been so incredible to step on the field and look around in crystal clear vision, although for a video being 28 years old the quality is quite good!

[@balsamwoods]

Glad I could help. I shot it well before KZbin to share with family and friends and just re-live memories but it's nice to have stuff like this to share.

[@MTGThrownDown]

I remember going to Seahawks games when my dad had season tickets back in the old kingdome.

[@nicksomebody2300]

People said it was too dark and they called it a tomb. I like how dark it was, and inside the dome just looked so cool.

[@zachgordon99]

Not even half the lights are turned on inside

[@one7deep7savage7]

It was bright asf at the Mariners Games.. Looked dope when the fire works went off

[@briankady1456]

It used to be called the mausoleum too.

[@glendoucette624]

I live in Vancouver my father and went 5 times a year for games was always excited about the going to the Kingdome was a little sad that it was demolished good memories we had there

[@thelostboyscout1489]

Sooo many good times in there, from Evel Knievel in 74. Seahawks in 80's & 90's.. and many other events.. Long live the Dome!!

[@edwardioanciocirlan1489]

So cool knowing that the Kingdome is no longer around. Thank you for filming and posting this.

[@erinmsomers]

The concrete tomb..it was ugly but it was ours...first mariners game I went to was back in 1987 against the Red Sox..

[@agoo7581]

"We haven't had our dome collapse on us" 1994: "Hold my..." ah never mind. Thanks for posting this by the way. Great watch!

[@MelissaAndAlex]

I wish we had video cameras like we do now. I have so many memories watching the mariners in the 90s at the kingdome

[@wonglee2424]

Came up with the A's to work radio and worked the NBA 1987 All Star game loved the tomb lots of memories

[@glendoucette2204]

I am from Vancouver British Columbia Canada and when I was a kid me and my dad would cross the border many times to see the Mariners Super Sonics in the 90’s but going to the KingDome was always the highlight. When you are in that place a eerie feeling comes over you but not a overwhelming one

[@daveblev]

This brings back memories..glad this was recorded and uploaded.

[@lgtdiva]

Thanks so much for posting this. I spent many a season during baseball either FB line or TB line seats. Mom was a member of the Seattle Mariners Womens Club and one of the tours we took was to the organ around the time the organ lady got married.

[@Jarl_Thidrandi]

Seattle was much more blue collar back then. I used to love going there, now it's full of disgusting, degenerate lowlife liberals and the homeless problem they created.

[@GeoCrockerPot]

Thanks for holding onto this!

[@fly6ish]

Wow thanks for putting this up I remember going to hawks games here when I was a kid and met some of the players. Seattle was a different place then I definitely miss the 90s.

[@Andrew-xp9ox]

I've never had the chance to see the kingdome. Def would've loved to do at last a tour. Thanks for this video. Can't wait to visit Seattle and see TMobile park

[@dirtyharry5320]

"No recording devices allowed" No way you could enforce a rule like that today.

[@allane75]

Thanks for sharing This video brought back memories of my employment at the dome from 94 to 97 great memories

[@Trainy2]

Man, that place really was built bare-bones on the cheap. But it did have it's charms and the crowd atmosphere was way better than it is at Safeco.

[@Jarl_Thidrandi]

There was something special about it. Maybe it's nostalgia, maybe it's the fact that the M's in the 90's were a force, but I miss that stadium deeply, even though I can acknowledge that safeco, or "T-mobile field" (yuck) is a nicer place.

[@Trainy2]

@@Jarl_Thidrandi I loved how the crowd noise would echo. It was really awesome sounding when it would get loud.

[@tkaye2]

It had to be built cheaply because of the high inflation between the time the bonds were approved (1968), construction began (1972), and the project was completed (1976). The money had lost nearly a third of its value in that time.

[@andrewtalbert6067]

3:50 "We haven't had our dome collapse on us". Just wait...

[@geoffreyoneil3625]

when he started talking about washing the roof and then the tiles...

[@BBINGHAM032352]

My wife and I saw the Rolling Stones at the Kingdom in October 1981,the second day's performance.

[@LighthouseProductions1]

Brian Bingham how was the sound system, I always hear it was very echoey

[@BBINGHAM032352]

I was surprised how subdued the volume was but I don't recall it being echoey. Of course we were quite close to the front of the concert at first until my wife demanded that we move to the back of the crowd. I heard that there were about 76,000 spectators for that second day performance. I still have the newspaper article about the first day performance. The opening acts were The Greg Kihn Band and The J. Geils Band with excellent performances too.

[@camanimations9500]

3:51 just wait a few years

[@brickcop2gamingman305]

Wait till 2005

[@tweezerjam]

Stadium’s have come so far since then.

[@ExaltedSeahawksFan]

Wow Thanks for sharing, this brings back great times! I had countless sports memories in that thing, even when the original Sounders played there! I also remember the horrible concessions that were by facilitated by Ogden, and actual birds that got in there flying around inside too lmao! I can actually attest to have seen the Seahawks play home games in three different stadiums throughout the years: Kingdome, Husky Stadium, Seahawks stadium (2002) now Lumen Field.

[@balsamwoods]

Thanks for watching...glad I could bring back some nice memories!

[@ExaltedSeahawksFan]

@@balsamwoods 👍🏻❗️

[@GGMGameVODs]

I miss the Dome, I was in the Left Field Bleachers with my parents when McGuire hit the longest HR in that baby.

[@danielupsdell2697]

been there so many times remember when it opened

[@erickstine]

I miss the kingdump

[@seatownfunk2985]

Wow! Such a good video! Memories! 💙💚💙💚

[@eric_d4073]

Going inside and looking up at the roof the first time - really was amazing. Unfortunately, the Kingdome was built on the cheap and looked it.

[@richardgadberry8398]

Been there twice with my dad, both for M's games. Parked near 4th & Lander both times. Imagine a little chubby kid walking a friggin' mile to the Dome, then having to take a leak during the 7th Inning Stretch, then walking back that same mile. Good times. Haven't been to either the CLink or T-Mobile Park, and I don't intend to. Those venues suck.

[@eaglesyz]

Helped pad home run totals, a 400 foot drive would be about 475 in the kingdome. Griffey. Jr's home run total dropped once Mariners moved to safeco. Also when Seahawks played there, I never saw a field goal attempt fall short. Effrin Herrea had 45-48 yard field goal range outdoors, attempted a 60 Yard FG in the dome and was ride right, had plenty of distance. Joe Danelo from the Giants kicked 6 FG's in the Kingdome in a win over the Seahawks, including a 54 yarder that was 3/4 up the net and had 20 yards to spare, nonetheless I miss not seeing it when watching Seatlle games.

[@davidclark8543]

That Giants/Seahawks game in '81 at the Kingdome was my 1st ever NFL game I saw live! L.T.'s rookie season, one of the greatest NFL players of All-Time

[@eaglesyz]

Wasn't that the game in which Giants Kicker Joe Danelo kicked 6 FG's? Giants won that game. Danelo Kicked a 54 yard FG which would have made it from over 70 yards. Roger Staubach was commentating the game saying "That kick should have been blocked instead of saying what a great kick it was.@@davidclark8543

[@Ibhenriksen]

It sucks that nowadays they do not allow phones or cameras during stadium tours. I wonder why.

[@freakyfornash]

Probably because anyone can post the stuff anywhere, which would lose a bit of the appeal going there in person would be. That unlike back then when there was no internet as well. Paranoia is probably another reason, in the post 9/11 world we unfortunately live in for that matter too.

[@12thman75]

Thanks for uploading. Super cool

[@ankor1066]

Looks like the Tropicana Field but better.

[@stephenh5944]

Bench seats?

[@RandomGuy285]

I've never been to the Kingdome. I've never even been to Seattle. Yet I was totally enraptured by this. So weird to think that place has been gone for 20 years already.

[@ankor1066]

I was born just a few months after it was demolished.

[@jegr3398]

Seattle was pretty cool in the 80's, 90's and 00's. Kinda gone downhill since then. Still worth a visit if you've never been there

[@tkaye2]

In 2024, it will have been gone longer than it was standing.

[@HRDFK7941]

Awesome video! Thank you for sharing!

[@ericp6735]

I miss the kingdome

[@Lifeinpurgatory]

“No video recording devices allowed” what a savage

[@justinroark88]

5:24....you're about 2 years away from having to do that.

[@michaelhorner4011]

1992 , before most residents of CHAZ were even born !

[@geoffreyoneil3625]

At 7:20 the guide starts pushing for Edgar to make the ASG, which he should, but its funny because Griffey won the ASG MVP that year

[@PopExpo]

92, Nirvana was huge at this time.

[@connorroestel784]

Quick question was the baseball diamond set up in the same direction as it is for Safeco Field? What direction was the home plate entrance?

[@PhantomDreamer_]

AsSeenOnTV It was slightly different. The Kingdome's third base stands weren't parallel to Occidental.

[@dannydubya9410]

This place seemed awful in the best possible way. Wish I had gone in

[@vanhopecomedy]

I miss the bleacher seats of the 300 level, my whole family and I would crowd onto those.

[@rylandspencer]

Go to a high school football game at Tahoma High School in Maple Valley. The home side is full of old kingdome bleachers. WF West HS in Chehalis has 100 level seats in its football stadium. Snohomish HS baseball stadium has old seats as well.

[@nickw22689]

Unthinkable to have a big MARLBORO sign these days

[@Cton88]

Bleachers dude. Bleachers

[@geoffreylee5199]

The only pretty close to confirmed sellouts The Mariners get are from their expansion cousins, The Toronto Blue Jays. They raise the prices as these games are more like a Toronto home game. I saw The Pilots play on TV, once; R.I.P.

[@nickw22689]

Another fun fact, the Blue Jays have not been relevant since around the time this video was made

[@gstudios36]

I’ve never got see the inside, I like it too bad it’s gone. I’ve helped build the new ones in Seattle n ya there flashy and modern but I think the kingdome looked cooler

[@Pnw_Railfan_Aviation]

I miss them king dogs lol

[@lonniestephens6254]

I could only imagine if the Seattle Kingdome was being used for pro wrestling events.

[@WallStreetIceCream]

They should have kept it

[@ankor1066]

I would not have held my bets on it, it was dated, it was one of the multi-purpose "concrete donut" stadiums of the 1960s-1970s, the roof collapsed in 1994 during a pressure washing operation.

[@nickw22689]

7:20 Edgar Martinez, is he any good?

[@LIFEWITHTHEJONESES1]

Back when stadiums had cigarette advertisements

[@balsamwoods]

Yeah, it's funny seeing those. That and seeing people smoke in places that would be crazy today.

[@Krusen1022]

I saw Metallica with Guns N Roses there in October 1992.

[@Truckster_Metfan91]

Lucky

[@Truckster_Metfan91]

My uncle Pete did too

[@JC-11111]

Yea it didn't age well. Think about Texas Rangers stadium. It's been there at least 16 years and it still looks amazing!

[@marka.graffakasnakebitenat3736]

And now the Texas Rangers are in a new retractable roof stadium.

[@byfieldracing10b14]

Does anyone else think the Kingdome looks a lot like the Superdome

[@marka.graffakasnakebitenat3736]

It was modeled after the Astrodome in Houston.

[@oso7767]

6-18-2020 today

[@MrTommyg024]

No wonder the Mariners and Seahawks wanted that thing blown up. 😬

[@joecotobiasdoesstuff6741]

MrTommyg024 they didn't want it blown up the building was already very old and they needed a new stadium that's why

[@colbygleason2955]

Joecotobias Plays the stadium was one day away from it's 24th birthday when it was blown up. Not that old.

[@joecotobiasdoesstuff6741]

The FIB tiles and speakers fell if that why I think they brought it down it was getting old

[@vanhopecomedy]

Joecotobias Does Stuff The Dome was concrete so naturally it had a grungy look to it in the northwest. But King County pressured to have the roof washed when advised against it. The water built up in the tiles and they collapsed. The roof was not meant to be cleaned like that. The concrete structure was never compromised. Thanks to King County interfering people were nearly injured and workers died.

[@curtvote1099]

Everyone are so slim.

[@JohnLight-ci7lc]

Rip kingdom, all the memories of the Mariners losing, but there was that time they won the World Series😂😂😂😂 like that would ever happen

[@Veganphobic]

Tacoma dome is next at the rate it's going Looks like a dump

[@freakyfornash]

That building had always been a smaller, but a somewhat nicer, and more modern version of the Kingdome it seems. It's still going strong, despite being not much more than an alternate venue , which never had a full time major league tenant for that matter also.

[@tkaye2]

@@freakyfornashIt was the Sonics' home arena in '94-'95 while the Coliseum was being rebuilt into Key Arena, so it has had one major league tenant.

[@freakyfornash]

@@tkaye2 I know that, but by full time, I meant it never had a team playing there, save for the Supersonics using it for just an interim venue for that one season though.

[@PhantomDreamer_]

1992

[@PhantomDreamer_]

Unfortunately, I never got the chance to take a tour of the Kingdome, so this is the next best thing. Such a shame it was demolished.

[@kendowning6624]

Always looked creepy to me

[@RA-VEN8]

Led Zeppelin played there in 1977.

[@randallfloyd4476]

the wart.

[@mikes7446]

looked like a prison.

[@marblox9300]

When tax payers pay for stadiums - teams call them obsolete after 25 years.

[@Lee-y8w2b]

It should stiil be standing.

[@RA-VEN8]

I would've loved it if they tore the roof off and made it retractable, just remodel the place add grass, it's definitely possible.

[@stevep8445]

This and the "Big Owe" in Montreal worst stadiums.... Ever.. bar none

[@freakyfornash]

I went to Olympic Stadium for an Expos game in 97. That place sure was strange, and kind of eerie with seeing their typical low attendance in person! I could have never imagined a World Series being played there, which very well may have happened if not for the 94 MLB Strike also!

[@taneumjct5156]

Miss Seattle before it became a S hole

[@markpreston6930]

You were there in 1700?

[@cbraat27]

What an ugly building

[@balsamwoods]

Sure was! Thanks for watching.

[@dirtyharry5320]

At least it had character. Now we just have a generic open-air stadium just like every other major city.

[@SwagYoloBreshnlmonah]

hahahaha dis stadium suckd glad they demolished it!!!!

[@dirtyharry5320]

On my fucking tax dollars even though we voted against it! Could we at least wait until we were done paying it off?

[@SnoqualmieShredder]

1:20 I love how there’s a sign that says “no videotaping devices”. There’s no way they could get away with a rule like that today!