My father was on the crew that laid block brick of the Astrodome in 1963, first job he had after my parents got married. They use to pick them up in dump trucks off of N. Main and drive them all the way down there to the site, he said there was nothing down there after you passed Hermann Hospital and Rice U if you can imagine that, kinda crazy. My Mom said he used to come back home with bloody hands every day from laying that block. I want one of those blocks for my family. They need to turn that into the world’s greatest event hang out: put a hotel in there and build a massive food court with everything from all the best Houston restaurants. With all of the games and events at NRG it would be a no brainer: check in your room, grab a bite to eat, go to the Rodeo, Texans, OTC, concert, then go back to the dome for the after party with no drunk drivers on the road. That structure is an engineering marvel that is literally a nuclear fallout shelter, it was designed to stand the test of time and we should put it to good use because it has paid for itself. Love to my parents and to my city I was born in that I love so much. And Thanl You Mr. Dave Ward, always in my childhood memories.
@scottfarmer87584 жыл бұрын
2:50. That explains why a section of the roof was always dark.
@posaprel5 жыл бұрын
1995 selena sings there 2008 yall need to go were closeing
@RussiaNukesAmerica36 жыл бұрын
I remember going to the Astrodome as a teen and batters would actually hit the top of the dome with a baseball. Seems like baseball stadium engineering disaster.
@bentybaroon89386 жыл бұрын
RussiaNukesAmerica3 no, I don’t think that’s true. It’s physically impossible for a human to hit a baseball that high in the air because of gravity. The closest anyone ever came was Babe Ruth when he played for the Yankees, and the ball was still 10 feet away from the roof!
@RussiaNukesAmerica36 жыл бұрын
@@bentybaroon8938 i've seen it personally, batters hitting pop ups that actually hit the roof construction. It's was still considered a ball ' in play '.
@davidlafleche11424 жыл бұрын
@@bentybaroon8938 Babe Ruth died in 1948, 17 years before the Astrodome opened. The biggest problem with the Astrodome was that seating capacity was too low. Like most of the cookie-cutters, it seated only 50,000 or so for football. If they had planned for 60,000 or more, the Oilers might have stayed longer. Instead, the Oilers ruined the place by adding more seats where the scoreboard was.
@matthewjahnke49532 жыл бұрын
I remember going to the rodeo there. The Astros games. The football and baseball games.