Astrodome Memories 1965

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devroshart

12 жыл бұрын

Edited film clips from a documentary set to music.

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@raygold1 3 жыл бұрын

I ran the centerfield scoreboard 1967-1969. The hand clap were my hands as we did that live.

@billymatthews7346 3 жыл бұрын

Class...so much Class... vs the product in today's world.

@Mikey300 2 жыл бұрын

Something I'll always remember watching the Pirates getting clobbered by the Astros on KDKA-TV--The Astros knocked four Pirates pitchers out of the box in about two innings. The first guy went out with the usual "Pitcher to the Showers" display; he pulled the shower chain and the stall filled with water. The second went out and the video board showed two sets of eyes underwater, with the caption "Two's Company". When the third guy went out, three sets of eyes appeared and the caption was "Three's a Crowd". Finally, the fourth pitcher went out, four sets of eyes appeared, and the caption was "Anyone for Bridge??"

@newmanoutdoors1564 4 жыл бұрын

some great old footage .

@jamesmccormick1173 9 жыл бұрын

Love the home run scoreboard.

@jehobden 2 жыл бұрын

I never got to visit the Astrodome until 1989 for an Astros game. Unfortunately by that time the scoreboard had been torn down to add more seats for the still-bad Oilers not to sell to their games on insistence from their owner, Bud Adams, and he ended up moving the team anyway a few years later. :(

@cherylbean521 2 жыл бұрын

First game played April 1965

@robertwayne808 8 жыл бұрын

I sure do miss going to games at the Dome. What a terrific ballpark it was.

@davidmullens7565 11 ай бұрын

My favorite building in the whole wide world. My first time there was the summer of '67....

@mikeypaco 11 жыл бұрын

I love you astrodome

@aaronberns8485 2 жыл бұрын

America was leagues ahead of their times when it came to stuff like scoreboard numerical and video display screens, and it's very impressive for 1965. All of our smartphones, projectors, LED clocks and computers were widely influenced by this technology.

@joeguajardo5092 9 ай бұрын

Went there in 72-73 saw Willie Mays Hank Aaron 12 years old

@kathylykke2386 8 жыл бұрын

SURELY, There are people in this great state ours Texas especially this city we live in Houston that want to save the Dome,it's truly a landmark and the first of it's kind in the United States not to say the man behind this was so much ahead of his times with his vision! I PERSONALLY have great memories as a child growing up in the Dome and watching my father pitch baseball games !!!

@oneu9ted919 8 жыл бұрын

Yor dad pitched for the Astros?

@kathylykke2386 8 жыл бұрын

Yes he did indeed!

@thebaseballking5038 8 жыл бұрын

+kathy lykke what was his name? That's cool.

@kathylykke2386 8 жыл бұрын

TURK FARRELL

@kathylykke2386 8 жыл бұрын

OneU9ted YES ASTRO'S & COLT'S

@selloutasaurus 7 жыл бұрын

That was Astronaut Gus Grissom on the right in the final shot.

@TheWds777 10 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing great memories!

@natewatl9423 7 жыл бұрын

You were headed indoors, so you dressed up.

@mjt2231 5 жыл бұрын

I love Houston so much I can't stand it!

@Ranger232 4 жыл бұрын

It would be so cool if the XFL Roughnecks could play in the Astrodome next season.

@mickmeekins52 9 жыл бұрын

Liking the music. Anybody?

@JENDALL714 9 жыл бұрын

You can thank former Dodger Walter O'Malley for the Astrodome! The dome was originally supposed to be in Brooklyn, the city wouldn't give him the funding, so he moved the Dodgers to Los Angeles, and the Astros took the plans and built the Astrodome!

@robertwayne808 8 жыл бұрын

+JENDALL714 What did they need an air conditioned domed stadium for in New York? It's not a tropical climate like here in southeast Texas. All they had to do was build O'Malley something like Shea was in Queens.

@Mikey300 2 жыл бұрын

Sometime in the 1970s, before the first rebuild on Yankee Stadium, the idea was floated to put a dome on Shea Stadium and AstroTurf it so that it could serve as a home for the Yankees, Mets, Football Giants, and Jets. William Shea, the namesake of the stadium, didn't like the idea (he felt that baseball was best in an open-air park), and the preliminary engineering study showed that the stadium foundations wouldn't support the weight of a dome (they weren't meant to do so in the first place). So, Yankee Stadium got its middle-age overhaul, and the first Meadowlands stadium was built for the Jets and Giants.

@Mikey300 2 жыл бұрын

@@robertwayne808 There was a battle between O'Malley and Robert Moses over where the new Dodgers' stadium would be built. O'Malley wanted to build it somewhere near Flatbush Avenue, but Moses supposedly wanted it out in Flushing Meadow, where Shea was built. Now, who would want to root for the "Queens Dodgers", anyway? :D

@1luiszepol 5 жыл бұрын

I saw it at a movie: Bad News Bears in Breaking Training.

@armorybrunotjr.3204 4 жыл бұрын

Yes. There is a scene in the 1977 comedy. "The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training" where the Bears are playing a five-inning preliminary game. The Houston Astros have a cameo as themselves. The huge scoreboard went off when the Bears belted a home run.