Ikr ? Here in Canada they finished building a brand new stadium with less than half a roof... In a city that gets snow for 5 months and desert heat for 3... No wonder we never get any concerts around here
So many great memories... I received a set of four seats as a birthday gift the year they were auctioned. They’re in my man cave where we continue to watch the Lions break our hearts every Sunday.
I lived in Pontiac MI from 1974-1980. We went to the Silverdome several times and I can still remember how it felt to have that rush of air blow against you as you enter or exit the structure
I went to the dome once when i was a little kid. the huge blast of air is my only memory of it. (I don't even remember why my folks took me there, lol)
Some people say that on some nights, when the wind is quiet, and the smell of yesterday is in this ghostly stadium, that you can still hear the slam heard around the world. When Hogan picked up 550 pound Andre the Giant and drove him to the ring canvas as the world shook and the heavens trembled. RIP Silver Dome,we shall never forget.
As a swede this stadium holds a special place in my heart. We played two very memorable games at the Silverdome in 1994 in the World Cup. One of them was played on Midsummer's Eve which is one of our main hollidays and the Swedish commentator uttered a quote which has bow become a classic one in Swedish sports. "Now we're celebrating midsummer at the Pontiac Silverdome"
I remember watching on TV, the annual Thanksgiving day classic football games. The 1976 game featured Buffalo Bills running back O. J. Simpson rushing for 273 yards and scored two touchdowns in a 32-14 loss to the Detroit Lions and the 1980 game between division rival Chicago Bears and Detroit Lions in a very short overtime game. Also 1994 World Cup soccer and Pope John Paul II held papal mass in that facility.
True, Ford Field and Comerica park are within a Football field of each other, and Little Caesars is within ten miles of, the other stadiums, the palace is getting demolished, I forgot where the Red Wings played before Little Caesars, and everything else is within walking distance
@Ob1tuber Little Ceaser’s Arena is Kiddie Corner from Comerica Park across the Freeway, they're surrounded by parking structures. Across from Comerica is The Fox Theater and a block down is The Fillmore
I was there too! Just a kid. Was waaaaaay up near the top. I still remember when Hulk Hogan body slammed Andre the Giant. The crowd noise figuratively blew the roof off of the place!
Jake, would you ever consider re-doing some of the first episodes? I guess it would only make sense if there were updates to the story but it would be nice to hear about them in your current level of quality!
Bright Sun Films They are still very informative - you guys have always done the same level of research. You just hadn't quite found your comfort zone yet as far as recording the audio. 😉
The problem is that given the requirements and inability to have support an incredibly light material designed primarily to retain heat was the best they could do.
for anyone that doesn't know the Pontiac brand was owned by General Motors (also from Detroit), among their other popular brands like Chevrolet and Cadillac and etc during the 2008 bailouts, General Motors was forced to close the doors on multiple brands, like Pontiac, Hummer, and Saturn - all of which had been underperforming in the years leading up to the bailout - Pontiac's flagship model, the G8 (a rebadged Australian Holden) was sitting at car dealership lots going largely unsold
Idk why I’m so fascinated by abandoned buildings. Especially the dome. All those amazing events and all those memories and life that was once there. And then just left to ruin. Man just amazing. And sad..
This was actually a really interesting video, living in the UK I had never heard of the Silver Dome even though I have travelled to the US multiple times, it seems a shame that such a historic stadium was left to waste away when it had so much potential.
Yeah, it’s shame. Once Ford Field was built, there just wasn’t much reason for the Silverdome to exist anymore. (It’s now fully destroyed.) It’s kind of ironic. Back in the 1960s and 1970s most American professional sports stadiums were built out in the suburbs, where the economy was stronger and much of the fanbase lived. Now in the 21st century, teams are building new stadiums in the core of their downtown areas again, because that’s where the fanbase has moved. A lot of these suburban stadiums like the Silverdome are just left behind.
Well They made 6 playoff appearances in the 90s but 5 of those were losing in the Wild Card. And The Farthest They've went was 1991-1992 season and They would lose by 31 Points in the NFC Championship.
This is where the " Slam heard round' the World" happened!!! Also the match between Macho Man and Ricky Steamboat which has been cited as one of , if not THE, greatest wrestling match of all time... Alot of wrestling history here , and most from one night when 93 thousand people attended.
1337er Star Boy that would be a good idea since most cities can't take care of the large stadiums that they built for the Olympic. Also why do people build expensive buildings to just use for only about 2 week, while some were not in use for the full 2 weeks, and then abandoned after the Olympic is finished.
Shit. I'm gettin' old. I remember when the Silverdome opened. Doesn't seem like that long ago, although I guess it's been 42 years of so. Damn. Time flies...
Breaks my heart to watch this video...was 5 years old when my dad took me and my older brother to a tigers game in the silverdome, barely a 10min drive from home. That was in 1984, and sadly we moved far away in 1985, so i have all these memories from the best time of my childhood life, growing up in Fox Hills near Pontiac...going to the four Bears park and Chucky Cheese. And now i'm finding out it's all gone, abandoned, destroyed, rotten.... Chucky Cheese closed down in the 90's, 4 bears park got completely removed from the face of the earth over some scandal...half the houses in that residential area are empty. The elementary school closed down 2 decades ago because no kids lived nearby....and i still dream about waiting on the school bus, goofing around with my neighbour friends...popping tar bubbles on the road in summer, playing hide and seek, smashing up that pinata when our guatemalan buddies had a birthdayparty... Man i miss the 80's, last decade before internet and social media...
I grew up in Pontiac. Saw the Lions play at the Silverdome a handful of times. Last time I was there was a year or so after the Lions stopped playing there - there was this huge flea market thing organized for a weekend. The Silverdome is pretty representative of what happened to the entire state of Michigan as a result of outsourcing of manufacturing jobs. It's almost poetic that a foreign company bought it and destroyed it.
As a 21 year old Michigander, I have always heard about the Silverdome and have passed it on the road a few times, but I never knew it had this much of a huge and important history!
As a Minnesotan, I'd suggest doing a similar episode for the Metrodome! I don't know how interesting it would be for people from out of state, but I've always been curious to find out more about it now that it's been replaced with a new stadium. Most Minnesotans seem to have had a fond feeling for the Metrodome and don't care much for the new US Bank Stadium, so I bet you could get some good interviews or information.
I was born in and grew up around Lansing, MI. I never got to go to the Silverdome, but seeing this makes me almost tear up. Such a famous and historic stadium left abandoned and will soon be gone forever :(((
This was so neat to watch, I remember going there all the time for lion's games and the Monsterjam shows back when it was still popular. what surprised me from watching this is how big it actually was compared to Ford Field and the other stadiums. What's kinda similar is that The Joe Louis arena (For The Red Wings) is closing and being replaced with a new arena as well (Little ceaser's Arena). And a plan to get all the major sports teams together in the same area in downtown Detroit is resulting in soon to be closeing of the Palace Of auburn Hills (where the Pistons Play). Super neat video, and super interesting to watch something thats in my local area. Keep up the great work!
PredatorGaming Oh no the Palace is closing??? I grew up in that area, so close that both my brother and sister used to work there. Many fond memories of concerts, the Pistons, the Vipers, etc.
Predator - Don't forget the proposed Soccer stadium at the unfinished jail property. We would be the only state in the union to have new stadiums for FOUR sports all within walking distance of each other.
I remember when the Palace was built and it is not just your average Blah stadium but as it's sitting in Auburn Hills that property is waaaayy too valuable to just try and make something work. Heck, the city recently did an odd mock-up of new zoning for that property because they were salivating so badly to have that land broken up
Ah yes, the famous Pontiac Silverdome, where two of the greatest wrestling matches happened, Hulk Hogan vs Andre The Giant for the WWF championship, and Ricky Steamboat vs Randy Savage for the Intercontinental championship. Awesome video by the way. Also can you do the Astrodome, which is a stadium in Houston,Texas.
Do North Wilkesboro Speedway in North Carolina, an abandoned NASCAR race track, operating from 1946-1996, and lost it's then Winston Cup races to more modern facilities in Texas and New Hampshire. The track was instrumental to the birth of NASCAR.
Absolutely wonderful quality show with Jake and the BSF team always knocking it out of the park with new each episode. This is episode was like your "Like A Prayer", a total HIT. This video will be huge and will totally be on trending I'm sure, I'm hoping for a million+ views. And I used that analogy because bae featured Madonna in this video ❤️! Goals 😂😍😚🤗. Thanks for entertaining us. Shoutout to Sarah for producing such great work out of our man Jake!!
I can't stop watching these videos! I love that you do a great amount of research and explain the history of properties/companies from the very beginning. Keep up the great work, I find this stuff fascinating!🤗🤗🤗
As a kid in Australia at 6 years old, this place was like a Mecca to me. The Pontiac Silverdome was hyped heavily in the lead up to Wrestlemania 3. And on the night it looked epic. Has a special place in many 80’s kids hearts worldwide.
Seems to me an Giant example of our plastic throw away society ! We should build places that can grow or adapt and that can be used for hundreds and even thousands of years ! More foresight and appreciation for the human condition is necessary ! Cool video :)
@@PrezVeto when the system is based on unlimited growth it's not incentivizing foresight. If foresight were incetivized the system wouldn't come crashing down every 8 years. We can and should do better.
Americans do not really care for history. We just want new, new, shiny brand new, and this goes for architecture as well as internal amenities. It's why many US cities struggle keeping up history buildings or areas. (NYC has really busted ass keeping historic buildings well kept at all cost).
every time bright sun post I drop everything and watch. have seen every episode and have been here since the beginning you really do deserve many more subs
I had a friend I worked with from Pontiac, and much like BSF he is very interested and passionate about history and abandoned buildings. Back in mid 2016 he was able to take me in there to explore. The offices, press boxes, and administrative suites look like they were frozen in time. To this day it's the most surreal and breathtaking experience I can remember.
Man the memories of this place. As a Michigan born I've been here quite a few times over the years. I was there when the last monsterjam was held there before they closed their doors. Sad to see this icon in this condition
Fun fact - The Silverdome never actually hosted a professional football team. That would imply the Detroit Lions were ever a professional football team...
My step dad lived in Pontiac and the Detroit area his whole life up until 2009, when he moved to California during the recession. He was lucky enough to live 5 minute drive from the stadium. People would often park in his driveway or grass or front yard rather than parking at the stadium. He said when the Lions were making the playoffs or during the World Cup, that you could hear people cheering from his front yard.
and a few years b4 that Hogan slammed Andre in Shea Stadium..But someone else slammed Andre & it was the last only real true world champion...NWA. Champion Harley Race
Yeah but Race slammed a lighter Andre who was in better shape so he could do the proper technique when being slammed much easier. The 87 Andre was much heavier and was suffering more from acromegely(SP?) so he couldnt help Hogan as much with the technique. I know this probably doesn't make sense lol. Its hard to explain via text.
As a kid in the U.K. back in the 80`s i used to watch ball game footage from over in the U.S. and be totally blown away by stadiums like this ! (we had nothing that came even close over here) .. it`s kinda sad how some of them have met their demise ...
Dude if it were me and I owned it I would just let it rot away and turn it into a paintball arena. I personally think it would be a pretty cool paint ball arena for huge 100 vs 100 matches. Everyone gets either a red flag or a blue flag and you just have at it. Who cares about upkeep when it's a paintball arena. Honestly it would be cooler the more destroyed it was. You could also host a huge 200 free for all and last man standing gets some sort of prize. I don't think it should be demolished I think that's a waste of potential.
and before the first match and after every major storm, check the entire complex for anything that could potentially be incredibly dangerous and fix it or something, gotta keep the public safe
That was a great video and really showed how iconic the dome really was. It's amazing all the different events held there. The dome hosted the championship rounds in 2 of the 4 major sport leagues, with the Superbowl 16 and the NBA finals in 1988. There's no doubt the Lions needed a new stadium but none the less I really loved the dome. R.i.p. Pontiac Silverdome!
Stadiums like this, abandoned malls, and everything I think truly does show us the illusion humanity has created. Think about going through heavy traffic and finding a parking spot to sit in a stadium of this immense scale, seeing all of the humanity crammed into one spot. In the mid 1980s, no one would have ever felt like, by 2020, this stadium would be demolished. Structures like this and those that exist now look like they will exist for a thousand years, but we're reminded that this is only an illusion, just something to hold people over for a generation until they create the newest version of awe-inspiring engineering. Eventually this is all going to come to an end, and we're all going to see the grand illusion of society.
Global Warming Skeptic Actually, building are designed with a structural integrity limit. Something this video doesn't mention is the stadium had reached its limit and was to be replaced by 2006, or undergo massive updates. The auction winners thought they could do it on the cheap. Nope.
It's the good old fashioned Bread and Circus model. You feed and entertain the population, but you get to control economic and political policy. That's democracy in the 21st century, and politics since forever.
This is a major problem in this country - we simply abandon things - structures, buildings, even cities. We are such a large country we can to that .... for now. I don't believe any other (modern) country on this planet does this. But one day, we will pay the price of such wastefulness - or are we beginning to pay it now???
Elmaestrodemusica because we don’t have the funds to tear them down. It think people forget you have to pay to take all that stuff down just as you payed to build it in the first place
LOL “I don’t believe any modern country does this”, oh you don’t believe it so that makes it encyclopedically correct? I hope people like you don’t vote, uninformed just yelling what they believe and why the US is bad, wtf do you think China and these countries do after they host the olympics and nobody wants to go shopping on a stadium mall
Christopher White; no. uninformed people voting straight party tickets that only seem to legitimize the elections (bunch of votes but no thought behind them) is why we have hardly a choice anymore. Then we look stupid for voting in the lesser of 2 evils. Ever notice how 2 party systems always find a way to split the voters in their communities close to 50/50? Only the independents, who vote for the candidates and not the party, give some contests a wider spread.
I still remember hearing the sound of the Silverdome imploding, it felt like time stopped for a minute and everyone was quiet as they heard the rumble.
i watched the super bowl there saw areosmith ted nugent and foghat on the same night later saw led zepplin david bowie pink floyd many lions games was too big for concerts but a very cool place to go
I'll never forget those turnstiles going into the dome, and the pressure change you could actually feel. It was always a running joke that people should open all the doors they could while the opposition was kicking a field goal to change the air pressure, and make the ball fly off trajectory. Saw a big fight at a MNF game vs. the Bears, with dudes rolling down rows of seats. Wrestlemainia III, Supercross, etc. Lots of great memories!
I lived few miles away in mid 2000s...ive seen my high school play in state championship in it (early 80s), "Bad Boy" Pistons games, seen the Lions on a few Sundays, Thanksgiving, and Monday night, and saw Pink Floyd there. Nothin quite like a Monday Night Football game at the Silverdome, brawls, entertaining drunks, arrests - it was awesome!!! Hell, even been to Home Show in it. Great memories no matter how sad the ending, it held on long as it could, but that $583,000 selling price in the end explains its deterioration the best. If i remember right, they put a golf driving range in it towards the end (i moved to TN towards its last days) Massive & beautiful sight in its heyday. It is, and will continue to be missed, and remembered fondly by those who experienced its grandeur. RIP.
Although I grew up about an hour out of Detroit, I only remember going into the silverdome once in my life, long after the Lions moved to Ford Field. I don't even remember seeing any events there on tv either, even though I was 7 when Ford Field was completed. Looking on Google maps today, there is now an Amazon fulfillment center on the land.
I work at the university not that far away. The day they detonated it for the final time (after the failed first attempt) the windows of our office shook and our building rocked. We were on a conference call with people out in Lake Orion when it happened, and about 20 seconds later we heard the detonation hit their office over the call. It was impressive to say the least.
This reminds me of the sad state that the Metrodome was in back in 2010 when a similar incident happened where snow build-up caused the roof (a canvas roof) to tear. Oddly, the roof was replaced but the Metrodome was demolished about 4 years later in 2014, having served from 1982 to 2014, so about 32 years. Of course I remember (vaguely) being in the Metrodome during one of the incidents where the roof tore due to high winds. Although being 32 years old, it may have been dated, and the upkeep on the roof I'm sure was a big task, versus a fixed roof or one without a roof at all.
The silver some was demolished after a controlled implosion. I live a half-hour away from the ruins I remember going by it before 2012 wondering what they where gonna do with this glorious stadium. Sadly after the harsh winter of 2012 I knew it was never gonna recover. Its really sad knowing that this stadium is gone. As I drive by now its sad seeing it only as ruble
Lol yea I also think of Hulk Hogan and Andre doing the iconic face off before their match. It may have been fake , but damn were we entertained by it!! 93K people were on their feet!
I have original press photos of the renderings/models used in the design of this stadium. Also - Bruno Leon was the dean of the university where I got my architecture degree. So cool! There's an Amazon distribution center being built on this site now.
Yes, but the Silverdome always used to be the big event *everyone* wanted to go to. Kind of like the Bowling Green ring in Ohio, the biggest tractor pull in the world is hosted there. @@sushiroll3678
yeah Michigan Detroit area was a mess even in the 90s but I remember going to Monster Jam there in the late 90s, early 2000s, it was still golden back then. The whole roof concept I think doomed this stadium. @5:08 minus 5 years is what I remember.
Great video. I think Arrowhead Stadium in KC has to be one of the few NFL stadiums from that era that is still in use. Upgraded a few years ago too. Actually, I think the model at 0:55 is Arrowhead and Kauffman with the (twice proposed) rolling roof that was never built. Unless the same architecture firm pitched the exact same design for Detroit (possible).
move or cause to move in a specified direction. "he passed through towns and villages" synonyms: go, proceed, move, progress, make one's way, travel "the traffic passing through the village"
Jimmy McCarthy Yes! It’s a synonym for location. These videos are very well done, but there a few language ticks (revitilation instead of revitalization) that stick out like a sore thumb.
Haha I noticed that. He has quite a few times when he just uses the wrong word. It's often prepositions or conjunctions which make no sense but they're not heinous enough to ruin the meaning.
@TraviTrail I think it's reasonable that high-quality content producers like this will use, and appreciate sensible feedback to improve their film-making. It's also reasonable that people producing educational content have their facts right and speak in an accurate and coherent way. Sure, if it bugs me that much I can stop watching but a young person who's keen to learn might end up assuming that's a correct usage which isn't going to serve them well. On that basis, I'm going to assume you spelled "butthole" wrong just to annoy us and you're not actually semi-literate.
Jordan Kay not sure if it's named after the car brand or the city... but, I see what you did there. it really is sad though. Tried to get in there in Jan. one guard said okay, then some little dude drove up saying "I call cops, I call cops"
the silver dome was located inside of pontiac and was named accordingly. The car brand is named for the same reason but if you ask someone from detroit about pontiac they’ll immediately think of the city not the brand of cars.
Was at the Led Zep show there. Place was unbelievably large. My seat was in front of one of the fans that blew air into the building to hold the roof up lol! Eventually we made our way to the floor and the front of the stage. Could never have done that anywhere else.
The Silverdome also housed WrestleMania III which was the largest recorded attendance of a live indoor event in North America at the time. The Pope took the title in '99. The story of the Silverdome is tragic though. It is worth looking into. It use to be beautiful before the Lions left. Now it is a huge eye sore. I had the chance of going to it one time. They had to pump air into it to keep the dome inflated so when you were leaving you could run at the door and "fly" out of it due to air pressure.
Just Some Guy Ok He said its sad to see... it was once an iconic stadium that is now an eyesore. Just because something else is better doesn't mean another thing cant be sad. Douche
Just because the one by you is closing doesn't mean all of them are just yet. I don't see Sears lasting too much longer but there are some still around. It's not that matter if they will all close but the real question is when.
I lived in Pontiac growing up in the 2000s-2010s. I was there at the monster jam when they reopened it in 2010. It was cool as hell from what 7 year old me can remember. The Silverdome is what grew my passion for exploring abandoned building. Growing up next to the massive, vacant stadium let the imagination run wild. Its a shame whats happened to my home, my family having been here for generations. But Detroit/Pontiac is rebuilding. Its now an Amazon distribution center employing thousands of locals. Were coming back, slowly but surely.
Its sad seeing what happened to the Silverdome, i went to about 10 Thanksgiving day games there growing up. I remember going here for indoor carnivals and to rollerblade during the football offseason, i honestly thought they would keep holding events like that after the Lions left. Obviously that didnt happen.
Here’s an update from 2019: as far as I’ve heard, it’s still standing strong, but has been bought by Amazon, and it is appears that they are going to demolish it and make the land into a distribution center
this is the slowest version of running in the 90s i have ever heard. also it was really neat to hear all this history about a place i've driven by so many times.
You're actually the first person to catch that easter egg. 4/21/1998 was the year I was born and 7/10/2012 is the date this channel was created. Good eye!
I wonder what will Auburn Hills do on The Palace of Auburn Hills after Detroit Pistons decided to move back in Downtown Detroit and will start playing in Little Ceasars Arena together with Detroit Red Wings.
The Palace is in really good shape for its age. And due to its size, im sure there will still be plenty of concerts, monster jams, and circus' to be held there.
I dont think they will. It was renovated just two years ago, and is still home to Detroit's Arena football team as well as their Soccer team. Still a good place to hold a concert.
I heard plans of it are in the works to have it demolished and something commercial built,I'd hope not seeing as it was recently renovated and is still prime to host events
I photographed the inside like 4 years ago. I was on of the first before Red Bull even did their BMX trip there. Roof collapsed a long long time ago lol Edit- Just saw he ended up using one of my shots hah
I love your stuff bro. I have been watching your stuff all the way back to Abandoned Discovery Island (The first one) even before I had an account . Definitly my fav youtuber. Keep up the good work. A shoutout would be much appreicated man thanks. I cant stop watching you. I love you bro
I now own a piece of the Silverdome. twitter.com/BrightSunFilms/status/894012454958747648
Bright Sun Films Gives a new meaning to "this is my turf"
Bright Sun Films you should do a day with SpongeBob movie for thee cancelled series
ya, you stole it. I saw you
pinkeye00 who me?.
Bright Sun Films I'm sure it's worth all of possibly 100 dollars???
$583,000??? Where did they sell it, gamestop?
Lol
They probably did
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Lol.....right!
Flea market more like
Lesson is: if the material can't handle snow, don't use it as a roof.
Especially in Michigan
The silverdome's roof is like the metrodome and rca dome
Well they did not know better then just like when they built roads they thought traffic would get big to the point to widen them
Ikr ? Here in Canada they finished building a brand new stadium with less than half a roof... In a city that gets snow for 5 months and desert heat for 3... No wonder we never get any concerts around here
@@brainey001 what stadium is that?
So many great memories... I received a set of four seats as a birthday gift the year they were auctioned. They’re in my man cave where we continue to watch the Lions break our hearts every Sunday.
METALLICA 12/31/99 -00 Drove up from Virginia, great venue, so sad to see it gone. THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES 'Rock City'!
Barry Sanders baby!
Went 3 times. SuperBowl, Madonna, World Cup.
The Lions, the Eagles of the Midwest.
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Detroit seriously has the most up and downs of any city in the united states
So do our sports teams- except the Lions (they were never good)
So does the government (or whoever builds this).
@@teo.took.40.benadryl yeah it's been owned and controlled by the democrats for over 30 years
Austin Smith that has nothing to do with Detroit’s downfall
Yup. I'm like 20 minutes away from downtown Detroit so I definitely concur
I lived in Pontiac MI from 1974-1980. We went to the Silverdome several times and I can still remember how it felt to have that rush of air blow against you as you enter or exit the structure
Oh my , YES ! Huge blast of warm air would hit you as you were trying to get into those big carousel doors .
I went to the dome once when i was a little kid. the huge blast of air is my only memory of it. (I don't even remember why my folks took me there, lol)
Core memories
Some people say that on some nights, when the wind is quiet, and the smell of yesterday is in this ghostly stadium, that you can still hear the slam heard around the world. When Hogan picked up 550 pound Andre the Giant and drove him to the ring canvas as the world shook and the heavens trembled. RIP Silver Dome,we shall never forget.
That...that's asbestos. What you're smelling is asbestos. For God's sake, don't breath that in.
i've explored that places at least 60 times since it was abandoned...i can confirm this.
well done sir I liked that greetings from Buffalo N.Y.
I heard the whole stadium crumble when they demoed it/ there was a failed demo attempt lol place was strong
Markis5150 I get the same ghostly feeling whenever I stop by 22nd & Brooklyn where the Chiefs once played
Never Click Bait and always 100% quality, thanks for taking the time to give us the facts BSF
Forrest Hassell I've actually seen one of the "canceled" videos on trending.
totally not what i said last video rofl
Abandoned: The Astrodome
Forrest Hassell nice pic I like the Broncos to
Bright sun films do sears Canada
The place where Hulk Hogan bodyslam Andre The Giant
KillerAnime the only greatest moment in that stadium
Didn't Iron Sheik fuck Brian Blair in the ass there?
KillerAnime that’s fake so it means nothing
BROTHER
The best match that night was Savage vs steamboat
As a swede this stadium holds a special place in my heart. We played two very memorable games at the Silverdome in 1994 in the World Cup. One of them was played on Midsummer's Eve which is one of our main hollidays and the Swedish commentator uttered a quote which has bow become a classic one in Swedish sports. "Now we're celebrating midsummer at the Pontiac Silverdome"
My fave team 94 wc. Dahlin Brolin Larsson etc - dont think I will see a great a swedish side as that again in my lifetime.
Breaks my heart how so many legendary events happened here and it was just left to ruin. Sad man all that history.
I know same thing happened to joe Luis arena
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its now gone
I remember watching on TV, the annual Thanksgiving day classic football games.
The 1976 game featured Buffalo Bills running back O. J. Simpson rushing for 273 yards and scored two touchdowns in a 32-14 loss to the Detroit Lions and the 1980 game between division rival Chicago Bears and Detroit Lions in a very short overtime game. Also 1994 World Cup soccer and Pope John Paul II held papal mass in that facility.
I always remember it for Wrestlemania 3.
The fact that every professional team in Detroit now plays within walking distance of each other is pretty awesome.
True, Ford Field and Comerica park are within a Football field of each other, and Little Caesars is within ten miles of, the other stadiums, the palace is getting demolished, I forgot where the Red Wings played before Little Caesars, and everything else is within walking distance
Saves the muggers time that way !
@@Ob1tuber The Wings played at Joe Louis Arena 😁
Until you wanna park
@Ob1tuber Little Ceaser’s Arena is Kiddie Corner from Comerica Park across the Freeway, they're surrounded by parking structures. Across from Comerica is The Fox Theater and a block down is The Fillmore
I was at Wrestlemania III over 90k people, as of Dec 5th 2019 it's a vacant lot.
Let me tell u something brother
I was there too! Just a kid. Was waaaaaay up near the top. I still remember when Hulk Hogan body slammed Andre the Giant. The crowd noise figuratively blew the roof off of the place!
And Volkswagen buyback graveyard
@@imaramblins Lol i was way up there also, about half way up the top level
That must feel.pretry odd. I remember the hype about the record setting attendence.
I just love how compared to your older videos the quality just keeps getting better and the videos feel much more professional! Well done!
Lets not talk about those dark times...
Jake, would you ever consider re-doing some of the first episodes? I guess it would only make sense if there were updates to the story but it would be nice to hear about them in your current level of quality!
Bright Sun Films They are still very informative - you guys have always done the same level of research. You just hadn't quite found your comfort zone yet as far as recording the audio. 😉
Lesson: don’t make a roof out of non-roof stuff.
Especially if it's going to be snowed on.
Teflon is very strong, but I think it was just the design of the roof that made it easy to tear up, especially when deflated.
The problem is that given the requirements and inability to have support an incredibly light material designed primarily to retain heat was the best they could do.
Abandoned, just like the Pontiac car brand
zzcolby27 So weird I was just wonxering about Pontiac last night...
zzcolby27 And this makes me very sad. ☹ I love Pontiacs. My dad has a 59 Bonneville convertible and my dream car is a 65 GTO.
for anyone that doesn't know
the Pontiac brand was owned by General Motors (also from Detroit), among their other popular brands like Chevrolet and Cadillac and etc
during the 2008 bailouts, General Motors was forced to close the doors on multiple brands, like Pontiac, Hummer, and Saturn - all of which had been underperforming in the years leading up to the bailout - Pontiac's flagship model, the G8 (a rebadged Australian Holden) was sitting at car dealership lots going largely unsold
lmao
TheCosmicCharizard Jeep's are better
Idk why I’m so fascinated by abandoned buildings. Especially the dome. All those amazing events and all those memories and life that was once there. And then just left to ruin. Man just amazing. And sad..
me too, i am in love with this building it is just WOW. So sad it is gone
Anyone who doesn't know, the silverdome has been destroyed as of december 2017. The lower level of the stadium is all that remains
Nick Cerini it’s pretty much gone now. I believe they finished it in November
It's all gone now. 😔
Damn.
It's gone, I dumped dirt there in December. The only thing left is the ASTRO turf rolled up on the SE corner of the property.
Super sad how many memories we destroy
This was actually a really interesting video, living in the UK I had never heard of the Silver Dome even though I have travelled to the US multiple times, it seems a shame that such a historic stadium was left to waste away when it had so much potential.
Yeah, it’s shame.
Once Ford Field was built, there just wasn’t much reason for the Silverdome to exist anymore. (It’s now fully destroyed.)
It’s kind of ironic. Back in the 1960s and 1970s most American professional sports stadiums were built out in the suburbs, where the economy was stronger and much of the fanbase lived. Now in the 21st century, teams are building new stadiums in the core of their downtown areas again, because that’s where the fanbase has moved. A lot of these suburban stadiums like the Silverdome are just left behind.
One of the venues used at the 1994 FIFA World Cup.
As someone who has lived near it my entire life, it was a shit stadium. Ford Field is much better
Lagging attendance in the 90's wasn't all due to a shrinking economy, a terrible football team helped.
Did the Lions ''ever'' win a game?
@@chaosdemonwolf1 Every now and again, usually when the other team was doing really bad.
@@chaosdemonwolf1 not in 2008
Not even Barry fucking Sanders could get people to watch the train wreak known as the Detroit Lions
Well They made 6 playoff appearances in the 90s but 5 of those were losing in the Wild Card. And The Farthest They've went was 1991-1992 season and They would lose by 31 Points in the NFC Championship.
This is where the " Slam heard round' the World" happened!!! Also the match between Macho Man and Ricky Steamboat which has been cited as one of , if not THE, greatest wrestling match of all time... Alot of wrestling history here , and most from one night when 93 thousand people attended.
Maybe an abandoned on some of Rio's Olympic stadiums?
I also thought about Atlanta's Olympic tennis stadium demolished the other day. Tons of news on it and I live nearby lol
A mini-series on just abandoned Olympic venues around the world would be pretty cool
1337er Star Boy that would be a good idea since most cities can't take care of the large stadiums that they built for the Olympic. Also why do people build expensive buildings to just use for only about 2 week, while some were not in use for the full 2 weeks, and then abandoned after the Olympic is finished.
I would watch that!!
1337er Star Boy I need this
8/23/1975-12/2/2017
RIP Silverdome
Toad Tube Gaming 12/2 is when I was born wtf
Kbena210 same dude
Shit. I'm gettin' old. I remember when the Silverdome opened. Doesn't seem like that long ago, although I guess it's been 42 years of so. Damn. Time flies...
Yes we are 😁
Breaks my heart to watch this video...was 5 years old when my dad took me and my older brother to a tigers game in the silverdome, barely a 10min drive from home.
That was in 1984, and sadly we moved far away in 1985, so i have all these memories from the best time of my childhood life, growing up in Fox Hills near Pontiac...going to the four Bears park and Chucky Cheese.
And now i'm finding out it's all gone, abandoned, destroyed, rotten.... Chucky Cheese closed down in the 90's, 4 bears park got completely removed from the face of the earth over some scandal...half the houses in that residential area are empty. The elementary school closed down 2 decades ago because no kids lived nearby....and i still dream about waiting on the school bus, goofing around with my neighbour friends...popping tar bubbles on the road in summer, playing hide and seek, smashing up that pinata when our guatemalan buddies had a birthdayparty...
Man i miss the 80's, last decade before internet and social media...
For $5 you could rollerblade on the mezzanine on non-event nights, was fast and smooth, very '90's!
I grew up in Pontiac. Saw the Lions play at the Silverdome a handful of times. Last time I was there was a year or so after the Lions stopped playing there - there was this huge flea market thing organized for a weekend. The Silverdome is pretty representative of what happened to the entire state of Michigan as a result of outsourcing of manufacturing jobs. It's almost poetic that a foreign company bought it and destroyed it.
Sucks when they try to implode this stadium it didn't even wanna go down. Love the videos Jake keep up the good work :)
9:55 The coolest part about the Silverdome is those giant slash marks in the stands from when the dome cables broke
9:00 some of those VWs were also stored at Pikes Peak International Raceway, check it out on Google maps, it's pretty cool to see.
As a 21 year old Michigander, I have always heard about the Silverdome and have passed it on the road a few times, but I never knew it had this much of a huge and important history!
One of the loudest stadiums ever in history
As a Minnesotan, I'd suggest doing a similar episode for the Metrodome! I don't know how interesting it would be for people from out of state, but I've always been curious to find out more about it now that it's been replaced with a new stadium. Most Minnesotans seem to have had a fond feeling for the Metrodome and don't care much for the new US Bank Stadium, so I bet you could get some good interviews or information.
It wasn’t abandoned tho
I was born in and grew up around Lansing, MI. I never got to go to the Silverdome, but seeing this makes me almost tear up. Such a famous and historic stadium left abandoned and will soon be gone forever :(((
Bright Sun Films, I commend you guys on your extensive research and well thought out documentaries.
this is the kind of series that I binged on all day and into the night
This was so neat to watch, I remember going there all the time for lion's games and the Monsterjam shows back when it was still popular. what surprised me from watching this is how big it actually was compared to Ford Field and the other stadiums. What's kinda similar is that The Joe Louis arena (For The Red Wings) is closing and being replaced with a new arena as well (Little ceaser's Arena). And a plan to get all the major sports teams together in the same area in downtown Detroit is resulting in soon to be closeing of the Palace Of auburn Hills (where the Pistons Play).
Super neat video, and super interesting to watch something thats in my local area. Keep up the great work!
PredatorGaming Oh no the Palace is closing??? I grew up in that area, so close that both my brother and sister used to work there. Many fond memories of concerts, the Pistons, the Vipers, etc.
Predator - Don't forget the proposed Soccer stadium at the unfinished jail property. We would be the only state in the union to have new stadiums for FOUR sports all within walking distance of each other.
I remember when the Palace was built and it is not just your average Blah stadium but as it's sitting in Auburn Hills that property is waaaayy too valuable to just try and make something work. Heck, the city recently did an odd mock-up of new zoning for that property because they were salivating so badly to have that land broken up
And it was built so good it took a demolition team 2 times to implode the damn stadium. American made...
Damn right!
American made is absolute shit lmao
@@ifb6368 That's mostly true now, but it wasn't back in the 1970s when the stadium was constructed.
@ ok boomer
@Aaron Z. Well really yeah, it's sad to see a then-growing city starts to decline in.. everything
this still breaks my heart.
Same here
Ah yes, the famous Pontiac Silverdome, where two of the greatest wrestling matches happened, Hulk Hogan vs Andre The Giant for the WWF championship, and Ricky Steamboat vs Randy Savage for the Intercontinental championship. Awesome video by the way. Also can you do the Astrodome, which is a stadium in Houston,Texas.
Do North Wilkesboro Speedway in North Carolina, an abandoned NASCAR race track, operating from 1946-1996, and lost it's then Winston Cup races to more modern facilities in Texas and New Hampshire. The track was instrumental to the birth of NASCAR.
Absolutely wonderful quality show with Jake and the BSF team always knocking it out of the park with new each episode. This is episode was like your "Like A Prayer", a total HIT. This video will be huge and will totally be on trending I'm sure, I'm hoping for a million+ views. And I used that analogy because bae featured Madonna in this video ❤️! Goals 😂😍😚🤗. Thanks for entertaining us. Shoutout to Sarah for producing such great work out of our man Jake!!
Thanks so much!!
You keep saying the silverdome would host a venue, the word is event. The silverdome was the venue
Welcome To America!!
come on hes American, English is not their strongest
@@NonsensicalSpudz He's Canadian
Niko Bellic
I can't stop watching these videos! I love that you do a great amount of research and explain the history of properties/companies from the very beginning. Keep up the great work, I find this stuff fascinating!🤗🤗🤗
Thank you so much for these impressive Abandoned episodes! You never fail to impress me :-)
Thanks Josh!
Bright Sun Films I was wondering if you can do a video on beastly kingdom, Disney's failed land on animal kingdom.
As a kid in Australia at 6 years old, this place was like a Mecca to me. The Pontiac Silverdome was hyped heavily in the lead up to Wrestlemania 3. And on the night it looked epic. Has a special place in many 80’s kids hearts worldwide.
That’s crazy!! My grandparents lived just minutes away from the Silverdome in Auburn Hills. My grandfather used to park cars for the games on Sundays.
And don’t get me started on the Waste that was The Palace…
I know man my cousin was telling me all about it smh.
The Silverdome was a venue. It did not host venues. It hosted events.
Don it was home of the lions, in 2002 they moved to Ford Field
Don preach it brother!
Still a dome
@@zapdos8441 That's not what he said.
Seems to me an Giant example of our plastic throw away society ! We should build places that can grow or adapt and that can be used for hundreds and even thousands of years ! More foresight and appreciation for the human condition is necessary !
Cool video :)
Tis Capitalism my friend. Markets aren't the greatest at foresight sadly.
@@VeryFamousActor No, 'tis humanity. Capitalism incentivizes foresight, but it can't impart it in people who just don't have it. No system can.
@@PrezVeto when the system is based on unlimited growth it's not incentivizing foresight. If foresight were incetivized the system wouldn't come crashing down every 8 years. We can and should do better.
Americans do not really care for history. We just want new, new, shiny brand new, and this goes for architecture as well as internal amenities. It's why many US cities struggle keeping up history buildings or areas. (NYC has really busted ass keeping historic buildings well kept at all cost).
every time bright sun post I drop everything and watch. have seen every episode and have been here since the beginning you really do deserve many more subs
I had a friend I worked with from Pontiac, and much like BSF he is very interested and passionate about history and abandoned buildings. Back in mid 2016 he was able to take me in there to explore. The offices, press boxes, and administrative suites look like they were frozen in time. To this day it's the most surreal and breathtaking experience I can remember.
so sad. So many great Lions teams played here. Lots of great history and happy times for Detroit football fans.
Man the memories of this place. As a Michigan born I've been here quite a few times over the years. I was there when the last monsterjam was held there before they closed their doors. Sad to see this icon in this condition
Fun fact - The Silverdome never actually hosted a professional football team. That would imply the Detroit Lions were ever a professional football team...
L-1011 Widebody They used to play like true professionals.
Go Fuck Yourself back in the late 50’s
Was at the game when barry sanders broke 2000 yards.
Michigan panthers
Matt Molenda Wow, a USFL shout out. You sir have much respect.
My step dad lived in Pontiac and the Detroit area his whole life up until 2009, when he moved to California during the recession. He was lucky enough to live 5 minute drive from the stadium. People would often park in his driveway or grass or front yard rather than parking at the stadium. He said when the Lions were making the playoffs or during the World Cup, that you could hear people cheering from his front yard.
Andre The Giant was body slammed by Hulk Hogan at The Silver Dome at WRESTLEMANIA III.
Sammy Lane..yes he was. Lol
Jeff Brinning it truly is a surprise to see the wrestlemania stadium hulk hogan picked up Andre the giant have such a sad end
Good one ! :)
and a few years b4 that Hogan slammed Andre in Shea Stadium..But someone else slammed Andre & it was the last only real true world champion...NWA. Champion Harley Race
Yeah but Race slammed a lighter Andre who was in better shape so he could do the proper technique when being slammed much easier. The 87 Andre was much heavier and was suffering more from acromegely(SP?) so he couldnt help Hogan as much with the technique. I know this probably doesn't make sense lol. Its hard to explain via text.
As a kid in the U.K. back in the 80`s i used to watch ball game footage from over in the U.S. and be totally blown away by stadiums like this ! (we had nothing that came even close over here) .. it`s kinda sad how some of them have met their demise ...
Dude if it were me and I owned it I would just let it rot away and turn it into a paintball arena. I personally think it would be a pretty cool paint ball arena for huge 100 vs 100 matches. Everyone gets either a red flag or a blue flag and you just have at it. Who cares about upkeep when it's a paintball arena. Honestly it would be cooler the more destroyed it was. You could also host a huge 200 free for all and last man standing gets some sort of prize. I don't think it should be demolished I think that's a waste of potential.
Damn.. They should just give the product to you xd.
airsoft
Yeah that’s an awesome idea. Just keep up the foundation to prevent collapsing lol
and before the first match and after every major storm, check the entire complex for anything that could potentially be incredibly dangerous and fix it or something, gotta keep the public safe
um, not financially viable. If it were, they'd have already done it.
That was a great video and really showed how iconic the dome really was. It's amazing all the different events held there. The dome hosted the championship rounds in 2 of the 4 major sport leagues, with the Superbowl 16 and the NBA finals in 1988. There's no doubt the Lions needed a new stadium but none the less I really loved the dome. R.i.p. Pontiac Silverdome!
Stadiums like this, abandoned malls, and everything I think truly does show us the illusion humanity has created. Think about going through heavy traffic and finding a parking spot to sit in a stadium of this immense scale, seeing all of the humanity crammed into one spot.
In the mid 1980s, no one would have ever felt like, by 2020, this stadium would be demolished. Structures like this and those that exist now look like they will exist for a thousand years, but we're reminded that this is only an illusion, just something to hold people over for a generation until they create the newest version of awe-inspiring engineering.
Eventually this is all going to come to an end, and we're all going to see the grand illusion of society.
Global Warming Skeptic Actually, building are designed with a structural integrity limit. Something this video doesn't mention is the stadium had reached its limit and was to be replaced by 2006, or undergo massive updates. The auction winners thought they could do it on the cheap. Nope.
Global Warming Skeptic we have a better stadium in Ford Field. If anything this shows that horrible things can be replaced with beautiful things
Global Warming Skeptic I live like 20 minutes away from it and they are tearing it down right now
You could tone down the melodrama ya know? It's just a stadium. They'll destroy it and build something else that people will like.
It's the good old fashioned Bread and Circus model. You feed and entertain the population, but you get to control economic and political policy. That's democracy in the 21st century, and politics since forever.
Hogan vs Andre WrestleMania III
This is a major problem in this country - we simply abandon things - structures, buildings, even cities. We are such a large country we can to that .... for now. I don't believe any other (modern) country on this planet does this. But one day, we will pay the price of such wastefulness - or are we beginning to pay it now???
Elmaestrodemusica because we don’t have the funds to tear them down. It think people forget you have to pay to take all that stuff down just as you payed to build it in the first place
russia. china. youd be suprised. its sad but the children left the area long ago. things wither and die unless your in a mega city like LA or NY
LOL “I don’t believe any modern country does this”, oh you don’t believe it so that makes it encyclopedically correct? I hope people like you don’t vote, uninformed just yelling what they believe and why the US is bad, wtf do you think China and these countries do after they host the olympics and nobody wants to go shopping on a stadium mall
This pretty much never ever happens where the property is valuable, just for the record.
Christopher White; no. uninformed people voting straight party tickets that only seem to legitimize the elections (bunch of votes but no thought behind them) is why we have hardly a choice anymore. Then we look stupid for voting in the lesser of 2 evils. Ever notice how 2 party systems always find a way to split the voters in their communities close to 50/50? Only the independents, who vote for the candidates and not the party, give some contests a wider spread.
I still remember hearing the sound of the Silverdome imploding, it felt like time stopped for a minute and everyone was quiet as they heard the rumble.
I'll never forget seeing Pink Floyd perform there in 1987 !
i watched the super bowl there saw areosmith ted nugent and foghat on the same night later saw led zepplin david bowie pink floyd many lions games was too big for concerts but a very cool place to go
I was there!
A beautiful piece. You guys do good work
+Billy Bellmont Thanks Billy!
When they tried to blow it up, it failed and stayed standing. This thing never went down without a fight
That's the power of the GREATEST Pope that EVER lived kids......Pope Karol aka Pope John Paul II !!! May God bless his eternal soul 🙏
@@rc.8324 What
They should get a refund when it comes to the roof tho
Unlike their football team
I'll never forget those turnstiles going into the dome, and the pressure change you could actually feel. It was always a running joke that people should open all the doors they could while the opposition was kicking a field goal to change the air pressure, and make the ball fly off trajectory. Saw a big fight at a MNF game vs. the Bears, with dudes rolling down rows of seats. Wrestlemainia III, Supercross, etc. Lots of great memories!
[insert “can’t have sh*t in detroit” joke here]
Can't have 28 stab wounds in detroit
@@u-u-UU Can’t leave them a chance in Detroit, HUH?!
Fuckers Demolited a 583 million stadium can´t have this shit in detroit
You can have crap in Detroit, I know I live in Michigan
I lived few miles away in mid 2000s...ive seen my high school play in state championship in it (early 80s), "Bad Boy" Pistons games, seen the Lions on a few Sundays, Thanksgiving, and Monday night, and saw Pink Floyd there. Nothin quite like a Monday Night Football game at the Silverdome, brawls, entertaining drunks, arrests - it was awesome!!! Hell, even been to Home Show in it.
Great memories no matter how sad the ending, it held on long as it could, but that $583,000 selling price in the end explains its deterioration the best. If i remember right, they put a golf driving range in it towards the end (i moved to TN towards its last days)
Massive & beautiful sight in its heyday. It is, and will continue to be missed, and remembered fondly by those who experienced its grandeur. RIP.
Although I grew up about an hour out of Detroit, I only remember going into the silverdome once in my life, long after the Lions moved to Ford Field. I don't even remember seeing any events there on tv either, even though I was 7 when Ford Field was completed. Looking on Google maps today, there is now an Amazon fulfillment center on the land.
Same, ive only been past it a few times and saw it up close once, now I never will be able to see its full glory
I work at the university not that far away. The day they detonated it for the final time (after the failed first attempt) the windows of our office shook and our building rocked. We were on a conference call with people out in Lake Orion when it happened, and about 20 seconds later we heard the detonation hit their office over the call. It was impressive to say the least.
This reminds me of the sad state that the Metrodome was in back in 2010 when a similar incident happened where snow build-up caused the roof (a canvas roof) to tear. Oddly, the roof was replaced but the Metrodome was demolished about 4 years later in 2014, having served from 1982 to 2014, so about 32 years. Of course I remember (vaguely) being in the Metrodome during one of the incidents where the roof tore due to high winds. Although being 32 years old, it may have been dated, and the upkeep on the roof I'm sure was a big task, versus a fixed roof or one without a roof at all.
The silver some was demolished after a controlled implosion. I live a half-hour away from the ruins I remember going by it before 2012 wondering what they where gonna do with this glorious stadium. Sadly after the harsh winter of 2012 I knew it was never gonna recover. Its really sad knowing that this stadium is gone. As I drive by now its sad seeing it only as ruble
I look at that building and think of Barry Sanders running all over that field.
Lol yea I also think of Hulk Hogan and Andre doing the iconic face off before their match. It may have been fake , but damn were we entertained by it!! 93K people were on their feet!
I have original press photos of the renderings/models used in the design of this stadium.
Also - Bruno Leon was the dean of the university where I got my architecture degree. So cool!
There's an Amazon distribution center being built on this site now.
Yes i love abandon stadiums!!!!!
Bryce Pragovich did your dad abandon you?
Tman Goodguy did your dad abandon YOU?
Noelle D did your dad abandoned YOU?
JT Penland YOU abandoned dad your did?
Bryce Pragovich same
Ah. I remember going there for monster truck shows. Too bad we stopped using it though 😔
It's Fit Nic me too I remember
Ford Field has monster truck shows
Yes, but the Silverdome always used to be the big event *everyone* wanted to go to. Kind of like the Bowling Green ring in Ohio, the biggest tractor pull in the world is hosted there. @@sushiroll3678
Good Times.
But you didn't go to see the pope, did you?
The Pontiac Silverdome had a attempted implosion on 12/3/17 and it failed. So, RIP the Pontiac Silverdome.
yeah Michigan Detroit area was a mess even in the 90s but I remember going to Monster Jam there in the late 90s, early 2000s, it was still golden back then. The whole roof concept I think doomed this stadium. @5:08 minus 5 years is what I remember.
Do an abandoned video of the Costa Concordia cruise ship
Technically, it's not abandoned. They're cutting it up for scrap.
It doesn't exist anymore.
Supa Doopa Horizons wasn't abandoned either, but he made a video on that.
it was abandoned for years.
+PhillyCloud1234 Fair point.
Great video. I think Arrowhead Stadium in KC has to be one of the few NFL stadiums from that era that is still in use. Upgraded a few years ago too. Actually, I think the model at 0:55 is Arrowhead and Kauffman with the (twice proposed) rolling roof that was never built. Unless the same architecture firm pitched the exact same design for Detroit (possible).
i agree.
I drive by it every day.
Shane Clouthier Can you see all that VW cars that are stored there ?
Shane Clouthier past*
SSGP • I believe that would be the correct context. I passed it today would be correct though, right?
Passed isn’t a word, it’s kinda like how you don’t spell lie “lieing” you spelling it “lying” it’s a weird one
move or cause to move in a specified direction.
"he passed through towns and villages"
synonyms: go, proceed, move, progress, make one's way, travel
"the traffic passing through the village"
Dude, you’re misusing the word “venue.” It’s not a synonym for event.
Jimmy McCarthy Yes! It’s a synonym for location. These videos are very well done, but there a few language ticks (revitilation instead of revitalization) that stick out like a sore thumb.
you are a venue!
Haha I noticed that. He has quite a few times when he just uses the wrong word. It's often prepositions or conjunctions which make no sense but they're not heinous enough to ruin the meaning.
@TraviTrail I think it's reasonable that high-quality content producers like this will use, and appreciate sensible feedback to improve their film-making. It's also reasonable that people producing educational content have their facts right and speak in an accurate and coherent way. Sure, if it bugs me that much I can stop watching but a young person who's keen to learn might end up assuming that's a correct usage which isn't going to serve them well. On that basis, I'm going to assume you spelled "butthole" wrong just to annoy us and you're not actually semi-literate.
Had to come back and watch this today. Ol' girl isn't going to go down without a fight.
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"Bands like Madonna" *shows Madonna*, "Aerosmith" *shows Alice Cooper* Wait, wha? :P
So like the brand of the same name, the stadium is dead. Sad...
Jordan Kay not sure if it's named after the car brand or the city... but, I see what you did there. it really is sad though. Tried to get in there in Jan. one guard said okay, then some little dude drove up saying "I call cops, I call cops"
EM2 YK1 prob both. Pontiac cars were made back then aswell. Its honestly sad how long its been killed off.2
Both the car brand and the city were named after the leader of the indigenous Odawa tribe there.
He's also dead, for the record.
the silver dome was located inside of pontiac and was named accordingly. The car brand is named for the same reason but if you ask someone from detroit about pontiac they’ll immediately think of the city not the brand of cars.
Was at the Led Zep show there. Place was unbelievably large. My seat was in front of one of the fans that blew air into the building to hold the roof up lol! Eventually we made our way to the floor and the front of the stage. Could never have done that anywhere else.
The Silverdome also housed WrestleMania III which was the largest recorded attendance of a live indoor event in North America at the time. The Pope took the title in '99. The story of the Silverdome is tragic though. It is worth looking into. It use to be beautiful before the Lions left. Now it is a huge eye sore. I had the chance of going to it one time. They had to pump air into it to keep the dome inflated so when you were leaving you could run at the door and "fly" out of it due to air pressure.
I live near it. It's sad to see.
wrhiv72 ya
wrhiv72 Why? Ford Field is better.
Just Some Guy Ok He said its sad to see... it was once an iconic stadium that is now an eyesore. Just because something else is better doesn't mean another thing cant be sad. Douche
Are the Volkswagens still their?
I used to watch drive in movies near there
Please do sears. I know you did Kmart but it would be interesting to do sears.
Killjoy Matt He never did K-mart. K-Mart hasn't been abandoned or shut down yet. Sears is also STILL around. Wait a couple years
5 at the most
Sears is still around. It's still an anchor store at one of the malls I sometimes go to.
Jonathan Miller mine is completely abandoned. You can still see the store closing signs from the huge closing.
Just because the one by you is closing doesn't mean all of them are just yet. I don't see Sears lasting too much longer but there are some still around. It's not that matter if they will all close but the real question is when.
I lived in Pontiac growing up in the 2000s-2010s. I was there at the monster jam when they reopened it in 2010. It was cool as hell from what 7 year old me can remember. The Silverdome is what grew my passion for exploring abandoned building. Growing up next to the massive, vacant stadium let the imagination run wild. Its a shame whats happened to my home, my family having been here for generations. But Detroit/Pontiac is rebuilding. Its now an Amazon distribution center employing thousands of locals. Were coming back, slowly but surely.
Pontiac Silverdome, Rest in Peace. 12/4/17
Its sad seeing what happened to the Silverdome, i went to about 10 Thanksgiving day games there growing up. I remember going here for indoor carnivals and to rollerblade during the football offseason, i honestly thought they would keep holding events like that after the Lions left. Obviously that didnt happen.
Here’s an update from 2019: as far as I’ve heard, it’s still standing strong, but has been bought by Amazon, and it is appears that they are going to demolish it and make the land into a distribution center
Nah I live right there and they demolished it in 2017. Fun to watch it implode, but I'm still mad I never got the chance to go inside
Of course.. Amazon loves doing that.. it's kinda upsetting tbh
@@Nathidraws don't worry Amazon will eventually eat its own tail.. when be shopping becomes a thing.
this is the slowest version of running in the 90s i have ever heard.
also it was really neat to hear all this history about a place i've driven by so many times.
Wow, Great video!
Pontiac is just 15 min away from where I live!
Maurice Fuentes yea
Maurice Fuentes I'm in Westland so about 40 minutes away for me.
Christine Crawford nice
Dearborn Heights here
y4123 Karma Police Dearborn Heights here as well 😋
Jenna Orlowski sweet
4/21/1998 and 7/10/2012 are not the intro, what are these dates? I also see this
00:07
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Hmmmmm...
You're actually the first person to catch that easter egg. 4/21/1998 was the year I was born and 7/10/2012 is the date this channel was created. Good eye!
Bright Sun Films Ayy, thought someone else would've spotted it first! I did a thing
Pin this awesome guy!
Where do you see them?
I wonder what will Auburn Hills do on The Palace of Auburn Hills after Detroit Pistons decided to move back in Downtown Detroit and will start playing in Little Ceasars Arena together with Detroit Red Wings.
The Palace is in really good shape for its age. And due to its size, im sure there will still be plenty of concerts, monster jams, and circus' to be held there.
Nysguy2003 I just hope Auburn Hills won't mess up with The Palace.
I dont think they will. It was renovated just two years ago, and is still home to Detroit's Arena football team as well as their Soccer team. Still a good place to hold a concert.
Nysguy2003 Too say with that renovation, the Pistons provided that cost of renovation which is surprising.
I heard plans of it are in the works to have it demolished and something commercial built,I'd hope not seeing as it was recently renovated and is still prime to host events
In my fictional world, this place never gets abandoned and still operates
I saw this thing the last year the roof was inflated. Sad to see it go
Max Moore it's not been inflated for a long ass time. Way more than a year.
Max Moore I don't think it was the silver dome that u saw
I photographed the inside like 4 years ago. I was on of the first before Red Bull even did their BMX trip there. Roof collapsed a long long time ago lol
Edit- Just saw he ended up using one of my shots hah
Aditya Pudasaini yes it was hard to understand without punctuation
4:00 “Plenty of unfilled seats.”
Just like the LA Chargers, Arizona Coyotes, Florida Panthers, Miami Marlins, Tampa Bay Rays, and eventually, the XFL.
Top Nep and manchester city in football
Top Nep New York Islanders in Brooklyn
And the Sacramento Kings, Carolina Hurricanes, and Charlotte Hornets
@@rtlthemusician5598 Don't do that, dont give me hope. Lolz
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Thanks so much Jackson!
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Bright Sun Films Great video! ❤👍
I've been here before that
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