My wife and I visited it earlier this year. Had a blast there. The best part was going on the elevator to the top and walking outside and seeing all of Memphis from there. They also had a cool restaurant at the top.
Fellow ginger Memphian - The pyramid is such a marvel to the city itself. Bass Pro being there is a lot of fun, it’s just like why Memphis. The seating was awful in the upper deck though. I was a kid growing up going to games and I remember looking down and thought I was gonna fall out of my seat.
Don't forget it was home to the Memphis Pharaohs Arena Football team from 95-96 until the team move to Portland, Oregon and become the Portland Forest Dragons from 97-99 and went to Oklahoma City and become the Oklahoma Wranglers for two seasons and fold after the the 2001 AFL season
#1. I think that venue would mean great Museum/interactive Science Center. A landmark tourist has to visit in town. #2. In terms of a circular arena there's the perfect example... Madison Sq Garden.
Couple of things, 1. The pyramid was one of my accounts back in the early 90s at a place I worked in Memphis. I got tickets to see all the concerts that came through there. Lots of big names like Aerosmith, Rod Stewart, Billy, Joel, Luther Vandross, etc. it did well with the concerts. That’s back when it was fairly new. Two. It’s on the Mississippi River not the Missouri .
I lived in West Tennessee when this opened. I remember there was some "prophet/seer" who predicted a big earthquake would hit Memphis the day the Pyramid opened, which didn't happen of course. I saw Eric Clapton here in 1992. The acoustics were terrible for a concert venue.
I remember watching the bright sun films video on this building. The surrounding area was supposed to be a music Thea park and I think the pyramid was going to be a museum and hard rock restaurant or something. None of that happened of course and the place became abandoned.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not anti bass pro shops.. but there are so many other places in Memphis to put the largest fishing store? They could have had a theatre, museum, etc for such a unique structure.. This is a perfect example of something that looks uncultured and tacky, yet is unsurprising to everyone living in the southeastern United States?? You have a GIANT PYRAMID and Tennessee makes it a fishing store with a really high ceiling... just uninspiring and underwhelming..
That's a cover-up for the OLD MEMPHIS PYRAMID that was first in Nashville. The Nashville PYRAMID was called the MEMPHIS PYRAMID. It was located right behind the Greek, Parthenon and doesn't have a "real" construction date. It has a fake date that appeared on a billboard for the 1890 World Fair. Nashville looked just like ancient Greece. It was known as the Greece of America. History as we know it is 180° of bs!
It’s on the Mississippi River, DG
My wife and I visited it earlier this year. Had a blast there. The best part was going on the elevator to the top and walking outside and seeing all of Memphis from there. They also had a cool restaurant at the top.
The pyramid arena design is awesome. Only problem was it’s in Memphis…
Fellow ginger Memphian - The pyramid is such a marvel to the city itself. Bass Pro being there is a lot of fun, it’s just like why Memphis.
The seating was awful in the upper deck though. I was a kid growing up going to games and I remember looking down and thought I was gonna fall out of my seat.
Don't forget it was home to the Memphis Pharaohs Arena Football team from 95-96 until the team move to Portland, Oregon and become the Portland Forest Dragons from 97-99 and went to Oklahoma City and become the Oklahoma Wranglers for two seasons and fold after the the 2001 AFL season
I was actually hoping you where gonna make a video on the Memphis pyramid
#1. I think that venue would mean great Museum/interactive Science Center. A landmark tourist has to visit in town.
#2. In terms of a circular arena there's the perfect example... Madison Sq Garden.
Couple of things, 1. The pyramid was one of my accounts back in the early 90s at a place I worked in Memphis. I got tickets to see all the concerts that came through there. Lots of big names like Aerosmith, Rod Stewart, Billy, Joel, Luther Vandross, etc. it did well with the concerts. That’s back when it was fairly new. Two. It’s on the Mississippi River not the Missouri .
That's actually the Mississippi River. Not the Missouri River.
LIL BOY NEEDS TO TRAVEL THE U.S., BEFORE MAKING COMMENTS AGAINST CITIES🤦♂️MY 10 YEAR OLD SON KNOWS MEMPHIS ON THE MISSISSIPPI🙋♂️
Yeah fishin
FedEx Forum is literally a circular shaped arena 😂
I lived in West Tennessee when this opened. I remember there was some "prophet/seer" who predicted a big earthquake would hit Memphis the day the Pyramid opened, which didn't happen of course. I saw Eric Clapton here in 1992. The acoustics were terrible for a concert venue.
The should cover the exterior with LED screens like the Las Vegas Sphere.
Remember this was 1989
@@skgrizz I am talking about putting in LED exterior as part of the redevelopment not the original construction.
I remember watching the bright sun films video on this building. The surrounding area was supposed to be a music Thea park and I think the pyramid was going to be a museum and hard rock restaurant or something. None of that happened of course and the place became abandoned.
I don’t think the pyramid was designed specifically for basketball though. That came as an afterthought. Or at least it wasn’t the only thing In mind.
Do the mid south coliseum next
I so crave one day to go there... to see it .....
This guy is hard to please, warning to the ladies!
Seriously! 😂
Sprint Center in Kansas City is a circle
12,000 seats downstairs and 8,000 seats upstairs. The Grizz wanted to renovate but I was impractical to do
55 year lease?!?! Got Dam!!!
Would pyramid be safer shape during storms etc......
Don't get me wrong, I'm not anti bass pro shops.. but there are so many other places in Memphis to put the largest fishing store? They could have had a theatre, museum, etc for such a unique structure.. This is a perfect example of something that looks uncultured and tacky, yet is unsurprising to everyone living in the southeastern United States?? You have a GIANT PYRAMID and Tennessee makes it a fishing store with a really high ceiling... just uninspiring and underwhelming..
I'll never forget wwe st valentines day massacre. Hard-core holly vs al snow. They took their Match down into the river 😂😂😂
The seating in the upper deck was horrible. Your legs would feel cramped.
1:12 Actually that's the Mississippi River, not the Missouri
Nah this is far from tacky, don’t be disrespecting the legendary company themselves.
That's a cover-up for the OLD MEMPHIS PYRAMID that was first in Nashville. The Nashville PYRAMID was called the MEMPHIS PYRAMID. It was located right behind the Greek, Parthenon and doesn't have a "real" construction date. It has a fake date that appeared on a billboard for the 1890 World Fair. Nashville looked just like ancient Greece. It was known as the Greece of America. History as we know it is 180° of bs!
Miss river, get the basics right.