Possibly the saddest thing I've seen.. I have so many memories of the Silver Dome. From football games, Basketball games, WWF Wrestle Maina 3! When hulk Hogan picked up Andre The Giant!! Barry Sanders being our answer.. To Mayor Walter More Reception after becoming Mayor of Pontiac.. I helped with seating, ,I was 15Yrs old.. HeartBroken. .Childhood memories is all that's left... Thanks for the memories and this video. ..Mook!
I had so many memories from there as a child. All the times that my father took me and my little brother to see the monster trucks... it's heartbreaking to see it this way now.
That's quite an astounding video. I 'm not from the Detroit or the U.S. for that matter. I lived in the City of Vancouver, Canada that had a similar dome, a few years ago now, they completely redid the whole structure and it is still in use to this day. It's sad t.o see such an icon building for the people of Detroit slowly turn into some decaying memory of the past
I think anyone that's not from the area fails to realize that the Silverdome wasn't in Detroit. That's at the very least it's 20-30 minute drive outside of the city in Pontiac hence the name -- Pontiac Silverdome.
This is the natural consequence of a thousand-ton giant being slammed in it, with the added weight of several million Hulkamaniacs watching it live at the same time.
I'm not even a huge sports fan in the least, but this is just depressing. Of course, I am looking at it going, "My god... the theatre space that could have held." And all the electronics and control consoles are still there? I wouldn't mind saving those.
. I was there in 1977, for the Super Bowl, north side, third row, 50 yard line . Plus a few concerts . But I never thought, that you would be able to, take a kayak thru the Pontiac Silverdome . ~ hard life (MULDEW)
Such a pity. Not only was it home to the Lions, but the USFL Champion Michigan Panthers. I loved going to the Panther games as a kid. They had a lot of talent go to the NFL, all won championships there, too. Then there were the outdoor shows, boat shows, gun and knife shows, it had the space for rv and camper shows.... There was talk it was going to be an indoor carnival for a while. RIP Silverdome, you were a grand lady in your day.
Even if a new place was built, it is really wired that they left the stuff inside just as it was. The tvs, chairs,tables, and the field. That is crazy. A lot of money just sitting in there getting pored on.
I've never even been to Detroit before, but it doesn't have to be my hometown for my heart to break for those that are from Detroit. HOW DID THIS HAPPEN TO THIS ONCE BEAUTIFUL CITY?!?! Even New Orleans looks better than this, after Hurricane Katrina... and you mean to tell me the U.S. Government isn't going to do anything to help Detroit - after the entire United States has eaten off of Detroit's car manufacturing economy? This is APPALLING!!!
This stadium wasn’t in the actual Detroit city, but I live 50 miles away from Detroit in suburbs. I’ve driven through a lot of Detroit and there are many areas where you can just drive and drive for blocks and almost all the buildings/houses are boarded up and or crumbling/burnt down. So sad, it used to be a beautiful city.
Hard to believe there was a soccer match here four years ago, a boxing match and concert as recently as two years ago. This place looks like it was abandoned 20 years ago, although the lions last played there in 2002
Very sad to see. I grew up in a residential neighborhood just south of where the Silverdome was constructed, Hillfield Rd. As a matter of fact, before the dome was built the area used to be called by the locals “Motorcycle Hills”. Every weekend before construction began you'd see dozens and depending on the weather 100's of RV's and such parked in the area with motorcyclists riding up and down the many hills that were in the area. Once construction began in 1973 we could watch them building it from our kitchen window. It was very exciting. Once completed I used to see events there at least 2-3 times a year. Football, both NFL and USFL, went to soccer games, NBA at the mini-dome, saw my very first rock concert, Boston (I knew a guy who worked in the ticket office, got in for free). Saw Wrestelmania III etc. Lots of memories there. Too bad the residents of Pontiac elected, and still elect, every Democratic moron they can. By all accounts the Lions DID NOT want to leave the dome, they wanted some improvements done (which if memory serves they offered to help pay for) and a better contract with the city. Of course the idiots on the Pontiac City Council figured out a way to screw it up. Pontiac and it's residents are getting exactly what they deserve. Well done dumb asses!
Don't blame it on democrats bud. Republicans are just as corrupt when it comes to getting extra cash. The NFL practically forces teams to get new stadiums as I am witnessing in my own home city of Buffalo.
So sad - I was amazed how much stuff was left set up as if the stadium would be used again but then it wasn't like all the glasses in a room area or all the bar chairs stacked up neatly. Also what caused the roof to give out - I know having been there it was held up by air and that's why to get in it had these revolving doors. All the old TV equipment to in the studio... wow.
Lets get some things straight, this facility is in Pontiac and not within the city limits of Detroit. After the Lions moved to a stadium actually in downtown Detroit, it was sold and bought by someone else who tried many times to get other sports to come play there and failed. A greek born Canadian bought it and let it get to the point it is now.
You forgot the Super Bowl in that video . Biggest rated Super Bowl at the time (maybe still) was the one in the Silverdome. Forty Niners vs. Bengals in 1981.
What a sickening waste of resources and all those man hours of labor. Very sad. Detroit and Pontiac need to be reclaimed by the Earth. Their highest uses were long ago, far back in the rear view mirror.
Wow, I think of the dads and kids who came through there...and those kids thought that was the greatest thing they'd ever seen, so many people, and it was so BIG, and it would probably last forever...crap, nothing lasts forever.
WrestleMania III at Pontiac SilverDome's facts: - Brutus Beefcake debuted his Barber gimmick after breaking up with the Dream Team earlier in the show - The first WrestleMania where the Tag Team belts weren't defended. Current champions at that time were the Hart Foundation. - Junkyard Dog became the first wrestler in a WrestleMania PPV to use a chairshot to the head (on Harley Race). - First WrestleMania to feature mini wrestlers: Haiti Kid, Lord Littlebrook, Little Tokyo, and Little Beaver. - "Macho Man" Randy Savage vs Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat is considered one of the best wrestling matches in WrestleMania and Pro Wrestling history.
The stadium was built for Detroit metro area sports teams and events. Pontiac is a suburb of Detroit. Just a self-managing part of a greater urban area. For the intent of saying it is "just another decayed Detroit building", it is fair to consider it is part of Detroit. The decay of Detroit led directly to the decay of a stadium built for that city. Plus the decay is moving into the suburbs now.
Will_A Not really a completely different area. Pontiac is considered part of the Detroit metropolitan area, an official Census designation. There is continuous development from downtown Detroit to Pontiac.
What i dont understand is why all the gear still left there. I know when a new sports stadium gets built here, everything gets removed and if not then it would have been stolen the next day
So your telling me that nothing in this building could have been salvaged until now over three years later? None of the sound boards, rails, tv's? Nothing? Nothing out of the luxury boxes either?! I'm sooo confused by this wasteful mentality for a city in such financial despair.
Possibly the saddest thing I've seen.. I have so many memories of the Silver Dome. From football games, Basketball games, WWF Wrestle Maina 3! When hulk Hogan picked up Andre The Giant!! Barry Sanders being our answer.. To Mayor Walter More Reception after becoming Mayor of Pontiac.. I helped with seating, ,I was 15Yrs old.. HeartBroken. .Childhood memories is all that's left... Thanks for the memories and this video. ..Mook!
This video has seen more visitors in one day, than pointiac silverdome has in the past 10 years.
Mother nature reclaims everything eventually... it's only a matter of time.
Screw Mother Nature, Entropy claims everything.
***** ...I just gotta ask...
Was that question strategically placed for any purpose?
But we are a part of nature.
Isaiah Stebbins
you're the only one asking a question.
TotalSushi Precisely.
Maannn this is just sad.
And beautiful
Surprisingly relaxing to watch.
I had so many memories from there as a child. All the times that my father took me and my little brother to see the monster trucks... it's heartbreaking to see it this way now.
That's quite an astounding video. I 'm not from the Detroit or the U.S. for that matter. I lived in the City of Vancouver, Canada that had a similar dome, a few years ago now, they completely redid the whole structure and it is still in use to this day. It's sad t.o see such an icon building for the people of Detroit slowly turn into some decaying memory of the past
There it stands, silent as a tomb, no life to speak of, the cheers silenced...
The sound really adds to this.
The sound between 3:20 to 3:25 brought a cold shiver down my spine. From Wrestlemania 3 and those roaring cheers to..................nothing.
u aint lying there straight chills
I think anyone that's not from the area fails to realize that the Silverdome wasn't in Detroit. That's at the very least it's 20-30 minute drive outside of the city in Pontiac hence the name -- Pontiac Silverdome.
This is the natural consequence of a thousand-ton giant being slammed in it, with the added weight of several million Hulkamaniacs watching it live at the same time.
Is it just me or does this look like at night it would be an awesome setting for a horror game?
I'm not even a huge sports fan in the least, but this is just depressing.
Of course, I am looking at it going, "My god... the theatre space that could have held."
And all the electronics and control consoles are still there? I wouldn't mind saving those.
All of the football that took place here, nothing matches up to Hogan vs Andre at wrestlemaina 3
That's easy, since the Lions sucked back when they played there. Sanders was the only good thing about those teams.
Don't forget Steamboat vs. Savage. Also where Brutus Beefcake became, Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake.
So Tru !
+Zeckdo WHEN HOGAN AND HIS 44 INCH PYTHONS SLAMMED THE 6000 POUND ANDRE THE GIANT IN FRONT OF 5 MILLION SCREAMING HULKAMANIACS BROTHER
Farmer Hobo 😂😂😂
The way this was shot and edited reminds me of Myst. A little sad but a very nice and strangely relaxing video.
. I was there in 1977, for the Super Bowl, north side, third row, 50 yard line . Plus a few concerts . But I never thought, that you would be able to, take a kayak thru the Pontiac Silverdome . ~ hard life (MULDEW)
great quality footage. i love seeing abandoned places.
I remember when our high school band was invited to play the first Lions home game. I have a lot of memories of marching on that field.
This actually brought tears to my eyes
It's just haunting to see any stadium devoid of any maintenance and just deteriorating
man, this look soooo cool, i always loved abandonned places, i wish i could live there
Such a pity. Not only was it home to the Lions, but the USFL Champion Michigan Panthers. I loved going to the Panther games as a kid. They had a lot of talent go to the NFL, all won championships there, too. Then there were the outdoor shows, boat shows, gun and knife shows, it had the space for rv and camper shows.... There was talk it was going to be an indoor carnival for a while. RIP Silverdome, you were a grand lady in your day.
From Stock Car Races, Wrestlemania, the Superbowl, Monster Truck Rallies,NBA Championships to this....
Would make a really cool, Paintball/Airsoft Arena.
Elvis played here to his largest, every personal audience... 60,000+ in 1976.
There's something blissfully American about a major city throwing away and forgetting about one of it's former prized possessions.
Heartbreaking So Many Memories.
Que lindo estadio. me gustó mucho cuando lo vi por tv en el mundial de EE.UU 1994. Que pena ahora verlo así.
Saludos desde Pisco - Perú.
All the Detroit Lions and Pistons games me, my brothers, and friends all used to go see as kids.
It's really sad to see the place where I saw my first of many Monster Jam events 10 years ago waste away... I had so many childhood memories here...
What the hell happened here? Why are they just letting it sit and waist, all the chairs and glass. Did they build a new one or something?
no, my friend. it is because it is in detroit.
Yeah. Ford field was built
Even if a new place was built, it is really wired that they left the stuff inside just as it was. The tvs, chairs,tables, and the field. That is crazy. A lot of money just sitting in there getting pored on.
zack hulet That's what I thought to. How has no one gone in there and stolen some that stuff? Those glasses and chairs could go for a lot of money.
chriswell23 I find that rather unlikely.
Been here a few times when I was a kid. Sad to see now. :/
So many happy memories there.
So many memories... Gone :/
So so so sad!!! I only got to be in there once in my life back in the late 90s
I love how it hasn't gotten graffittied up.
I've never even been to Detroit before, but it doesn't have to be my hometown for my heart to break for those that are from Detroit. HOW DID THIS HAPPEN TO THIS ONCE BEAUTIFUL CITY?!?! Even New Orleans looks better than this, after Hurricane Katrina... and you mean to tell me the U.S. Government isn't going to do anything to help Detroit - after the entire United States has eaten off of Detroit's car manufacturing economy? This is APPALLING!!!
PREACH!
The Silverdome was located in the city of Pontiac, approximately 40 miles from Detroit.
just so you know this isnt detroit.
This stadium wasn’t in the actual Detroit city, but I live 50 miles away from Detroit in suburbs. I’ve driven through a lot of Detroit and there are many areas where you can just drive and drive for blocks and almost all the buildings/houses are boarded up and or crumbling/burnt down. So sad, it used to be a beautiful city.
Just looks like another building in Detroit.
It isn't in detroit.
Jim Alvis Your mom is in Detroit.
It's not in detriot
It's in Pontiac, Michigan (hello? "Pontiac" silverdome
That is just so sad to see, watched my first live game here back in 89
Life after people.
Hard to believe there was a soccer match here four years ago, a boxing match and concert as recently as two years ago. This place looks like it was abandoned 20 years ago, although the lions last played there in 2002
I am just shocked, excellent documentary
What a difference seven years makes. Inside the Silverdome in 2007. Roof was totally fine back then: Silverdome inside aerial video from RC plane
Good job Detroit.... we are so proud of you.
So eerie compared to the lively footage of better times & now it's all gone...
This. It is like staring directly into the eyes of death.
Ellie, stay here while I scout ahead....
this would be a great paintball arena.. omg someone please buy it......
This is sad. So much history in that building.
How fitting to choose a rainy day to evaluate the decay of a once proud stadium.
Very sad to see. I grew up in a residential neighborhood just south of where the Silverdome was constructed, Hillfield Rd. As a matter of fact, before the dome was built the area used to be called by the locals “Motorcycle Hills”. Every weekend before construction began you'd see dozens and depending on the weather 100's of RV's and such parked in the area with motorcyclists riding up and down the many hills that were in the area.
Once construction began in 1973 we could watch them building it from our kitchen window. It was very exciting. Once completed I used to see events there at least 2-3 times a year. Football, both NFL and USFL, went to soccer games, NBA at the mini-dome, saw my very first rock concert, Boston (I knew a guy who worked in the ticket office, got in for free). Saw Wrestelmania III etc. Lots of memories there.
Too bad the residents of Pontiac elected, and still elect, every Democratic moron they can. By all accounts the Lions DID NOT want to leave the dome, they wanted some improvements done (which if memory serves they offered to help pay for) and a better contract with the city. Of course the idiots on the Pontiac City Council figured out a way to screw it up. Pontiac and it's residents are getting exactly what they deserve. Well done dumb asses!
Don't blame it on democrats bud. Republicans are just as corrupt when it comes to getting extra cash. The NFL practically forces teams to get new stadiums as I am witnessing in my own home city of Buffalo.
Great video!
So sad - I was amazed how much stuff was left set up as if the stadium would be used again but then it wasn't like all the glasses in a room area or all the bar chairs stacked up neatly.
Also what caused the roof to give out - I know having been there it was held up by air and that's why to get in it had these revolving doors. All the old TV equipment to in the studio... wow.
We're in the Superdome, Brother.
Lets get some things straight, this facility is in Pontiac and not within the city limits of Detroit. After the Lions moved to a stadium actually in downtown Detroit, it was sold and bought by someone else who tried many times to get other sports to come play there and failed. A greek born Canadian bought it and let it get to the point it is now.
If this was Scotland we would get a few friends and a ball and we would get a good game of football😂
That place is still really well stocked...
This is sad, and so are the auction pictures in the link. I saw my first Monster Truck Show here when I was 10.
this would make a great setting for the walking dead
Oh hell yes it would.
I have no idea why they didn't just film the show in detroit. Almost every location is like a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Horatio Black TV shows are about pretend danger, not actual danger.
Or The Walking Dead would make a great documentary of Detroit.
I was imagining TWD there the whole time I was watching
They should make into low rent condos they could have their own little city within a city protected from the violence outside the gates.
Pontiac concentration camp
*****
Mad Max - Beyond Silverdome.
*****
Yet.
***** search in the youtube search box "detroit wasteland"
google kowloon walled city (KWC), didnt work out too well for them
seems like a hell of a place for some paintball fun
kinda sad man i have so many memories as a kid going to the lions games and what not :(
They bout to destroy this place? They leaving it abandoned or something?
You forgot the Super Bowl in that video . Biggest rated Super Bowl at the time (maybe still) was the one in the Silverdome. Forty Niners vs. Bengals in 1981.
Very sad, to let something fall into disrepair, particularly when it's something like this that after the damage is done, it can't really be fixed! :(
Hogan vs Andre the giant was there wasn't it? Wow such a shame for that stadium.
I would LOVE to have that Detroit Lions sign (4:01). Ive been a Lions fan for 45 years. Will that be part of the upcoming auction?
It will.
What a sickening waste of resources and all those man hours of labor. Very sad. Detroit and Pontiac need to be reclaimed by the Earth. Their highest uses were long ago, far back in the rear view mirror.
roof was held up with air from fans shut off with the power, now the cables are snapped and roof down completely
When I was in the kiski area marching band we played there
Sad that all that AV equipment was just left there.... Man if i lived out there I would have come back over and over until I got every last piece!!
Wow, I think of the dads and kids who came through there...and those kids thought that was the greatest thing they'd ever seen, so many people, and it was so BIG, and it would probably last forever...crap, nothing lasts forever.
WrestleMania III at Pontiac SilverDome's facts:
- Brutus Beefcake debuted his Barber gimmick after breaking up with the Dream Team earlier in the show
- The first WrestleMania where the Tag Team belts weren't defended. Current champions at that time were the Hart Foundation.
- Junkyard Dog became the first wrestler in a WrestleMania PPV to use a chairshot to the head (on Harley Race).
- First WrestleMania to feature mini wrestlers: Haiti Kid, Lord Littlebrook, Little Tokyo, and Little Beaver.
- "Macho Man" Randy Savage vs Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat is considered one of the best wrestling matches in WrestleMania and Pro Wrestling history.
Sad to see it empty when many people were in there
perfectly useable stadium for the next Zombie movie.
that place even held World Cup matches in 1994, such a tragedy this place has become.
America... We are number one!
Looks like it's in pretty good condition considering how close it is to Detroit.
It's kind've beautiful in a way, really. There's just something unspeakably serene about it.
What's left of the roof has since dropped onto the field. You'd think eventually they'll just implode it, what else can they do with it at this stage?
WrestleMania 33: The Return Of The Silverdome. Make it happen, Detroit!
What a shame! Couldn't they have installed a solid weather proof roof like other large domed stadiums?
The roof was deflated last year after it was damaged in a bad storm, prior to that it had always been waterproof
Do you guys know what that loud humming was? Was there still some sort of electrical system on?
Kind of sad to see Detroit this way. Wish the people there the best of luck cause they need it.
Does anyone know if you can buy the seats like you could when they demo'd Tiger Stadium?
Holy shit is the power still on to that place!?
saw that broadcast equipment and about weeped.
The 1994 FIFA World Cup was played there.
MAKE THIS A CONCERT HALL
The stadium was built for Detroit metro area sports teams and events. Pontiac is a suburb of Detroit. Just a self-managing part of a greater urban area. For the intent of saying it is "just another decayed Detroit building", it is fair to consider it is part of Detroit. The decay of Detroit led directly to the decay of a stadium built for that city. Plus the decay is moving into the suburbs now.
Pontiac is Pontiac completely different area from detroit its like a half hour away from detroit.
Will_A Not really a completely different area. Pontiac is considered part of the Detroit metropolitan area, an official Census designation. There is continuous development from downtown Detroit to Pontiac.
How big is the metropolitan area of detriot?
What i dont understand is why all the gear still left there. I know when a new sports stadium gets built here, everything gets removed and if not then it would have been stolen the next day
I really want to see this in person can you just walk in?
Did they not even try to auction parts of the stadium? Like seats, pictures, parts of field, locker room junk, etc.
why arent all of those flat screens gone?
Because its not in Detroit itself. If it was, it would have been stripped bare and covered in graffiti by now.
When did the last teflon roof tile fell?
I'd say it's a shame, but Detroit does kinda deserve this really.
when can we all agree to just turn Detroit into a prison colony and be done with it.
Escape from Detroit.
Ryan James sure, if you say so.
All those nice Big Screen TV's...
So your telling me that nothing in this building could have been salvaged until now over three years later? None of the sound boards, rails, tv's? Nothing? Nothing out of the luxury boxes either?! I'm sooo confused by this wasteful mentality for a city in such financial despair.
Out of curiosity, how hard was it to get in? Did you have permission from somebody or no?
can just anyone go in there now? i was at the last game played there against the cowboys in 2001