If this has been posted allready I apologise.. but it's awesome! (1 Viewer)

[Tsaints]

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[Crowley Cajun]

We went there for the LSU UNC game last year and I couldn't stop thinking that it looked like a circus tent from the inside.

I could be wrong, but I think this pic was taken during the construction of the Georgia Dome. Notice the cranes.

 

[YoYo]

I was a kid when I was saw them driving the things into the ground and was told the pilings were telephone pole so here is the real facts
I did some research to get the ground ready to build the dome

2,100 prestressed concrete pilings, each consisting of two eighty-foot lengths, joined together by a steel collar. These pilings were driven 165 feet down to the Pliocene crust of the earth

 

[gr8Saints]

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cadillac

 

[harvey wallbanger]

i was born the same week the dome opened

 

[BoroSaint]

What is it?

You're killin me smalls!!!!!

 

[CoolBrees1]

My father worked on the construction of the Super Dome...he was part of the crew that installed the seating...

 

[bobad]

wow

weird - i would have been 7-8 at the time, but i remember none of this.
seems like something that would make an impression on a 7 or 8 yr old would

maybe my parent's shouldn't have gotten my high so much

 

[soupcan dan]

they could've saved some hassle and put the benz logo in then---

 

[Darth Deuce]

How about these. And yes both are the Superdome in the early days....Awesome!!!

Wow! You can see where The Kick was made. Great pics! Thanks for sharing!

 

[SouthernSaintsFan]

My father worked on the construction of the Super Dome...he was part of the crew that installed the seating...

Awesome!! So was my pops! Was about to come here and post that and saw your post.

 

[brotherjohn]

wow

weird - i would have been 7-8 at the time, but i remember none of this.
seems like something that would make an impression on a 7 or 8 yr old would

Ditto for me. I must have been 11 or 12! Don't know WHY I don't remember this! So cool!

 

[jimrip]

How about these. And yes both are the Superdome in the early days....Awesome!!!

That bottom pic is indeed the dome.. the top pic I'm not so sure about.

look at the fire engine on the field.. it would be dwarfed by the size of the dome. The stands are way too small for the dome. I think this is a basketball arena type dome.

Also, I don't think pre-fab concrete sections were used in the dome.. I think all the concrete was poured on site.

pic is copyrighted by OCA.. Ohio Contractors Association maybe

 

[peglegpeet13]

What is it?