March 26, 2000 Hard to believe that this was 20 years ago. I have so many memories in this place, including playing for the state championship game in football there in 1987. This still makes me sad. 😞
I remember watching this as a kid! I grew up on CDI documentaries, the stuff they have managed to pull off is absolutely insane. Documentaries like this don't come around often anymore but they are worth the hunt!
CDI's pretty much the chief authority when it comes to implosions. When other implosion companies say it can't be done, they'll ask when you need it done by.
I am sad that she is gone, my high school band and every other high school band in the area played for the opening of the Dome under the direction of Danny Kaye. It was pretty special. Sad to see but the ball park and football field are nice additions to the area. You did good!
Thanks for sharing this education video about construction engineering people who demo stadiums as a hubby. Lots of engineering experts and educated professionals working in construction industry. My respect for them as they work.
The distortion in this makes me feel old, I vividly remember that stadium as a kid and getting to run the bases with my little league team. Time flies!
I've had great memories being in the Dome. And some pretty bad ones. Some pretty good Sonics memories even if the atmosphere was nothing like the old Coliseum or the later Key Arena. The '95 Mariners. The NCAA Tournament. I never got to see the 'Hawks in person in the Dome, though; oh, well...there were the monster truck events and the Supercross races, not to mention the car, home and boat shows. Yet there was Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones...worst acoustics I've EVER experienced attending any concert. And quite honestly it was one FUGLY building that simply DID NOT age well, indicative of how King County and a hesitant tax base was so set on putting up a facility on the cheap. Made to function, and not much else. To me even as a teen kid when it was completed, it absolutely looked chintzy and characterless from Day One (and yes, I went to the grand opening event). The day the building went down? I had some misgivings but it was an AWESOME experience to watch it go down. And I left me wishing that we could do it again, right then and there.
Oh come now. Yoy know that no matter what, people always want new, new new, and to hell with the old no matter how well made it still is, and sports stadiums lead the pack in that insanity
I have the 300 level sign. We snuck in that night and scavenged the rubble. We got caught by security but i paid them $40 and they lets us go with our pieces. I also have a chunk of concrete from the peak of the dome.
I remember going to a Promise Keeper's event there where it was a record crowd of 55k in the 90s. Place was packed and the field was just full of people. The engineers were worried about the crowd noise and stomping may damage pillars. Good times!
At 20:45 The company that imploded the Kingdome almost failed, but realized just in time how well it had been constructed (badly maintained) and revised their plan and quantity of explosives.
It was literally falling apart. The costs to make a decent venue again would have cost the same as their new stadium with the drawbacks of still having an outdated stadium that wouldn't have last as long as their current stadium. Blame their original plan, they built it on the cheap.
The reason they said yes to tearing it down is because that roof was unsafe and the owners knew it was since the beginning it was created it was always going down it was a matter of when and which idiot would pay for a new stadium. My father ran one of the outfits during this project start to finish.
You must be referring to the WTC Twin Towers In NYC. If someone attempted make these charges they would weigh thousands of pounds each. Forklifts would be needed to get them in the buildings. The biggest available charges at that time were able to cut through a maximum of 3 inches thick. The columns at the base of the Twin Towers were 14 inches on a side. If charges big enough could be made it would hypothetically take 2 months and 75 people to remove the fireproofing off the columns, then place and wire the charges. IT JUST CAN'T BE DONE.
The guy from CDI said the Mapes hotel was not safe. Of course he’s going to say that! He needs to say that, job security. Could have had a 3rd party architecture firm come in and give their opinion
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