Well after 24 years the pulled the plug on the the 4 huge fans in the Hoosier\RCA dome. It took 35 minutes for the roof to come down.

So many memories...Rolling Stones,U2,Pink Floyd.

6 AFC south titles,IU games,Final Fours.

Back before class high school basketball you would have 45,000 fans for the state finals!

Bye bye dome sweet dome!

Now that's a deflated sack!

Turn out the lights the party's over they say that all good things must end

Let's call it a night the party's over and tomorrow starts the same old thing again

What a crazy crazy party never seen so many people

Laughin' dancin' look at you you're havin' fun

But look at me I'm almost cryin' but that don't keep your love from dyin'

Misery cause for me the party's over

Turn out the lights...

Once I had a love undyin' I didn't keep it, wasn't tryin'

Life for me was just one party and then another

Broke her heart so many times had to have my party wine

But one night she said sweetheart the party's over

Turn out the lights...

talk about nuts drying up! LOL

I wonder how much it cost to run those fans for 24 years ? ?

Is that the dome that would blow you out the door?

Yes it would blow you out the door at times!

LOL funny! When will they implode it?

December they will implode the top sections.

My memories of never going to the dome....

I lived in Dayton, OH at the time, and I missed 2, maybe 3, concert opportunities there with friends.

Rolling Stones: Steel Wheels (1989)

U2: Joshua Tree (1987)

Genesis: Invisible Touch (1987)

If I had to guess, I'd say my parents wouldn't let me go to 2 of them since I was still in high school. LOL I vividly recall the night before the U2 concert because a couple friends had rented a conversion van to drive to Indy (from Dayton, OH). The concert was 11/1, and the night before (Halloween) we were all driving around in the van, hitting the haunted houses, with a keg in the back. 🙂

Looks like our favorite MN public works project, the Metrodome. And yes, it blows you out the door too sometimes.

LOL I can remember as a child in the Twin City area at 9 years old talk of the Metrodome being built in Eagan, just 5 miles from where I was born. Of course it was delayed and built downtown!

Metrodome now is the last of the FAN driven domes. Old and past its time as well I doubt the Vikes will have a new stadium any time soon!

^Well, all the Vikes keep talking about is a new open air stadium in Blaine. Anyone who lives here in MN can tell you that this is an awful idea. It would basically be a colder, windier version of green bay. The Dome is one of the loudest stadiums in the NFL, it gives the vikes a considerable home field advantage, and it works for football. Which is more than one can say for the twins and baseball. I think they made the right decision to do the twins stadium first.

I wonder how much it cost to run those fans for 24 years ? ? ?

I couldn't imagine to guess what the electric bills were.

UNREAL.

I remember the U2 concert very well,Los Lobos was the opening act and they were very late.It was in late Oct.close to Halloween so Bono and they boys from U2 dressed up as Los Lobos and did a couple of songs.

Many couldn't even tell unless you were in the front rows.

Pink Floyd Learning to Fly Tour they had a huge inflated pig on a wire that would come flying over the crowd.Well he wasn't the only flying thing that night.

A fan in the 2nd deck "Learned to fly," by jumping off and falling into the crowd below. I can't remember if he lived or not.