On this day 25 Years Ago Three Rivers Stadium was demolished

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1. Gotta love the accompanying Zambelli fireworks show

2. I just posted this on Facebook but I just realized that in 6 years, Heinz Field (fuck Acrisure) will be older than 3 Rivers was when it was imploded.

3. I was there, up on Mt. Washington. The wind shifted and that rubble cloud came right up to us. 🤣

4. my one regret… never went to a game there. my old brother’s always went, I would always tell them next year. 😕😔

5. I was there, remember it well. Have some 4×6 prints as it was coming down. The winds started blowing the dust to Point State Park. I hightailed it out of there real quick.

6. I was standing on the point! Eventually we were engulfed in the cloud.

7. Went to a Pirate game back in the 70’s.

8. “Memories

   Like the corners of my mind

   Misty watercolored memories

   Of the way we were”

9. I was there!! I watched this live from the other side (CCAC downtown campus lot)

   My friend and I went down in his car the night before at like 3-4am and camped out. Stupidly, we had a footlong hukkah in the front seat and got so stoned we nearly slept in. Then some random dude *(a saint, thank you!)* knocked on our window to wake us up and said “yinz are gonna miss it! Its abaaht to blow!”

   So we woke up and went down to the edge of the hill and 3-4 minutes later, we watched it blow up and fall over, then everyone cheered for a minute, we got back in the car, smoked up again and left. lol.

   Its a hazy memory, but you dont forget watching a stadium explode.

10. Funny thing, the website for the stadium was still online until like 2018. I think the original .com version finally expired and went away, but there’s a copy at https://3riversstadium.org/

11. I loved watching this clip when I was 3 or 4 for some reason

12. Reminds me of another big demolition. 

13. Remember touring it on a field trip. Great memories.

14. Being there for this is one of the earliest memories I have as a kid. My dad started taking me to games there when I was just 2 years old. We went to at least one game every year together. I was just 5 at the time and couldn’t see a thing in the sea of adult yonder’s. I’ll never forget my dad lifting me up on his shoulders just as the detonations were beginning so I could watch the entire thing. This brought back a lot of memories. Made sure to send this to him as well.

15. https://preview.redd.it/nmjgwyukryig1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=eb618a7171669657e2a269d28ffa9314cb9afeae

16. I have a piece of the concrete. My most prized possession.

17. This is kinda sad!

18. r/FuckimOld

19. So much low key yinzer commentary in background.

20. There it goes, there’s the cloud of smoke. Jfc thank God this yinzer graced everyone with such beautiful words to describe what was happening. Its like every Steeler game. At least 1/5 attendees assume no one else has fuckin eye balls.

21. Hey, save some audio for my right ear!

22. One of my oldest memories. I was three. The wind changed and the debris cloud came right at us. My dad put me on his shoulders and instructed my to cover my mouth and nose with my shirt while he raced us to the car. I had a nightmare I was in the building while it was demolished when I went to bed. Good times