What do you wish you had seen before it went away?

[spinbaby]

For some reason I was thinking of Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh today. I grew up in Pittsburgh but never had reason to visit the stadium before it was demolished.

[Ferrets are Cool]

1. A real dodo bird, but then

that would mean I would be dead now, so......uhhhhhhhhhhh nevermind.

[trocar]

2. A Shuttle Launch nt

[PJMcK]

9. Yep (n/t)

[spinbaby]

11. I saw one

A night launch in 98. It lit up the night—absolutely spectacular. Many years later, I got to see a daytime Space X launch from much farther away in Cocoa Beach—not at all the same.

[C_U_L8R]

3. Led Zeppelin

[TexasBushwhacker]

6. You and me both

Although, I did have a chance, but they were playing at a football stadium and that just wasn't my thing.

[C_U_L8R]

7. I had tickets and couldn't make it.

They were touring for Physical Graffiti. Damn.

[questionseverything]

4. The wild mustangs running free

[2naSalit]

24. They are not gone...

We have them in the western states and you can see them in some places when driving from one place to another because the road goes through some way out there territory. You just need to go for a drive!

[questionseverything]

25. The mares are gathered and their ovaries smashed

Then returned to the herd.....that’s not “free”

Repubs have been giving away federal lands since reagon. One of the crappy things trump did was aggressively cull herds.

I know lots of people try and recreate it on private property and that’s nice

[2naSalit]

26. Yes, the roundups continue and there is much to be addressed about that...

I hate it and would like to see the practices end. But there are still wild, truly wild, mustangs on public lands, I have seen them myself many times over many years in different states. There are a couple sanctuaries that are at least not zoos but there are still some put there if you wanted to see them before they are gone.

[MyOwnPeace]

5. OK, so we're local!

I took pictures from the Ft. Pitt bridge of the stadium being built. I did NOT go to see it brought down (too cold!) and I'm sorry I didn't go!

I'm reading a book about the rackets and mobs/mafia in New Kensington. Just found out there was an airport just behind Tarentum (a newspaper has their headquarters there now) and the airport was where arms were flown out and sent to Cuba in the fights with Fidel!

I was SO naive!!!!


Oh, and in 1964 the Rolling Stones played at West View Park - a big amusement park that was serious competition for Kennywood!

[dewsgirl]

8. Studio 54

[Mike 03]

18. That's a good answer. I just finished reading a memoir about

the band Fleetwood Mac and one of the chapters involves chaos at Studio 54.

It seemed a little scary.

[dewsgirl]

19. It sounded wild and fun. It's funny, I actually thought about this

thread this morning. I wish I would have gave a different answer, I wish I would have dined at Windows on the World on the top of the WTC. We used to go to NYC and spend a day or two in the city, every summer.(my aunt and uncle live in NJ)

Studio 54 seems like it was wild, but yet I'm sure it was fun, for those that weren't destroyed by the club scene back then.

I hope you have a Happy Thanksgiving.🦃

Edited to say: I'd like to add the unredacted Mueller Report also on that list.

[Mike 03]

22. Happy Thanksgiving to you too Dewsgirl!!

That whole Studio 54/Andy Warhol scene must have been fantastic with the Velvet Underground and Edie Sedgwick and all of that. I've read that even Bob Dylan dropped by. Roy Cohn supposedly hung out there a lot too.

I wish I'd given a better answer too. I really went a bit off course talking about WW2.

[PJMcK]

10. The Beatles (n/t)

[Mad_Dem_X]

15. Me, too.

I would love to be able to go back in time and see them perform.

[DEbluedude]

12. trump exhibit one redeeming quality. Just one. At least one.

[Aristus]

13. The Colossus of Rhodes, in situ.

It only existed as an upright statue for about fifty years in about 300 b.c., before it was toppled in an earthquake.

It lay in bronze pieces for around nine hundred years before being sold for scrap.

[malthaussen]

14. You didn't miss much.

Those "air filter" stadia were all pretty much the same.

Forbes Field, now, that was a ballpark!

-- Mal

[NurseJackie]

16. World Trade Center

[Mike 03]

17. Nirvana live in concert.

I also sometimes wish I'd been alive for WW2, or old enough to understand what was going on in the Vietnam War, but obviously those weren't "good times." The late 60s in general would have been an amazing time to be conscious and involved and observing things.

[yellowdogintexas]

20. pre Katrina New Orleans nt

[RobinA]

21. The Beatles

The top of the WTC. Rudolf Nureyev. Pete Seeger.

[raccoon]

23. The Who in concert, when all of them were alive. Elvis performing.

And many others who are no longer with us. Of course, it would be impossible to do a concert now even if they were alive.

[Paladin]

27. The musical "Ragtime," on Broadway.

I had plans to go see it, but it didn't run as long as I thought it would.