August 30, 20187 yr Popular Post Pretty neat slice of Texas history. Try to view on a large computer monitor because the details are wonderful. Cotton Bowl, 1930: Texas vs. Vanderbilt on Oct. 20, 1923 in the old Fair Park Stadium, which was right next to where the Cotton Bowl is now. The Cotton Bowl was built in 1929-1930, though it wasn't named the Cotton Bowl until 1936. Both stadiums together in 1930. The Cotton Bowl has just been built. You can see the old Fair Park Stadium at about 5:00 o'clock on the bottom right side of the Cotton Bowl. I apologize for how blurry this is but I had to enlarge it quite a bit and it wasn't the sharpest photo to begin with. Edited August 30, 20187 yr by Hornius Emeritus
August 30, 20187 yr 8 minutes ago, Hornius Emeritus said: Cotton Bowl, 1930: This is fucking beautiful. A stadium where you walk up a hill to get to your section, and then walk down the stairs to get to your seat. I guess you can't do that now that everything requires luxury boxes. I think there are still a few high school stadiums like this -- Sweetwater is the one that comes to mind.
August 30, 20187 yr 38 minutes ago, Hornius Emeritus said: Pretty neat slice of Texas history. Try to view on a large computer monitor because the details are wonderful. Cotton Bowl, 1930: Texas vs. Vanderbilt on Oct. 20, 1923 in the old Fair Park Stadium, which was right next to where the Cotton Bowl is now. The Cotton Bowl was built in 1929-1930, though it wasn't named the Cotton Bowl until 1936. Both stadiums together in 1930. The Cotton Bowl has just been built. You can see the old Fair Park Stadium at about 5:00 o'clock on the bottom right side of the Cotton Bowl. I apologize for how blurry this is but I had to enlarge it quite a bit and it wasn't the sharpest photo to begin with. Very cool....one side note...not sure who won that game but Vandy has the best record against Texas of all SEC schools. Edited August 30, 20187 yr by Artie Fatso
August 30, 20187 yr 38 minutes ago, Hornius Emeritus said: Pretty neat slice of Texas history. Try to view on a large computer monitor because the details are wonderful. Cotton Bowl, 1930: Holy shit, that's cool. Tunnel and all.
August 30, 20187 yr 5 minutes ago, Beau Vine said: This is fucking beautiful. A stadium where you walk up a hill to get to your section, and then walk down the stairs to get to your seat. I guess you can't do that now that everything requires luxury boxes. I think there are still a few high school stadiums like this -- Sweetwater is the one that comes to mind. Yeah, several in the DFW area. I think Homer Johnson in the Land O Gar is the first one I encountered. I think Mesquite's is that way too.
August 30, 20187 yr Also look at all the houses around there when someone might have actually chosen to live in that area.
August 30, 20187 yr 1 hour ago, Beau Vine said: This is fucking beautiful. A stadium where you walk up a hill to get to your section, and then walk down the stairs to get to your seat. I guess you can't do that now that everything requires luxury boxes. I think there are still a few high school stadiums like this -- Sweetwater is the one that comes to mind. Bowers Stadium (SHSU's stadium) is built like this.
August 30, 20187 yr https://texasbob.com/stadium/region_index.php?region=4 You're right on the Garland one, and I think that's one I kind of remembered from high school. The Mesquite stadium looks like one where the lower deck is below ground and the upper deck is built above. Those are pretty common. Grand Prairie Gopher Bowl is another one: https://www.google.com/maps/@32.7552834,-97.003354,3a,60y,111.86h,98.29t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s4_Z9XyPcMSo-Idmps9m7VA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en
August 30, 20187 yr 1 hour ago, Hornius Emeritus said: Pretty sure this is a photo of the first time the Rolling Stones played in Dallas.
August 30, 20187 yr The clarity on the 2nd photo is amazing. I zoomed in and I can see a Longhorn fan in the stands holding up a sign that says "It's 2:47 p.m. on October 20, 1923 and OU still sucks."
August 30, 20187 yr 2 hours ago, Beau Vine said: This is fucking beautiful. A stadium where you walk up a hill to get to your section, and then walk down the stairs to get to your seat. I guess you can't do that now that everything requires luxury boxes. I think there are still a few high school stadiums like this -- Sweetwater is the one that comes to mind. Yale still has it's stadium similarly built into a hill:
August 30, 20187 yr 1 hour ago, Deej said: Pretty sure this is a photo of the first time the Rolling Stones played in Dallas. I was at that concert
August 30, 20187 yr The markers every 10 yards instead of 5, we should have tried that shit when Greg Davis was here...….
August 30, 20187 yr Beautiful images. Love the old stuff. Before you walk up the hill, you even park close to your section.
August 30, 20187 yr Any info on the elliptical clearing that surrounds the stadium? Did that exists beforehand? You can clearly see Centennial Hall to the north.
August 30, 20187 yr 5 hours ago, Hornius Emeritus said: You can just about make out the people asking for money to park your car in their yards.
August 30, 20187 yr Finding your car amongst tens of thousands of them must've been a blast when they were all black Model T's.
August 30, 20187 yr 2 hours ago, Soul Glo said: The markers every 10 yards instead of 5, we should have tried that shit when Greg Davis was here...…. No hash marks. It looks like the teams are lining up very close to the sideline in one picture.
August 31, 20187 yr 1 hour ago, Augustus said: Finding your car amongst tens of thousands of them must've been a blast when they were all black Model T's. That's racist.
August 31, 20187 yr Any info on the elliptical clearing that surrounds the stadium? Did that exists beforehand? You can clearly see Centennial Hall to the north. It was a race track complex that was razed to make room for the Cotton Bowl
August 31, 20187 yr interesting that the earlier stadium was a building and it was replaced with earthworks.
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