Rustoleum stadium

[DxCowboy]

Here are my search engine results. Gosh, this place sucked.

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Edit: Found a good concourse pic of the rust

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Yeah, but the parking was outstanding!

 

[osuwhit]

What?

No pic of the "trough?"

Took a minute but I was able to locate it on a google search. Just like I remember, seems like yesterday.

 

[DxCowboy]

Oddly enough, the first game I ever saw at Lewis Field was an NFL exhibition game. I think it was Cleveland vs Houston. Maybe’75, 76?

 

[osuwhit]

Found a story on it. It was Tech. My son would have been almost 5. He still remembers it.

https://www.ocolly.com/sports/night-of-the-crickets-when-insects-invaded-lewis-field/article_e156ceba-4523-11ed-8347-f7adb467273d.html

Yep! I was 14.

 

[DiamondDog]

Found a story on it. It was Tech. My son would have been almost 5. He still remembers it.

https://www.ocolly.com/sports/night-of-the-crickets-when-insects-invaded-lewis-field/article_e156ceba-4523-11ed-8347-f7adb467273d.html

Haha man I think I was there at that game too

 

[Duke Silver]

Haha man I think I was there at that game too

I was there

 

[Stillwaterman]

I loved Lewis Field, but it looked like a big high school stadium. We've come a long way.

Still have love for the old dump.

 

[andylicious]

One thing you'll notice in all these pics. Probably pre-Terry Don Phillips. NO ONE wore orange in those days., Love that we all do now. (OK well most do!)

Terry Don changed us, for the better.

 

[JRod]

HS.. the night of the crickets. I'll never forget this when I was kid. I can still hear our family friend, Marta, screaming as the crickets got in her mouth and clothes. It was insane. I had my lips sealed shut and tried my best to keep the damn things from going down my shirt and batting them away till we all got back to our cars.

Anyway.. All the pics I provided above are aerial shots. This, with the damn crickets, show what the concourse was like.

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I remember this. I was in the band at the time. It was so bizarre, they were EVERYWHERE. And I learned how bad cricket guts smell.

 

[PaulPoke]

Still have love for the old dump.

Sounds like my prom date. But after 47 years my memory corrects itself...

 

[CaptainEric37]

HS.. the night of the crickets. I'll never forget this when I was kid. I can still hear our family friend, Marta, screaming as the crickets got in her mouth and clothes. It was insane. I had my lips sealed shut and tried my best to keep the damn things from going down my shirt and batting them away till we all got back to our cars.

Anyway.. All the pics I provided above are aerial shots. This, with the damn crickets, show what the concourse was like.

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I remember the crickets being like snow drifts, there were so many.

 

[OrangeFan69]

I was there in my junior year, we left, it felt like the next plague.

Glad we won, but I was absolutely grossed out. Glad it hasn't happened since.