‘stros Before Hos
The Astrodome’s groundskeepers were called ‘Earthmen’, decked out in ‘futuristic’ red spacesuit uniforms!!!!Â
and yes, they used vacuums on the Astroturf!
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Astros history is out of this world
Six-shooters replaced shovels for Astrodome groundbreaking 55 years ago this week
Astros grounds crew dresses up as astronauts on throwback night
Astrodome, 1965 images
Eero-Dynamic
The IBM Pavilion at the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair, designed by Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen Associates
Dome Alone
brand new Astrodome in 1965 – the only year it had grass / didn’t have AstroTurf
more at the Chron
[via the great MLBcathedrals]
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Documents detail $66M plan to demolish Astrodome
Brewster McCloud‘s limit is the Astrodome’s celling
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perv-iously