Richfield Coliseum's Location Fly over
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- June 14 , 2016.
Fly over of the old site where the Richfield Coliseum once stood. The only thing left from the Coliseum is the floor that was sold to Grace Christian School gymnasium in Staunton, Va.
Here is the story behind that.
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Five days later, the Cavaliers won their first NBA championship.
The land where the Coliseum sits is now intended just to be a meadow, part of the national park. Believe it or not, Quicken Loans Arena has been open longer than the Richfield Coliseum existed.
Miss this place!! So many great concerts. Kiss in 1979 was my first.
WOW!.. watching this feels like a big part of growing up has been wiped away .. erased.. to know all the events that happened on that grass field without a clue.. its just lawn now..
No, thank you for this great video. Brings back great memories.
Great memories there. My 1st concert there was Ozzy when Motley Crue opened. In the 80s it seemed like there was a concert every month. Van Halen, Scorpions, Sammy Hagar, and cant forget Michael Stanely almost every New Years eve. Sucked to see that place go but the location was out in the middle of nowhere and lets face it the Richfield cops were pricks to us young long haired rock fans.
nice video. i'll never forget the ozzy ozbourne concert 1980. the winter storm made several cars spin out at the bottom of 303. i remember so many people helping those cars get back on the road. the concert itself was absolutely amazing. the apl forbid ozzy from throwing pigeons into the crowd, instead he threw liver strips. during the encores the coliseum looked like a gigantic birthday cake with 18,000 candles. Randy Rhoads was the guitarist. omg. unforgettable.
1980? Ozzy didn't play Cleveland until 1981 at Music hall. 1982 at the Coliseum.
Deucealive75 you are right, I stand corrected, it was January 1982 not 1980. It was the diary of a madman tour. I had belkin club 13 row floor seats. Went to a lot of concerts there and cleveland force games too
@@PaulbylPaulbyl Cool. My brother had Belkin concert club tickets. Can't remember if he went to that show or not. I missed it.
Deucealive75 well even if you missed that concert hopefully you saw some of the other greats of those years i am thinking ac/dc, rush, the who (my only other belkin seat), van halen, judas priest, foreigner, iron maiden, the police, and others. In summer we had blossom music center, still there, but only on weekdays for rock bands, which i learned later was because the cleveland orchestra performs on the weekends. Anyway, cheers 🍻!
@@PaulbylPaulbyl Yeah starting around 79 on I seen quite a few shows there. Great memories. The bands that I seen there multiple times were Ozzy, Rush, KISS, and Nugent.
Nothing beat a nice summer drive down 303 heading to a concert.
My god! I can't believe that's where we use to see Disney on Ice and B. Baley Circus back in the day.
Montgomery Jackson
And not a bad seat in the house.
This video left me speechless, amazingly put together. made me smile, remember, and yes, CRY!! most of my earliest memories are of this place. My father worked for hall security and I got to see and meet alot of people. Thanks for making this video!!!
You are welcome Mike. That was my intent , to bring some of those old memories back, and show some of the events that took place there as well. Glad I brought back some of those memories back to you. Thank you
I workd there too I was one of the ushers
I WORKED HERE. MET all the stars. This place was pure concrete!! It couldve lasted 100 yrs. Designed very nicely too. I miss it and the time i was there every day.
Hope I brought you some great memories.
The Sky Pod
You certainly did.
Doug L.64 what concerts did you see there
@@jlero2568 attended or worked?
Doug L.64 attended
Love it Fallguy. You put a lot of context and history into what most people would view as "just" a grassy field. It is pretty cool how you did that!
Thanks Wesley .Not many people that live outside North East Ohio would seem to care about the old Coliseum, but thought I would show what remained of it , and what went on inside of it .
Between your video and aerial views from Google and Bing, you can kinda-sorta make out where the Coliseum and the parking lot sections used to be. The way you laced the aerial view with historical footage is neat!
I saw Duran Duran and Metallica here. My dad drove my friends and I up to Duran Duran from Columbus in a snowstorm.
Great video. Enjoyed going to Cavs games and a couple of WWF( Now WWE) events there. Really miss the Coliseum. Good memories.
l was born in 1972 and consider the 70s and 80s the USA's glory days. And l think of Richfield Coliseum as a "glory days" arena.
What a damn shame, what a waste. I guess the Coliseum stepped on too many toes. It was my favorite place to see a band. I live in Columbus, and the venues here are downtown, Nationwide Arena, and The Schottenstein Center, traffic is a mess, leaving and getting to it. The area is way too congested. Away from town was the best idea. Yeah, some traffic at Richfield too, but nothing like in town Columbus traffic. The Coliseum was way too Young to die. Only memories and a grass field remain. Damn greedy fools killed it.
All the crap that went down back when they decided on the Gateway project to build the Baseball Stadium and the Arena downtown gave Modell his reason to take the Browns to Baltimore . The Coliseum was doomed as well.
There were two main issues with the Coliseum: the first was the location, way out in the middle of nowhere. Nick Mileti, owner of the Cavaliers and the WHA's Crusaders, hoped that placing the arena partway between Cleveland and Akron would attract more fans from outside Cleveland proper. That worked when the Cavs did well or a popular event came to town, but when hockey teams as well as the Cavs did poorly, there was little to no walk-up traffic. The other factor was the placement of luxury suites. The Coliseum was one of the first arenas with those suites, and at the time they just placed them at the top of the building, almost as an afterthought. Newer arenas moved those suites down lower where companies were more willing to pay a higher premium for those suites since the view was much better. Since the Coliseum would have been 40 years old by now, it may have been a candidate for replacement now anyway. The location is primarily what doomed it.
I was in one of those suites once and yes they were too far up near the nose bleed seats. Another factor that was used in deciding the location was the highway access . I-271 was right there and 77 not far away as well. I lived in Brunswick and could just head down 303 to it , but then the 2 lane traffic was a mess when there was a big event.
I moved here in 1980 and saw some great shows and sports there but always scratched my head about the location. I could never figure why they didn't buy land around 82 and 77 and build there. But had been told they wanted to bring akron folks to the events as well so thats why. And thinking back now they could have built it around Independence/77 when there was ample land still available. And I got to see Prince there in 86 I think from one of the luxury suites and we were a mile away it felt like!
All you had to remember was North, East, South, or West before you left the building since it was painted on the walls
The only problem I have with this video is that as they go through the history of the Coliseum, hockey is totally left out. If it wasn't for the WHA Crusaders (succeeded later by the NHL Barons), the arena might not have been built. Having both an NBA and a WHA/NHL team made a new arena financially viable. The arena itself was beautiful; the problem was the location. When a team was doing well, fans would be willing to make the trip to the hinterlands, but when the team was not doing well, there was little to no walk-up traffic. It might have had to be replaced by now, anyway, as the luxury boxes were at the very top of the arena, and newer arenas place those suites much lower where companies are willing to pay a higher premium for those, but the Coliseum was a great building in the wrong location (but I don't fault Mileti for putting it there...the anticipated development around the area just never materialized).
Very awesome video. Heard Cuyahoga Valley National Parks owns the land now.
Not sure what they intend to do with it besides plant corn.
I don't think they want to develop it. The plan was simply to let the land go back to what it used to be. When Nick Mileti decided to build the Coliseum out there, part of the goal was to place it between Cleveland and Akron to attract more fans from Akron and Canton, but also he probably thought more development would spring up around the area. That really didn't happen.
I'm 51 now...but in 78' ..this was Gotham.....this is where Batman lived. I will always remember it that way. ..even when I was 12 and having the ladies wait in the line for the pisser...I felt so adult. Lol..I thought..you can do this'.
BeautifuL!!!!!!
sure do miss it
its a shame becauase it barely made 20 years of service
I agree I workd there- that building was solid concrete everywhere and would have lasted one hundred years!!
When rock bands came into town they called it Alcatraz because everything was concrete!
Thanks for all the memories. I miss this place so much. Everything there was great. Even seeing monster trucks was great there, big area for them. And after trucks would go outside and you could see them and talk to drivers. Concerts were awesome. Man, can't believe its gone. What a waste. Greedy people who had to have venues downtown. Thank You for posting! What kinda quad are you using? Its so stable.
Glad I gave you some great memories of the coliseum . Yes it was a shame of the reason they decided to tear it down. I was using a DJI Phantom 4 for that video. Since then I also added the Mavic and now the Spark to my arsenal . They are very stable drones.
Why isn't there a plaque or something marking that spot??
You mean instead of the cow pies ?
I went to the great Chuck Wepner fight against “what’s his name”
That's when that other guy turned Chucky's face into chop steak.
Seen alotta concerts there led zeppelin 77
I played soccer there before a force game!
Canteen Corp I worked for a lot of good times smoking pot in the cooler free beer what good days at 18 I'm
JUMPING JOE WHAT A GREAT TIME
The Big House on the Praire
So is the green grass where the stadium used to be?
Yes . That's what it was reduced to.
@@TheSkyPod ohh right
Would still like to visit that area, crazy to think how much history has happened where that seemingly normal patch of grass now is
@@YouDoNotKnowMe99 Exactly. This video was done 5 years ago , and dont know if anything has been done on the property since. But sure they didnt build another coliseum there. lol
@@TheSkyPod lool yeh. I typed in the location (from wiki) into maps, and it still looks like an empty patch of grass so could go camping on there haha!
Or even imagine someone has built has on the grounds lol would be awesome for them
Oh, also this place was really haunted. Maybe a spirit messed with the wrong person and it got closed.
nice video
big deal, they blew up the Met, for a stinking mall......................