Three cool old photos of the Cotton Bowl

[Hornius Emeritus 12469]

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, 2018 by Hornius Emeritus

[Beau Vine 54246]

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.

 

[Artie Fatso 161]

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, 2018 by Artie Fatso

[Wally Pryor 5261]

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. 

[PittsburghTiger 6188]

Love stuff like that. Very cool.

[Red Five 40861]

Hey look, the pirate ride.

[TwiceHorn 31493]

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.

[TwiceHorn 31493]

Also look at all the houses around there when someone might have actually chosen to live in that area.

[Hiphopopotamos 20875]

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.

[Beau Vine 54246]

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

 

 

[ApocalypseTexas 297]

Nice Photos thanks for sharing really enjoy the history.

 

 

[Deej 76814]

1 hour ago, Hornius Emeritus said:

 

Pretty sure this is a photo of the first time the Rolling Stones played in Dallas. 

[Horn Under a Bad Sign 20402]

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."

[kopp0e 1135]

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:

[NeverMarryAStripper 21907]

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

[Soul Glo 54]

The markers every 10 yards instead of 5, we should have tried that shit when Greg Davis was here...….

[NWAustinDude 2252]

Beautiful images. Love the old stuff. Before you walk up the hill, you even park close to your section.

[Alfalfa 9]

 

 

 

 

 

Any info on the elliptical clearing that surrounds the stadium? Did that exists beforehand? You can clearly see Centennial Hall to the north.

[Zepol87 9188]

This thread is fucking awesome

[Deej 76814]

5 hours ago, Hornius Emeritus said:

 

You can just about make out the people asking for money to park your car in their yards.

[Augustus 3061]

Finding your car amongst tens of thousands of them must've been a blast when they were all black Model T's.

[RomaVicta 29927]

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.

[Machinator 32099]

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.

[woohorn 1131]

 
Any info on the elliptical clearing that surrounds the stadium?

Parking?

[RamjetFDO 10577]

 
Any info on the elliptical clearing that surrounds the stadium?

[jebusshuttlecock 200]

 
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

[elfenix 34271]

interesting that the earlier stadium was a building and it was replaced with earthworks.