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I was 14 in 1971 and all kids 14 & under got in for .50 cents and i went to many games that summer with my kid brother.❤️✌🏻🇺🇸🙏

I remember being there with my mom, I was 11. I remember Tim Mc Carver catching the ball drop from the helicopter. The video really brought me back to that day.

The view from the top reminds me of our seats to watch the great Karl Wallenda tight rope across the stadium

When asked to compare Connie Mack Stadium to Veterans Stadium, Richie Ashburn said it’s like comparing chicken shit to chicken salad. That’s appropriate when comparing the Vet to CBP.

The new Philly ballparks are miles better than the Vet.

My dad took me to my first game there in 1977 against the Mets. Larry Christenson was the starting pitcher for the Phillies. He won 19 games that year. So fun.

Looks like a painting come to life. Great job Brian.

The greatest home field advantage ever! Opposing players feared the vet, and the roaches in the basement!

you deserve support cause this is a great job There is nothing wrong with using IA correctly

Back in 71, this stadium must have felt like bein in an alien spaceship compared to Shibe park. Which cookie cutter stadium was built first?

I'm 67 yers old, probably went to over 100 games there. Some clown in the comments called it "Majestic." It was a dump from the get-go and it was downhill from there. Worst playing surface in sports history.

Salvador Dali meets Morph!

This feels like a fever dream where a claymation kirby eats one of my grandparents movies and abstract hell breaks loose.

Already subbed. I have to admit, kinda cool.

This is art

90 % of the people in that audience (in my opinion) didn't even realize that they were watching Rock and Roll royalty on that stage. He literally had played on some of the most famous songs,...with some of the most famous artists,..and had a very successful solo career. Thankfully Elton John came to his rescue later in life and revived his career,..and gave him back his dignity. If you get a chance watch the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction speech,.....and his acceptance speech, as they are both quite moving.

And performing as if he were playing to a packed stadium. Ever the pro that he was. Thanks for the great music Leon.

Right where he wanted to be.

An underrated legend!

3 Months before he passed away, I saw Leon Russell at the Rouge Theater in Grants Pass, Oregon of an audience of about 200. It was a great show.

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Kind of sad to see Leon playing for so few people at a fair. Hell, he used to regularly play in 3000 seat halls.

Hey Brian, Two questions for you. 1) have you ever thought about weaving this stuff into a story? 2) Would you mind if I download some of it to plug your channel on the Veg show?

Great stuff!

Is there anyone reading these comments on this account? Because the first time I’ve been to the veterans Stadium with somewhere back in 1978 during the time when the Philadelphia Eagles played there and then the last time I’ve been to veterans Stadium was somewhere back in 1992 when the Phillies played there, and now this place is always going to be remembered in this TH-cam video.

Memories. I grew up in Bridgeton and several of my relatives lived near Mary Elmer Lake. My grandfather George R. Peterson was Chief of the Mary Elmer Volunteer Fire Company during the 1970s. At his funeral, his casket was transported on the fire truck with his helmet. I will never forget when the old dam failed in the late 70s and how even this small lake caused a wide path of damage into the woods downstream which led to the failure of the Sunset Lake dam as well.

All of the 4 bum phollies teams usually lost the first game in first home game in new stadium. BUMS ! 🏈🏀🏒⚾

The Vet was very similar to Three Rivers Stadium. I'm a Buccos fan but we had a great rivalry with the Phillies and I liked the Phils players. Schmidt, Carlton, Maddox, McBride, Luzinski. Willie Stargell hit that historic Homer in the Vet in '71 which was marked with a yellow Stargell 🌟. I've been right by the Vet though since we'd go thru Philly to go to Wildwood NJ. I have been to Three Rivers many times. I miss seeing the Vet even on TV 📺. Same for Three Rivers. Just so many great memories. Thank you for sharing. It's beautiful footage. The Stadium looked so beautiful on opening day

Thank you for posting this. My mom grew up there. The clip of the old Piggly Wiggly set off a flood of fond memories.

I was born on April 10, 1971. Curiosity made made me check if there were videos of what was happening that very day when I came into existence.

Wonderful, if we could only go back in time.

Thank You very much for video! 👍👏

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Thank you for preserving this very nice footage. I grew up in Kyiv and left in 1991.

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Viaje en el tiempo

Where is the Streaker?

Great footage (awful stadium) 😉 - Grew up in Boston...but made a road trip to The Vet in September 1989 to see The Rolling Stones. Great memories!

As a kid i thought those plexiglass outfield fences were so cool - sign pirates fan

I know I’m going out on a limb here, but did Eagle fans actually respect the new digs when it first opened or was it always savagery?

Watch several games from this brand new beautiful MLB stadium during the 1971 season on Braves ⚾️television 📺 remember Willie Montana’s hitting homerun for the Phillies, we only had our color set a year then, and can still remember how beautiful that park was! Thanks Billy

I paid a visit to The Vet in the summer of '97. The Phils hosted The Cards. I found it as unappealing as Riverfront and Three Rivers Stadiums.

I remember going to my first game there in 1972 at age 7. It was so spectacular. Much better than on TV (pre-HDTV days). The colors of the seats, turf, uniforms and scoreboard were something to behold. And the outside walking up to it was the biggest thing I had ever seen. It was like a giant flying saucer. Unreal. My parents took me to see my idol Roberto Clemente play. I think it was his last game in Philly before getting his 3,000th hit, which would sadly be his last. Such a great memory. I also took my daughter there to see her first game a generation later. I miss The Vet.

A stadium that was only really good for concerts.

It is razed now, but I have remembered televised events at the Stadium, although I never actually been to it, because I am a Chicagoan, not a Philadelphian. I remember the Army-Navy games, where the cannon fire was tradition. There was the "bling" of the 47th All-Star game in 1976, the Bicentennial All-Star game that had the pomp, the baseball action, the stadium fireworks, and no kitchen sink. It was also like a second "Comiskey Park" of sorts with some non-baseball entertainment, with a circus atmosphere of sorts for the fans, especially for the Philadelphia Phillies games (one type of entertainment was the explosive stunt on the field where a person sacrifices oneself in a box that blows up with dynamite but survives).

Thank you so much for the video! Brings back so many great memories of me and my dad sharing time down at the vet. With all due respect to those who criticize the vet, I grew up in the '70s that was state of the art at the time remember we also listened to disco music in the 70s. Connie Mack Stadium was falling apart at the time and you took your life in your own hands going to see a ball game. The opening of the vet was a start of major change for the Phillies they became relevant again not at first, but in just 5 years we were division champions. Say what you want about the vet but it's on that horrible brutal turf that Championship champagne was spilled on it. To any true Phillies fan October 21st 1980 the vet was a palace! Thanks again.

I wasn’t at the game, but I remember watching it on TV. I was going to say that my biggest memory was watching Mike Ryan catch a ball dropped from a helicopter before the game. And then you showed it! My dad said there was no way he was actually going to catch it, that it was too high and would be coming down too fast.

So this stadium wasn’t around too long by today’s standards. Thirty-two years per Wikipedia.

Whenever I see clips of the old Vet, I always think of Kiteman.