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I live 5 minutes from this. AMA I guess?
The Memphis pyramid was a sports arena and concert venue in the past, eventually the city built another venue that wasn’t shaped stupid so it sat abandoned for a decade or so before bass pro bought it.
I saw Alanis Morissette there in 95’ish and the acoustics were terrible. Still a great concert though.
It’s a real artist to be at the peak of popularity and play at a Bass Pro shop.
It was not a Bass Pro Shop then. It was The Pyramid, concert venue / arena.
I saw Jimmy Page and Robert Plant play there in the late 90’s. It was totally awesome, they played almost 3 hours of Led Zeppelin and Page/Plant songs. John Bonham’s son Jason was on drums.
Joke.
Yeah it was a terrible concert venue and sports arena other than being a novelty shape.
Pretty much everyone in town loves the bass pro shop and we’re much happier to see it in use than abandoned like it was for so many years.
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Is it bigger than the Luxor in Las Vegas?
The Luxor is ever so slightly bigger I believe.
Luxor looks about to be 10% taller (98m vs 107m) Source
Has anyone tried to climb on top of it?
Surprisingly no, not that I’m aware of. If they have, it hasn’t made the news.
It’s quite steep and smooth in person, it would be very hard to climb. Probably impossible without ropes or mission impossible suction cups.
I’ve actually been in the pyramid itself. It’s actually quite small inside compared to what you’d expect and is literally just a bass pro shop with a fish tank and a bar area with a bunch of tvs and nothing else. They do have comfortable seating though!
Yeah me and wife went two years ago. We weren’t impressed. Funny story we were early so we had to wait for the elevator to open so we could go to the viewing deck.
Well as we waited this lady and man who apparently were with a touring company showed up with like 50 people.
They had paid for the tickets and thought they get first priority and cut the line. But at these time there were already 20 of us waiting. But luckily the manager made them get in the back of the line.
The tourist lady was pissed.
Nobody in line tried to stop them from cutting?
I did I was first in line had been for an hour. I said something and that made them have to go to the end.
If looks could kill that lady was not happy I stopped them from cutting the line.
The Egyptian ones ate similarly sparse inside, though for VASTLY different reasons.
I mean there are restaurants and a hotel, though.
I think it’s actually pretty neat. The aquariums are cool. The restaurant at the top has good catfish and a great view. I wanted to sleep a night at the hotel just to see what it’s like. It’s all swamp cabin themed.
I wonder how it was built.
There is a replica of the Parthenon near Nashville as well https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenon_(Nashville)
Full size replica built a hundred+ years ago
clearly a landing pad for alien anglers
One of many shrines to our capitalist overlords and the mighty dollar.
All cultures use pyramids to show the reverence due to their gods, right?
7th?
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This has all the info you need: https://youtu.be/jYE-1HfReQo?si=u1xtmq3jmerfr4P0
Archeologists a couple thousand years later Ancient Egyptians couldn’t have built this highly advanced structure and transported it all the way to North America. They clearly had help from an advanced civilization.
The seventh wonder of the world, for sure.
Didn’t know Bass Pro had been around that long.
Can’t stop thinking about how your mom is the 8th largest pyramid.
Why is it depending on how you count?
I didn’t do that deep a dive but there are some skyscrapers like the Shard in London that are technically pyramids. So it depends on if you go by height and include those etc.
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