Abandoned - Memphis Pyramid

lmao, rainbolt trolled us hard for this one

Done anything on the Superdome in New Orleans?

Everything was going well until you put Alex Jones in. Fucking weirdo.

Its needs a good cleaning on the outside as of now.

I love how American cities are just so different lore wise like ofc Memphis just has a giant pyramid that’s a fishing store

Well I live in Memphis but it’s not abandoned ….. it’s actually a fun thing to visit…. It was used for sporting events and concerts and the acrostics were terrible 😮so it’s much better off as bass pro shop….

Def a must see destination in Memphis.

Love it

That's where Satan resides.

They should turn that Pyramid into a hotel and make it much like the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas.

Not true. I was there Summer of 2024 and it was full of shoppers.

The wild facts Alex jones says all turn out to be true. Maybe the inferences he makes from them aren’t, but the basis of the theories always are. wtf😂

i am so serious when i say my dream travel location is the bass pro shops pyramid i was gonna go for my 18th bday next year but i feel like being queer and going to tennessee would not be the best experience 🥲

I only hear Andy Kaufman making fun of Jerry Lawer saying, "Mephis Tenn-a-see," whenever I hear Memphis. Also, you're confusing Nashville and Memphis with the music capital

my grandparents had bricks outside it with their names on it from donating. sadly those went away when it became a Bass Pro shop and there wasn't a way to get them (turns out they cast concrete to look like bricks, vice actually getting bricks... made it impossible to really retrieve individual folks' names.)

Things always turn out better when you let a private company take over. When the gov't does it, it's always a disaster.

Can you do the arco arena?

This place isn't abandoned lol

Stopped there on a whim while on a road trip and have to say it was worth it. Didn't hurt that I had some Bass Pro gift cards to use

Who else is here from Radiaactive?

My Father in law was the person in charge of the entire build of the Pyramid. The life of the Pyramid as a stadium was only 13 years.
That is the shortest lifespan of any modern era stadium/arena.

I actually was wearing my Memphis pyramid Bass Pro Shops t-shirt yesterday.

At least this project had a happy ending (so far).

Would love to know what politician decided to spend tens of millions of $ of taxpayer money to build a new arena to sabotage the existing arena that also cost tens of millions of taxpayer dollars. Would also love to know how much of that taxpayer money they pocketed through kickbacks for funding the new arena.

I think it's very cool as a bass pro shop. 😊

Gods those poor employees. Get some damn air flow into that place

I think remakes of already famous landmarks are destined to be made fun of.

When the aliens come down, all they really want to see is the pyramid by the river down in Memphis, Tennessee. Made of glass and some brass, it'll knock you on your ass, make your damn jaw drop, what's that?
It's our Bass Pro Shop

Local legend from engineers and earthquake researchers says that the pyramid’s foundation kept sinking as it was built. That resulted in additional exhibit space for the eventual Egypt archaeology standing exhibit. It also is certainly the reason for most rooms inside having odd dimensions that didn’t match the original building specs. They don’t want to build more additional floors or partial floors, so they made it fit.

I’m sure that caused additional long term maintenance for preventing basement flooding from the nearby Mississippi River when it has overrun its levies especially.

I grew up as this was built, used, abandoned, re-used l, and then stuck in development hell. I’ve been to high school and college graduations there throughout my life. Thankfully it didn’t fall apart and corrode as badly as Memphis’ other locally infamous abandoned structures like the Midsouth colliseum, tim McCarver baseball stadium, Midsouth fairgrounds, etc. I’m glad that at least one of those eventually made it back to some prominence instead of just rotting until finally condemned & demolished.

Knowing Memphis most of that money ended up in politicians pockets.

Great video loved learning the history & glad it wasn't torn down we do that to much in the US to our history

My husband and I have gone on many roadtrips across America and driving by the Bass Pro Shop Pyramid has to be one my most favorite things ever.

I would highly recommend going to the bass pro shops at the Memphis pyramid, even if you don’t care for the bass pro shops. I didn’t want to go but my family did and I had a great time!

I need a Fallout game set in the American south. Imagine the missions you could do around the pyramid

And that’s the power of bass pro shops ladies and gentlemen

There’s more going on than you realize…

PHISH played a legendary show there in the fall of 1999 with perhaps the greatest version of "2001" (a cover of Also Spracht Zarathustra). Wish they still booked shows there, I love Memphis.

That hotel is more expensive than that

There really isn't anything impressive about a medium sized building shaped like a pyramid. It's the same mistake that the mirage made. It isn't the shape of the Egyptian pyramids that intrigue people.

Hey check out what I built
[What you gonna do with it?]
Idk but it's cool.
Save the pyramid the pyramid is a staple in America. It's like the arch in St Louis.

"Co cane supply drying up"😂 idk about you, but i always liked my coke wet

Hey, don't talk shit about Alex Jones, that guy is awesome. Open your mind man lol

The masons are putting pyramids everywhere. Louvre, Las Vegas ,

I remember it being built, we all joked about it back then. Then it turned into a bass pro took it overboard.

This is such a quintessential American story.

My dad was one of the head contractors who helped design and build the plumbing system and water pipes and whatnot and he’s told me that when they where digging the bottom floor out for the water, they found several bodies

Its sad that buildings like this dont pop up more i think it adds character to a cities skyline if they did this more life as a whole would be much better just based on the looks of our cities why keep making saltine box towers?

There is one in Michigan too but none he government owns it

Cool to hear the history of it. I've driven through Memphis twice intending on stopping by the Bass Pro solely because of the building it's in. Both times I was stressed for time. Maybe next time. I suspect it's been successful because the building being so odd does draw people in who would ordinarily not stop at a Bass Pro. As someone who has a Cabelas and Bass Pro 30 minutes from home, I don't have a need to stop by on a trip at an ordinary one.

I've been writing a fantasy novel about the post apocalypse, some 3k years in the future, and figured it would be cool to give Memphis a giant metal pyramid. Then I found out it actually happened.