When the Dome opened in 1992 it was the largest cable-supported roof in the world.
"In Houston, it was the eighth wonder of the world," said Mr. Bokros, now a 36-year-old real estate agent, echoing a statement that many have made since the dome opened in 1965.
When the Carrier Dome opened on campus in 1980 and began hosting football and basketball games, Brogan and some other hard-core fans got together to address a problem.
Inside, the dome opened and swiveled under the computerized direction of the scope as it lined up stars and constellations, which the six of us took turns viewing over the next hour, murmuring oohs and aahs normally associated with fireworks and giving us plenty to marvel at over dinner after the show.
There is this postscript: A new baseball stadium for the Carp, located closer to Hiroshima Station than the A-Bomb Dome, opened in 2009.
The great dome opened onto the hot, dry Cactus House, with its South African ox tongue and Kenyan cow's horn and Mexican jelly beans.
Griffith Observatory Director Edwin C. Krupp referred to one of Harrison's best-known songs, "Here Comes the Sun," and pointed to the facility's solar telescope, saying, "There's not a time that dome opens that I don't think of that song".
With the dome open to the autumn sky, Mr. Flynn led everyone in star-hopping.
This marvel or eyesore, depending on your taste, is a steel dome, open to the sky, three stories high and fifty feet in diameter.
