This Week In 1966 The Astrodome Got Its Astroturf

Jul 19, 2016· This week in 1966, the Astrodome got its AstroTurf 50 years ago the Dome got fancy new green carpet. Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle. July 19, 2016 Updated: July 19, 2016 3:14 p.m.

Jul 11, 2018· HOUSTON – It was the talk of the sports world in 1966: The Astrodome got its famous AstroTurf. Fast forward to Tuesday, 52 years later, a local

Jul 20, 2016· Regarding "This week in 1966, the Astrodome got its Astro Turf" Chron.com, Tuesday, and 50 years later taxpayers are still burdened by this facility, which should have been imploded when the...

The Astrodome used artificial turf, or AstroTurf, for the majority of its life as a sports arena. Three AstroTurf fields were installed over thirty years — in 1966, 1978, and 1988. After each field was taken up, sections were either given away or auctioned off to fans. When the Astrodome opened in Houston in 1965 with natural grass turf, the...

Jun 29, 2016· Invented in 1964 and once known as "Chemgrass," AstroTurf got its name upon being installed in 1966 in the covered Astrodome, where grass

The Astrodome was officially open. On that first day, fans packed the world's first...

Jan 30, 2018· AstroTurf took its name from the Houston Astrodome 1, the country’s first atmospherically controlled stadium and the brainchild of Roy Hofheinz 2.

AstroTurf borrows its name from the Houston Astrodome, where it was first used in a professional sports venue more than fifty years ago. The space race was in full swing. It was a time of palpable optimism. A certain belief that man could conquer the constraints of nature with ingenuity and forward-thinking progress pervaded.

May 22, 2008· As shown in Wikipedia it was first used in the Astrodome. AstroTurf was co-invented in 1965 by James M. Faria and Robert T. Wright, employees of Monsanto. It was patented in 1967 and originally sold under the name "Chemgrass". It was renamed AstroTurf after its first well-publicized use at the Houston Astrodome stadium in 1966.

May 21, 2017· And so, on July 19, 1966, artificial turf now dubbed "Astroturf" at Monsanto's request made its American sporting debut in an 8-2 Astros win over the Phillies. Even the AP was surprised at how well this newfangled green carpet worked: "[It] caused

Invented in 1964 and once known as “Chemgrass,” AstroTurf got its name upon being installed in 1966 in the covered Astrodome, where grass could not survive because of low lighting conditions.

Jan 30, 2018· AstroTurf took its name from the Houston Astrodome 1, the country’s first atmospherically controlled stadium and the brainchild of Roy Hofheinz 2.

The field at the Astrodome was originally natural turf when the Astros took the field for their first game in April 1965, but a few months later the grass began to turn a crunchy brown. In trying to resolve issues with glare from the domed ceiling’s cream-colored semi-transparent lucite panels, which made it nearly impossible for players

Mar 23, 2017· John Lyons, the writer of the following article of Wednesday, March 23, 1966, for the Victoria Advocate was one of 200 scribes that came to the Astrodome by invitation from Judge Roy Hofheinz the previous week to see the turf solution that the club had come up with to solve the need for a surface that played well indoors and stayed green

Jan 31, 2019· The First Astroturf. In 1966, the Houston Astros' baseball season begins on a Chemgrass surface now renamed Astroturf at the AstroDome. Supposedly it was renamed AstroTurf by one John A. Wortmann. The same year, the Houston Oilers' AFL football season began on more than 125,000 square feet of removable Astroturf at the AstroDome. The next year...

Astrodome, the world’s first domed air-conditioned indoor stadium, built in Houston, Texas, in 1965 and arguably the city’s most important architectural structure. It was last used in 2009, and five years later it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

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Apr 09, 2019· In fact, AstroTurf conversion systems have been in use since the installation of AstroTurf at the Houston AstroDome in 1966. This system was the forerunner of the AstroHopper type system. AstroTurf installed convertible systems at virtually all of the

Jan 27, 2015· Concern about artificial turf injuries date back to 1966, when a Major League Baseball tournament took place in the Houston Astrodome. That surface consisted of a short pile carpet on top of padding over concrete. It spread like weeds throughout the world of sports. But many soccer clubs found it too hard, hot and slippery.

The Astrodome was officially open. On that first day, fans packed the world's first multi-purpose, domed sports stadium to watch the Houston Astros play the New York Yankees in an exhibition game.

About Astroturf * Headquarters: Dalton, Ga. * Parent company: Textile Management Associates acquired AstroTurf in 2004 * History: In 1966, AstroTurf is installed at the Houston Astrodome indoor...

The New Yorker, May 14, 1966 P. 125. THE SPORTING SCENE: The Houston Astros 1966 opening game, against the Dodgers. Description of the new air-conditioned Astrodome, formally named the

Mar 01, 2017· The rodeo had first moved into the Astrodome in 1966, a move that wildly expanded the capabilities of the show from its former home at the Sam Houston Coliseum across town.