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Texas Stadium was an American football stadium located in Irving, Texas, a suburb west of Dallas.Opened on October 24, 1971, [2] it was known for its distinctive hole in the roof, the result of abandoned plans to construct a retractable roof.
State Highway 99 (SH 99), also known as the Grand Parkway, is a beltway in the U.S. state of Texas.Its first section opened on August 31, 1994. When the route is completed, it will be the longest beltway in the U.S., the world's seventh-longest ring road, and the third (outer) loop of the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area, with Interstate 610 being the first (inner) loop ...
Irving began in 1889 as an area called Gorbit, and in 1894 the name changed to Kit. [15] Irving was incorporated April 14, 1914, with Otis Brown as the first mayor. By the late nineteenth century the Irving area was the site of churches, two cotton gins, a blacksmith shop and a general store.
Children's World Initially announced as Storybook. [9] Floating tubs in a 400 ft (120 m) long trough themed as a storybook. [92] Ride removed and the area was used for the Season Pass processing booth, [74] added in 1979. [93] Barnyard 1984 — Petting zoo: Children's World Removed to make room for XLR-8. [33] [94] Boot Slide 1984 Slide ...
Space Center Houston is a science museum that serves as the official visitor center of NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. It was designated a Smithsonian Affiliate museum in 2014. The organization is owned by NASA, and operated under a contract by the nonprofit Manned Spaceflight Education Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization.
The stadium hosted the Houston Bowl before the Texas Bowl's inception and also hosted both the 2002 and 2005 Big 12 Championship Games. The 2005 game featured Houston native Vince Young at quarterback for the University of Texas at Austin and led the Longhorns to a 70–3 rout of the University of Colorado in front of 71,107. [ 49 ]
Whitney Houston was “the true definition of a Jersey girl,” her estate says, so there's perhaps no more on-the-nose honor for the megastar singer than the now-opened Garden State Parkway ...
Starting in the east at I-30, Loop 12 goes north as Buckner Boulevard, following surface streets past White Rock Lake.Just north of White Rock Lake, it intersects Spur 244 [2] and becomes Northwest Highway to the west; because there is an eastern and a western segment to this part of the road, at certain points the road signs read "East Northwest Highway".