Aloha Stadium, Football stadium in Halawa, US.
The Aloha Stadium is a multipurpose facility in Halawa, Hawaii, with 50,000 seats and an open roof that allows trade winds to pass through. The structure consists of several grandstand sections that sit on a concrete base and surround an oval playing field.
The city built the stadium in 1975 for 37 million dollars and used it until 2020 as the home ground for the University of Hawaii football team. After engineers found damage in the structure, the facility was closed and demolition began.
The stadium hosted the Pro Bowl for 36 years, a National Football League game that brought together players from both conferences. Fans from across Hawaii and the mainland traveled each year to attend this event.
The site lies along the highway between Honolulu Airport and Pearl Harbor and is accessible by car or bus. The parking lot continues to host a swap meet that opens on Wednesdays and weekends.
The grandstands could slide on rails and change the shape of the playing field from a long surface for American football to a round format for baseball. These moving sections weighed several hundred tons each and took about eight hours to reconfigure.
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