Skydome Roof Opening Time

The world s first fully retractable roof was finally in motion but the saturday night sellout crowd gathered for a variety show booed as a rainstorm soaked them and.

Skydome roof opening time.

If you weren t living in toronto in 1989 it is hard to accurately convey to you the true bat shit crazy magnificence of the skydome s opening ceremony. Celebrating the nearly start of blue jays on april 12 2010. Here is a roof opening of the toronto s rogers centre. The cn tower looms over the toronto blue jays and detroit tigers as the rogers centre s roof is open for the first time in the 2011 mlb baseball season in toronto saturday may 7 2011.

The newly built multi purpose stadium was a massively big deal at the time. When the roof is open 91 of the seats and 100 of the field is open to the sky covering an area of 3 2 hectares 7 9 acres. If the game begins with the roof closed it. Over 50 million people have visited skydome rogers centre.

If the game begins with the roof open the roof can be closed at any time if climatic conditions warrant. Today it s undergoing work that will help make it last for years to come. The decision for the roof to be opened or closed during blue jays games is dependent upon information obtained from several weather service sources. When ontario premier david peterson aimed a laser pointer upward on june 3 1989 technicians took the cue and hit the switch to begin opening gigantic roof panels at skydome.

When the retractable roof is open people standing on the observation deck of the nearby cn tower can look down on the field. Skydome celebrates 30 years of being obsolete from opening day david menzies mission specialist this week marks the 30th anniversary of the stadium formerly known as skydome now rogers centre the cautionary tale of what occurs when government gets involved in so called mega projects.