{"id":38360,"date":"2016-01-11T11:01:43","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T16:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=38360"},"modified":"2016-01-11T11:02:23","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T16:02:23","slug":"editorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2016\/01\/editorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Editorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-30011\" title=\"editorial\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/editorial-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/editorial-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/editorial.jpg 633w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>By Robert Anderson<\/p>\n<p>As I\u2019m reaching in few month my 50<sup>th<\/sup> birthday, I was wondering want else is turning 50 this year.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AstroTurf hit it big in 1966 when the company was tapped to turf the newly opened Houson Astrodome. After that, the low-maintenance artificial turf quickly expanded. It was so popular, even the\u00a0Brady&#8217;s<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u00a0<\/span>used it in their backyard. 50 years after its big reveal, AstroTurf coats countless sports fields and parks across the country.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Consumer electronics store Best Buy certainly looked a lot different when it launched 50 years ago. In 1966, Richard Shulze and a business partner opened Sound of Music in St. Paul, Minnesota. The store started out as an electronics store specializing in stereos. By the late &#8217;70s, Sound of Music opened eight additional stores. The transition from Sound of Music started in the late &#8217;80s when the company rebranded to Best Buy Company, Inc. The increased demand for electronics lead the store to become what it is today.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Doritos, the cheesy guilty-pleasure first made its way onto grocery shelves nationwide in 1966. Resembling Mexican chilaquiles, Doritos were popular from the get-go, becoming the first nationally distributed tortilla chip. In 1994, Frito-Lay spent nearly $50 million in redesigning the chip. It must have worked, as Doritos is Frito-Lay&#8217;s second biggest brand.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Shortly after Twister&#8217;s introduction in 1966, the game became a huge sensation when Johnny Carson played it with Eva Gabor on\u00a0<em>The Tonight Show.<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>The intimate nature of the game caused some controversy, with parents and competitors claiming it was &#8220;sex in a box.&#8221; Despite the uproar, Twister proved to be huge and would remain in people&#8217;s homes for decades to come.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>For 50 years now, Wite-Out has come to rescue, fixing little mistakes and typos that an eraser can&#8217;t handle. Like all good inventions, Wite-Out stemmed from a problem \u2014 correction fluid would smudge ink. To fix the problem, businessman George Kloosterhouse and Edwin Johanknecht, a basement waterproofer, teamed up to create the modern day Wite-Out. The product was reinvented and bought out a couple times until 1992, when BIC purchased it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Robert Anderson As I\u2019m reaching in few month my 50th birthday, I was wondering want else is turning 50 this year. AstroTurf hit it big in 1966 when the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}