History

The Houston area steel point darts league has been through a variety of name changes since the first league started up in 1974. 1974- HAD. Originally the Houston Area Darters, an unofficial name that was never…

In 1974, a small group of Houstonians started playing darts at three local bars that put up British style bristle dartboards. (Soft-tip hadn’t been invented yet.) The original impetus came from a small group of British…

Several of my friends here have been officers of the HDA or other leagues, and can surely appreciate Randy's letter in the 1st Houston Open program. That was a huge effort by a lot of people,…

In 1981, the Houston Darts Association was booming, with around 1,000 members playing league on Tuesday & Wednesday nights At Rick's Darts & Games, we were busy teaching -lots- of new darters. Many did not want…

Over the decades, the HDA made quite a few items to promote the darts organization. Patches, coozies, mugs, calendars, various types of trophies. Also imprinted folios to hold league scoresheets & rules. The most iconic item…

In 1980 the group decided to put on a major darts tournament, the first Houston Open. Concern over legal liability and need to look more official for corporate sponsors led the group to incorporate & regularize…

The 1985 Houston Open was moved to the Houston Brookhollow Marriott Hotel, on Hwy 290 just off the 610 North Loop West. This venue was used for many years, although Friday evening traffic was terrible at…

From 1980 through the early 2000's, Loretta & I would stay up all night on darts tournament nights & put together a newsletter "Darts News" with the previous day's winners, general event info, and of course…

Houston Pub List 6/29/85(Steel-point darts, in those days) Darts News was both a print newsletter and a telephone announcement system Loretta & I setup for darters. Using one of the first home-computer phone systems, it had…