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When was the first monster truck show at the Pittsburgh civic arena?
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∙ 13y ago
The first USHRA event (Then called Truck-O-Rama) was held at the Civic arena on 7/30-8/1 1981. It's unlikely that there were monsters at this event, but I have pictures personally of monsters at the arena from April 1986. I would guess that they had monsters starting around '84-'85 though.
Source - Mellon Arena website.
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