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Please!
Tear it down before New Orleans floods again!!
While we're at it, the New York Mets should also change their name. "Mets" sounds like a city in France.
My first job, sold popcorn, sodas, etc when I was 11 years old....lied about my age, sposed to be 12. Great life lessons in those years there, big dorky white guy working with all kinds of teens, grown men, old men, most had just been paroled. I was stuck once selling hot dogs, carrying around a metal box with a sterno can keeping those dogs warm. I hated it, heavy and hot, up and down those stairs. One old black man knew I was struggling, not selling many. He said, “lemme show ya how to sell them dogs.” I reluctantly let him strap that box on that held my hot dogs and therefore, all my money. He started sliding down the aisle, all smooth and suave. He yelled out, A loaf of bread, a pound of meat, and all da mustard you can eat, HOT DOGS!!!” He sold 5-10 real quick and when he got back up the stairs, he just smiled and said, “dats how ya do it boy!” Somehow it never sounded the same coming out of my white bread self.
One day at work I referred to artificial grass as "Astroturf." A guy in his thirties laughed.
"Astroturf?! It's called 'field turf' these days."
Man, that made me feel old.
Hell, you know they've probably thought of it already.
Sell it Chiny and they can put a facory in there, along with dorms and a village . .
I am a life long Astros fan, and many childhood to adult memories were played out in that lonely looking place now. This was the first indoor stadium and absolute state of the art back in the day, and it saddens me to see the old stadium as it is. It was amazing in the time, not to have to worry about a rainout. Also seeing the greats there in the '60's - 90's will not be forgotten
I still have great memories of the first lighted scoreboard and the snorting bull and light show.
And I will tell you one damn thing.... It was a heck of a lot easier to get to the ballpark, park, and get in, than that pinball stadium we have downtown now. Lastly, I hope Bud Selig burns in hell for sending us to the AL.
Call this bunch:
http://www.controlled-demolition.com/
Someone call Mickey Gilley.
Now THAT would be a Texas sized bar!
FEMA prison? 8)
My mom worked for a little local paper in one of the suburbs when I was in high skrool.
Dad and I got press passes to some of the tractor pulls in the late ‘70s and saw Bigfoot 1 before they figured out what to do with Monster Trucks.
Bob Chandler had barely gotten the truck back from the body shop in time to make it to the Astrodome after it was torn up making the movie “Take This Job and Shove It.” He was still mad as a hornet about how much they tore his truck up.
Soon a whole industry was formed from what happened in the movie and what got him so mad.
And what about the Astroworld Six-Flags park across the street? That's been gone for a long time now. :-(
-PJ
Flood it and make an indoor wave park...surfing 24 hours a day...stock it with fish.....fishing 24 hours a day.....let loose exotic game and fowl....hunting 24 hours a day....fill it with hookers and blow....you figure it out.