Posted on 09/13/2005 4:52:01 PM PDT by Michael Goldsberry
We sat on the very last car because it seemed to lift off the tracks at times. The rain felt like rocks hitting my face.
Ah, youth.
Went on a trip there in the late 80's with the man who is now my husband. He rode the Texas Cyclone, but I did not.
Information from a friend in Houston.
AstroWorld received quite a few visitors this weekend. Some of those at the Astrodome used their $2000 debit cards last week spent them at AstroWorld.
Yeah, I remember one of my favorite rides was the "River of No Return"...
One of my friends operated that ride, and one night, close to closing, it was him, my (soon to be) girlfriend and me hanging around the warf area of the ride...
He basically said keep it on this speed, and she and I hopped in for a unique ride "by ourselves"...hehehe
Teenagers...Geesh...
Good thing those boats ran themselves...She had other ideas...Honest, it wasn't me!!!
Well, at least Texas still has the Schitterbahn.
I'm not suprised. The Astrodome complex is right across the street from Astroworld.
Many years ago my wife and I went to Astroworld.
We picked a weekday in a non-standard time frame for vacations, a Tuesday I think; when all schools were open for business. No holiday, no reason for anyone but us and tourists to be there.
The place was full of punk-ass bangers bouncing basketballs. One could not escape the infernal bouncing of basketballs. They didn't ride the rides and obviously didn't go to school.
They did bounce basketballs.
Basketballs everywhere. I still twitch when I hear a basketball bounced, not dribbled. None of these bangers had any talent.
The place was filthy even then.
Good riddance.
Let the garbage hang out somewhere else. Or maybe arrest their parents for not making them go to school. Maybe that would help.
Which has nothing to do with Astroworld closing.
You are correct.
Post# 7 is why it is being closed.
Punk-ass bangers and trash.
Nobody from my neighborhood would drop their kid off there and then pick them up later.
I was there last summer, and felt relatively safe -- UNTIL DARK.
After dark, there were areas where do one dared enter. Gangs of rough lookin' kids gathering and scuffling.
I thought then, this place will close soon. They can't risk the liability.
I have great memories of going to see the Astros play, and then walking across the bridge to Astroworld. Good times!
Man,Astroworld was the first really super amusement park I ever went to.
In May,1970,I stopped there on a cross country trip and loved the rides,crowds and humid night air.
Sorry to hear of its demise.
It's time to close Astroworld. I understand there's lots of crime taking place there. It's gotten very dangerous to take older kids there and leave them.
Also,contrary to some of the other posts,I didn't notice any gangsta activity.
"Kirby and 610, that's a great address in Houston," said Todd Edmonds, senior vice president of the real estate company Colliers International.
Don't know how credible this article is: AstroWorld occupies the corner of Fannin and 610 (not Kirby).
Should you outlive me, I anticipate your comments on my FR memorial thread will center around the stupid things I've done along the way rather than the good times I've had with my friends here.
When I got home-leave I would go to AstroWorld.
I'd chuck pennies at people while riding the sky-car things.
Never took a date there.
Some folks even did drugs there I'm told.
I met my future wife in Lima, Peru. We was from Holland and I was living in Ft. Lauderdale, but we arranged to meet in Houston in 1979. We spent day at Astroworld and we rode the Cyclone together. I think we still have the picture around the house somewhere that we had taken of us together in a fake Cyclone car as a souvenir.
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