Posted
9/18/2005 05:57:00 PM
by Douglas
Houston without Astroworld is like Astroworld without baking in the sun on black-top asphalt, hyper-inflated ticket prices, and a $4 Coke. So why do I already
miss it? Similar scenes played out across Six Flags AstroWorld on Saturday, the park's first day of operations since Monday's announcement that the Houston landmark will end its 37-year run after Oct. 30. Six Flags plans to sell the 109-acre site where so many Houstonians got their first jobs, first kisses and first cases of roller-coaster-induced nausea.
Anywhere outside is a horrible place to be in the middle of the day in Houston in the summer. I have no idea who is going to take control over it after Six Flags leaves (I can't imagine it getting bulldozed), but if the beautiful October through March weather isn't exploited, then they're destined to have the same heat stroke victims that
weren't spending money there before.