Houstonians swarmed to AstroWorld this weekend to pick over the closed amusement park's treasures — and they came away with really expensive tchotchkes. One couple that met in 1973 near the tiny railroad in the park paid $500 for a railroad-crossing sign. Others shelled out $300 or $400 for directional signs, and one woman gave a whopping $1,800 for the sign that warned people that Greezed Lightnin' involved "high speeds, steep drops, inverted loops...
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Police pulled an unidentified body from the Ship Channel today, not far from where a worker fell off a barge several weeks ago The naked man who beat up a police officer yesterday had been harassing drivers, according to reports Police say a string of home invasions in Fort Bend County, including one in which a woman was robbed while bathing a baby, may be related Greezed Lightnin', one of the AstroWorld roller coasters set...
Even though we hadn't been to AstroWorld in years, reading about the public auction of the theme park's stuff brought on a wave of nostalgia. We remember the hoopla when Ultra Twister debuted, the headaches from being banged around on the Texas Cyclone and the urban legends about the SkyScreamer going out of control and plunging into the little lake at its base. Ah, childhood. If you're missing the old times, too, you might want...
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