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Meet David Purdie, a true AstroWorld fan: When he heard that the park was going to close, Purdie decided to capture its last days on film. With a hand-held video camera, he visited AstroWorld every weekend in October 2005, filming everything he could — from the drive down Kirby to the walk over the pedestrian bridge to the slow climb up the first incline on the Texas Cyclone. And then, when cranes and bulldozers moved...

Good morning, Houston. Been missing the Texas Cyclone since it was torn down last year? Then you'll be happy to know about the Boardwalk Bullet, a nearly 100-foot-tall wooden roller coaster set to open this summer at the Kemah Boardwalk. Tim Anderson, Kemah Boardwalk manager, said the Bullet will have more crossovers than any other wooden coaster in the world, and it'll be a bit taller and longer than the famed Cyclone. "It has...

Houstonist has gotten to where we avoid Kirby Drive whenever we can — not only because of the constant traffic, but also because the torn-up pavement makes us feel like we're sitting in the rear car of the Texas Cyclone. So we were excited to hear about changes coming for Kirby, including new pavement, new storm sewers and fancy decorative intersections. The practical parts of the project — reconstructed storm sewers and fresh pavement —...

Remember the Texas Cyclone, the famed wooden roller coaster at AstroWorld? Even though it's gone, you can still take a ride thanks to this online video of sometimes questionable quality. The Internet is a wonderful place, we have to say. (In case you didn't know, the Texas Cyclone was a copy — though a larger and faster one, naturally — of the Coney Island Cyclone. AstroWorld tried to buy the Coney Island coaster and...

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...

Another employment story that makes Houstonist want to reconsider our jobs: Charles Lightfoot, a Metro bus driver who KPRC-TV taped eating while driving and later running a red light in Midtown, was punished by being reassigned to the light rail line, where he's in charge of a far larger vehicle. And guess what a new report found? The station obtained video from cameras all over the train, which traveled on a Sunday afternoon. The light-rail...