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Why’d they tear down Astroworld?
Posted on 10/13/14 at 4:06 pm
Posted on 10/13/14 at 4:06 pm
Was messing around on google earth and noticed that the area formerly occupied by Astroworld was just a huge dirt lot as of 4/2014. Slid the scale back and it looks like they demolished Astroworld between 2005 and 2006. I remember the reason being “that land is too valuable to house an amusement park…”. Well 8 years later it’s still a dirt lot. Thanks Obama.
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Posted on 10/13/14 at 4:07 pm to poochie
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Was messing around on google earth and noticed that the area formerly occupied by Astroworld was just a huge dirt lot as of 4/2014. Slid the scale back and it looks like they demolished Astroworld between 2005 and 2006. I remember the reason being “that land is too valuable to house an amusement park…”. Well 8 years later it’s still a dirt lot. Thanks Obama.
When's the last time you went before it closed?
Posted on 10/13/14 at 4:10 pm to poochie
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Well 8 years later it’s still a dirt lot. Thanks Obama.
A local season pass was damn near the price of a one time ticket. When you don't have a lot of people traveling to the park, it gets uneconomical real quick.
They got half of what they were expecting, ~75 mil instead of 150 mil. CEO was fired.
Posted on 10/13/14 at 4:10 pm to poochie
Because you didn't go.
Thanks
Poochie
Thanks
Poochie
Posted on 10/13/14 at 4:10 pm to TigerGman
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When's the last time you went before it closed?
Summer of 2005. My dad took me and three friends from Lake Charles there for the day. Left (and went back afterwards) midday to go watch the Astros and Roger Clemens shut down the Rockies, and made it on the big screen.
One of the best days of my childhood (12 at the time). Shame those kind of days can't happen. I must've ridden that damn dungeon drop ten times.
Posted on 10/13/14 at 4:10 pm to poochie
Mexicans
Posted on 10/13/14 at 4:11 pm to poochie
If you had seen it a few months before it closed you wouldn't be asking this question.
Posted on 10/13/14 at 4:11 pm to heypaul
Poochie did this? EFF that guy!
Posted on 10/13/14 at 4:13 pm to Harry Caray
last time I went was probably early 00's. But had many of these type experiences growing up:
was the deterioration at the end due to mismanagement or some unavoidable force? there were low income folks in Houston in the 80's and 90's.
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Summer of 2005. My dad took me and three friends from Lake Charles there for the day. Left (and went back afterwards) midday to go watch the Astros and Roger Clemens shut down the Rockies, and made it on the big screen. One of the best days of my childhood (12 at the time). Shame those kind of days can't happen. I must've ridden that damn dungeon drop ten times.
was the deterioration at the end due to mismanagement or some unavoidable force? there were low income folks in Houston in the 80's and 90's.
Posted on 10/13/14 at 4:13 pm to WhiskerBiscuitSlayer
quote:Not sure exactly when they closed, but when I went we had a blast because there were so few people there. I mean it was a weekday, but still the summer.
If you had seen it a few months before it closed you wouldn't be asking this question.
Posted on 10/13/14 at 4:13 pm to poochie
From a Houston forum:
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Astroworld suffered a slow downturn and lost its historic business in favor of a thuggish element and simply was not the family oriented theme-park that it once was.
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Who can forget the young G's in gold chains yelling, cussing, lighting up, throwing basketballs around, running/horsplaying, or beating each other with blow-up baseball bats? Oh yeah, and the total hoochies everywhere. There were some awful smells in that park, bad mosquitos esp under the Texas Cyclone and the chewed gum that was collected on certain places was just gross. It basically became the surrounding hood's ghetto playground
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Two things killed the park, and one led to another. The first was the "season pass." For the price of two daily admissions you could get in for a whole season. That led to a lot of working Mom's dumping their kids off there for the day while schools were out. Gangbangers hung out there as well, and the park became difficult to manage. Hell, they had METAL DETECTORS at the entrance. The park didn't used to need it. "A" led to "B" which lead to a lot of people staying away. In addition, the single day admission was too high for for Joe Blow to justify visiting from Katy or Sealy once a year.
My wife and I went the last day it was open. The many coats of paint failed to hide the poor maintenance and the gritty feel. While we were there when the park opened that day, we could only stay for three hours until the hoodlums showed up and started pushing through lines, talking smack, and doing those stupid gang gestures at other people.
This post was edited on 10/13/14 at 4:19 pm
Posted on 10/13/14 at 4:14 pm to poochie
The taxes on the developed land and the low attendance made it uneconomical.
Posted on 10/13/14 at 4:15 pm to poochie
It closed because it became a babysitter for the trash inside the loop.
There is a huge development up 59 that will likely succeed because it is in the burbs. Away from downtown.
There is a huge development up 59 that will likely succeed because it is in the burbs. Away from downtown.
This post was edited on 10/13/14 at 4:18 pm
Posted on 10/13/14 at 4:16 pm to Shexter
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Astroworld suffered a slow downturn and lost its historic business in favor of a thuggish element and simply was not the family oriented theme-park that it once was.
This is why we can't have a Dave and Buster's.
Or decent schools.
Posted on 10/13/14 at 4:17 pm to poochie
You can read up on it. There was a huge investment "deal" made which cuased them to close it. They weren't making any money and it had turned into a cheap daycare. Parents would drop kids off for the day and picke them up after work. You can imagine the problem they had with security type issues. After it closed, the "deal" went bad. I believe I read that the person(s) who were going to buy it and devlop the area could not secure the zoning/permits.
I have tons of great memories going there as a kid and even into college.
I have tons of great memories going there as a kid and even into college.
Posted on 10/13/14 at 4:17 pm to Shexter
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Who can forget the young G's in gold chains yelling, cussing, lighting up, throwing basketballs around, running/horsplaying, or beating each other with blow-up baseball bats? Oh yeah, and the total hoochies everywhere. There were some awful smells in that park, bad mosquitos esp under the Texas Cyclone and the chewed gum that was collected on certain places was just gross. It basically became the surrounding hood's ghetto playground
so what caused this? management saying "f it, we're closing in a few years so lets run it into the ground and give us a reason"? there were poors in Houston pre-2005.
Posted on 10/13/14 at 4:17 pm to tylercsbn9
Grand Theme Park>>>>>>Astroworld
Posted on 10/13/14 at 4:17 pm to poochie
Went to Fiesta Texas this past summer and the kids loved it
It seemed pretty clean and well run.
Wasn't too crowded the day we went either, but it is a much further drive for us La folks
It seemed pretty clean and well run.
Wasn't too crowded the day we went either, but it is a much further drive for us La folks
Posted on 10/13/14 at 4:18 pm to barry
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A local season pass was damn near the price of a one time ticket. When you don't have a lot of people traveling to the park, it gets uneconomical real quick.
You think their charging too little for a season pass is why it shut down?
I'm sure they would've figured that problem out pretty quickly.Posted on 10/13/14 at 4:20 pm to poochie
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Well 8 years later it’s still a dirt lot.
It's going to be the site of olympic village when they host the summer olympics in 2038
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