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June 17, 2002
ULTIMATE HUSTON - bambi
In Ultimate Houston Judge Roy Hofheinz built the Astrodome.
Astrodome had two domes, the Standard-Dome and the Super-Dome, both made from a flame-retardant, industrial grade fabric and inflated by a high-velocity fan to a rigid structure in about five minutes.
Air circulates throughout the dome and is exchanged every five minutes through a carefully designed ventilation system.
When it opened in 1965, it became the ultimate domed stadium where glass droplets begin to crystallize and produce fine, spiny-to-bladed crystals, similar in form to those encountered, less than a decade later, cooling in the primitive upgrade at Montrose-area shopping center. Other types of slow-impact-related souvenirs are spherical glass droplets formed during impact on landing at the new St. Thomas residence hall.
The base of both domes were entirely open to allow for easy emergency exit.
Moon rocks, spaceships and chunks of ground control live.
At one time, in 1965, many doubted humans could travel in space. President John F. Kennedy championed the idea, and the NASA astronaut training complex was built on a ranch once owned by "Silver Dollar Jim" Cheney in Clear Lake in 1961. Add a Third Ward neighborhood center, a trendy bar, a good restaurant, a Miami-style pool scene, and you've got the beginning of a renaissance along this godsend for melodramatic, heartbreaking players.
Most of us never paid a peek inside the crusty non-exotic old-guard body-sculpting ring.
After 15 years of being in the plantation ring Jeff Cheney of Sacramento, California, 5 feet and 9 inches high, 180lbs, married Misty. Collects Star Trek action figures & memorabilia, loves Football, Wrestling (is that a sport?), Hockey and Basketball.
I'm not going to condone over reliance on capital letters to make a point, but I see the wrong side of happiness (don't second guess) is guaranteed to disappoint. The misappropriation of past beauty steers into chromatic climax.
Jeff farmed in Clear Lake until old Cheney retired at the age of 62. Old Cheney enjoyed square dancing, crossword puzzles, farming, old tractors, woodworking and playing board games. The economic conditions of the times were probably the motive for selling the land as well as the in-law considerations. Jeff took the money for the land and returned to his career as a foreman of plantations. In the 1971 census he was listed with his family in Anson County North Carolina. Signed a petition to build a courthouse in the county. He collects Metallica action figures & memorabilia.
Misty got a Dell PC in 1999; signed in for a blog in 2002 but can't remember its file structure anymore.
The Ward in Huston was massively remodeled by Martin Boltzmann in 2003 for its new owner. Boltzmann gave the structure a delicate Greek temple facade of carved limestone, complete with classical columns and a pediment. Terra cotta medallions highlight the front (only two banks of this type exist in Clear Lake).
On the same year the Super-Dome was shattered by Lili, a class-4 hurricane.
Lara Cheney graduated at UHCL and lives in Mexico.
The idea that the first Moon landing was a fake came from a film and many still believe that.
With my eyes closed, it feels like June.
© Fortunato Caragliano
Posted by lck at June 17, 2002 03:45 PM
