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Volume 6, Number 3
…Culture-High and Low: Love, Death, and the Astrodome by Larry McMurtry 32 Museum: Long before the “Battle of the Sexes”, there was Babe…The Babe Didrikson Zaharias Musuem by Debbie Z….
“A Love Affair 50 Years and Counting”: OTC’s Economic and Cultural Contributions to Houston
…feet of exhibit space occupied by 200 exhibitors. In need of more space, in 1973 OTC moved to the Astrodome complex, now NRG Park, where it has remained. Local businesses…
Letter from the Editor: Wrecks and Redemption, 15.1
…at an incinerator near the Astrodome in the 1970s and industrial emissions today, to our efforts at redemption by the nonprofit sector to insure we monitor and protect air quality…
Houston’s New 8th Wonder
…Hofheinz for the Astrodome during its construction in the 1960s. But now another 8th Wonder stands in Old Chinatown east of downtown Houston in today’s EaDo (East Downtown) district. The…
The People’s University: UH Alumni Memories Through the Decades
…several state and local elected positions, including Harris County judge from 1936 to 1944. Most importantly, he helped bring Major League Baseball and the Astrodome to Houston. Less well known…
Milestones
…Houston Coliseum, and my first Major League Baseball games at Colt Stadium and the Astrodome, which cemented my life-long love for the Astros. In the late 1960s when the Intercontinental…