The Pecan Park Eagle

The Astrodome, 12:10 PM, Saturday, June 1, 2013.

I meant that column headline literally, The above picture shows how the grand old Astrodome looked today, shortly after noon, this Saturday, the 1st of June, 2013, I was just checking into the TriStar Sports Memorabilia Collector’s Show at Reliant Center on Kirby in Houston and I couldn’t resist facing south and taking her picture.

“Smile, Old Girl!” I thought. “You don’t look half as bad today as some have claimed. Perhaps, the reports of your death have been highly exaggerated. Yeah, I know – and I see – there’s a little black cloud hanging over your head in the short-term, but you mostly always have been good at handling those and, besides, there appear to be plenty of glorious cotton candy clouds and big blue summer skies on the horizons to your south, but rolling north.”

The Astrodome, 12:14 PM, Saturday, June 1, 2013.

The chuck wagon statuary on the north side of the Astrodome may be now inviting Houstonians to “come and get it” with a new intent in mind: “Citizens of Greater Houston, if you will only come forth in numbers and help me get a new direction of service going, I’m still strong enough to handle my place in history with dignity in ways that will make each of you happy and proud that you didn’t knock out both me and the flowers that still adorn our life space just so the fat cats could replace us with a parking lot.”

“Come get it on and do it right, Harris County. The time for positive action on the Astrodome is here and now. History must be saved, – and not ‘dozed.”