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 in and began dismantling the park, Purdie filmed that, too. When it was all over, the AstroWorld site was an empty field — and Purdie had 150 hours of footage documenting the park's death. Now he's compiled some of that footage into a three-minute film, Astrowhirled (watch it here), which should be a trip down memory lane for any longtime Houstonian.
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