COMMENT OF THE DAY: THE COCKROACHES FOUND THAT CISTERN FIRST “Back in ’83 until about ’85 my buddies Colin Mazzola, Keith Tashima and myself would go down an open hatch into that thing — they closed it up sometime around ’86 or ’87 — this was back when jogging around the North side os Allen Parkway (near the celemetaries) was a little sketchy — people hanging out in the park near/under the Memorial Dr underpasses — anyway, what Lisa Gray left out was the 10 million roaches down there — we couldn’t hang out there for long — you couldn’t sit down or hang — BUT it was really cool and I remember being totally amazed that the City had an underground aqueduct/storm sewer overflow (yes it flooded and was impossible to go down the ladder) that was open and pretty much abandoned.” [David Beebe, commenting on Poking Around in Buffalo Bayou’s Abandoned Basement]
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Roaches? I didn’t leave them out. I just didn’t see any — as in, not one. No living creatures at all, except us humans. The place smelled clean, like fresh water.
I wonder where those roaches went…. and (ugh) what they were eating down there in the ’80s.
Wish we would have known about that place back then. For urban adventure and the best night-time views of downtown, we use to climb to the tops of the abandoned rice/grain elevators which were along Montrose, to the north of Memorial.
Gee, back in that day, we ran the steam tunnels at Rice for fun.
Wow way to date yourselves…back in my day, I hung out on Washington with all the other DB’s.