Jonathon,
You were sure chunky back then. Looking much better these days. Must be all that tunnel walking...or tennis.

Thanks Bats!

It's a freaking struggle.

The tunnel system downtown is a whole sub-culture unto itself. Getting a tunnel tour from her is like someone giving you a tour of Amsterdam's red light district and saying "Here is a cute business that models lingerie". She didn't show you the deep dark underbelly....

Dude. You are so funny. I think that major corporations should hire you as a motivational speaker. I know for fact you will have the room rolling.They should atleast use you for the ice breaker.

I remember an old creepy tunnel system just north of Market Square in the early 1970's. Any info on that?

Did you run into any CHUDs?

Tick - It is still there and still as creepy.

looking good JW!

What is a CHUD?

Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller.

I was in the 4th Grade when CHUD came out.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087015/

Where were you guys?

Getting ready to start kindergarten.

Please give me directions in how to access the tunnels in downtown Houston PLEASE

I remember CHUD!!! great movie!!

I also remember about 10 years ago a group of my friends and I broke into the tunnel system while it was still under-construction in vast areas, and we explored it for hours upon hours. At 3am, under construction - it sure was an eerie place to be. We found a spot where the tunnel ended, and there was 1/2 of a very old taxi cab still partially buried - i guess that's why they stopped digging at that point. AHH - those were the days! (*can i get in trouble for doing that 10 years ago - keep it on the DL for me Johnathan - lol*)

I think you're good Chris.

Isn't there a law preventing people from implicating themselves?

Skip... throw us a bone on this one.

Gloria,

Go to the website below for all the tunnel info:
http://www.discoverhoustontours.com/Welcome%20to%20the%20Downtown%20Houston%20Tunnel%20System%20020722.htm

Chris, you are safe. Statute of limitations on tom foolery is 2 years. Plus, who knows maybe we can find Hoffa down there in the taxi and that is why they really stopped digging.

Skip,

I made a couple of phonecalls.

Geraldo is on it.

Your lead-in was the best of all, JW...Downtown: a combination of commerce and calamity. btw...confidentially...wouldn't you think all that walking would take some pounds off your guide? Is it a new job for her? Of sp. there's hope... meowwww

whoo hooo!! i've never seen my name in the same sentance with the words "statute of limitations".. I knew if I lived to see 30 that just about anything would be possible!!

was Bobby off work today as he missed this. I was sure he was going to chime in as he loves tunnels.

JW... Extra kudos for the "Dawn of the Dead" clip at the end! And it was even the old school 1978 version! Although maybe the new one hadn't come out yet when you did that. I'm a big zombie movie fan, if you can't tell.

dear "bob",

if that is your real name.
who said that i loved tunnels?

i think that you need to defend yourself here.
i'm not clausterphobic but tunnels aren't my idea of a weekend.

I remember a RV trip to some caves and tunnels need I say more?

CHUD?

My God, you're all children. I was a freshman in high school when that movie hit the streets.

1984 was a signature year for entertainment - but the better of it was in earlier years. Take "Knightriders," for instance:

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0082622/

No, seriously...a movie called KnightRIDERS, not Knight Rider and Michael Hasselhoff's flaming half-hairy-chested gold-medallion-wearing one-step-shy-of-a-leisure-suit self.

No, THIS Knightriders had Ed Harris in it. And George Romero directed it.

Fortunately, you cannot make movies like this anymore. Unless you're Uwe Boll, who goodness knows tries, but come on film industry...PLEASE take the cameras away from Uwe. It's like giving a arson nut a can of gasoline and a BIC lighter and expecting him to mow a lawn or something.

Who's Michael Hasselhoff?

Isn't it David Hasselhoff?
Come ON LIGN!!

Glad SOMEONE'S awake out there.

And this proves I am not above taking my own medicine.

Thanks, Bobby. I guess I confused "Michael Knight" and "David Hasselhoff."

But Uwe Boll still sucks anyway.