Houston’s “Moving Sidewalk,” before Billy Gibbons

Along the Buffalo Bayou, the remnants of a long gone Houston installation can be seen underneath the I-45 overpass. The Sam Houston Coliseum (1936-1998) used to reside in the very space that the Hobby Center occupies today and all that remains are the bridge supports that held the Coliseum’s skywalk.

This skywalk connected the Sam Houston Coliseum with the parking lot on the opposite side of the Buffalo Bayou. It was a “moving sidewalk” and could move 14,000 people into the Coliseum per hour. The contraption was widely-touted by mayor Roy Hofheinz and cost $235,000 ($2.2 million today) to build.

Today, the bridge foundations are all that remains of one of Houston’s many forgotten wonders.