Hot on the heels of our Hurricane Harvey-delayed look at August 1987 comes this dive into what was happening here in September. Here's a round-up of that month's highlights, courtesy of the reporters and photographers of the Houston Chronicle.

* The $150 million George R. Brown Convention Center opens.

Was it a convention center or an ocean liner? I'll admit, the first time I saw it, I thought it was a seafaring vessel, at least in my 11-year-old mind.

Since 1987, it has been a site for everything from graduations, sci-fi conventions, gun shows, Hollywood productions and, most recently, a place for victims of Harvey to take refuge.

Ann Holmes, in an interview with Spanish architect Mario Bolullo, called it "unpretentious, but bright and sassy." From her Sept. 27, 1987, article:

It is at the outset probably the most successful public building we have seen go up in Houston in a long time and, though it is a bold statement in the high-tech mode, should kindle very little controversy.

Its location, of course, was a heated issue for many months in the early 80s. There were many who wanted to see a potential new convention center shoe-horned into space on the west side of town, along with the Music Hall, Jones Hall, the Albert Thomas Convention Center, the Alley Theater and, later to come, the new Wortham Theater Center. But backers of the east side location won the day, thanks to various contributions on that side. Critics protested the place was too far away from the center of town and other interests and that it was too close to the ugly elevated portion of U.S. 59.

Well, it's a $104.9 million "fait accompli" - and the resonance and bulk of the building itself have handily laid claim to the east end site. It rides handsomely and interestingly with its red, blue and white coloration, trumpeting a statement so loud you can't sense much more than a subliminal presence of U.S. 59.

Read more of Holmes' take.

* What's this about the Oilers possibly relocating to Jacksonville?

Team owner Bud Adams and the John McMullen-owned Houston Sports Association were deep in negotiations over the team's soon-to-expire Astrodome lease. The HSA, which also owned the Astros, operated the Dome for Harris County.

Adams wanted $1 million in modifications to the stadium -- like additional seating -- in any new agreement with the HSA. Among other things, both couldn't seem to agree as to how much the HSA profits off the football games. Also at play here was Adams' idea to move the team to Florida, or San Antonio, or wherever.

Harry Shattuck took a deep dive at the dispute between the Oilers and the HSA.

The Oilers' future existence in Houston, in large part, depends on the outcome of complex and difficult negotiations between two organizations owned by a strong-willed, successful but unpredictable businessmen and managed with a tight fiscal approach.

And it's likely no firm resolution will be forthcoming for some time.

All indications are that Oilers owner Bud Adams' promotion of Jacksonville, Fla., as a potential new home, while certainly a useful negotiating ploy in his efforts to attain concessions in any new Astrodome lease, is more than mere rhetoric.

But all indications are, too, that Adams prefers to keep the National Football League team here, where it was born 28 years ago, where Adams' family and friends and other businesses are located.

Read more about the battle between the HSA and the Oilers here.

(You all know how this turns out. Adams got his additional seats, we lost that beloved scoreboard, and the Oilers ended up moving to Tennessee 10 years later.)

* They may not be the Beach Boys, but that doesn't mean they weren't making waves.

From reporter Julia Duin comes this article on Surfside Witness, a Houston-based, all-female Christian surf group.

The songs are sacred and surf-oriented, with such titles as "Surfin With the Savior, Surfer Girls, California Christmas, Bible Beach" (to music by Chuck Berry) and "Sunday School Dropout." The in-between patter between numbers at their concerts, generally presented in churches, is soft-sell evangelical Christianity, with testimonies from the six earnest young women behind their microphones and guitars.

"I used to be "sooo" dumb and "sooo" judgmental of other people," lead singer Nan Salinas, 25, told listeners at a recent concert. "Jesus made me realize how ugly that was."

Instead of blunting the Gospel, the ever-popular, never-dying appeal of surf music seems to disarm people enough to listen to an old story set to Beach Boys-style music.

"God uses the foolish things of the world to confound the wise," said Nan, who is also the group's songwriter. Originally intending to write standard rock 'n' roll, all she could come up with was surf music.

"Well," she said, "the songs may be silly, but the message isn't silly. We've been well-received. I've never had anyone not liking us."

Read more about the band.