Eric and Teri Matzdorf, owners of Silver Gallery, prepare their booth for the 2022 Rodeo on Feb. 25, 2022.
Cindy Henley remembers the exact moment when the 2020 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo was officially canceled. She was helping some kids at her store, Cadillac Style, pick out new jackets with the official Houston Rodeo logo embroidered on it.
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner had just announced that concerts would be shut down, and the rest of the rodeo would “phase down” after less than two weeks of what was supposed to be a month-long event.
“There were people in our booth devastated,” Henley said. “I mean, just crying, you know, it was horrible.”
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Looking back, Henley described that March 11 day as unprecedented and devastating. She’s been a vendor at the rodeo since 2000, and while it’s not all of her income, making the trip from Abilene every year is an important, costly…
