Houston19514 Posted October 15, 2007 Share Posted October 15, 2007 I wonder if this is still in the works -- even after that finding that found over half of the waterways in Texas are failing safety requirementsWhat? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniepwils Posted October 15, 2007 Share Posted October 15, 2007 http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/5206789.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmariar Posted October 15, 2007 Share Posted October 15, 2007 My proposal is to install some artificial rock climbing routes down there. Does anyone have any suggestions on who I might contact to help get this idea off the ground? It would need to be someone with some serious influence to cut through the red tape.I wonder if this is still in the works -- even after that finding that found over half of the waterways in Texas are failing safety requirementsA good organization to contact on these issues would be the Buffalo Bayou Partnership. Here's another link, to their events page - boat tours, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniepwils Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 Um, I would think not!http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5389411.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zippy Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 Chron: "Bayous are flush with fecal bacteria"Duh..Tomorrow's headline: "The sun came up in the east"Anyone ever bike/run under Waugh drive at The bayou? There's quite a bat population there.. the poop doesn't just fall on the trails. Birds and fish and alligators.. oh my! Everyone's gotta poop.. who goes swimming there anyway?And of course the human street resident downtown.. Their main bathroom is the sewer.. Just wait until that fancy new park opens.. Might want to do some comparative analysis on a before and after..Congrats Chron! That's some great reporting! Who would have guessed?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNiche Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 Um, I would think not!Skin washes clean. Yo' mamma oughta know; she changed your diapers after all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniepwils Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 I don't think people mind their babies ____, but I'd rather not touch and or swim in someone elses ____! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicman Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 welcome to our ool. notice there's no p in it. let's keep it that way! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNiche Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 I don't think people mind their babies ____, but I'd rather not touch and or swim in someone elses ____!I can guarantee you that ____ that emerged from an anus of someone bearing your last name is no more potent or infectious than that from some other random person's anus.It's skin. It'll wash. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest danax Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 I like the old green building and the new rendering and that spot is a special one. I think the plans for a canoe rental and cafe there will work. I somehow can't help thinking of "Alien's Landing" though whenever I see or hear Allen's Landing. Ironic that the city is considered a sanctuary city too...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotYetYuppie Posted December 20, 2007 Share Posted December 20, 2007 I like the old green building and the new rendering and that spot is a special one. I think the plans for a canoe rental and cafe there will work.I think a causal bar on level 1 with lots of outdoor seating would work great. You wouldn't even need that much seating, as people could just mingle in the surrounding area. There was a bar in York, England on the river that I always think of when I think of the sunset building. I guess a big problem is the flooding (if you had the bar on the lowest floor, which is what I think would be nice so that you could have people accumulate around the area). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniepwils Posted December 20, 2007 Share Posted December 20, 2007 I can guarantee you that ____ that emerged from an anus of someone bearing your last name is no more potent or infectious than that from some other random person's anus.Wow! I literally laughed out loud when I read this! Niche you crack me up! (I can't believe we are talking about swimming in ____ on these forums, lol) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosemary Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 Well, not every building. But that was the LC Cafeteria. My Mother was a cashier at the LC Cafeteria in July, 1953. A local reporter for the Houston Post came for lunch several days a week and during one visit he took her picture and wrote an article about her. He said she was like a 10,000 watt beacon to most males. I will post that article and share with everyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmcgrail Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 Today I saw a Chron.com blog entry on Rick Campbell's 40 Years AfterThere will be a concert on the roof tomorrow 1/30/09 at noon.I wish I was in town to see this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheeats Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 More information yesterday about the renovation of the building:http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2009/07/love_street_lives_sorta_maybe.phpFrom the article:The Buffalo Bayou Partnership is planning to refurbish the three-story old warehouse and open it as the International Coffee Building, in honor of its initial tenants.BBP's office will be on the second floor, a place to rent bikes and kayaks will be on the first. And on the third, the home of the psychedelic club?Meeting space for rent.I'm excited about the canoe and kayak rentals! We need something like that if we're going to get people to see/use Buffalo Bayou as more than a runoff ditch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylejack Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 Hmmm, they've been saying this for a while, too too long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lockmat Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 Hmmm, they've been saying this for a while, too too long.Exactly, this sounds like really old news. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylejack Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 (edited) I'd be surprised if they were pressed for cash. They somehow afford to shut down the Sabine Street bridge and hold a rich people gala right in the middle of it! Not good if you live in Sabine St Lofts, hahaI tried to visit my mother on foot and they wouldn't even let me cross the bridge on foot for fear that the rich people would see a person dressed normal on their rented bridge. They made me walk all the way around to the footbridge by Wortham. Horrible, just horrible. Edited July 16, 2009 by kylejack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheeats Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 Exactly, this sounds like really old news. I guess it would be really old news if the PR Director for the Buffalo Bayou Partnership (Trudi Smith) hadn't just said this yesterday. A rehash of stuff they'd said before? Perhaps. But if they're actively pursuing it, then I don't see how that's old news. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lockmat Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 I guess it would be really old news if the PR Director for the Buffalo Bayou Partnership (Trudi Smith) hadn't just said this yesterday. A rehash of stuff they'd said before? Perhaps. But if they're actively pursuing it, then I don't see how that's old news. Recycled news I guess. It's more like they Dynamo telling us they'll get a deal done in two weeks, 50 times. Hopefully the partnership does not make the same mistake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniepwils Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 Would it even be safe to kayak or canoe in Buffalo Bayou? I remember they tested the waters last year, and it wasn't very good. Infact it is one of the worse polluted bayous in Texas.That reminds me. I was running along the bayou a few weeks ago and saw a man fishing. I did a double take to make sure I wasn't seeing things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capnmcbarnacle Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 I guess it would be really old news if the PR Director for the Buffalo Bayou Partnership (Trudi Smith) hadn't just said this yesterday. A rehash of stuff they'd said before? Perhaps. But if they're actively pursuing it, then I don't see how that's old news. In April, I talke to the canoe guys that are supposed to have the concession. He said they'd be in next summer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 http://www.buffalobayou.org/internationalcoffee.html 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crunchtastic Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 That looks nice. After having lived in San Antonio for a long time, a Lake Flato building is really obvious, but it's still nice. The BB partnership has done cool things with trying to buy up bayou-fronting parcels, the trails out on the east side of the bayou, and etc. Good for them. The software photo selections never cease to amaze, though. That one boy looks like he's wearing a straightjaket and combat boots. On the other hand, at least they visually acknowledged the middle-aged hippies who help fund much of this stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UrbaNerd Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 Lake Flato, eh? They're quite a distinct firm indeed, and they do have some pretty neat projects under their belts. The UT School of Nursing and Student Community Center in the TMC is one of theirs, in fact. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedScare Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 The software photo selections never cease to amaze, though. That one boy looks like he's wearing a straightjaket and combat boots. On the other hand, at least they visually acknowledged the middle-aged hippies who help fund much of this stuff. I hate to bring this up, as it may scare away potential tourists and other users, but those people are holograms! That place is HAUNTED! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porchman Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 The Joanne King Herring Building. Naming matter resolved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedScare Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 (edited) The Joanne King Herring Building. Naming matter resolved. I suppose it is somewhat appropriate to name a waterfront building after a fish. But, have you EVER seen someone plug their own landmark naming? Note that Adrian Garcia did not propose the renaming. Ms. Herring STATED that Garcia thought it would be a good idea, and Ms. Herring and her partner suggested that Adrian's idea should be implemented. Of course, ya gotta admit, a fashion museum with Ms. Herring's leopard print cowboy hat on display would be hard to pass up. Edited July 17, 2009 by RedScare Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capnmcbarnacle Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 (edited) Would it even be safe to kayak or canoe in Buffalo Bayou? I remember they tested the waters last year, and it wasn't very good. Infact it is one of the worse polluted bayous in Texas.That reminds me. I was running along the bayou a few weeks ago and saw a man fishing. I did a double take to make sure I wasn't seeing things.I do it every year. It's aweseome. It's more polluted downstream, then up. The section through memorial park and river oaks would surprise you. Look in the photo section wehre I posted some photos a year ago. It's a cool trip. I think this will link you...http://www.houstonarchitecture.com/haif/index.php?showtopic=15519 Edited July 17, 2009 by capnmcbarnacle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheeats Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 I hate to bring this up, as it may scare away potential tourists and other users, but those people are holograms! That place is HAUNTED! LOL of the morning... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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