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Posted Saturday, December 3, 2005 at 11:21 AM

Here is the alamo plaza on Old Spanish Trail...please add postcards, etc if you have 'em..
The grounds were actually in nice condition...the landscaping was surprising. There are still people living there (they are all efficiency apartments now I believe). And thanks to gnu for the information about it being for sale!

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Posted Saturday, December 3, 2005 at 11:54 AM

almost forgot - the side street had a marking post next to the sidewalk - first i thought it was one of the vertical street posts...so did it get shoved in next to the sidewalk, or was it originally placed there?

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Posted Saturday, December 3, 2005 at 4:36 PM

you got an early start this morning, sevfiv!

Great pics. I wonder if they still take Carte Blanche! :lol: (BTW...does that card still exist??)


I bet that street marker fell down...just probably a long time ago.

My Mom worked the PBX (Ooooh PBX...there's a word you don't hear much anymore :) ) at the Alamo Plaza hotel in Beaumont in the 50's. That one is extant too, at least it was about 8 years ago. I guess it was the same chain or at least all the buildings were very similar to this one.

Wasn't/Isn't there one on Washington Ave too?
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Posted Saturday, December 3, 2005 at 5:10 PM

Could you tell if there was another street name on the right side of that post, I'll bet ya it use to stand straight up, you ought to try and dig it out for yourself, just act like you work for the city, what a find.
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Posted Saturday, December 3, 2005 at 5:20 PM

You'd be surprised what you can get away with simply by saying you're with the local "preservation society". ;)
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Posted Saturday, December 3, 2005 at 5:37 PM

I'm tellin ya, shovel and a pry bar is all it's gonna take, and a couple of strong friends.
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Posted Saturday, December 3, 2005 at 5:44 PM

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I'm tellin ya, shovel and a pry bar is all it's gonna take, and a couple of strong friends.

and then you can "plant" it in your living room! :lol:
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Posted Saturday, December 3, 2005 at 6:25 PM

I just had a crazy picture in my head of a large terracotta pot filled with sand, with the street post sticking out of it, sitting in the middle of my living room :lol:

When the place goes though, I wouldn't mind snatching up a few of the philodendrons and palms from out front :D
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Posted Saturday, December 3, 2005 at 10:42 PM

View Postsevfiv, on Saturday, December 3rd, 2005 @ 6:25pm, said:

I just had a crazy picture in my head of a large terracotta pot filled with sand, with the street post sticking out of it, sitting in the middle of my living room :lol:

Now that's a discussion piece!

I can hear your guests now (for some reason i hear a wisconsin/minnesota accent)...oh my. that is interesting. Honey, didn't we used to have a blythe tree in our backyard? Sevfiv, (as if your guest would call you that! :lol: ) is this made out of petrified blythe wood?

I know...Lame B)
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Posted Sunday, December 4, 2005 at 4:06 PM

View Postgnu, on Saturday, December 3rd, 2005 @ 5:36pm, said:

you got an early start this morning, sevfiv!

Great pics. I wonder if they still take Carte Blanche! :lol: (BTW...does that card still exist??)
I bet that street marker fell down...just probably a long time ago.

My Mom worked the PBX (Ooooh PBX...there's a word you don't hear much anymore :) ) at the Alamo Plaza hotel in Beaumont in the 50's. That one is extant too, at least it was about 8 years ago. I guess it was the same chain or at least all the buildings were very similar to this one.

Wasn't/Isn't there one on Washington Ave too?



There was also an Alamo Plaza Motel in Baton Rouge, LA on Florida Blvd.
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Posted Thursday, December 8, 2005 at 11:24 PM

View Postplumber, on Sunday, December 4th, 2005 @ 5:06pm, said:

There was also an Alamo Plaza Motel in Baton Rouge, LA on Florida Blvd.


The Alamo Plaza Motel in Baton Rouge is still there, got some pics of it a while back. Same sort of clientele. Folks trying to hit you up for cigarettes, etc. But the place is in pretty good shape.

Houston I've noticed has a lot of cool old motels. There's the Admiral across from Spanish Flowers on Main, with garages on the ground floor and the rooms above. It's intact and well maintained. Well worth a look when you're in the neighborhood.
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Posted Friday, December 9, 2005 at 10:33 AM

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Houston I've noticed has a lot of cool old motels. There's the Admiral across from Spanish Flowers on Main, with garages on the ground floor and the rooms above. It's intact and well maintained. Well worth a look when you're in the neighborhood.


You're right, the Admiral is almost unchanged. That neighborhood has a good bit of decent old architecture. Some nice art deco buildings have survived. New development around there has been slow, so there hasn't been the same pressure to demolish things.
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Posted Thursday, July 13, 2006 at 9:26 PM

View Postsevfiv, on Saturday, December 3rd, 2005 @ 6:25pm, said:

when the place goes though...


FYI, its not going anywhere. It'll be serving a niche market in its existing form. :ph34r:

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Posted Thursday, July 13, 2006 at 9:49 PM

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FYI, its not going anywhere. It'll be serving a niche market in its existing form. :ph34r:

Sorry, folks, but I can't reveal my source.


A whorehouse?

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Posted Thursday, July 13, 2006 at 10:01 PM

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A whorehouse?


Close.

Well, not really, but taken with humor...
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Posted Thursday, July 13, 2006 at 10:07 PM

yeah, when i took those pictures, the wee alamos were occupied.

i drove past it on monday and they still looked...occupied
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Posted Thursday, July 13, 2006 at 10:09 PM

View Postsevfiv, on Thursday, July 13th, 2006 @ 10:07pm, said:

the wee alamos were occupied.


Aye, a bonnie wee alamo.

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Posted Sunday, July 16, 2006 at 11:56 PM

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Aye, a bonnie wee alamo.

:D

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Posted Monday, April 2, 2007 at 1:11 PM

View Postsevfiv, on Monday, July 17th, 2006 @ 12:56am, said:

:D

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Alamo Plaza must be a chain. There's been one here in Beaumont at 1930 College Street for many years. It looks like the one in this picture. Naturally it's run down. I'm surprised that it's still open.
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Posted Wednesday, April 4, 2007 at 12:03 AM

View PostTheNiche, on Thursday, July 13th, 2006 @ 8:26pm, said:

FYI, its not going anywhere. It'll be serving a niche market in its existing form. :ph34r:

Sorry, folks, but I can't reveal my source.


Speeding by the Alamo Plaza the last couple of days, I've caught glimpses of a Public Notice sign in front of the Motel.

Something about it being a proposed multifamily residential facility. I assume the motel is being transformed into an apartment complex?

I think that's very cool...especially if we could get some UH/TSU students in there. ;)
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Posted Wednesday, April 4, 2007 at 6:39 AM

View PostOriginal Timmy Chan, on Wednesday, April 4th, 2007 @ 12:03am, said:

Something about it being a proposed multifamily residential facility. I assume the motel is being transformed into an apartment complex?

I think that's very cool...especially if we could get some UH/TSU students in there. ;)

the units don't look large enough...sounds like it may be torn down then and some new units built.
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Posted Wednesday, April 4, 2007 at 9:30 AM

True story about this hotel. My Mom's cousin was married to a missionary. They came in to town and brought their daughter. They stayed at the Alamo Court Hotel. My cousin's daughter was 5 years younger than me, and at least 50 pounds heavier. We were swimming and, without warning (or provocation), she jumped on my back. Right at that moment, I stepped off into the deep end. She was having fun, because I was jumping up and down, trying to throw her off like a horse - then it got bad. I couldn't breathe. So I took both hands and ran my nails down her legs. THAT WORKED! She was mad - but I was alive. Last time I ever went there!!!!
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Posted Wednesday, April 4, 2007 at 10:52 AM

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True story about this hotel. My Mom's cousin was married to a missionary. They came in to town and brought their daughter. They stayed at the Alamo Court Hotel. My cousin's daughter was 5 years younger than me, and at least 50 pounds heavier. We were swimming and, without warning (or provocation), she jumped on my back. Right at that moment, I stepped off into the deep end. She was having fun, because I was jumping up and down, trying to throw her off like a horse - then it got bad. I couldn't breathe. So I took both hands and ran my nails down her legs. THAT WORKED! She was mad - but I was alive. Last time I ever went there!!!!



I understand what you mean. It takes only one bad experience to happen at a place to make you not want to go back to (or to even see) it ever again.
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Posted Saturday, June 30, 2007 at 4:35 PM

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Posted Saturday, June 30, 2007 at 5:00 PM

I can't read the sign. So, what does this mean? It's going to be torn down, or rehabed?
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Posted Saturday, June 30, 2007 at 5:08 PM

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I can't read the sign. So, what does this mean? It's going to be torn down, or rehabed?

dozed most likely.
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Posted Saturday, June 30, 2007 at 8:16 PM

View Postjohnfinley, on Saturday, June 30th, 2007 @ 5:00pm, said:

I can't read the sign. So, what does this mean? It's going to be torn down, or rehabed?


What it says is that Andalusia Homes LP has made application to build a 102 unit apartment complex on that site to be called the Andalusia Apartments.

Looks like another Houston landmark will so be just a memory (and a photograph)


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Posted Sunday, July 1, 2007 at 3:37 PM

I'll be sorry to see this one go. It was one of the few remaining old motels on OST, and definitely the one with the most character.
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Posted Saturday, July 7, 2007 at 9:51 AM

The site will be a mix of apartments with a shopping strip in front. There is also for sale a Large piece of property occupied by a stand along ATM buiding , directly across the corner from the Alamo.
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Posted Tuesday, August 21, 2007 at 7:54 PM

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The Alamo Plaza Motel in Baton Rouge is still there, got some pics of it a while back. Same sort of clientele. Folks trying to hit you up for cigarettes, etc. But the place is in pretty good shape.

Houston I've noticed has a lot of cool old motels. There's the Admiral across from Spanish Flowers on Main, with garages on the ground floor and the rooms above. It's intact and well maintained. Well worth a look when you're in the neighborhood.


There is also an Alamo Plaza still intact in Atlanta. http://www.atlantatimemachine.com/commerci...stewart2370.htm
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Posted Monday, April 14, 2008 at 3:01 PM

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Has anyone ever seen this motel? It might be long gone:

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Posted Monday, April 14, 2008 at 3:48 PM

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Has anyone ever seen this motel? It might be long gone:


I think i have driven by it somewhat recently.

Yeah - still around:
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Posted Monday, April 14, 2008 at 4:18 PM

It was still there a month ago, more or less.
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  Posted Sunday, August 24, 2008 at 6:05 PM

Hi everyone! My husband and I drove by the Alamo Plaza Motor Hotel around 9 p.m. Saturday night (Aug. 23) and even though it was fairly dark, it looks like that 'developer' sign regarding a future multi-family residential project was gone and in its place was a sign with weekly rates posted for 'efficiency apartments.' It was too dark for me to read the rates. We drove through the circular drive and it hit me then that the big developer sign is gone. Thought you might want to know. :rolleyes:
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Posted Monday, August 25, 2008 at 10:19 AM

View PostTheNiche, on Thursday, July 13th, 2006 @ 9:26pm, said:

FYI, its not going anywhere. It'll be serving a niche market in its existing form. :ph34r:

Sorry, folks, but I can't reveal my source.



Here's the Alamo Plaza in Beaumont on College Street. It's been many years since I've been down there, so I don't know for certain if it still exists or not


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Posted Thursday, July 22, 2010 at 10:41 AM

The Alamo Plaza in Dallas is coming down after this weekend:

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Posted Thursday, July 22, 2010 at 11:26 AM

That's too bad - it'll have a farewell (of sorts), though.. Thanks for posting the picture of it.

I took a quick phone photo back in April of the OST Alamo Plaza...nothing much to report except that someone was on site working on one of the buildings..

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