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Just in case anyone cares....I was at the Taco Cabana in front of Walmart (I had a coupon) and some Walmart employees walked in. I asked them when it was opening and they told me October 26th.

Ferrell's Ice Cream

So does anyone have any idea when this project will be completed and who the tenants will be?

I thought it was the best concert venue ever in Houston. Two long bars on each side, a dance/standing room area in front and a raised area behind with tables. Saw the Ramones, Go Go's, Iggy, Sir Douglas Quintet, Joe King Carrasco, 999, Judys, Talking Heads, B-52's, Romantics,Steve Forbert, Joan Jett, Pat Benatar, Rockpile, and a bunch of others. Loved it and was sorry to see it go.

Wonder what happened to the Maggie Rita's and Bullritos that were supposed to open on Shepherd. No great loss with Maggie Rita's however.

Cooters was located at the end of the Windsor Plaza strip mall just west of the late, great Agora Ballroom. Though it wasn't my cup of tea, it definitely wasn't sleazy. Sleazy would be the old topless club just east of the Agora Ballroom.

There's a group called "Pup Squad" that is right across the way from Yao's restaurant that is doing really good work trying to find homes for shelter dogs. Please check them out if you are in the hunt for some awesome four legged companionship.

The Randall's is in the general area of the old Sakowitz ...maybe a little further east. Remember there was also a strip center right along Memorial just east of West Belt where there was originally a Budget Tapes and Records which later became Evolution Tapes and Records. This was a little east of where Panjos Pizza used to be. Come to think of it, I think where Sakwitz used to be it's now a parking lot. Also remember Alfred's Deli and a Demeris barbeque somewhere in there. The Randall's is in the general area of the old Sakowitz ...maybe a little further east. Remember there was also a strip center right along Memorial just east of West Belt where there was originally a Budget Tapes and Records which later became Evolution Tapes and Records. This was a little east of where Panjos Pizza used to be. Come to think of it, I think where Sakwitz used to be it's now a parking lot. Also remember Alfred's Deli and a Demeris barbeque somewhere in there.

Long time lurker, first time poster. I feel I had to reply to the original poster to set the record straight. My family moved to Houston in 1972 while I was in high school and we lived right off what was then called West Belt and Memorial so I was quite familiar with the Town and Country area. When we moved here, there was a Joskes that was connected to a small outdoor mall type area on the north side of Joskes. Palais Royal was in another parking lot in a completely different building south of Joskes and further south, bordering on Memorial there was Sakowitz which also had an attached outdoor mall type area at the north entrance. All I remember being there was a restaurant called the Refectory. There was a Minimax grocery store just north of the Sakowitz area with a James Coney Island and a drugstore to the north of that. Where the post office now stands there was a large building called the Farmers Market where around 1973, a large part of it was converted to the Ice Haus skating rink where the old WHA Houston Aeros used to practice on occassion. I believe just south of that was a Pier One type store. The Town and Country Mall did not open until the early eighties where the anchors were Joskes (might of been Dillards by then), JC Penneys, Marshall Fields (wish they'd come back to Houston) and Neiman Marcus. In 1972 the Sheraton had just opened on the corner of the Katy Frwy and West Belt. Just a bit further south were the Town and Country 6(?) theater and next to it was a Lowe's Theater. I will post more if I remember.