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What did they do with the beautiful tiles and cool fountains? All the mounted patrols watered their horses there.

Covenant House is a joke and should be closed down since it is being used as a juvie jail and only promotes prostitution and drugs in the neighborhood.

Call it what it looks like. Armadillo Humping Buffalo (Bayou).

Yes, why would this be a bad place to live? We need details.

Frankly I don't think the problem is politicians with financial instruments as much as the contingent that views preservation as being equivalent to communism.

And yes, I think Weingarten would demolish it out of spite, although here the big problem is that old movie theaters are notoriously difficult to redevelop into other uses.

It wouldn't be that difficult to redevelop a former theatre into a new theatre, the problem is that all the politicians in Houston are also "developers" and only think in terms of tearing down the old and rebuilding with an inferior product in order to gain a hefty profit for themselves.

I know it's only a rendering, but ditch the palms and get some of those high tech, digitally remastered live oaks the Chron was talking about a couple of days ago.

Tommy Lasorda ( our season tickets were directly behind the visitors dugout) became so upset by my heckling he sent the cops to tell me to tone it down or I'd be thrown out.

Please, that's not nearly as bad as the construction at Woodhead and Westheimer. Now that's suburban.

The 18 tennis courts have been replaced by the most atrocious, obscene, cluttered eyesore that you can possibly imagine. To make matters worse, there is a new megahighrise being built across the street.

Game, set, match.

Kirby is starting to give me claustraphobia. I try to avoid it, and I think other people are too, as Shepherd seems more clogged every day.

The flood happened in 1935.

Sears Building History

Thanks for the link.

This was a large, full-service retail store, maybe the first outside of the CBD. It only became a warehouse after the flood.

There is just such a callous attitude here and that, more than anything, has me negative about Houston at times. We lack a good balance between historic and new. One of the reasons I like city living is the get the feeling of history and it's that same feeling that makes suburban living so unappealing. Plain buildings become something else when they survive the decades. Even plain buildings become special to a degree when they survive a long time, and this one wasn't plain, it started out special.

Anyway, we've talked this point into the ground but hopefully the so-called urban renaissance and all of those who are responsible for it are also sensitive to these things and so the ordinances will eventually change as the city's people continue to.

Please, the Robinson Public Warehouse has been a warehouse since at least 1950, so what flood are you talking about?

Actually, I found the storage warehouse to be more appealing. And I won't find the call to prayers to be any more enjoyable than the ringing of Christian bells.

All those Weingarten projects are atrocious. Do they let their children design them?

So yall hate it. But if it is close to your house and you like the stores, will yall still go to it or boycott it?

I have already stopped shopping anywhere in the center and I live about 1/2 mile away. That includes Kroger and Sur la Table not getting my money. The Weingartens are dead to me.

This dates me, but I saw the first Star Wars in first release at one of the Galleria theatres.

I'm sorry, but considering the suffering and death those poor sea creatures endured, I have no fond memories of this place. Anyone remember the beluga whales imported in the late 1980s that died about 2 months later? This place was a joke and deserves to be gone.

Plus, I think the same architect who designed Sea-Arama must have designed my high school, Westchester. Same stupid arches.

My two cents. Saw the Beatles at the Coliseum in 1965, the matinee of course, as I was only 12 at the time. Then later in the '60s, saw Nureyev at the Music Hall. Powerfull, but I think he couldn't figure out how he ended up in Texas. Neither could the Beatles.

Ora Street was closed after one of the businesses close to the road bought the land. It is now private. there used to be an old wodden home on the road on the right side and befroe the land was sold the house was in terrible condition it was torn down.

I'm no expert, but Fournace came first. At least it was there when I was a child in th '50s.

Maybe I'm just crazy, but from my childhood in the 1950s, it seems that what is now called West Mount Houston, was designated as W. Mont. Houston. As in West Montgomery-Houston Road, because that road led from Houston to West Montgomery County. Can anyone clue me in on this?

Technically, Robertson Stadium was completed in 1941. It may have been a WPA inspired building, but I don't think it was actually built by the WPA.

No, as long a someone will pay the price, Richmond at Weslayan is definitely within that price frame.

Homeowners in this area, and I am one, bought realizing this area wasn't going to sustain single family homes forever. We bought 20 years ago hoping our investment would increase as the area became more ameniable to multi-family homes and apartments and eventually mass transit. This is probably the only affordable area close to downtown and on the west side.

P.S. I also live on my property.

I vote for Near Oaks Square.

Well, sonofa...got home today to see an "Allen Black Custom Homes" sign in front of the buildings they're taking away...sure hope ol' Allen Black has ventured off into building schools

There's an Ironwood Custom Homes sign in front of the place they torn down in that video. Anyone know if either of these guys tend toward single family or townhouses??

That's my neighborhood and I can't believe the school would let go of that property. Wow, I'll have to drive by on my way home tonight.

I'd prefer Bass Hall on the Bayou.