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KennethColeSRG

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  1. Tinsley's in Bryan was located at the corner of Texas Avenue and Martin Luther King Street. The building is now a Mexican cafe. This location is across the street from the former Gath's Electrical Supply, which was formerly Gath's Fried Chicken, which before that was the original Bryan Popeye's Chicken. Tinsley's in Bryan closed in the summer of 1996.
  2. Excuse me...this has taken me by surprise....since when did people of Hispanic descent become Caucasian? Last time I checked on the Census questionaire, the options to check were CAUCASIAN, NOT OF HISPANIC DESCENT and then just plain CAUCASIAN. So where did that statement come from? Does that mean that most African-Americans in Houston are Italian or Irish?
  3. Don't believe Federated when they say they will keep regional names. I was in Atlanta when the company purchased the Rich's chain, stores that had a long and storied history in both the city and the Southeast. When the purchase was announced Federated announced that the Rich's stores would all be renamed Rich's-Macy's. The flagship Rich's in Atlanta's Lenox Square (which is a truly wonderfully designed and laid out space) took the double moniker while the mall's original Macy's space, which was considerably smaller and less desirable, was closed and completely renovated, then reopened as a Bloomingdale's. Shortly thereafter, surprise surprise, Federated unceremoniously dropped the Rich's name like a carton of expired milk with no apology.
  4. I have a problem with one of the previous post suggesting turning the Dome into affordable housing would "turn it into the projects", yet the same poster goes onto to suggest a mixed use development feature residential, retail, etc. Are we suggesting that new developments in housing in Houston be only for the well-off? What makes individuals not in the upper classes so undesirable as to which a statement can be made like that? Exaclty what is the author's definition of "the projects"? I guess we should in Houston only aim to provide master-planned communities such with neighborhoods such as those sterling homes and residents in places such as Plano, where kids can feel free to kill themselves with heroin and steriods and run ragged in the streets drunk as skunks and behave like animals? Sounds like a sure enough "project" area to me...a project of shame.
  5. Today's 6:00 o'clock KTRK-TV newscast there was a story about a potential housing crisis in Houston with families waiting on federally-funded HUD homes. According to the report, some 9,000 families are now on a waiting list, and thanks to the current inept politicians in Washington, funding for Houston in the next year is being severly cut. So how about transforming the dome into an innovative housing development for these people?
  6. You know I was just thinking as I was reading this thread that the Dome could be transformed like the Atlantic Steel site in Atlanta, and then I come to the last post and see that someone else was thinking the same thing. The transformation of that site into Atlantic Station is HUGE and the kind of innovative thinking and action that Houston needs to recapture. The whole thing with trying to come up with uses for the Dome that pisses me off is the way our leaders are not daring to thing BIG and BOLD, much like the leaders of the past did when they came up with the idea to build the Dome in the first place.
  7. In fact the second theme from "TEXAS" was used for an extended period in the mid-late 1980's by Citibanks in their national commercials. Another interesting side note...the show was taped not in Texas, but in a mammoth studio in Brooklyn, NY.
  8. "Texas" aired on NBC daytime from August 1980 until December 31, 1982. It was the first daytime serial launched in 60-minute format, and was a spin-off of the then popular "Another World". Beverlee McKinsey is one of the most accomplished, popular, and critically acclaimed actresses ever to grace daytime drama. She had been the privotal villianess Iris Carrington on "Another World" since 1972 and was convinced to take the become the center of the new show, which was an attempt by NBC to cash in on the "Dallas" craze then sweeping the country. To entice the actress into doing the new show, NBC and Proctor & Gamble, the show's owner, gave her the unprecedented perk of the show's title being..."Texas, starring Beverlee McKinsey!". In addition, the brass at NBC hinted that if the show were a hit in daytime, it would be moved to primetime to take on "Dallas".... Unfortunately, the show's debut and first year were a disaster. The writing was horrible and except for Beverlee McKinsey and a few others females, the large contingent of actresses were the worst assembled cast up to that time in daytime tv. In addition, NBC aired the program at 2:00PM CST, directly against "General Hospital", then in the midst of the Luke & Laura phenomenon and commanding unheard of shares of the viewing audience. McKinsey left the sinking ship after one year, and the show was given a new logo, them, and opening..."Texas, the new generation!", which brought about a focus on younger characters. NBC moved the show to the late morning to escape the mammoth "General Hospital", but the network's affiliates began to drop the show just as it developed a loyal fan base with improved writing and production. Faced with dwindling affiliates clearances and a huge production budget, NBC cancelled the show after two years, a cancellation that prompted the largest outpouring of protest up to that time of any cancelled soap opera. This even despite the fact that "Texas" only aired for two years and that NBC also cancelled the 20 year-old soap "The Doctors" on the same day. In late 1983 or so, "Texas" was seen in daily half-hour repeats on Superstation TBS for about a year. In the opening credits that is KPRC, whose outside was used as an establishing shot for the show's tv station, KVIK. The reason the station was called KVIK on the show was because it was owned by a character named VICKY Bellman, and in a satirical plotline at the end of the show's run, the character, despite trying her hardest to turn the station's fortune's around, lost the station to impatient and greedy network executives, the parellels to NBC's cancellation of "Texas" all but spelled out to the audience.
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