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  1. mollusk
    Nope, always a Kroger. Its partially exposed aggregate tilt wall and cube street sign are dead giveaways - check out the resemblance to the Fiesta on Cavalcade for instance. OTOH, Cougar Kroger on West Gray was a Safegarten's.
  2. mollusk
    Between how dim it is and only going part way across for no apparent reason, it looks like the controller is broken or something - kinda like the way 700 Louisiana looks when the roof lights are burnt out or pointing the wrong way (both of which occur). 🐿️🐿️🐿️🐿️
  3. mollusk
    They're young, and need to get off our lawns.
  4. mollusk
    I miss Jolly Science... and Freaky Foods, and...
  5. mollusk
    Looks like someone pointed out to Channel 13 that Disco Kroger had been there for a lot longer than the 17 years mentioned in the original quote... they updated their story. I feel sorry for whoever came up with that original time line - they missed out on so much of the discolicious fabulosity that preceded the remodeling.
  6. mollusk
    It was last week.
  7. mollusk
    Those who've been around the Heights long enough to remember the old 11th St. Cafe's ummm... "natural fauna" issues wouldn't use that name on a newly built out space.
  8. mollusk
    Having a grocery store within walking distance is dandy, but not necessarily something to be "enjoyed" on a daily basis as a park like environment would be.
  9. mollusk
    But the view... Seriously, it never ceases to amaze me how owners will often agressively cheese out on things during the design and VE stages (like the fabulous views from the parking garage here) but not give a flying flip at a rolling doughnut about long term maintenance costs.
  10. mollusk
    Our fair city doesn't really build sidewalks or even maintain them; instead, that job gets handed to the developers and property owners to accomplish. Yes, it's public right of way, but even when the city did it way back when they would come back and impose a paving lien on the adjacent property owners. Also, construction on this scale would really trash the sidewalks.
  11. mollusk
    (***cue Sarah McLaughlin***) And what will become of those poor surface parking lots? No one seems to want them...
  12. mollusk
    What could possibly go wrong??
  13. mollusk
    Not to mention no more skinny dippin' in the "oh hell naw" pool...
  14. mollusk
    Glad I read the linked story, since my initial reaction was to envision massive goat carnage on Memorial Drive. Guess I'm just too accustomed to things being poorly thought out (if thought out at all). And Rent-A-Ruminant is a great name.
  15. mollusk
    Perhaps we really do have commies under the bed
  16. mollusk
    Today's vocabulary word: Defenestration.
  17. mollusk
    Other than different signs and different cars in the lot it looked pretty much the same 25 years later.
  18. mollusk
    I haven't found any pictures either. This could be explained by it being a totally undistinguished building that I came to know all too well by having to take my first new car - a real POS - in for warranty work quite frequently. Ahh, 1978 GM design, material, and build quality... haven't bought a GM product since.
  19. mollusk
    Before this it was a Chevy dealership.
  20. mollusk
    As with many of the State of Texas responses to the pandemic, the actual effects of the orders and proclamations are less than clear, less helpful than they sound, and contain a bit of a Catch-22. While the registration requirement is abated for the time being, it does not appear that the inspection requirement was likewise abated. Registration stations have been open throughout this whole ordeal. Once your vehicle is inspected, you can renew registration online. With the paranoia ingrained from growing up adjacent to the Villages (and the VoPos) followed by the Ps moving to Jersey Village, and coming of driving age as a long haired hippie type freak during the Herman Short / Harry Caldwell / prisoners in the bayou / throw down guns era, and knowing that the status of your registration, insurance, and inspection are all now tidily stored in a DPS database that any beat cop can access at any time the mood strikes them, IMHO the prudent thing is to go ahead with the renewals if you're going anywhere that the cops are often looking for a reason to pull people over. Same thing applies if you have personal characteristics and / or a vehicle that make you more vulnerable to being stopped for "investigation" of the possibility of suspicion of suspicious activity (i.e., a pretext stop).
  21. mollusk
    Sainted MayorBob (Lanier), suburban developer and previously a highway department commissioner, successfully used the "toy" argument when running for his first term. The claim was that monorail is Disneyland technology. Somehow, the counter argument that Disney's business model includes efficiently moving large numbers of people around in order to make a buck was never really raised.
  22. mollusk
    Rather than crossing myself, kissing St. Chris, taking a deep breath, and diving into the Studewood Death Race, my recommendation is to continue down White Oak and pick up the trail to downtown either from Michaux or directly off of White Oak a couple more blocks further on down.
  23. mollusk
    Particularly considering that half the drivers around here have absolutely no clue about what to do on a roundabout, and the other half consider the idjits to be good targets to play chicken with.
  24. mollusk
    Likely a bit of both.
  25. mollusk
    No worries, Mont - it is a McMansion, which is what you get when you've got a committee of people who've worked hard to live in McMansions driving the design decisions. I was just picking out the design detail that grates my cheese even from a distance, and which could most easily go away (if you want to call something that gargantuan a "detail").
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