PapillionWyngs

I loved the Velvet Turtle! They had wonderful food, and the best chocolate mousse in Houston.

That's the 31,000+ square foot one. I meant the larger one- someone said it was 60,000 square feet.

Is the 60,000 foot one for sale? Is in on HAR?

Shotgun mansions?

And do you remember the bowling alley, pool hall and games up neart the top? Nobody seems to remember them but me.

Yes, indeed it WAS a hangout for Milby High School Students - I was one!!! Class of 1973!

Why don't they just practice in the Astrodome? That would have been better in the first place.

As far as I know, they were all on S. MacGregor Way. I remember them being pointed out to me, and they were not that far apart from each other.

What is that big black thing in the picture above my post?

I know that there was talk of drones being flown out of Ellington - but that's a different subject, I guess. I guess I would be talking about government drones.

So sad. It was a beautiful hotel in its time. When are we just going to "remodel" exisiting structures and quite tearing down beautiful buildings. It made me sick to watch that. The outside of the hotel looked like a brand new hotel. What a shame.

Are you SERIOUS?????

HCAD has it valued around 1.7. million. Apparently it is an estate of someone who passed away, and the trustee is paying the taxes - $14,000+ to Harris County alone!HCAD has it valued around 1.7. million. Apparently it is an estate of someone who passed away, and the trustee is paying the taxes - $14,000+ to Harris County alone!

It's out. Contained to one floor. Sprinkler system credited.

I remember that restaurant. I was 15, my first boyfriend, the Preacher's son, took me there. That's where I had my first drink, and some really good seafood with some type of tomato concotion on it. That 's it!!!!!!!!!!

We have two bowling alleys, a roller rink and a skating rink in Clear Lake.

Somebody else needs to answer this question for you. Let me put it this way - my husband loves original mexican food, and he always got Carne Asada. Never ate it all, but I got 50% off for working for the company.

Yep, Monterey's Little Mexico.

Anyone list The Velvet Turtle? Everything was to die for from the gazpacho to the chocolate mousse. It was on the Southwest Freeway before you got to that hotel that I can't remember the name of and it had a swinging disco in the 70-80's. Big old English looking Place.

Then he came back around March-April, and they started laying off people. I was the third.

I lived through that. We had three families that were our best friends, and they all lived on Laurel Drive. The widower HAD to live in a home designed by a famous architect, because in the middle of the house was a glass room. It wasn't an atrium, just a round room, made of clear glass. It had a "conversation pit" and a bar in it - and it was my favorite room (not for the bar, because I was in elementary school. The man who owned it was George Gartner - and he owned an equipment company. I wonder if it is still there today? The one that I LOVED next door, another family friend, was demolished and McMansioned. We would go visit them, and they had the signs in their yards, and so did their neighbors. I remember we were at Dr. Oliver's house, and someone knocked on the door and asked him if he wanted to sell his home for twice the market value. He said no. They said, "it's because I'm black, and he said "no - I love this house, I raised my children in this house, and I plan on living here another 20 years, then moving to Conroe. He did. A lot of the signs were just to keep people from constantly bothering the owners who didn't want to sell - not because the buyers were black - he stayed there after the "block was busted" - that's what they called it - and I asked them was it the street that was broken, or what - I didn't see anything but new neighbors. But these people loved it there, and wanted to stay. A lot of them weren't racist, and they stayed. Some were. But it was the most beautiful area I have ever seen - excluding part of River Oaks (the part near the CC).

Well, it was on the top floor - partially hidden, and VERY tastefully appointed. There were backgammon boards, a bar, etc. My college friends and I would go there before and after Annabell's or the Galleria Roof. No kidding, my college boyfriend's family had a chauffer and he would take us anytime we wanted to go to the Galleria (about 8 blocks from BF's house). He got a kick out of making heads turn and making people wonder who these 18-20 somethings were. I mentioned this bowling alley on here AGES ago - and no one said a peep!!!!!! Glad someone remembered.

I loved that mall. Worked in National Shirt Shop in the summer of 1970, then Graham's Men and Boys from Christmas of 1970 every summer and holiday until about 1976 - whenever it closed. I remember one whole day at the mall - I think I was all of 13, my Mom dropped me and my best friend off when it opened. We had lunch at either Woolworth's or Joske's, and I bought my first pair of penny loafer's at Baker's. They gave me the shiney pennies to put in them. I felt like I was a grown up. Then we walked across the bridge to see a movie - don't remember which one. Then we came back and went to Newberry's for makeup - even though I wasn't supposed to wear any until I turned 15!

It was a beautiful neighborhood, and I hated seeing those signs. Some of my family's best friends lived there - we were there 2-3 times a week in the 50's and 60's. One couple moved to Ft. Worth, one to Conroe, and the other widower passed away - the stress of the racial tension in the neighborhood at the time.

Houses in that area are going for that much? Good Grief!