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After Globe, I believe it was a Mervyn's, then (after Mervyn's moved across Gessner into the former Lord & Taylor space) it became an Oshman's SuperSports in its final years.

That's right Oshman's. I knew it was a sports and outdoor store.

I was waiting for this thread to mention the west side stores. That was Sage. The Globe in the Memorial area was in the SW corner of Gessner and I-10, just west of Memorial City Mall (where the new hospital/hotel has just been built). It can be seen in historicaerials.com, starting from 1973 on up to 2004. It must have been used as a different store after it quit being Globe in the 1970's, but I can't remember what store took over.

Believe it was an Academy store in the final years of its existence.

I worked at the Globe on Woodridge in 1974 for one summer. The tire store next door was Fisk, had a little boy in pajamas and holding a candle with the slogan "Time to retire.".

The only Globe left after the late 70s was one in McAllen Texas. It was closed about 5 years ago. It made so much money from people coming across the border to shop they kept it open.

I remember Sage because it was the only non grocery store open on Sundays. They would block off sections of items you couldn't buy because of the Blue Laws.

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I do remember going to the Sage on 45 & Monroe once as a kid and seeing the grocery section blocked off. Never did understand that law. I also remember grocery stores and convenient stores also being closed on Sunday

It's great that Central Plaza will get a new lease on life, but I hate that all of these relics that have been inside as well as the interior of the building serving as a kind of time capsule will all end up in a landfill somewhere

I want one of these (not as portable, though!)

 

YES!! I want this building to continue to be part of our city. That's great to hear. I can't wait for the day when you can see light coming from those windows again. Maybe even see that clock on roof light up again.  

I would not have thought that they would still have water pressure serving the building. 

You'd be surprised to know that a lot of the old abandoned buildings downtown still have power too. I just recently learned the old Battlestein's building does and some lights throughout are on all the time.

Is King's Best Market the old Montgomery Wards that everyone is referring to, or something else? I remember going there in the late 90's for stereo equipment, and I can see how that was probably a department store at one time.

That Montgomery Wards was closed by 1985. The building became a flea market not too long after

Wasn't Roy Rogers restaurant kind of popular for a while?

and I wonder if the real actor gave his ok to use his name? I understand you just cant grab a famous name and use it without consent, etc.

I imagine Roy Rogers had a hand in the creation said restaurant and use of the namesake. There's no way they could've ran with his name without his approval.

Railhead was my absolute favorite restaurant as a kid in the 70's. It has been about 20 other places since then. T-Town 2000 was and is the last incarnation there now, with shootings and stabbings nightly.

Is the Look's by the Dome still there, I think the sign is.

Not the same building since 1989

I also remember the San Antone Rose on Voss and the Parlor near Fairview and Mandel maybe? It burned down.

Was the San Antone Rose in anyway connected to the management that later ran Fizz/Hippo/6400 at 6400 Richmond Ave?

Globe's logo was the sun. I think it had a smiling face on it.

I seem to recall seeing that sign one night after hours turned off and it looking kinda freaky

Does anyone have any official word on what is going on at Meyer Park shopping center. Luby's is building a new location as a pad site in front of their current location. The AMC theatre is now a pile of rubble except for the front wall. Employees at Randall's say they are going to be unemployed in 2011 because that store is closing.

I am hearing rumors from the Willow Meadows folks that Wally World is going to build a new Super Center there. Also from Westbury and Meyerland Civic Clubs there is a reponse "we've heard rumors" to the Super Center. I've asked several real estate folks and they are worried about the impact on property values if this rumor is true.

Can anyone find anything official as to what is going on there?

Thanks.

Aww that sucks. I remember when that theater opened around 1986.

I remember going to the grocery store there in the early 80s with my parents (Not sure why we did that a few times because we lived off Belfort and Mykawa). I don't remember it being a Weingarten's though.

I remember the Wilson's at Gulfgate mall that later became Service Merchandise

Globe's logo was the sun. I think it had a smiling face on it.

I'd love to see that old logo. Internet searches turn up nothing

By any chance is the Fiesta on Jensen and 59 an old Gemco. Seems Fiesta took up shop in all those old Gemcos except for the on on Airport and 45.

I remember the FedMart on Mykawa & The South Loop... it wasnt there too long. I almost feel like we shopped there in the days before they closed it down. Taking advantage of the clearance sales. By 1983 it was a Fiesta. Then we shopped at Fiesta for groceries.

It's about time someone brought back the good ole' hi-volume, low-cost meat market. There's a whole new generation of 20 something office types who may now get to experience the joy of $3 wells and hundreds of potential uh, love matches all under the same convenient roof.

ahhh....I can hear the extended club mix of Blue Monday like it was yesterday.

That version of Blue Monday you always hear in the club IS the original version.. all 7 mins and 42 seconds of it. There is no extended club mix. There are but they're horrible. No one plays it

(Full size http://i.minus.com/ilbhOk6Julk8r.JPG )

And, what it used to look like.

Thanks... Wow unbelievable that had been there all these years. The last remaining piece of the Prudential days. Wonder why that was never removed.

Roma's formerly located in Kingwood on W Lake Houston Parkway and Upper Lake Dr. Since closed but omg they had good pizza. They have another location in Huffman on 2100. Their garlic knots are pretty awesome too. By the way dont get side tracked by the other Italian location there Italiano's. Their food is the same because they are family and use the same recipe but those people are just rude and nasty. I wouldn't recommend that place to someone I didn't like... ok maybe I would.

....if you look real hard at the top of the building you can barely make out the image of the Rock of Gibralta.

I'm not seeing that.

Looks like Old Telephone Road had this done to it in the 1960s or 1970s. Part of it was demolished for a drain ditch expansion in the 1990s, the rest has had pavement removed.

Where exactly is this?

I asked that because in that picture it looks like some kind of building is on the other side. If my memories serves me correctly, that movie theatre was built sometime in the late 1960s/1970s. I remember people were amazed that there was a "TWO-SCREEN THEATRE!"

I think this is it. Someone out there can feel free to confirm it or not.

Is this the inside of it?

And here's another old photo showing the back side of the Weingarten's sign. My mom bought her groceries there. And I think that "ABC" was a hobby store which sold model airplanes, cars, etc.

Not sure if this has been answered... That bottom photo is from one of the cinemas that used to be inside the Galleria

Witness 806 Main.

I would love to get inside the Melrose, although you just know it is going to have some sort of strange mid-century funk.

Me too, thats what intrigues me about that building. No telling what relics from the past are inside.

I sit corrected. I hadn't looked at the ABC13 link when I posted that, but it is clearly the same building.

I saw a few movies at the Gaylynn in its later Gaylynn Terrace incarnation. I haven't been to the mall in years, but now I'm tempted to get an in-person look at the old theater building. I'd love to see what it looks like inside now.

Yeah think ill be doing that as well. Im out in south Texas right now but when I come home this weekend. I'm stopping by there.