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    This will not be a co-cathedral. Look for Galveston's St. Mary's Cathedral to be de-certified when this building is completed and this new Sacred Heart (If that's what it's finally named) to be the only cathedral for the diocese. Look also for a name change in the diocese, with "Galveston" being scrubbed from the title.
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    TXDOT should move to complete State Highway 35 from UofH to Angleton first. The by-pass around Alvin has been in place since the 60's. 288 can wait.
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    Dudes, Dudes y'all play nice with each other. I would think with the new catholic cathedral (which even us Galveston catholics are paying for), and with Sacred Heart purchasing the old federal reserve building, that religious activity might be picking up in the area. The bus stations are pretty nasty though.
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    I dated a girl who worked and lived at the Plaza Hotel back in the late 70's. She operated the switchboard at night. It was the original headset type with the master panel and plug in wires. (right out of a 30's movie set). I would sometimes wait in the Chaucer Room and have drinks until she got off duty. That was another step into the past. She lived with an older lady resident who needed someone to drive her around and keep her company. This girl, by the way, had great set on her. She was real popular.
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    Do any of you remember Sonny Looks Steak House? There was one on S. Main near the S. Loop and one on Westheimer in the Briargrove shopping center. I remember on weekends they hired a guy to dress in an armored knights suit and sit on a white horse. I thought that had to be the coolest job to have.
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    That's right. It's the Metro transit center now. That looks like Firestation #33 at the bottom of the picture on Fannin. It's still standing right now, but probably not for long.
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    If you want real snotty, check out Kinkaid.
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    My father installed the plumbing in that building. He told me that the upper floors were planned for a later date, and that the structure and MEP elements were built in place for this future expansion. For instance, 15" storm drain piping was installed underground to accomodate the higher floors. He also told me a story about the dirt work equipment operators getting flat tires continuously while preparing the site for construction. It seems that this was the previous location of the "End of Main Ice House", a pre-war hang out for beer drinkers. Bottles were through over the fence for years and became a part of the landscape. These poor operators were plauged with flat tires throughout the project. My father just grinned, knowing that his contribution to the bottle heap was partly to blame.
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    That's really sad. I remember family shopping at Kaplans. All of my clothes came from the men & boys dept. Yes, I was dressed as a nerd. I remember Abe Goldstein fitting me in shirts and pants all the way up to when I got married. My wife did not understand my fascination for the place so we eventually stopped shopping there. My grandmother was one of their oldest customers. In fact Herman Kaplan attended her funeral. Another Houston institution fades away...............
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    Go ask the operators of the current Houston Country Club in Tanglewood. Maybe they have some memorabilia or a historian?
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    Are you talking about the estate on Wayside were the Fiesta store is now? Across from Gus Wortham golf course? I went there a couple of times in high school. Got chased off by some gang on my last visit (1971). It was a pretty scary place. If you look closely at the entrance to the Fiesta parking lot on Wayside, you can still see some of those palm trees and other landscaping features that were saved from the original estate.
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    You're right, it just seemed that way unless it rained.
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    Heah Montrose1100, you forgot to include that Texas Comerce Tower was originally concieved and named El Paso Tower up until groundbreaking when El Paso backed out as the prime tenant.
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    JCPenny was there in 1960, but not anchoring the end like you remember. It was at west end of plaza facing Beechnut, in a much smaller lease space. The big achor store was built later when the mall was enclosed and air conditioned.
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    There is also a short portion of Old Main St. at the extreme NE corner of the Reliant Center property. It was apparently used as a service entrance because the gates are still there. You have to be heading south on Greenbriar to turn onto this street. It aslo serves as an entrance to a small office building.
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    Originally there was a Woolco in the mall, were Eibands was. The Woolco only lasted a few years. I remember a freind of mine was a car mechanic there in the late 70's. I guess Eibands moved in around 1983 or so.
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    Heah TexasHome.....don't forget that League City allowed that Victory Lakes subdivision to go in on top of the existing Pecan Orchard subdivision.
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    You hit it on corrrectly. It was the Holmes Rd dump. There was an incenerator at that site that realy stant bad. I remember the first years AstroWorld was open it would be horrible when the wind was blowing out of the south. Nobody, except the very poor were willing to put up with that smell.
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    808 Prairie is now the Houston Chronicle printing building. The Weingartens building was torn down in the early 60's to make room for this expansion. Then The Chronicle connnected all the buildings facing Texas Ave and remodeled them creating the "one building" look it now has. Some where stuck in the middle of these buildings was a movie theatre. The upper office floors meander around the top of this building mostly unnoticed by the current employees.
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    I remember my older brothers talking about it after it happened, but then I was only about 5 years old at the time. We lived too far north of the scene to go snooping around.
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    Me too! (1955)
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    My whole family went to the Worlds Fair in 1968. I was age 13 at the time. HemisFair was a big effort econimically for San Antonio back then and all of the building trades in the state participated, especially the union trades in Houston. We had relatives in San Antonio that were also union members so it was a big family gathering for us. All the older guys (dads and uncles) hung out at the Lone Star or Pearl Brewery exhibits for almost the whole event. Us kids thus new were to find them when we needed more money for ride tickets. The "La Quinta Motor Hotel" started out as a new venture in San Antonio that year. Also, very embarrassing to the plumbing industry, a "cross connection" contaminated drinking water at the Hotel Palacio del Rio and caused several to get sick and some deaths. I will look for photo graphs of the trip. I'm sure someone in the family was sober enough to take pictures.
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