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  1. The Original New Orleans Poboy on Main is now gone...being dismantled as we speak. Boy they sure had good pancakes. :::sigh:::
  2. Now that we're on the subject of eating establishment, I've started remember cafeterias.<<northbeaumont Anyone remember Albrittons? They had a few locations around town. My roomate tells me she used to go to the one on Stella Link as a kid and they had a lady playing an organ or piano or something there plus a kind of conveyor belt that brought some things around to you. Anyone ever hear of that? This would be back in the early to mid 60's I think.
  3. I looked there once for a two bedroom, two bath. They originally didnt' have floor plans like that, so they knocked out walls between 1/1 and efficiencies. It was very odd, because then the larger apartment had two entrances in front and a back door in each of the bedrooms that let out into the parking lot.<<danes75 Reminds me of my favorite Houston apartment back in the apartment days. It was in that huge old complex that used to be where the Kroger center is now at the corner of Westpark /Buffalo Speedway/Edloe. I had an efficiency there that had an honest to God Murphy bed and a little bitty kitchen with these porcelain covered fixtures all built in including an icebox. Very 40's. It had a back door with a little porch and there were lots of trees and green lawn. It was fantastic and I almost cried when they tore it all down some years later.
  4. I prefer Harry's on Tuam - smaller portions, more modest prices, good food, better people watching.<<brucesw I love Harry's and have eaten there since the early 80's although not as much now since I moved to Katy. I really liked their old building with the squeeky floors and somewhat seedy appearance. The new building is nice, just not the same ambiance in my opinion. The food is still excellent though.
  5. Oops! Thanks for the clarification, 2fatcats. I was afraid I might have mixed up the two to some extent, as the background information I found didn't always make the distinction between father and son. <<'tmariar' No problem. And yes you're right, the articles were kind of vague. I really hate that even though a house is put on the list of historic places and other registries that it still can't be saved from the wrecking ball. I really do think those laws should be amended. Maybe someone will step up to the plate yet and find a use for the house and the funding to pursue it.
  6. I think he was the one that used to keep silver dollars in racks at his house. <<'nm5k' That would be Jim West Jr, not to be confused with Jim West Sr. who actually built the house. Sr. died in the 1940's and his wife Jessie in the 1950's. In his will he stipulated that the house was not to be used as a private residence again. I hope they can save the house, it's very cool.
  7. Some of these gorgeous homes were barely 15-20 years old when they were victims of the wrecking ball. The worse thing is some were removed to be replaced with car dealers or parking lots. Most aggravating was that the mindset was "well they are already out of fashion so lets go modern". Aaaaauuurrrrgghhh!<<Vertigo58 A good case in point was the estate called the Oaks in the 23-2400 block of Baldwin@Bagby. Do you all recall several years ago that area was a park-like area, undeveloped and covered with those nice old oak trees? The Oaks mansion had been missing since the 1950's but the property was sold in the late 80s (I might be a little fuzzy on the date), and all those ugly apartments sit there now. They pulled up all the oak trees, about 60 or so of them, piled them up and hauled them off, leaving only a few around the perimeter. There was a public outcry about it as I recall, but not enough to make a difference. To add insult to injury, there was a small brick cottage that stood on the corner of Baldwin which had been built in 1909 as a temporary residence until the Oaks main house was completed, and had manged to outlive the mansion and the wrecking ball until the apartments came along. I had been going by there wondering about the house and then one day it was nothing but a pile of bricks where they had bulldozed it. I thought it was a damn shame.
  8. Notsuoh (Houston spelled backwards) in the early 1900's. You can find this photo at <<enviromain I read about this in a couple of books I have. It was a big festival held every year complete with parade and they elected a King Nottoc (Cotton) and Queen with court. Kind of a Mardi Gras sort of atmosphere.
  9. The high rise scenes were filmed at 2016 Main, you can see the Houston House in the background. As for the uptown nightclub, it was Elan back then, on St. James near Yorktown. It is now a restaurant called The Courtyard. My family used to be in the dry cleaning business here in town, during the filming some of the crew rented a house in Tanglewood and brought some clothes in to be done, I'm not sure if any wardrobe items were done, but the crew was driving around in the beat-up Mustang Debra Winger used in the film.<<Bmil128 You are exactly right. You can see the Houston House in the Background so it was definitely 2016 Main. I remember Elan on St. James, it was one of the hot places to go in the late 70's. The movie was previewed at the GayLynn Theater at Sharpstown and I heard that they resurfaced the entry with some kind of glitter infused concrete to make it sparkle for the local premier. Most of the movie was filmed in Pasadena and that trailer Wes lived in was out in Gilly's parking lot for quite a while. I recall seeing it at least a few years after the movie had been released.
  10. When I was young, we parked at the GYM and went to Twins. If it was boring we went to Bacchus. Saw more people there than I needed to see. How funny now, when I think about it. The Twins building is totally gone now. Bacchus was kind of small. Remember across the street from twins was the Midnight Sun and then there was also the Officer's Club in that big school building where I think the Farmhouse was. It was also a country/western club a while too (cant recall the name). There was a place on Westheimer called Club LaAmour that had a lighted dancefloor, the Galleon on Richmond that had the ten cent beer busts. (late 70s) I mostly frequented the women's bars which changed like night and day too. There was Just Marion and Lynns, Our Place over on Richmond across the street from the Texas Opry House, Kindred Spirits orginial location on Buffalo Speedway and one of the oldest bars in town was the Lampost on Times in the Village. But I also had some good times at the Venture In, Marys and down Galveston way there was Kon Tiki and Lafittes that were always good for an afternoon. What was the name of that big disco that used to be where the Admiral Linen Factory is now, right off Alabama/Shepherd? I was in there one night when they actually raided the place. Sorry, got a little off topic on the Montrose thing, but just started remembering all those places I hadn't thought about in years.
  11. are any of the Los Tios restraunts still around? I used to work as a busboy at the one off Fondren & Bissonnet back in '75 Yes there are a few still around. However they were sold to another company a few years ago. So far, the consistency of the food hasn't changed and they still make a pretty good enchilada. The place was operated for many years by the Garbett family, in particular Rosemary Garbett who's picture hung in the lobbys of the restaurants. She was quite a character. Way back in the late seventies when I first moved here, I worked at a Kwik Kopy on Fondren and she would come in to get printing done, always driving up in this yellow Eldorado with the blonde hair flying. She was all business too I might add. At the same place, Ernie Creizis (sp?) used to come with his wife to get office supplies and they would come in their white rolls, park in front and take up two parking spaces. Funny the things you remember. It always amazed me that these obviously sucessful folks would do their own shopping for such menial things.
  12. Sounds kind of funny to be calling a 1974 building historic but I suppose it was one of the first residential highrises in Houston. There is also the 2016 Main building which was built in the mid 60s I believe. It's gotten a little worn, but they still try to keep it up. That building is on the site where a large mansion used to stand owned by the Levy family who founded the Levy Brothers Department Store. The brothers and their sister lived in the house for many years and I don't believe any of them ever married. When the house was torn down finally, the 2016 main highrise was built and it's my understanding the Levy sister lived there for a time before her death. Levy Bros. Dry Goods Co.
  13. I really LOVED that drive-thru sushi place at the corner of Sage/Richmond Ave back in 1998-99 or such. (It's what Coffee Guy used to occupy later.) That place started out as a Flyers, a kind of Hamburger place back in the 80s. Then it was empty a while, Then the Sushi place, then Coffee Guy and now its a Smoothie King. Some place I have some pics of it right after it first opened. There were two or three of them around I think. There is another one left further down Richmond before Gessner in a parking lot. I always liked the original design of the buildings but now they have been chopped up and don't look like they used to.
  14. [Never ate there, but if nothing else they should have saved the giant shrimp with six-shooters! You can still see one of those shrimps in Richmond, Texas. Just before you cross the bridge going toward Houston there is one sitting off to the side in a parking lot of an abandoned restaurant. I keep meaning to take a picture of it before it's gone.
  15. the leasing agent for the park towers is steve bryant of moody rambin interests. i've emailed him to see if he has additional information on the property. i will post his response when/if received. good luck with your research. Thanks to all of you who kindly replied. I will keep searching and eventually something will turn up.
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