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  1. marmer
    I seem to remember you saying years ago that that house needed to be put out of its misery.
  2. marmer
    The one we saw last weekend, right? Have you found anything else about it?
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    Google Earth has b/w historical imagery from 1978 and 1989 which is fairly clear; maybe you can find them there.
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    http://dining.rice.edu/RetailContent.aspx?id=138
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    Google Earth historic imagery says the new clubhouse was built between 1995 and 2002. My guess is closer to 2002. I seem to remember it wasn't that long ago.
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    Really? That's Wylie Vale? It's kind of overshadowed by the newer 70's addition. I'll go look again. (I've been way too busy to get down there the past couple of months.) I've been there several times when I was younger for weddings and gigs but not since I started paying attention to architecture.
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    It was there, and old, in the mid-80's. It was renovated pretty thoroughly around 1995. I wouldn't assume it would be anything close to unliveable (even by Montrose standards) in 5 or 10 years.
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    Steak 'n' Shake is listed as "coming soon" on Pearland Town Center's website. All right!
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    Nice. Streetview is unusually good in this location.
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    I remember a few years ago getting a rare tour (on the Galveston Historic Homes Tour) of the Masonic Temple in downtown Galveston. A big part of what goes on is theatrical presentations of important ideas or concepts in Freemasonry. It's kind of an oversimplification to say this but one of the steps for Masons to advance in degrees is by learning and participating in these small plays. The Galveston Temple includes a beautifully kept hemp house from the 20s with lots of sumptuously painted scenic drops.
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    Isn't that the last surviving George Dickey building downtown? The Sweeney, Coombs and Fredericks building. http://www.houstonarchitecture.com/Building/2213/Sweeney-Coombs-and-Fredericks-Building.php
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    While the heraldic and family name information is certainly accurate, my sense is that the Houston apartments were just named by their original developers, probably after family members.
  13. marmer
    Cool. It'll probably be hard to park over there too, just like it currently is. If you have a salesman, perhaps you have an Audi? If so, welcome to the four-ring community.
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    A proscenium is an arch or similar structure surrounding a traditional stage. It hides the curtains and fly loft, if there is one. It can be clearly seen as a grand arch in the 1928 photo. It is associated with opera houses and similar auditoriums and is in contrast to a thrust stage, where the playing area projects out into the audience (like the big Alley Theatre) or an arena theatre, where the audience surrounds a central playing area (like the small Alley Theatre.)
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    There are more photos of the City Auditorium in the Bob Bailey Collection. Bob Bailey Collection The eBay photo is unquestionably the Houston City Auditorium. I admit the 1910 photo on Scotty Moore's web site looks very different. I wonder if the impetus for the remodel was the 1928 Democratic Convention. I know they built a special venue for it but maybe they spruced up the Auditorium for other events. Also, the face of public entertainment was changing fairly drastically between 1910 and 1928 with the increase in movies and the growth of jazz and the decline of vaudeville. However, if you look carefully at the 1910 photo, it looks like the roof is not complete and the building is still under construction. But the column location and the balcony, as well as the floor boxes, are the same. Before 1928 it looks like a projection/control booth was added in the center of the balcony and a major reconstruction of the proscenium and wings occurred -- maybe for an organ, for speakers, or to mask more wing space for live performance (or likely some of all of that)
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    Precisely. Is that an Arcadia book? The other ones are really cool.
  17. marmer
    Interesting. eBay is wrong but that's just a coincidence because there is a Texas City. It's clearly the old Houston City Auditorium.
  18. marmer
    Yes, but only about a third of the buildings. ;-)
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    I started at Rice in 1980 and I remember some of that. I'm pretty sure Sonny Look's at 610 thrived until about 1985, Gaido's was gone by 1982 or so, Kaphan's and Dentler's hung un until the mid-80s also. I remember all the Westheimer places mentioned above. Valian's was gone by 1982 at the latest (pity) and Bill Williams was gone before I got there. Liquor by the drink was legal but the blue law didn't get repealed until 1984 or so, and yes, that was a very BIG DEAL.
  20. marmer
    Makes sense. I worked right after high school at Dow and one of my co-workers had been a volunteer fireman for many years. He was out there on the day and his recollection was similar. He said he always changed the channel whenever she came on after that.
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    Yes. This is all true. I was eleven and living in Lake Jackson at the time. Savitch was arrested by (I think) Sheriff Robert Gladney for getting too close to the plane. Of course she was released shortly afterward.
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    At some point it was subdivided down the middle into two smaller theatres. That meant that all the seats faced the screens at an angle. I remember going there in the late 70's and early 80's.
  23. marmer
    Yep, crawled past there about 9:00 this morning. Poor guy. Condolences to his family and to METRO.
  24. marmer
    Not to be pedantic (who, me, pedantic? ;-) ) but most of the pre-twenty-first century photos are aerials, shot from airplanes, instead of satellites. Google Earth also has historic aerial imagery in some areas, and it is different from that on Historic Aerials.
  25. marmer
    Me too. As to why to leave the Pearland area, it's because there's still not a Steak 'n' Shake. The only ones are at Eldridge and 290 and way out the Katy Freeway. Some of the stores have closed. Brooks Brothers was a fairly high-profile casualty.
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