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I was able to ride into the stadium today.

If they could take down just the upper east it would be awesome. The front of the upper west is already a great place to watch football. Without the east the view of the campus and med center would be awesome. Alas, I don't think it's possible to take it off easily.

Construction cam http://www.riceowls.com/ot/bpspc-construction-cam.html

Nine albums of photos up now.

Construction fence up as of yesterday

Tarp is off the north endzone in preparation. https://twitter.com/Chronicle_Owls/status/563834154865811457/photo/1

First signs of the coming project

The previous plan was to tear out and renovate the south endzone facilities. The plan that is moving forward is to do the building on the north, so it opens on both the field and the practice facility. I don't think there was ever a plan to include a field house/gymnasium. Tudor Fieldhouse had a $23mm makeover in 2007.

Story: http://www.riceowls.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/121814aab.html Pictures: http://www.riceowls.com/view.gal?id=171772

My feeble attempt to cycle to and photograph the fountains inside the loop. A work in progress... https://www.facebook.com/TheHoustonFountainProject

Just got an email today for the Westbury class of 1978 30th reunion. Any classmates out there?

Thank you, gnu.

That's it exactly. And there is an odd shaped building that might be part of the same structure on the right.

On the cover, middle of the top half, there is what appears to be a roller-coaster. From what I can tell, it would be on the south bank of White Oak Bayou. Anyone know anything about this?

Excellent news. I'd not seen that.

The entire area has been leveled. I don't know what they are putting up, but all the trees are gone now. It looks like they are grading roads in the property. Must be another set of overpriced houses right up against each other in a flood plain...

If I remember correctly. The way you got eighteen holes at South Main was to play to each of the nine greens from two different tees each.

The par 3 course between Stella Link and Main, Willowbend was the southern boundary, was called South Main Golf Club. When I moved to Houston in '68 it was not a par three course but had 4's and 5's also. (I lived two houses off Stella Link on hole 2). It went as far north as the old apartments on O'Meara on the north. There is a bar called Sammy's Fifth Hole at Stella Link and Bellfort where the fifth hole ended. About half of it was sold for commercial property in the '80s. That was when it became a par-3 course. Some of the greens are still visible as mounds on the indeveloped land near Willowbend.