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  1. I poked around on both Google Earth and Historic Aerials and found that there were two buildings with the same shape and roof structure as the currently existing building in 1953. The one in the picture above runs east-west. The second one ran roughly north-south and stood where there is now a parking lot to the east of the school of architecture. Judging from the 1953 picture these must have been major buildings on campus at the time, just from their size. I wonder, though, if they were not in fact on campus in 1953 and were set up for some industrial or warehouse purpose and then later acquired by UH as it expanded.
  2. Last week we went for an official tour of the UH campus for my son who is looking at various colleges. On the tour we passed by a old metal building that now houses the school of engineering's labs but the tour guide described as a old hanger and maybe the oldest building on the UH campus. Anyone know what airfield used to be there? Here's a picture from the UH website.
  3. My Vietnamese girlfriend (now wife) and I visited Houston a few times during college in the late 80's. The bellaire blvd chinatown was just a shadow of what it is now. I recall we spent more time in the midtown chinatown shopping, etc.
  4. We've had two par 3 courses close down on the west side of town in the last 10 years. The first to go was Texas Par 3 at the corner of Highway 6 and Alief-Clodine. My two oldest took golf lessons there and we played the whole course a couple of times. The other was Hackberry Golf Club, on Dairy Ashford just north of Beechnut. Never played there, but I believe it was a lighted course. It was bought by the city and is now a park. There were also a number of driving ranges that were waiting for better land use. Most have shut down but one is still going off Richmond between West Houston Medical Center and Phoenicia.
  5. When you consider that City Centre basically forms the north end of Town & Country, where there is a Randall's, Barnes & Noble, numerous restaurants of varying levels from Quizno's and James Coney Island on up, numerous other stores, probably including hair stylsts, etc., plus it's what, maybe a block or two from I-10 and other restaurants, etc. I kind of envy that ocean of single family homes that are within easy walking and biking distance of it. When you also consider that the Terry Hershey Park trail dead ends a few blocks south of Town & Country and that the trail serves like a hike & bike highway all the way out to Katy, I'd say you've got a pretty decent lifestyle already. You don't have to be inside the loop to have what passes for an urban lifestyle here.
  6. It's a bit more than that, using the map in the link above. Per the westhouston.org website, the 1.2 or so million are in a roughly square area of about 1000 sq miles that runs from sugarland north to the woodlands and west well past katy. City Centre sits on the eastern edge of that square. http://www.westhouston.org/data.htm
  7. Swamplot has it that Sundance Cinemas is in negotiations to replace Angelika. http://swamplot.com/report-sundance-cinemas-replacing-angelika-film-center-at-bayou-place-bar-smorgasbord-moving-in-upstairs/
  8. That's too bad. The tire/lube center is one of the best things about walmart.
  9. To bad they can't extend the terry hershey trail along buffalo bayou east past the beltway.
  10. I'm gonna take a wild guess here and bet that most, if not all, of the children involved here will be middle and upper-middle class caucasians from predominantly inner-loop neighborhoods so they will really be working for the expensive watercraft enjoyment of their parents and neighbors.
  11. It's got a pretty good shot. They have an awesome greek/middle-eastern deli and bakery at the west Houston location that will go over well with the lunch crowds downtown. It's one of many reasons why life outside the loop on the west side of town is good.
  12. Too bad Little Saigon has gone so far downhill in the last decade, but the growth on Bellaire inside and outside the beltway more than makes up for it.
  13. Is it a typo or did we really get 20 inches of snow in 1895?
  14. Is it really true that the homeless would follow them out of the city and live in the suburbs instead?
  15. I saw that, too and flipped through it. I think Houston was at #9 or so. All the major cities in Texas, including El Paso were on the list.
  16. Email Kinky. Maybe he'll put it on his platform. I'd vote for that.
  17. Banana Republic was an outfitter in the 80's, too. They used to have a jeep in each store.
  18. If it smelled like a broken sewer line then they might have been eating a popular southeast asian fruit called durian. My wife and her family love the stuff, but to me it smells like roadkill in mid-July.
  19. We had a Dos Pesos in Atlanta in the 90's before they were taken over by Taco Cabana. Sadly, even after the takeover it was by far the best Mexican food in Atlanta. Next best was Taco Bell (ugh).
  20. I mean right next to the building. In the picture a few posts up the rail is separated from the building by a couple of lanes of roadway. The rendering shows the rail next to the sidewalk and the building.
  21. You can bet there will be protests wherever they put this consulate. Most, if not all, Vietnamese in Houston fled from the current government of Vietnam. I suspect, though, that the reason this is coming here isn't the large Vietnamese population but to establish closer ties with oil firms exploring in the South China Sea off Vietnam's coast.
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