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gargoyle_dreams

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    College Station - From Hunter's Creek Houston
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    I have always loved gothic architecture. I collect gargoyles - over 70 last count. I also collect David Winter Cottages, fountain and other pens, and shot glasses. Like reading suspense/horror, true crime, vampires.

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  1. Glad to know the garage is going to get some renovation ! DeBakey High School...interesting ! Lots more about the Medical Center here, including about the new high school. (I can't post a link) Go to Swamplot.com and search: "Still getting rid of the Shamrock Debakey High School for Health Professions Will Move to slice of former Shamrock Hotel site"
  2. Thanks for that link to CS Roads ! I remember when University Drive (going east) was, after the Hilton, a 2 lane road that ended at Hwy.6. It was pasture after Hwy. 6....
  3. Greetings !. I'm usually just lurking around and leaving the odd reply but I was looking at google satellite's image of where the Shamrock was and when I went down to the street view I spotted this right across Pressler from the Texas A&M Institute of Biosciences & Technology bldg. Please do go check 2151 W. Holcombe at google satellite (or wherever) and tell me if that's a leftover from the Shamrock days.... FYI: I looked all around it, at street level, and there are marble tiles along the bottom of the exterior walls near the sidewalk !.... I don't know whether to be fascinated or a bit creeped out...... Was it supposed to be a combination parking garage AND office or retail space ? If it is to be kept, I wish they would paint the brick the same color and touch up the lines along the top of the building....(.Looking dirty is part of that Creepy factor, to me.) Old and possibly abandoned buildings and homes easily give me the heebie jeebies. Like just Looking at the old Jeff Davis Hospital that sat abandoned with a chain link fence around it....AAaaaaaah. I was born in Houston and lived there till I married in 1973 and moved to College Station, where I still live...(Boy has THIS area changed since '73 !) But I was always coming back down to visit my parents and/or brother. I know Houston has a bad reputation for destroying landmarks...Foleys downtown, for example.....the Shamrock, of course....I see the Astrodome is still there...I thought that was scheduled for demolition, as well ? I know there was a nice 2 story house (Georgian?) in Heights or Montrose that was the first home in Houston to be air conditioned, and in spite of groups and petitions trying to save it, the new owner still razed it.... Anyway, does anyone know anything about that (Shamrock?) garage being saved ? Thanks to anyone with some info.
  4. Well, I didn't mean to be gone this long and had a HELL of a time getting that email that they send so you can reset your password. Took SIX tries over 45 minutes to finally get the email. So I click the link to login with the new temporary password, which I TRIPLE checked. It Will. Not. Work. "Username or password incorrect" No, they were Not. I finally used FB to get in here and mention this. If I can get logged in here without using facebook, I'll be amazed. I'm not giving up,
  5. I remember Kitirik.....there was a story going round many years ago about these 2 little kids on the show. Don't know if it's true or not but it's funny. They were waiting in line to say Hi to Kitirik and the first boy was uncontrollably giggling. She asked him "What's so funny ?" "Leroy Farted." Everyone starts cracking up and they break for a commercial. They come back and everyone is composed. You can see that the giggler is gone and the little boy who was behind him is now up. Kitirik asked him "What's your name ?" With a big grin he answered "Leroy". Everybody lost it. Maybe that happened on Kitirik...maybe Art Linkletter's show.....still funny.
  6. I remember going to the Rodeo there with my parents. Before the Astrodome, we went to the rodeo in the Sam Houston Colosseum. Many years later, I was at the Astrodome with my husband for a tractor pull or something and another event that night was this guy from Canada who was going to drop into a big sort of tub of water while he himself was inside a smaller barrel....(late 1980's maybe ?) You remember that circular thing that could drop down from the center of the Astrodome ceiling ? They said that the day before, they dropped his barrel (without him in it) 4 times but it didn't land in the water every time. It was supposed to be similar to going over Niagara falls or something like that. (which didn't make sense to me) The day of the event Evel Knieval was up on that circular thing talking to the guy Trying To Talk Him Out Of Doing His Stunt !......but the guy went ahead. I had to wonder how bad an idea something had to be if Evel Knieval was trying to talk a person out of doing it ! Anyway.....the guy went ahead.... The barrel he was in hit on the side of the big tub of water....... All I remember next was it took "authorities" FOREVER to get that dam*ed barrel open to get to him....45 minutes ?...an hour ? He was taken to a hospital.......nothing more was said at the Astrodome about his condition but the next day they said he died about an hour after arriving at the hospital. His first name was Karol but I don't remember his last name. That was very sad. ******************************************************************** Been to about 4 Tractor Pulls with Destruction Derbies at the end at the Astrodome. Absolutely love those..... I'm such a redneck... I also remember how very badly the bathrooms STUNK.......each of the last 6 or 7 times I was there.
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