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...looking forward to your usually excellent photo-demo-graphy...

Someone told me it was being demolished on Tuesday. I will be very sad if it's true Does anyone know? pictures from endangered deco (GHPA) http://www.houstondeco.org/1920s/cocacola.html

i don't think it's in manvel: found this at the city of pearland site - not that it provides any more details though... CONSIDERATION AND POSSIBLE ACTION

that has to be the most "plain jane" mansion kitchen in existence. the house seems very ummm... maybe the word is utilitarian. the space is there but decor does not fit "mansion". the inside looks like a 1980's community center or something (from the har pictures anyway)

i always looked forward to the new books with the artwork too. today's "official" yellow pages doesn't seem much better than the fifty offbrand phone books you get...esp. with all the ads. i read an article on the drawings a few years back. now if i could remember where it was in. also, seems like there was a website that had one of the drawings and you could zoom over it with a magnifyer to see all the details. anyone?

Maybe a rooftop courtyard?

well he IS in the "new" part by fairmont and the belt his mansion is in the box made by vista, preston, fairmont pkwy, and the beltway. off of lily

i think its where petsmart and circuit city are

Staples to open their first Houston store: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/4900789.html

Do you mean the rodeo arena that was next to the nightclub? It stood for years after the club was closed and then burned. I don't think the arena was demolished until after the school district acquired the property.

Harold Gunn

Maybe it's dry within Pasadena's original city boundaries? That's the way it is in Friendswood. Everything that was annexed later is wet.

Wald moving and storage

The endangereddeco site you posted the other day lists it as store no. 14 (1100 quitman location) as i proposed earlier in the thread (post 15) but you are correct...it does look similar to the washington/durham bldg. http://www.endangereddeco.org/1930s/weingarten.html

where was the sterling hotel going to be built?

that should be the same one. I think they took the Hughes name off of the airport after there was some sort of uproar over naming it for a living person.

oops. i did not know that. cool. any idea when they moved to washington?

I think you got the right restaurant but got mixed up on the location. Leo's was just off washington a couple of blocks east of heights blvd. It's where the "new" Heights Star Pizza location is.

1825 albans was definately my fave and I agree with you, the downstairs layout was almost perfect. but i am a sucker for craftsman houses with original details, so my second favorite was the 1901 bolsover house. the woodwork was beautiful and the incinerator chutes were cool i also loved the grounds at the other older house on the tour, 2201 Albans. the bedroom overlooking the small pool and rear garden was great. the old turquoise bath fixtures were cool too All the houses were interesting and had some outstanding detail. Sunday was definately an ideal day, glad I didn't do it Saturday.

bubba burger probably paid more. http://www.bubba-burger.com/

i think they are using it as a C&W night club/dance club called (as you mentioned) the hideout. i don't think it cranks up until after the show ends.

Too bad, if they eventually turn it all into university offices and/or get rid of the black lab. That is one of the nicest pedestrian friendly commercial fronts in Houston. The developers did a great job of incorporating a nice treed streetscape while still providing front parking. When you sit outside at the black lab you feel you could be somewhere else other than Houston. It was originally a building of the Central Church of Christ (designed by William Ward Watkin). The old church sanctuary is used as the Houston Public Library branch next door. The buildings were converted in the 80's. I think there is an article on it in a very old issue of Cite.

mmmmm....I LOVE Orange Julius!!! http://www.orangejulius.com i may have to head over to west oaks mall to get my fix. I think the charlie thomas ford (name, at least) made it into the 90's.

ooops! yeah...you're right..i forgot about that. seems like it was burgerhaus, then new owners that kept the burgerhaus name, and then it was park place grill. the first burgerhaus incarnation was the best

Was it in the little green and yellow house up near Poplar St? It was the Park Place Grill for a fair number of years (i think they closed in '02??) They had really good burgers too. Cute little place. Always packed at lunch.