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America Tower: Office Skyscraper At 2929 Allen Pkwy.
Tumbleweed_Tx replied to jm1fd's topic in Skyscrapers
IIRC, it was still the Continental Airlines building at the time. I thought it was funny that southbound Southwest Airlines flights made their sharp left turn over this building on their way to Hobby... It's like they were buzzing the competition.- 56 replies
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Texas Tumbleweed Restaurant At 9950 Fondren Rd.
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Houston Cotton Exchange And Board Of Trade At 1310 Prairie St.
Tumbleweed_Tx replied to IronTiger's topic in Downtown
I'm going to guess there was a building a few feet away next door, so they didn't go through the expense of putting a nice facade on something that not many people would see.- 7 replies
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The Langley: Residential High-Rise At 1717 Bissonnet St.
Tumbleweed_Tx replied to musicman's topic in Going Up!
scroll up... .- 1,443 replies
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Skanska will break ground on their downtown properties, and not just to move that big tree
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One of the parking lots has been rented by Rise Rooftop , now Warehouse Live, for valet parking
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2024 NCAA National Football Championship
Tumbleweed_Tx replied to hindesky's topic in Sports and Stadia
I did a thing at (insert venue name here) for one of the two sportsball teams from Monday's match. Their head of the board of regents was standing next to me while the president of their university was rallying the troops, bragging about how their sportsball players are smarter than the rest. The head of the board of regents leaned over to me and asked me if I was taking notes.... I leaned back at her and told her I'm from Texas, you people from north of the Red River don't know jack about sportsball. -
all the easy prey is gone.\that's why it's a ghost town.
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what did you think of the almost new Warehouse? The construction project is halfway done, there's major things planned, coming in the next few months.
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POST: Mixed-Use Development At 401 Franklin St.
Tumbleweed_Tx replied to sevfiv's topic in Going Up!
yes. Almost every hotel downtown has large meeting rooms and ballrooms, most are booked a year or more in advance. When most people think of conventions, they think of the quilting thing, the United Rents thing (it takes up the entire GRB with overflow to hotel ballrooms), and other large events like that. There are hundreds of corporate shows every year around town, more space is needed.- 1,560 replies
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the Furs have been known to rehearse at Francisco's Studios in EaDo. We had them for two nights once. We did the first night of their tour one day, then had them for a private party the next day. Do i miss those days? No. Thanks for getting me fired, dave chappelle... .
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the guy quoted in the cnn article is right. We need an intermodal location for bus and train. The only difficulty is that the train station is nearly impossible to find, and the parking lot there is garbage for busses at the moment. The advantage to using the train station as intermodal is that it is in a relatively safe area thanks to all the police officer stations nearby.
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The Langley: Residential High-Rise At 1717 Bissonnet St.
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she can always drive to New Mexico. or get a second opinion. I trust doctors about as far as I can throw them these days
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the car on the right is a 1978 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham. It has to be a '78 because 2 Allen Center is nowhere to be seen yet, and it was finished in '78. That means this pic was made in late '77 and that car is brand new. (the '77 had large red lenses on the vertical chrome pieces) There's no Republic Bank building, that's the old Western Union switching building between the Alley and the HL&P building and it's annex. The shadows under the other cars are straight down, so I guess the pic was taken at noon on a Saturday since Downtown was a ghost town on weekends back in the late 70's.
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Warehouse EaDo is gone. Bye. The last show was a benefit for one of the security guys, opened and hosted by me. My favorite show there was Rick Astley in the Ballsroom, and Puddles Pity Party in the Studio. On the Puddles show, I was running all over town fixing other people's screwups when I got a call saying the guy at Warehouse couldn't make Puddles's video screen work right, so off I went. I spent an hour fixing it, and chatting with a guy who was almost 7 feet tall. It was Big Mike, aka Puddles. During the show, he never said a word, he just sang. He would grab people from the audience, bring them onstage, and sing to them, then kick them offstage. He came out to the crowd, grabbed me, dragged me onstage, and right before he kicked me off the stage, he whispered "you rock" into my ear. the dumbest show was Drake. I babysat the venue for 3 days while they brought in a set that was a recreation of DJ Screw's storefront. They figured out the set they made was too tall, so they took it back outside and chopped a foot off of it.
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emporis is the one that is gone. We should have that info somewhere on this site. If we don't, then maybe someone with a little time on their hands can step up....
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I doubt if anything can go into that space. The City turned Walker St into a bike lane, that's the load-in area. The owner of the parking lot behind the building has asserted his rights to 8' of the driveway behind the building, that's where the band gear goes in the building.
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Warehouse Live is closing Dec 3. All operations are moving to Rise Rooftop, which will be rebranded as Warehouse Live. The entrance is moving to McGowan St, with an elevator so my bud Raul can come to a show. Rise will shut down for 2 weeks to do the major reconstruction of the interior, this happens after the Dec 16 show.
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Chevron Tower For Downtown At 1600 Louisiana St.
Tumbleweed_Tx replied to tangledwoods's topic in Going Up!
yes, then right after they scaled back plans for the "city of tomorrow," half of the Rust Belt moved to Houston. I used to have a bumper sticker that said, "Will the last person leaving Michigan please turn off the light?"- 1,170 replies
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GreenStreet: Mixed-Use Development At 1201 Fannin St.
Tumbleweed_Tx replied to MontroseNeighborhoodCafe's topic in Downtown
a current employee confirmed the stupidity - the hob restaurant will be converted into a comedy club. He didn't mention a timeline. I guess the door codes won't be 1204 anymore...- 8,200 replies
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clockwise.... Hardy Toll Road is the Hardy Toll road. 59, which technically the Lloyd Bentsen (remember him?) freeway, is Eastex out to Porter. I-10 East is The Beast to Baytown, then it's I-10 225 is 225. Does it have an official name? 45 South is The Gulf Freeway up until it's end at 61st St 288 is 288. Is The Nolan Ryan Expressway the official name? 59 South is the SWF until Rosenberg, then it's 59. I-10 West is The Katy Freeway from downtown to The Brazos River, then it's I-10 to the Santa Monica Pier. fun note.... Texas mile marker 333 is 1/3 of the way from Houston to Los Angeles. Arizona mile marker 333 is 2/3 of the way to LA. I checked the last time I made that drive. 290 is the NWF from The Loop to the Beltway, then it's 290 to Austin. 249 is 249 no matter where it is. 45 North is the North Freeway from I-10 to The Woodlands, then it's 45. It's already 3 lanes to Walker County, it's going to be 3 lanes all the way to that large city on the wrong end of I-45.
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GreenStreet: Mixed-Use Development At 1201 Fannin St.
Tumbleweed_Tx replied to MontroseNeighborhoodCafe's topic in Downtown
pissing contest over, it was Issac Tigret who told me the story. He was the HoB CEO.- 8,200 replies
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GreenStreet: Mixed-Use Development At 1201 Fannin St.
Tumbleweed_Tx replied to MontroseNeighborhoodCafe's topic in Downtown
actually it was in a small house in Cambridge MA that had a stage added as an afterthought when customers started asking for music. Live Nation drilled this stuff into our heads as part of the corporate culture. New Orleans was the second HoB, the first one built as a restaurant/concert hall/side room / Foundation Room. and thanks for making me think about that place more in the last 5 minutes than i have in the last 2.5 years.... .- 8,200 replies
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