MidtownCoog Posted July 28, 2005 Share Posted July 28, 2005 Pretty much trashed part of the store.Then ran out front and tore up a couple of Mercedes. I think this was 1988 or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashikaga Posted July 28, 2005 Share Posted July 28, 2005 Pretty much trashed part of the store.Then ran out front and tore up a couple of Mercedes. I think this was 1988 or so.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Where did the deer come from? From out in the wild, or was it part of some kind of a petting zoo?Chet Cuccia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidtownCoog Posted July 28, 2005 Share Posted July 28, 2005 The wild. Deer used to run all up and down Armond Bayou, etc. They are still deer on site at NASA, behing UHCL, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted July 28, 2005 Share Posted July 28, 2005 Which location was Sakowitz II? Was that Gulfgate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidtownCoog Posted July 28, 2005 Share Posted July 28, 2005 It was on NASA Road One across from NASA. Entrance One. BEUATIFUL homes on the lake behind it. I think its a hospital now.Sakowitz II came out when Sakowitz started to go downhill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnu Posted July 28, 2005 Share Posted July 28, 2005 It was on NASA Road One across from NASA. Entrance One. BEUATIFUL homes on the lake behind it. I think its a hospital now.Sakowitz II came out when Sakowitz started to go downhill.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>i think the Clear Lake Sakowitz was at the current location of Midtown plaza...i think thats the name of it. Its the strip center with Starbucks in it...between KFC and Lubys. Across from McDonald's. The old Sakowitz building was there until they levelled it to build this Strip center - maybe 3 or 4 years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashikaga Posted July 28, 2005 Share Posted July 28, 2005 i think the Clear Lake Sakowitz was at the current location of Midtown plaza...i think thats the name of it. Its the strip center with Starbucks in it...between KFC and Lubys. Across from McDonald's. The old Sakowitz building was there until they levelled it to build this Strip center - maybe 3 or 4 years ago.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>So, is it safe for me to say that both Sakowitz and Joske's are "no longer with us?"Chet Cuccia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jb4647 Posted September 14, 2005 Share Posted September 14, 2005 Below are some slides that my Dad took in 1963. The first is of Sakowitz on Post Oak and the Second is of Joskes (now Dillards) I have converted over 1200 slides that my Dad took over the years and will be posting them here and there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnu Posted September 14, 2005 Share Posted September 14, 2005 interesting that the confederate battle flag is flying at Sakowitz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jb4647 Posted September 14, 2005 Share Posted September 14, 2005 Wild about the flag isn't it. Both photos are from 1963... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmainguy Posted September 15, 2005 Share Posted September 15, 2005 My mom and sisters would shop at Sakowitz downtown when we were kids. When my dad would get the bills and complain about the expence, my mom said "Because they are like Neimans-they don't deal in crap." It was a great store until Bobby S. got his hands on it. The guy had the buisness sense of a rock. It should have been Lynn in the CEO's office and Bobby in the stock room. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lowbrow Posted September 15, 2005 Share Posted September 15, 2005 Our docent on the Chase building tour told us the escalator in the bank lobby there was the first in Houston. Its no longer there but you can see it in the pictures on the walls. (Just to confuse the issue further.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJones Posted September 16, 2005 Share Posted September 16, 2005 Below are some slides that my Dad took in 1963. The first is of Sakowitz on Post Oak and the Second is of Joskes (now Dillards)I have converted over 1200 slides that my Dad took over the years and will be posting them here and there. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Forget the buildings, LOOK AT ALL THOSE WONDERFUL CARS ! ! ! OMG ! Those are nice pictures though. Sakowitz II ,by the way, wasn't much of an architectual marvel, looked like a strip center in itself, or like a converted office building of the 70's.The store wasn't a stand alone, it was in a so called "Mall", with a Kay-Bee toy store and a chain bookstore, can't remember which brand, I want to say a Walden's books. Plain as plain can be, very ugly building. I remember eating at the Sambo's (now Denny's) across the street, then my Dad and I would venture over there to browse around. Circa 1979, 1980. The whole mall closed about a year or two after it opened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJones Posted September 16, 2005 Share Posted September 16, 2005 Wild about the flag isn't it. Both photos are from 1963... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well, let's consider it was 1963, no strong civil rights movement yet. Looking at the time of year these pictures were taken, if it is indeed 1963, it is well before November, and Kennedy is still president. Civil rights movement is just beginning to heat up. There is one astonishing factor though, I believe the Sakowitz family is Jewish, why they would fly that flag is beyond me. I guess they knew their customer base. LOL ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidtownCoog Posted September 16, 2005 Share Posted September 16, 2005 Nobody really started to freak out about the Rebel flag until the last few years.Now we're just worried about making sure no sports teams make fun of injuns.Long live the South! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smartalek Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 I barely remember Battlestein's. Most of my memories of it are from after they were bought out by Frost and the stores were renamed under the Frost name for a few years before Frost finally went under.While we're on the topic, remember Joske's? They were acquired by Dillard's about 1987, giving Dillard's an instant presence in cities like Houston and San Antonio where they hadn't really expanded yet. Some of the old Joske's stores that converted to Dillard's are closed now (Northline, Westwood) but some are sitll around like Post Oak and Greenspoint.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>The wonderful flagship store in San Antonio was ruined when Dillards took over and stripped it of character. This is the wonderful large building on the corner of commerce and Alamo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smartalek Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 Under the "Daddy, what was Sakowitz like?" category, I can offer the following.(it seems that I cannot use the tag to post an image, so please click away at the links) Sakowitz 1 Sakowitz 2 Sakowitz 3 Sakowitz 4 Sakowitz 5 Sakowitz 6 Sakowitz 7 Sakowitz 8 And for those of you who dont live in Houston, here is a clean scan of the 002 article <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Fabulous pictures. Reminds me of the department store scene in "The Women" "Zips up the back, no bones" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gto250us Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 So someone actually does read Shelby Hodge... I was wondering if her column served any purpose in the Chronicle...I wonder what purpose ANY column in the Chronicle serves, other than separate the Foley ads from the Palais Royal ads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
citykid09 Posted September 21, 2005 Author Share Posted September 21, 2005 I wonder what purpose ANY column in the Chronicle serves, other than separate the Foley ads from the Palais Royal ads.Palais Royal is like the last deparment store thats originally from Houston that is still left right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brucesw Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 And that company isn't very healthy.There's Kaplan's Ben Hur on Yale, which dates to 1913, probably way before PR. There was a Kaplan's downtown in the 500 block of Travis in the 20s, but I don't know if it's the same.I wouldn't be surprised is there's some other small department store in some older neighborhood, maybe out on the east side, that's still in business. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrothead Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 Thank you for posting all the photos, it gives me warm fuzzies and I think about my parents. There was always one or two boxes under the Christmas tree for my mom that were from Joske's and Sakowitz. I do miss that whole era of Houston. I got my prom dress at the last big sale at Sakowitz on Post Oak. I agree with the member that said Dillard's ruined the flagship Joske's in SA!!! TOTALLY!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eelimon Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 What would it take to bring back the name Sakowitz? What kind of money would it take and who could do it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoustonianInColorado Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 Where did the deer come from? From out in the wild, or was it part of some kind of a petting zoo?Chet CucciaAn EVIL petting zoo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KewpieCleaners Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 The Confederate battle flag was probably flying in that photograph because of the centennial commemorations of the Civil War/War between the States. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJones Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 The Confederate battle flag was probably flying in that photograph because of the centennial commemorations of the Civil War/War between the States.That is a brillant deduction Kewpie, I think you might be right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilcurleyqz Posted November 5, 2005 Share Posted November 5, 2005 sakowitz furs is still around. Its in a small shop on post oak and westheimer. To bring it back would be a feat beacause of the galleria. Macys, and Neimans killed it. You'd also have to compete with the Houston dress shop: Tootsies, an institution. The money to bring it back would be astronomical! You'd probably have better luck in the woodlands and then opening a sattelite store up in River Oaks after the woodlands took off. Maybe even Frisco and Plano... (they're some of the fastest growing communities in the country right now)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmainguy Posted November 5, 2005 Share Posted November 5, 2005 sakowitz furs is still around. Its in a small shop on post oak and westheimer. To bring it back would be a feat beacause of the galleria. Macys, and Neimans killed it. You'd also have to compete with the Houston dress shop: Tootsies, an institution. The money to bring it back would be astronomical! You'd probably have better luck in the woodlands and then opening a sattelite store up in River Oaks after the woodlands took off. Maybe even Frisco and Plano... (they're some of the fastest growing communities in the country right now)... Sakowitz Furs has nothing to do with Sakowitz Bros. It is owned by Jerry Gronauer. Bobby Sakowitz drove Sakowitz Bros. into the ground after his father, Bernard passed away because he couldn't even think himself out of a paper bag. His sister, Lynn Sakowitz Wyatt had the good sense to steer clear of her otherwise-occupied brother and stick with international celebrity dividing her time between her Houston home in River Oaks, NYC and her villa in France-all on the dime of her husband Oscar; recently charged with bribing Iraqi officials in a scheme to corrupt the United Nations oil-for-food program. Dunno...maybe she should have stuck by Bobby... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tierwestah Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 Anyone know what the status is of the American Apparel store that's supposed to be opening downtown off Main and Dallas? Because right now, It has no signs of shaping up to be a future clothing store what so ever. When was the opening date supposed to be again? February 2006? That's kind of cuttin' it a little close! Why is it still a parking garage on the inside and all we see is just the posters on the window?Any info would be greatly appreciated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tierwestah Posted November 18, 2005 Share Posted November 18, 2005 Hello? Anyone don't everyone speak at once! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houstonian in Iraq Posted November 18, 2005 Share Posted November 18, 2005 Hello? Anyone don't everyone speak at once! Pretty much what you just mentioned above. I have'nt heard anything new. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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