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And here is one Houston building that won't be around to see the Summer of '06! All good things . . .

OK boys 'n' girls, I was happy to go back to Houston for a short visit the last week of January. Here are a few of my photos. Note: All photos ©2006, Randy L. Kendrick. Enjoy! The obligatory skyline picture Buffalo Bayou near Downtown Allen Center reflected in Enron 1 Kenny Boy's old digs Downtown's historic Ebenezer Baptist Church Looking up! The Hyatt Regency from Smith St. The Esperson Building The "choo choo" for the big people near Hermann Park The New Federal Reserve Bank on Allen Parkway And here are a couple from Fort Bend County . . . The Fort Bend County Courthouse in Richmond, Texas, with Lamar still standing The Fort Bend Museum in Richmond, Texas, a.k.a. Congressman John Moore Home

BOk Financial, the parent of Bank of Oklahoma (as well as several other banks in the southwest). BOk is also what locals sometimes call the Bank of Oklahoma. They pronounce it "Bee-Okay", not "Bock".

Here are a few more.

I was in Tulsa this week on business, and took these pictures. Tulsa is full of beautiful art-deco architecture, but unfortunately I had limited free time. Still, I got some good pictures. These are some of the better ones. Downtown Tulsa at Night Downtown Tulsa at Twilight Elevator Lobby in Midcontinent Tower Main Lobby in Midcontinent Tower Midcontinent Tower Clock Oklahoma Statehood Centennial Clock (1907-2007) Boston Avenue Methodist Church Trinity Episcopal Church First Baptist Church Entrance to Oral Roberts University - Giant Praying Hands

I thought we were the only ones with a pair of pliers sitting by the TV to change channels!

Hartwell, there are not any real feeder streets that I know of in the Denver area. I think there are some similar configurations on the 6th Avenue freeway on the west side, but they are not of the Texas style, with one way feeders parallel to the main lanes. If you drive 400-500 miles to the South, they have them in Lubbock, or perhaps even as close as Amarillo. But then, why would anyone really want to go to Lubbock or Amarillo? haha

An EVIL petting zoo?

I worked at 107.5 for a time shortly after it moved studios to Houston. This was about 1980 or so. The studios were in a one-story building on the west side of Kirby, about a block or two north of the South Loop. The building sat at diagonal on the SW corner of the intersection, with a covered circular driveway. The building faced diagonally toward the dome.

The difference with The Netherlands is that they are not lying in a hurricane target zone.

I think it was before that. When Dick Sargent replaced Dick York as Darrin on Bewitched, it marked the beginning of the end.

Yeah, I hear you. That is always an issue for hi-res. I would like to have all mine that way as well. However, for sharing online, the CD works fine. If someone comes up with a good solution, I'd like to hear it also. That is why I still keep negatives.

It was actually very painless. I had them developed at Walgreens and paid $2.99 for them to put them on CD as well as give me negatives and prints. I do have a digital camera (Gateway DC-T50), but the SLR is much more capable.

Here is my main desktop on Ubuntu Linux. The picture is one I took this week with a 35mm Pentax SLR ZX7 camera. The wildflowers are growing along a local road, and when I set up to take the shot, that bee showed up to complete the picture. I did have to get her to sign a model's release, however!

These triangular buildings remind me of a much smaller scale of one. When I was a child, we got our prescriptions at Jay's Prescription Shop at Bissonett & Chestnut (I think) in Bellaire. It was a one-story building, but in a triangular shape because of the angle of Bissonett (which was Old Richmond Road back then).

Reminds me of a smaller version of Denver's famed Brown Palace Hotel.

Houston - World Class, Texas Style! Houston - Space, Spice, and Spectacular Skylines! OR the other side of the coin Houston - You'll come for the heat, you'll stay for the humidity! Fire ants and killer bees? We got 'em in Houston!

Makes one wonder how all of those competing brands stayed afloat as long as they did. I too, remember Gold Bond stamps.

There is definitely a place for parkways, but I have to say one thing I miss about Houston is the convenient feeder streets. I also think the best improvement was the U-Turn lanes just before the intersections. Whoever came up with that innovation deserves a traffic engineering award. In an urban environment, you cannot beat those feeders.

Guess they should have left well enough alone and stuck with Calhoun.

Yep, the Chronicle Classifieds as I recall.

Perhaps I should have posted it in these tags for your benefit: [JOKE] [/JOKE] I thought that would be readily apparent, as that idea is not realistic in any way.

I saw on Google Maps a street running parallel to Pierce called St. Joseph Parkway. I don't recall that name, and don't have an old Houston map. Was this street renamed from something else, and if so, what was it and why was it renamed?

How about instead of stilts, an airport on skateboards. Then you could roll it to wherever it was needed at any particular time!

I think one thing that helps keep the 16th St. Mall active is the free RTD busses that shuttle people from one end to the other, connecting to the RTD stations at Market St. and near the Capitol. For those not familiar with it, 16th St. is closed to all vehicles except the busses, which run in lanes against the curb, with pedestrians on the sidewalks and in the middle of the street.