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  1. We lived near there (Lindale Park) from '86 to '92 - during that time it was being used as a church. I don't think it was torn down until after we had moved away.
  2. Or does someone want to buy it... ...it is a way cool building - but it is hard to see a large office building prospering in that location...
  3. An article in last week's Pasadena Citizen... Building may become victim of progress By:JENNIFER BRANCH, Citizen Reporter 04/21/2006 According to Pasadena Mayor John Manlove, Pasadena is gearing up for revitalization. Part of this revitalization, said Manlove, will possibly come in the form of destruction. http://www.hcnonline.com/site/news.cfm?new...id=532238&rfi=6
  4. Great story! (It's from Rochester NY by the way...)
  5. It was the wall of the old (closed) Joske's when that store was being taken out while the theatres were being put in. Here's a link http://www.lubbockonline.com/news/020197/nomore.htm
  6. Watchful

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    The simple answer is that the groupings are based by enrollment. One notable exception - some schools will "opt up" to a larger classification - sometimes for geographic or rivalry reasons. But you can't "opt down."
  7. I usually end my order with "...and that will be all..." Many places they continue to ask "Would you like blah blah blah?" I notice that Jack in the Box is much less likely to do that - if I order a Jumbo Jack they do not ask me if I want cheese on it - they just give me my Jumbo Jack - and that makes me happy!
  8. I'm a Coog who is still trying to be "Anti-Big 12" so I tried to root for USC. By the end of the game, I had given in....I just couldn't root against Vince and company. It was an amazing game!
  9. Detroit now has a great airport...(only place I have been).
  10. From Wikipedia... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPRC KPRC is a television station based in Houston, Texas, but broadcasts from a transmitter located in Missouri City, Texas. The station operates on analog channel 2 and digital channel 31. KPRC is affiliated with the NBC television network. History The station first broadcast on January 1, 1949, as KLEE-TV (KPRC has repeatedly said that the callsign has no meaning and came from nowhere when being thought up). It was the first television station in Houston and the 12th in the United States. It was owned by the Hobby family, owners of the Houston Post, who had signed on KPRC radio in 1925 as Houston's first radio station. The television station changed its calls to match its radio cousin in 1950
  11. There are some pretty funny posts on this site also... http://www.419eater.com/
  12. I've been around Houston for a long time - off and on - but it seems like I first noticed the frequent use of H-Town on the Jim Rome sports talk show - it is rarely Houston and almost always H-Town - but the use is more of a nickname for the city than a label for the greater metro area. Every now and then I hear people use Metroplex to describe Greater Houston, and that certainly seems quite weird. Sea-Tex sounds too much like the Seattle airport - SeaTac - (which, oddly enough, was adopted as the actual name of a municipality by the Seattle Airport - SeaTac, Washington). I'll suggest the Greater Pasadena-Houston Metro Area!
  13. Since RO is the most identifiable, if I had been the reporter I would have just said "murder in River Oaks"
  14. From the 12-21 Pasadena Citizen: Demolition permit issued for building The Bank One building, looming 12-stories high over 1001 Southmore, has recently been the topic of much local discussion, following rumors that surfaced regarding the demolition of the icon.... http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=...id=532238&rfi=6
  15. I was waiting to find out the most commonly misspelled word in the English language!
  16. In today's Chron... Townhomes planned for Lindale Park are alternatives to Heights, Montrose... >>Adan Quality Homes plans to build a townhome project near Lindale Park. This gated residential community, dubbed Oaks on Sharman, will contain 12 townhomes starting at $189,000. The site is at 4611 Sharman near Cavalcade and Interstate 45.<< I lived in Lindale Park between '86 and '92. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/busine...ff/3500234.html
  17. My memory tells me Woodridge Baptist. This site - www.woodridge.org - click "History" - indicates the congregation sold its property merged with a church in Kingwood that took the Woodridge name. Although this article indicates it was sold to an African-American church I also have a hazy memory of it being the home for "Houston Church" - a ministry of evangelist Phil Arms. This may have even been at a time when Woodridge still owned the building - with Houston Church meeting in the large section and the remnant of Woodridge meeting in a smaller space on property. I stand ready to be corrected!
  18. We moved from East Texas to Houston in 1965 and I remember how awesome it was that we had 4 channels instead of only 1. (We had lived near Lufkin which only had an NBC station at that time - that was all we could get except on freaky weather days when if you went outside and turned the big antenna you might be able to pull in something odd.) At one time, the old TV listings also used to have the indication ® to indicate when a program was a rerun (back when there were about 39 new shows a year, and only 13 summer reruns). Have you noticed that now you sometimes see the indication (N) to indicate that the program is new and not a rerun!
  19. Although Galveston has had to import sand to build UP their beaches, Key West had to import all of its sand to construct a beach in the first place. But I do love Key West!
  20. Great home cooking at Triple A next to the Farmer's Market on Airline, just south of 610 on the north side.
  21. I'm just going by memory but I think it was baseball that helped make these two superstations - they jumped into the rotation in the early days of cable - back when we used to get excited to have 20 channels! WTBS offered Braves baseball and WGN offered Cubs baseball - and they must have made affordable additions to cable lineups. I think WTBS somewhere lost the image of being a local Atlanta station and morphed into TBS cable, but WGN still has the remnants with local news and stuff. I always wondered about the affordability of local Chicago advertisers buying time on a national station - but I'm sure they have found a way to make it cost effective. I can't imagine a new local superstation emerging in the current environment.
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