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    5a/4a

    in Off Topic

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    I just saw an updated table of the high schools in Texas as to if their football teams are in Class 5A, 4/A, etc. Most of the high schools in Houston (including Milby, the one that I would have attended) are in Class 5A. But some Houston high schools are in Class 4A. Is a class that a high school is in determined solely by the number of students attending it, or are there other factors?

    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."

    What Drives You Crazy?

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    You know what kind of bugs me? When you buy something, and they ask you if you would like something else. "Would you like a drink with that?" "Would you like a pastry with that?" Like you're too stupid to order what you want without prompting. Sometimes I just respond, "No, that's why I didn't order one."

    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! ^_^

    Back When Houston Had Just One TV Station

    in Houston and the Media

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    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

    Let's Come Up With A Nickname For Metro Houston

    in Houston and the Media

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    It's H-Town, it has always been H-Town, and will always be H-Town. If you don't know, you better ask somebody.

    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! :P

    Lindale St.

    in EaDo, the East End, and East Houston

    Posted

    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

    Gulfgate Center At 3111 Woodridge Dr.

    in EaDo, the East End, and East Houston

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    Does anyone remember what the name of the church that was at Woodridge and Winkler Dr?

    It was in the corner of the Gulfgate parking lot. It was a big brick building with a tall white steeple.

    I lived in the apartments across the street from there (Gulfgate Village Apts) passed by it a million times, never went inside, I went to a Lutheran school five days a week and then to the 1st Baptist with my Grandma on Sundays. I never had time to go to any other church. I guess I did have my Saturdays open, I'm a slacker.

    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! :rolleyes:

    Remember Having Three TV Stations

    in Houston and the Media

    Posted

    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!

    Houston "superstation"

    in Houston and the Media

    Posted

    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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