technoevil

I grew up in First Colony and remember that Marco's on 6 in the old Kroger center too.  We went there a few times back in the 90's, but preferred Los Tios across the street in the Randall's center and frequented that more often.  Los Tios is still there!  There was another place off Cartwright and 1092 that my dad liked that we would go to on occasion too.  I think it was called Don Bravos.

On 6/9/2016 at 5:16 PM, Gurgis said:

This is very interesting, because - like technoevil - I also lived for awhile in Denton (3 1/2 years for me), and also never noticed those streets. I even lived in apartments at one point off of Teasley Lane, not far from that area (maybe less than a 1/2 mile away).

 

The naming of those streets must have been tied to someone from Houston. There's just too much of a coincidence with the similarity of names in SW Houston.

Thats funny.  I was in the apartments off Teasley also, just north of 35 behind the Pizza Hut and KFC for a while.

Funny, I lived in Denton for 4 years (take a wild guess why) and never noticed that!  There is also a Houston St., Fannin, Memorial Dr., and Willowick. 

 Luby's website says that they have 21 Houston Luby's locations not counting surrounding areas like Katy and Pearland. I wish they'd open one off I-10 near Spring Branch/Memorial. Since the Town & Country Luby's closed a couple of years ago to make room for new construction, there's no Luby's or any other cafeteria I'm aware of between Mason Rd. Katy and the Luby's galleria.

There is one on Westheimer between Kirkwood and Dairy Ashford.  Its on the south side at West Houston Center Blvd.   Also one on Fondren just south of Westheimer. 

There is a Hungry Farmer BBQ on south Post Oak with 1975 on the sign. Must be related.

It is.  I know the family.  They opened it a while back. 

the HEB on bissonett in Bellaire was a Pantry store, and it's still open

Same with the Memorial and Dairy Ashford location.

This thread is relevant to my interests. Bought a 70s ranch at the end of last year in Glenshire subdivision (a bit past Fondren SW). Mine is not a "shed roof" but there are a few in my subdiv like that. I really like the ones with the clerestory windows. I think ours was cedar shake roof originally too -- evidence would be purlins (not sure if this is the term. basically 1x4s running perpendicular to the rafters?) running across the rafters. I believe people in our neighborhood started retrofitting them with asphalt shingles starting in the 80s.

Hi neighbor!

I bought my house in Glenshire east last year also, but my grandparents were original owners here and lived here at the opposite end of my street until 2009.  Mine is a 1975 ranch.  The roofs were originally cedar shake from what I have been told and also seen in the deed restrictions.  Most were replaced in the 80's and by the early 90's.

I know someone that grew up in Meyerland and they told me that Colonial House was also known as "Venereal House" back in the 70's-early 80's.

Copperfield, Greatwood, New Territory, The Woodlands,

First Colony, Cypress

Just because you have power line poles in the back yard does not mean there are not buried power lines in the backyard.  It appears your house has buried service to the house, which means there are buried lines in the easement for it.  

There was one there also at West Airport, in addition to the W. Bellfort and Fondren one in the Fondren Southwest Village center.  

You're thinking of the Fiesta on Braeswood @ Gessner.

No, I know the Fiesta on Fondren was a Kroger, as was the Braeswood and Gessner location.  I went to both of them, but mainly the W. Bellfort and Fondren location.  

I don't remember a Kroger at that corner.  There was one near West Airport Blvd on Fondren.

The Fiesta was previously a Kroger.  I went there many times.  Opposite end of the center had a Target.  Its a few discount clothing and shoe stores now.  

Daily use:  Randalls in Meadows Place on W. Bellfort

Favorites:  HEB on 6 and 90, Costco on University, and Trader Joes on Voss (Can't wait for the Westheimer one to open!)

 I do remember a Weingartens used to be at the corner of Fondren and West Belfort.  It's Fiesta now.   

I remember that being a Kroger.  I used to go there back in the early-mid 90's when I would stay at my grandma's house when I was little.  Even then it looked old to me. There was a Target at the other end of the center, and a Walgreens where the Anna's Linen is. That Walgreens had a shoplifter in there while we were there once.  I remember him bolting out the door and knocking it off the track in the process.  I think the Kroger and Target closed when the Meyerland locations opened, maybe a few years before.  I think the T-Mobile store was a Houston Cellular originally.  I know it was Cingular for a while also.   

The Fun Plex over on Beechnut and Eldridge was Fame City originally and had the waterpark.  I am not sure what it was previously, but I remember Exhilerama at Memorial City mall.  I grew up in the 90's in Sugar Land.  

I remember Jungle Jim's. I went there many times as a kid. The address is 7115 Clarewood, but you accessed the front door from Sharpstown Mall's parking lot. It's an indoor soccer place now, and before that, it was housing a fly by night charter school that had a recording studio in it for some reason. http://www.indoorsoccer59.com/portal/

I was thinking it was that building, but was not 100% sure.  

I remember Jungle Jims and went there a few times.  I want to say it was off of Clarewood near the Bally fitness center.  

The first one to close opened in the late 80s and early 90s  West Bellfort and Gessner when Fondren South West started to go down hill it did not even last 5 yrs if I remember correctly nothing ever open in its place.  2nd one to close was the one Fondren and Bissonnet also in a ghetto area nothing open in it pace

The one at W. Bellfort and Gessner opened sometime in the mid 80's and did not close until sometime around 2005-2008.  It even had a gas station. 

What exactly does the master control operations department do? The Encompass website gives a bit of an overview, but I don't understand how this will save costs for an existing station. Seems as though the same amount of work would need to be performed whether in house or at some centralized hub--so no labor savings. How is it better for a station to have folks hundreds of miles away doing work folks at a desk feet away can do? Are there operational "hardware" cost savings? 

Master Control is the department that controls what goes out on air.  Bascially Master Control is the last place a feed from satellite, their studio, servers, etc., passes through before it goes out to their transmitter.   A lot of stations already have this set up to be automated, but still have to have a master control op in the building in-case something goes wrong.  When MC is outsourced, one person can monitor and take control of many stations at once.  There is a facility in Dallas that does this for small market TV stations and their set-up look kinda like a mini NASA mission control.   

I think part of their problem is that it is an AM station.  Not many kids and teens listen to AM.  I know I didn't.

Looks like Whole Foods is moving into the space vacated by Randall's at Westheimer and Wilcrest.

 

http://blog.chron.com/primeproperty/2014/07/whole-foods-to-open-new-store-on-westheimer/

 

They'll be moving from a smaller space across the street.

Now if they would just put a Trader Joes in the remaining space.  I would love that since I live near there and sometimes go to TJ's on Voss. 

I don't think you need to worry about Academy Sports stealing electricity from the high voltage lines lol.  If you look at the lines there are houses within about 100ft. of them.  If that was a problem those houses would not have been allowed to be built there or the lines would have been placed elsewhere if the houses were already there. 

I thought there were only a handful too, until I checked the location map on their website. No excuse for not having a Houston location, unless they're afraid of competing with Whataburger. 

Pretty sure Whataburger is not the issue.  Those are also all over DFW.

Apparently 713/281 are almost out of new numbers...

 

What I don't understand is that 979, 936 & 409 are also "Greater Houston Area Codes"

Conroe: 936

Galveston: 409

Brazoria/Lake Jackson: 979

 

So Houston *really* has 6 area codes for calls across the total metro area, soon to be 7.

DFW has 7 also

214/972/469:  Dallas, Irving, Plano, Mesquite, Cedar Hill, Lewisville, and other suburbs

817/682:  Fort Worth, Burleson, Arlington, and other suburbs

940:  Denton to the OK border 

903:  Outerlying communities east and north of Dallas, up to the OK border

It always throws people off when I give my home phone number and its a 940 area code in Houston lol.  It is a Vonage number that I first got while still in college up there and got a really good plan so I have kept it.  My cell is 713.