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  1. mollusk
    Not so much. Amtrak comes up the UP line that's parallel to the west loop, and then curves around to join the line that is parallel to 290. The direct Dallas - NOLA service that bypassed Houston was Texas & Pacific's Louisiana Eagle.
  2. mollusk
    I hadn't been able to use the word "pedantic" on this forum lately...
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  4. mollusk
    Houston's not a coastal city? What's that thing down the Gulf Freeway - an overly ambitious puddle?
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    Comparing the two Amtrak stations and their connectivity is comparing apples to rutabagas. Dallas Union Station is less than a mile from the TCR site, is on the edge of downtown (right across the tracks from Reunion), and also serves DART and the Trinity River Express. Houston's Amtrak station is about seven miles from the Northwest Mall site and is just grim. On the other hand, there's no reason why Amtrak couldn't relocate to the Northwest Mall site, or near it.
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    And is a mezzanine market in the picture?
  7. mollusk
    I've seen this picture before; IIRC it was labeled as being taken at a Prince's (which would make Nortons of Houston the family in the Caddy). The clear plastic tubes at the corners of the back window are also a/c ducts - most of the car systems of the '50s had the evaporator in the trunk.
  8. mollusk
    A quick trip to Google Maps reveals waaaaay more than 50 parking slots around the Northline Transit Center.
  9. mollusk
    Conservatory is open late (very late, sometimes). Having a bar or two in there just about guarantees that this will be, too - our day drinkers are already pretty well taken care of in various dives and hotels.
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    Someone on a bike calling out "on your left (or right)?" Oh, if that were only so - particularly when the jackasses show up for Critical Mess and take over not only the streets but the sidewalks too, after driving their bro-dozer in from Katy or wherever and parking it halfway across downtown because they can't parallel park in fewer than two spaces - and heaven forbid that they pay to park in a garage or lot. Unfortunately, it would be too obvious if I were carrying a baseball bat or something similar - though it's tempting. Edit: reading back over this, it sounds like the danged kids need to get off of my sidewalk lawn.
  11. mollusk
    True - that's what happened when Maxwell House took its giant coffee cup sign and left
  12. mollusk
    Yep.
  13. mollusk
    Another former Holiday Inn (Memorial and Silver) was converted into senior apartments, and seemed to be doing pretty OK until Harvey flooded it.
  14. mollusk
    Things like the Hempstead landfill and Freedman's Town bricks will remain battles until someone "wins" - either the people with "great new ideas" acknowledge the people who live there and give up, or the gazillion lane Katy Freeway becomes a thing and overlays what would have been a dandy commuter rail line.
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    Rents and prices all over town either went down or at best stayed level during the last downturn. There are now signs of life, so I'll second UU's evaluation.
  16. mollusk
    Never really thought of Houston as being an extension of the Redneck Riviera...
  17. mollusk
    It's pretty hard to draw a plat with a Ouija board.
  18. mollusk
    Perhaps... but docs have been known to invest in all sorts of stuff.
  19. mollusk
    China Garden's stuck around over there since before it was the Parking District.
  20. mollusk
    So what's in the bicycle tires to get you up that high?
  21. mollusk
    Medium gray is the new beige.
  22. mollusk
    It can't be due to any sort of failure of the paving - it's still smoother than a baby's tuckus.
  23. mollusk
    Mercedes has plants at Tuscaloosa and in South Carolina, BMW's biggest plant in the world is just outside Spartanburg, and VW builds Passats in Chattanooga. Seems like the Germans are quite comfortable with the deep south.
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    As duly noted in your earlier post. It's amazing a) how much older construction had been scraped off by then with nothing on the radar to replace it, and b) how much new construction has taken place in the last decade.
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    They couldn't come up with a newer picture of downtown from the south? Based on the lack of One Park Place, this one's at least ten years old.
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