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    ^^ Like anything else, IMHO it depends on who's driving the bus. Randall's actually did pretty OK under KKR; though Cerberus seems to follow the Bain method a bit more.
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    BTW, the preferred term is "interpretive dance."
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    The Pink Pussycat is long, long gone. From http://houstoricproject.com/:
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    ^^ What happened with Chase Tower was that the membrane got picked up off the Chase Center roof across Travis and slapped up against it. On many of the lower floors the offices on that face were destroyed all the way back to the elevator core. My office at the time was higher up, facing Travis but out of the damage zone. The clock on the break room microwave still had the correct time on it when we were finally allowed in a couple days later. High rise building windows can take a significantly higher wind load than we would see in even the worst hurricane, so long as it is a wind load. Get some projectiles in there and that's all she wrote.
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    Probably 2/3 of the times I go to Phonecia it's either at lunch or on my way home from work. However, that does leave the other 1/3 for when I make special trip just to get some groceries. For those of us in the Heights, it's less of a trek than Central Market and just a smidge further than Whole Paycheck, with better prices thrown into the mix.
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    Ya don't say. Reminds me of the old joke about Baptist sex.
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    My understanding was that the Onsteads (sp?) (the family that started Randall's) are practicing Baptists - another group known for not exactly being publicly fond of hooch.
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    Much of what is now The Parking District, outside of the Houston Center assemblage, also has buildings on it that were gone less than ten years later. I wonder what generated that demo derby?
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    ^^ IIRC, the car center was across the street in the parking garage, and Foley's Academy was on the same level as the hookup to the rest of the tunnel system. Over the years the dining option(s) moved all over the place.
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    I think it may even be a couple years before that. While One and Two Houston are there, it doesn't look like South Texas College of Law had yet done its expansion to the full north half of the block that it now completely covers.
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    It is connected to the tunnels, both to BG across Main, and via 801 Travis to the Niels Esperson food court (blink and you will miss the corridor heading east from the Niels).
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    @ rechlin: (Tim Allen grunting noises...)
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    Residential areas are not immune to soil contamination. Gas stations can have leaky underground tanks, and old school dry cleaners can be really nasty - PERC dry cleaning fluid passes easily through concrete into the ground below, and is all sorts of hazardous. And let's not forget those old car batteries that have been just lying behind the garage... I worked on a transaction once that was nearly derailed by a stack of them.
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    The problem with the fountains is that they function by shooting nice pretty arcs of water. However, those nice pretty arcs have a habit of getting blown around and onto the sidewalks, aggravated by the Venturi effect created by the nearby buildings. Whoever came up with the design didn't think through its practical effects.
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    Agreed, Subdude. How many bullets has that building dodged?
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    I think that the stars need to be rust colored and have a circle around them just touching the points. Otherwise, the cliche is incomplete.
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    When my grandparents lived near Palm Center (and Art Grindle Dodge, sponsor of Tarzan movies on Saturdays), their phone number was in the RIverside exchange. My dad worked in Bellaire; his office had a MOhawk number. We moved out past Dairy Ashford in the late '60s and were assigned a GYpsy number, one digit off of Uncle Bens. I have no idea where FAirfax might have been; I'll have to look around for an old phone book - they used to have a map of the exchanges in the front.
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    My stars, but people seem to be getting worked up easily today. On to an easier question... I work nearby and have watched this up close and personal on a daily basis. The tar like coating was there underneath the glass and stone facade, I assume as some sort of waterproofing layer so that the stone work didn't need to be sealed up all that tightly. My guess is that it was impractical, if not impossible, to remove.
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    1000 Main isn't that different in appearance from the Main Tower. The basic footprint of the office tower is the same; 1000 Main has the now obligatory parking podium and the fashion of the day external concrete detailing.
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    Closer to ground, there are a couple of bays where it looks like they are experimenting with how to resurrect the brick, at least in appearance.
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    @ Tumbleweed -Those trees are largely still there - at least those in the foreground, which are in front of the library and City Hall. The Ford dealership block is now taken up by the Public Works building (HL & P once upon a time). The Orleans Hotel is where Pennzoil is now (if I'm oriented correctly).
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    The restaurant that was on the southwest corner has been gone for a couple months now, and wasn't any great loss. Somewhat overpriced, relentlessly mediocre Chinese food with truly awful service. It's a wonder it remained around as long as it did. Hines has apparently recently discovered The Lobby Experience. 601 Travis (formerly Chase Center) also had some ground floor retail removed in favor of a significantly enlarged lobby, complete with seating. BG was built that way from the start.
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    I continue to use Main fairly regularly to get up to the Northside/Heights when I don't want to fool with the freeways. It could be made even more functional by removing what Dallasites call City T***ies and allowing two lanes of traffic each way - as occurs in the Med Center without a whole bunch of verklemptitude, and as looks to be the coming thing on the green/purple lines on Capitol and Rusk.
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    That dealership was there well into the 80s, if not the 90s, albeit under a different name I think (Osborne Apple?). And what IS it with the front bumpers on those '57 Fairlanes that makes it look like they come pre-knocked into something?
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    Lower Main Street was blocked off to cars on Friday and Saturday nights for a number of years. The nightlife that came in on Main for the baseball All Star game and the Super Bowl eventually dried up anyway, and the new stuff that's come in during the last year or two has done just fine without having the street blocked.
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