Purpledevil

In today's age, he should know how serious employers are regarding sexual harassment. We aren't living in our fathers corporate world, here in the 21st.

BTW, thanks for the neat video. I'm not your baby, lol, but it made my day.

As long as the editor here at the HAIF will allow me to fill up the Houston Radio/TV subforums with all types of radio related information, tell your friends, tell your neighbors, the Purple guy is alive and well at the Houston Architecture Information Forum. The only issue that faces HAIF becoming the breaking news source for radio and television transactions and format changes, is the overall interest level here. Blue Dogs posts endless topics concerning television, and those topics don't receive all that many hits. I'm afraid radio related conversations will be met with the same indifference, but we'll see.

BTW, tell Frank thanks but no thanks. My return, will be the day Streamline sells the site back to someone like Doug Fleming, and that corporate, tow the line, piece of controlling speech junk can be put to rest. The management of the site let the very same ilk that has destroyed what we used to know as radio, destroy the board we used to have to follow the death march of AM/FM.

I don't blame Frank, he's just the puppet. I blame the ones over there pulling his strings. Did you know, I received an email from him demanding that I quit typing an FM frequency with a dash, and to kindly fall into line by using a dot? For how many years have I typed a radio frequency as "100-3" or so forth? All because one old man that's got a chip on his shoulder and constantly looking for something to wag his finger at. Man, I'm nearly 50. Way too old for that nonsense. The removal of my outright plea to have you reconsider the objection you filed to stop the sale of 91-7 to KSBJ was the final straw.

100 bucks, the good Doc in Buckeye, AZ wasn't asked to stop 99~Nining his...

Drop a line to the Mouse for me, tell him I'm sorry I'm gone, but this would be a fantastic opportunity to introduce him to the HAIF. Hey...and there's even a San Antonio area for him to pitch a tent.

Hi Joe, I'm the Purpledevil. According to your TV station on 38.9, you are currently looking for me.

I'm over here at the world famous HAIF...

So, then, the décor SG is remembering is not original Luby's decor but Romana décor?

Interesting. I think the Luby's at 34th and NW Freeway may have always been a Luby's, as it has that covered drive-up that many Luby's did in that era.

an apartment complex at the southeast corner behind Gigi's Cabaret that existed in 1989 but not 1995

Been a Luby's since the 70's. My grandparents carried me to that Luby's way back when the strip center attached was still walled in and functioned as a mini mall. Luby's was the anchor on that end, K-Mart on the far end. I hated it, my grandmother always had to stop at Hancock for material, thread, or whatever she wanted to have a "look-see" at after Luby's. Loved Luby's, hated Hancock's. Endless hours spent at that damn fabric store in my life, lol. Anyway, that would put the Luby's there at least 45 years now.

The apartments you referred to caught fire, IIRC. It was all torn down after a big section of it was reduced to rubble. I tried to find an old article online that covered it, but had no success. I'd have thought it would be archived somewhere.

Wasn't it "How old are you?" that he asked Wright?

Of course, he had both their numbers, when he drilled them with questions like, how many Cougar games have you two attended this year?

Practices?

Number of times I've been asked to come on your show?

Number of times your station even bothers to mention Cougar athletics?

Wright: "Hey Coach, can we go do lunch?"

Herman: "Who, you and me??"

Wright: "Yeah!"

Herman: "Ab-so-lutely NOT!"

Can't blame you, Coach. Don't think I'd be able to hold down lunch in that company, either.

Not that Hall is lying...

...but he is. That facility belongs in whole to Lenard Liberman's LBI Media. As others have duly noted, he picked up the terms of the lease Jesse Dunn signed with LBI, when Dunn left KCOH and moved his efforts to KJOZ. The popular belief in the radio community is that Hall defaulted as a result of being significantly behind in airtime payments to Liberman. I have been unable to verify that firmly, but has been echoed by several individuals with a closer eye on the developments.

KCOH will be back on the FM dial.

http://www.houstonchronicle.com/entertainment/article/Houston-s-KCOH-to-move-to-FM-dial-6739173.php

Yeah, we'll see. It'll be a miracle if it does return to the air.

Meanwhile, 880 KJOZ has Michael Harris, Don Sam, and pretty much every ex-KCOH staffer except Ralph Cooper over there. I'm a bit surprised the KCOH call hasn't just simply moved there. It's the exact same format, minus the call letters.

Signed on in 1998, and has been owned by Charles Dowen Johnson and Joel Osteen, amongst others. Once known for it's endless reruns of In The Heat Of The Night, Frazier, and Matlock, it became Mega TV in 2011 when Spanish Broadcasting Systems purchased Channel 55 from USFR.

http://www.spanishbroadcasting.com/SPANISH-BROADCASTING-ANNOUNCES-PARTICIPATION-IN-FCCS-TELEVISION-SPECTRUM-INCENTIVE-AUCTION-WITH-MIAMI-AND-HOUSTON-TELEVISION-STATIONS.pdf

Blue Dogs, you might want to drop ol' Mike a line. I'm certain he'll want to blog about this development.

This is true of the Heights too. Once upon a time, the cool thing was to substitute the eight with an 8 in Heights, resulting in H8S. Never understood that one, as I initially read it as "hates". Likely others made the same mistake, as it seems to have fallen out of use in more recent years.

Never heard the "Jail Route" slang. That's a new one to me.

The lights have apparently been shut off in the looking glass studio on Almeda. I've got Regional Mexican "La Ranchera" on 1230 as of a couple hours ago.

The Legend has truly passed. After 62 years, proudly carrying the torch as the radio voice of Black Houstonians, at 1430 and for the last 3 years on 1230, KCOH is now gone without any warning. Such is life in the radio world. Nothing on any news outlets as of yet. This just occurred in the last few hours.

Oh you can't forget about the Montrose IHOP on Richmond, mkultra. Wobbled into that place many a time.

Ah yes I do actually remember the building as Houston 420! Also was the location ever a Charlie's? I only remember as a Luke's when they still sold burgers.

You are correct. I've mixed up my burger joints, as it was indeed Luke's.

It just screams 40 E. Crosstimbers, don't you think?

If property ownership is of any help, the property was held by a Carl E. Zucker until 1988. The property records that I can access show him as the first of two landowners for 40 East Crosstimbers, the 2nd being the current ETB, LLC.

I'm a little too young to remember it as a Roy Rogers restaurant, having been born three years before it opened. As far as I can recollect, Hungry Farmer has been the only restaurant I can remember there and I basically grew up 5 minutes from the location.

BTW, everyone seems to forget, but the Zone d'Erotica in Joske's/Dillard's parking lot was "Houston 420" head shop prior to Zone, and right after Charlie's Hamburgers. After Charlie's closed, the building sat vacant for a long time before the 420 folks went in, gutted it to the bare walls, and brought it back to life selling paraphernalia, t-shirts, and black light posters. That particular 420 opened simultaneously with the one next to Heights State Bank/Rockefeller's on Washington. Heights was 420 #9, Westheimer was 420 #10.

I'll lie to anyone who asks me how I know the specifics, lol...

The CEO of St Joseph is speaking to the core team on Thursday. They are partially doctor owned (21%) with Iasis Healthcare owning the rest.

Unfortunately, it doesn't look good for St. Joe's. My neighbor's son is in the process of clearing out all of the furniture in one of the buildings. Don't know the entirety of the situation, but the City was about to start citing the hospital due to the specific building being closed and basically abandoned.

He has brought home several desks chairs, TVs, a refrigerator, etc. over the last week or so. From what my neighbor has told me, this is being done to clear the building out down to the bare walls in anticipation of unloading it altogether.

Perhaps that's why the new Sheraton going in at the ol' Holiday/Heaven on Earth building is listed as 801 Calhoun, instead of St. Joe's Pkwy.???

There were several malls in the area proposed but not opening. One intriguing one I read about on the HAIF (might be in papers, but they're not online) was a second mall across from Greenspoint but even more upscale (this from a time when Greenspoint was considered to be a nice mall, on par with Memorial City today).

It was never a "mall", more like a glorified strip center. It was built, it didn't last long, and it's still standing across 45 from Greenspoint. Not sure what exactly the center is used for these days, but it opened with great fanfare anchored by Media Play. The shopping center was built in '94 or '95.

At the time period stipulated by the OP, FM 1960 was still lil' old 2-lane Jackrabbit Road @ Kuykendahl, yes?

Nope. Fox sold out their stake in MundoFox, which is why it was forced to rebrand as MundoMax. Once Fox had concluded its association with MundoFox/Max, there was little reason for them to continue broadcasting the network on its O&O stations like KTXH.

Spanish language network MundoMax has been dropped from Fox owned KTXH 20.3, being replaced with the "Decades" channel. This network will be airing classic TV shows that you know, and some that you may have very well forgotten. Case in point, currently airing on Decades is Celebrity Bowling from 1971, with this episode featuring Adam West, Richard Dawson, and Roy Rogers.

Now, this one is coming from way out of left field. I haven't seen Celebrity Bowling on TV since I was a kid, and I don't believe it has seen the light of day since it was first run. Certainly not your run of the mill launch, nor format schedule.

http://www.decades.com/

Rice doesn't want it, wei. The university is actually in the process of building a new FM station here in Houston, only at a significant reduction of power when compared to the formerly owned 50 kilowatt 91-7.

On a personal note, I share in the dissatisfaction of losing the station OTA, but to be fair ever since they've been using the bird to feed KUHA, it has not been nearly as desirable to punch up on the dial, nor has it maintained its original statement of focusing on local performances. I can't tell you the last time I heard the Houston Symphony itself air on 91-7, but it has indeed been some time.

University of Houston has announced its intention to sell the former longtime home of Rice Radio. Classical format will remain on its digital platforms, TV 8.5 and 88-7 HD2.

http://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/news/classical-music-station-kuha-917-fm-moving-to-hd-radio-digital-format/

Some possible activities of interest:

http://seniors.meetup.com/cities/us/tx/houston/

http://www.ehow.com/list_6933554_senior-citizen-activities-houston_-texas.html

Volunteering opportunities:

http://www.memorialhermann.org/give-volunteer/volunteer/

http://www.houstonmethodist.org/giving/volunteer/

http://www.mdanderson.org/how-you-can-help/volunteer/adult-volunteers/index.html

Hopefully, that will give you some good ideas moving forward. Also, I would be remiss if I didn't mention my grandparent's church, Baptist Temple. The church (or what's left of it) is on West 20th, across from Kroger. The building is being refurbished, so as a temporary solution they meet for services at the Sheraton Brookhollow. This was a huge church just 20 years ago, with a congregation well over 1,500...maybe closer to 2k. The parishioners dwindled dramatically over the last decade and 1/2, and from what I've seen personally, I think it was actually a blessing to some extent. The church is much more focused on its membership than it once was, and the minister delivers a solid Bible based message. They also do perform community services, visiting the sick, homebound and hospitalized, as well as prayer circles and the like.

Best of luck to you, goastros. I certainly hope you find the right fit for the both of you.

PD

I'm on no witch hunt, and am probably one of the least PC people in here.

You know why I wag the finger? Because it doesn't matter how you try to spin the original statement's wording, the intent is pretty clear. Those class of people are beneath my child and ultimately me, and there's no way I'm sending my child there to be corrupted by those undesirable elements.

Mine went to Aldine after a long argument with my wife, over this very same thing. She wanted him to use her parents address so he could go to Terry in Rosenberg because Aldine was too rough for him, and he won't get the attention there that he would at Terry, and so on and so on. When it was said and done, my boy graduated a Mustang.

I'm certainly not trying to tell someone else how to raise their kids, but try having a little faith in them that they will make the right decision when faced with such adversity.

S3mh, I don't necessarily disagree with what you did. If Love's curriculum isn't up to par, then you did the best thing for your child. That's a whole different set of circumstances altogether, and I applaud you for seeing to it that your child received the finest education available to him/her. I have no qualms with that. I do have a problem, however, when someone basically walks in the front door of the school house, takes a look around, says "Oh my, look at all the Mexicans!" and walks right back out because their child would be "put at a disadvantage" by attending the same school as them.

Apparently, you moved your child for the right reasons, s3mh. Given the wording of the other poster, it seems they did not, and are trying to mask their true feelings with a bunch of fancy words such as "underprivileged" and "English deficient".

...and some people actually wonder why we white folks are hated by so many.

Doesn't like Catholicism, huh? Well, there goes All Saints and Christ the King.

Is Lutheran okay? I ask because I would highly recommend Immanuel Lutheran on 15th & Arlington as far as true, straight out of the Bible, preaching. Strong community of parishioners, that are supportive and legitimately care about the community they serve. It's a traditional Lutheran service, nothing real fancy, but IMO, a great place for an older person to go and worship the Lord. I know they do have activities for older members, I just don't know if they take trips and such.

If you're looking for a place that does A LOT for the elderly, is your mom open to changing banks? Prosperity Bank on Yale @ 24th has a program called the "Go Club" that has monthly luncheons for the 65+ crowd, game nights, take trips to Louisiana to gamble, sewing classes, arts and crafts events, and the like. She would have to open an account with the bank to be eligible for the club, but they do have a lot of neat activities that I think and hope your mother in law would enjoy.

Anyway, if you're just focused on churches, Immanuel is certainly worth a visit.

Edit to add: Could you tell me what denomination of church she typically attended prior to the move, and a few of the things she most enjoys doing? I cared for my grandmother for several years prior to her passing in 2007 and may be able to help find her some more activities that would keep her body activity and her mind sharp, if I were more familiar with what she likes and/or dislikes.

Doesn't like Catholicism, huh? Well, there goes All Saints and Christ the King.

Is Lutheran okay? I ask because I would highly recommend Immanuel Lutheran on 15th & Arlington as far as true, straight out of the Bible, preaching. Strong community of parishioners, that are supportive and legitimately care about the community they serve. It's a traditional Lutheran service, nothing real fancy, but IMO, a great place for an older person to go and worship the Lord. I know they do have activities for older members, I just don't know if they take trips and such.

If you're looking for a place that does A LOT for the elderly, is your mom open to changing banks? Prosperity Bank on Yale @

24th has a program called the "Go Club" that has monthly luncheons for the 65+ crowd, game nights, take trips to Louisiana to gamble, sewing clashes, arts and crafts events, and the like. She would have to open an account with the bank to be eligible for the club, but they do have a lot of neat activities that I think and hope your mother in law would enjoy.

Anyway, if you're just focused on churches, Immanuel is certainly worth a visit.