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    I suspect the original bricks were handmade per the story, but over time bricks were replaced as they were broken, and at a certain point they were probably just replaced through normal municipal channels, which tend to source pavers from established companies. There are probably some of the handmade bricks still there, but they might not be common
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    I wouldn't think so, since it's west of Montrose BLVD. I also completely forgot about that development and the promised for Movie Tavern. Would this area be Montrose, or something different?
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    Where could an Alamo drafthouse fit in Midtown?
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    It is, but it seems unreliable sometimes. And the metrorail used to have real time data but it seems to have disappeared
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    At least the seats have tiny Swedish flags
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    The only part that you can see from this side of the paywall Nice historic photo of, and I liked the explanation of how they did it http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/bayou-city-history/article/The-Melrose-Building-is-one-of-Houston-s-6668309.php#photo-9040608
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    Sadly that is probably the case. However, the current building is still quite tall, and if what we get is just a block that is all that tall (instead of a giant hole) right next to the Metro rail transfer station(s) I'll be happy. Just glad that the Texaco building survived and wasn't leveled for Skyhouse Rusk or something
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    Did a quick search on that and I found a picture from back when there were houses in downtown http://arch-ive.org/archive/irving-r-klein-building/
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    There were structural issues - it would have required a lot of renovation work to become anything more than a single floor building with very high ceilings
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    It looks like the interior units will have balconies
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    We need an eccentric oil tycoon to buy a tunnel boring machine
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    Still charging the positron emitters
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    That old greyhound station looks like it's larger capacity, so could hold more people waiting for their buses. I wonder what it was like before Greyhound moved - maybe it was even worse?
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    Who wants to tell Culture Map that that's traditional for most all buidlings no matter the time of year? http://houston.culturemap.com/news/entertainment/12-02-15-new-84-million-sugar-land-performance-arena-tops-out-in-a-holiday-way/
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    Sad to see another parking lot - and that no one could turn this into semi-useful space
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    If only Alexan and Catalyst had discovered that sooner and figured out a use for it - because I bet that they fill it in and it's lost
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    That probably just haven't installed the windows there yet
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    Answering my own question: it looks like the Midtown greyhound station was built between 1973 and 1981
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    Looking at historic google earth images, there seems to have been a structure there in February 2004. In the historic aerials at http://www.historicaerials.com/it looks like there was a blocky looking building there until 1995. In the 1966 photo there are diagonal lines that look like buses or trucks lined up. Someone said a while ago that it was the bus station? When did Greyhound move to Midtown?
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    Block 291, 1317 Austin St. I noticed walking to the Toyota center last night that the building on the corner of Clay and Austin had been demolished. Earlier I had seen warning signs on it about asbestos, but it was standing as of two weeks ago. Here's the building in question Building by Christopher Hisle, on Flickr HCAD says it's owned by GOLCONDA VENTURE - sounds like a holding company. Why would they demolish it? Asbestos infested buildings cost more to demolish right? http://www.hcad.org/records/details.asp?crypt=%94%9A%B0%94%BFg%84%8D%81zie%8El%87tXtYW%9E%99%A2%D3%89%95%C2e%7CU%8A%81%86%C0%AB%A8%AD%86%5EY%9B%C4%90uf%7B%A9%92%BEq%5E
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    They tried to build the Astrodome in Memorial park? Interesting...didn't know that
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    I wonder how this relates to an elevated busway for the BRT uptown line
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    On one hand, not everything has to be the most amazing building ever. On the other hand - it is an architecture blog
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    Maybe I've been downtown too long, but that loks like a lot of parking versus how much space the buildings take up. I mean each parking lot is at least the size of it's associated building if not bigger.
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    Popcorn companies
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