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Don't know the schedule, but Cherry Demo posted signs two days ago.. I suspect it is coming down soon..

So.. after the house fire south of 15th on Yale yesterday, there was another fire (don't know if it was a house, the road was closed) north of 15th on Yale this morning..

And still hadn't heard any news on the cause of the large house fire on Heights..

so.. WTF?!

We have two kids and we're zoned to Field.. there's no way in **** we'd send our kids there..

It's really a shame that we have to pay such exorbitant property taxes for such pitiful schools.

Yeah.. many friends in Woodland Heights and south of us got their nice big cans.. grr.. We are constantly overflowing our "bin" by about 4 times and have to take our glass to the Center St recycling place.. We're going to dump all our crap in our friends' bins now..

I've noticed that as well (the brick on Heights).. I wonder if the rail from the old street cars is still under there as well..

It would be cool if Heights had it's original brick restored, but I'm sure the durability and maintainability of asphalt is much cheaper..

I've a friend who's renting a garage apt on 6th 1/2 st pretty much behind Onion Creek.. I think it's an efficiency style and I think it's still available.. PM if you want more details..

But if you let one guy in basketball shorts in, you have to let all guys in basketballs shorts in. Besides, based on the beer price alone, that place is clearly a sports bar for yuppies and uppities.

Bring back the Pigstand.

A dbag sports bar! Woo! I guess they're not hurting for business since they can turn people away.

I've never really had an inclination to go to this place.. Porch Swing pub down the street has a couple'o TVs and has always been a nice hangout..

Is anyone else similarly aggrieved?

We are! Especially for glass as I understand this new recycling "program" includes glass.. We constantly have our bin overflowing after 1 week. I don't know how we generate so much trash.. but at least we recycle most of it!

Come on already COH..

ah ha! looks to be it.. I was trying to google it but it wasn't coming up anywhere..

Thanks

I noticed a new place near the subway strip center at I10 and Heights and while briefly driving by I read something like "Healthy Pharmacy" or something like this..

Anyone know anything about it?

Unless it's a date night, it's not easy to take the kids to a nicer place.. Plus the wife and I have been on a diet so it makes it difficult to eat out.. but either way, these are the places we hit often enough to make a list of, but maybe not 12 times a year:

Berryhill

Hickory Hollow

Someburger

Shade

Glass Wall

Tetototoehkawan on Airline.. (sp?)

Oh Yeah: Dry Creek for breakfast.. mmm..

Gotta try still Stella Stola for date night, and Mam's for kids' night.

Edit: Duh

I've bought quite a few bikes from craigslist and have had pretty good luck. a barely used Mt bike and a couple o' road bikes. You have to have patience and maybe join the RSS feed so you can see them as they are posted.

I had specific size Cannondales I was keeping my eye on, and finally after 4-5 months, I found what I was looking for.

Some bike shops have used bikes as well. Houston bicycle Co. in Montrose near Westheimer and Taft has used ones. Blue Line bikes in the heights has some too. Some pawn shops will have them but who knows if they're hot and they're general condition.

Otherwise new will always get you what you want when you want it. I still like the local bike shops: Houston Bicycle Co, Blue Line, Daniel Boone Cycles, and Bikesport near river oaks.

Good luck!

I'm with Heights_Yankee's answers so I won't repeat them.

But, must emphasize: yes, please, "Coke"..

Pepsi? ugh..

Despite the statistics, most restaurants in this neighborhood that offer good food and good service are going to do well. I would say we have more successes than failures. Just ask Shade and Glasswall. And if Happy All Cafe can stay open, anything can!

Indeed.. I'll give it a try before I dismiss the place. There are some great places in the Heights and I support many local eateries/coffee shops/stores etc..

McCain's I agree couldn't figure out what they wanted to be. I looked at getting some fish and steak there once and ended up going to Kroger instead since it was too expensive. McCains had coffee and nick-nacks.. Just didn't get it.

If Onion Creek can survive while making people wait for an hour for a burger or pizza, what can't? I'd hate to set the bar that low tho.

Anyway.. I always wish new small businesses in the area the best of luck.. so.. Best of luck!

Edit: Coffee clouds the mind..

Don't know what's going to happen to the house.. but it's raised like 20' in the air!

Fatburger is out. As for the new building, according to the developer's site, it is going to more strip center type stuff. Right now they show Arby's (ugh) and a Vitamin Shoppe.

Woo hoo! ARBYS!

Like their dripping cheezy sandwich..

Sad.. hope they rebuild.. or at least re-locate in the area.. Midtown just wouldn't be the same without a Mai's..

How old was that building anyway.? Old wood I would suspect burns better than today's pressure and bug treated woods..

Nevermind.. built in 1978..

Sad.. hope they rebuild.. or at least re-locate in the area.. Midtown just wouldn't be the same without a Mai's..

How old was that building anyway.? Old wood I would suspect burns better than today's pressure and bug treated woods..

Not defending it but I would think the reason has something to do with the ground being saturated ever since they put it on skids. If you think back, we really haven't had a spell long enough to dry the ground to support that type of weight.

I would think it would be expensive to have all that equipment tied up for so long.. but.. whatever.. at least they're not tearing it down..

Yeah.. it's been sitting on rails for months.. They were going to build a "strip center" there, but decided against it.. there's a thread around here somewhere about it..

I wonder when/if they're ever going to move the thing..

I wonder if the city has just gotten aggressive with ticketing and booting as of late.

Perhaps people have gotten so out of control on the limited parking spaces they have, that perhaps they had to put more manpower behind it. I'm starting to see the COH Parking enforcement at all hours and neighborhoods for in increasing amounts over the past few months.

Nah.. It's MONEY!

I think Bogart's was the one up at 19th and Heights. The one you may have stayed at was called Angel Arbor (I think?) before it closed and became a law office a couple of years ago. There was another one where you could have receptions in a big room in a building seperate of the house. It was north of Sara's, but I can't remember what it was called. They had a cool old car parked in the side yard

My in-laws stayed at Sara's and liked it very much. They also stay at the Homestead Suites on 610 and TC Jester, but they always make sure and request a room at the back to avoid the freeway sound.

Score! Yeah.. I think that's it.! I was pretty sure it was where the law office now is.. Okay.. so my wife and I are both right.. I was right about the location but not about the name.

ps. It was quite a reception..

Somewhat related question, was Sara's BnB ever located on the East side of Heights? Like on the corner of 9th? We stayed at a BnB there after our wedding at Rockefeller's about 10 years ago and it's been an ongoing debate where and what it was called.

It's Stella Sola (see 3 posts above). Currently in soft open, I think.

Cool thanks.. I didn't make the connection with it being the same location. Didn't know they had upstairs dining.

Looking forward to checking it out.

He was referring to a cart return system. Put the cart back, get your quarter deposit back.

Could the machine accept the food stamp "Texas Card"?