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  1. nativehou
    I noticed on the way to work this morning that they are measuring the traffic counts on Bissonnet right in front Maryland Manor apartments.
  2. nativehou
    Saw this at the open house earlier this afternoon. Neither set of pictures (the ones originally posted from last year nor the current ones from har.com) do justice to it. It's incredible. I love the way it wraps around the back yard, which has lovely mature trees. Kudos to the current owners for doing such a fantastic renovation and keeping alive the spirit of the original.
  3. nativehou
    In one of the first Republican debates this year, the moderator asked if there were any candidates that didn't believe in evolution. Three raised their hand -- Brownback, Huckabee and Tancredo. That was a useful "separator."
  4. nativehou
    I think Dolce Vita on lower Westheimer is great for that purpose -- http://www.b4-u-eat.com/houston/restaurant...ews/rsv3976.asp
  5. nativehou
    I think they're held regularly at Tony's.
  6. nativehou
    I haven't seen the sign, but you're not wrong about public signage needing to be consistent with fonts and other graphic elements. It improves overall comprehension. I don't think you're OCD. Well, if you are, then I am, too.
  7. nativehou
    Lucy's not showing the cleavage she did when she first started here. Viewers must have complained. My son's not happy with the change.
  8. nativehou
    I found this also -- William Randolph Hearst held a fundraiser at the Waldorf Astoria in NYC to rebuild the original orphanage, which had been damaged in the hurricane. http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/daybyday/10-15-003.html
  9. nativehou
    The first one, the one in Galveston, is the old Galveston orphanage which was built right after the 1900 hurricane. It's an incredible place. Way back in the late 80s or early 90s I toured it when it was on the Galveston Home Tour (I think I've mentioned this elsewhere on the forum). The owners at the time lived in Maine in the summers and Galveston in the winters. They had kept a lot of the original features, like the bathrooms with multiple stalls and showers. The stairs were well worn down on the sides because the children had to keep in single file going up and down. The original library, at the front of the house, was still there, and the owners were using it as their dining room -- they kept the shelves all in place and their dining table was in the middle of the room. I believe there was a pool in the basement, but that wasn't on the tour. Neither was the kitchen -- it was being renovated at the time. http://www.har.com/4693848 (says it was renovated in 1988) http://www.archiplanet.org/wiki/Galveston_Orphans_Home
  10. nativehou
    I had a boss in the early 90s who married into the Lack family here in Houston. I don't know when or why the Lack's furniture stores ceased doing business in Houston, but they still operate elsewhere. There's a store in College Station that I've bought from recently. I don't know if any members of the Houston Lacks are still involved in the company.
  11. nativehou
    Henke Pilot, Lack's, Gulf -- old Houston! Wonderful photographs -- we all need to look deeper into our family albums for gems like these. Does anyone remember when the Village Theater closed?
  12. nativehou
    No. Where did that come from? I've lost money and made money on real estate. Why do you seem to support the developer's rights 100% over the homeowners'? Have you ever invested your own hard-earned money into a piece of property? Not a car or anything that will lose value, but a home for you and your family? Have you worked for years at a job that you aren't passionate about because you need to pay the mortgage for a house in a decent neighborhood while your kids are growing up? If you have, you would expect to at least not lose money when you sold your home. That's a reasonable expectation, even for a "leftie." Would your landlord be happy if a 24-hour self-storage facility, for example, went up next to the house you're living in? Would he shrug his shoulders, and say "oh, gee, that's the risk I took."? Would you try to get out of your lease if it happened, and then when your landlord said no, shrug your shoulders and say "oh, well, that's the risk I took."? And have you driven down Bissonnet to see where this is? Can you honestly tell us you think it's a good thing to construct a 23-story tower in that particular location?
  13. nativehou
    It's easy to see for anyone not blinded by dollar signs.
  14. nativehou
    I would think at least 30, given that it's a step above dealing with the public.
  15. nativehou
    Not for me. If this were happening to you, whether you were rich or poor, I'd feel bad for you. This isn't anything anybody expected on a two-lane stretch of Bissonnet.
  16. nativehou
    It won't cause the Apocalypse, but it will make the traffic situation much worse, which will bring down property values in one of the most beautiful areas of Houston. When you own a house, and you've worked years to pay the mortgage and you're looking forward to the day you sell it so you can reap the rewards of your years of hard work, you'll understand.
  17. nativehou
    And Lovell lives off of Woodhead between Alabama and Richmond -- only a mile or two from 1717 Bissonnet.
  18. nativehou
    Does anyone else find this kitchen laughably hideous?
  19. nativehou
    Welcome to the forum, ousider.
  20. nativehou
    The commercial development on this stretch of Bissonnet is hardly significant. Most of it is mom-and-pop businesses in existing structures -- formerly single-family homes. An antique store, photo studio, a caterer, etc. These businesses don't get a lot of traffic. The only businesses that get a lot of traffic in the area are the restaurants Picnic and Raven Grill in the old Butera's grocery location near Hazard. And that's usually only during lunch hour Monday-Friday -- AND it causes jams on Bissonet because the street is too narrow to handle it. Just turning left off this stretch of Bissonnet can cause jams during rush hour because it's hard to pass on the right if the car turning left is a truck or SUV. West of Greenbriar, Bissonnet is a different story -- with significant commercial development. But from Greenbriar to Montrose, it's mainly residential. A huge tower would, IMO, put too much stress on the area.
  21. nativehou
    Wow, how cool is that? The light rail is in it also. When they re-do that green building to add the restaurant and canoe rentals, it'll be even better. What building are you in? Thanks for sharing.
  22. nativehou
    Yea! Cafe Excel is safe for now. If someone wants to build in that area, there are tons of poorly maintained apartment complexes behind that property, one of which is for sale we noticed recently. It would be a shame to tear down one of the best (and longest running) restaurants in CS to build "luxury condos" whose target market will use them only infrequently.
  23. nativehou
    ^^^^That's an old rendering of the two colleges that are being built basically at the same time -- McMurtry, which was the first one funded, and Duncan, which was just funded and will be the green building. I guess now they won't look so similar.
  24. nativehou
    OK, my mother scanned the only four photos she still has. They are all from one night, a Medal Ball from the mid 50s, where the students were given medals for their accomplishments in class, and the staffers put on some choreographed dances. This particular Medal Ball was held at the Shamrock Hilton. She worked at the Arthur Murray studio downtown on McKinney, which was the first. The one on West Gray opened next. She said the dance studio that was across Westheimer from St. Anne's was Stevens of Hollywood, owned by Lance Stevens. The only photo my mother is in is the first -- she's the second from the left, so you can't see her face. The other three are dances that she choreographed, including a three-person tango, a cool number to "Fever", and a Viennese Waltz. Enjoy!
  25. nativehou
    What style of house are you interested in building?
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