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  1. MidCenturyMoldy
    Skyscraperpage.com is back up. I’m wondering why their Wikipedia page said what it did.
  2. MidCenturyMoldy
    Cool! I like that. I remember when the Helmut Jahn and KPF buildings were announced. Nice to see them in context.
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    Yep. I just found a thread about it Skyscrapercity. https://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=167013932#post167013932 And just last night I posted something like 80 photos I had taken of downtown. 😫
  4. MidCenturyMoldy
    As of 6:17pm Wednesday the Skyscraperpage website is back up. Forgive me if this is the wrong place to post this. I am unable to connect to Skyscraperpage.com. I get a "403 Access Denied" error. I noticed their entry on Wikipedia refers to it as "was a website for skyscraper hobbyists and enthusiasts," key word being "was." Their Wikipedia page also includes "Current status defunct (2020)." Anybody know if it has, indeed, gone offline, or am I just banned or suspended for some unknown reason?
  5. MidCenturyMoldy
    The days are numbered for this particular view. Going to miss it, actually.
  6. MidCenturyMoldy
    I didn't even notice that all those buildings around "Texas Commerce Tower"* are new. * I, on the other hand, am not new!
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    https://www.flickr.com/photos/23333264@N00/with/49594271026/
  8. MidCenturyMoldy
    This MetroNext video shows a future BRT line running along I-10.
  9. MidCenturyMoldy
    Well, if you think about it, the parking garage for JP Morgan Chase Tower (or whatever it's called now) also takes up a whole block. It just doesn't have a skyscraper built on top of it. It has one across the street.
  10. MidCenturyMoldy
    From the 1978 map, it looks like there are apartments on the Mandell end of the block. That is what I thought I remembered.
  11. MidCenturyMoldy
    I beg to differ! It displaces the free parking lot where I used to park and then take the train into Downtown! 😁
  12. MidCenturyMoldy
    Absolutely!
  13. MidCenturyMoldy
    Thanks. I already had it and looked at the historical data immediately upon reading your post.
  14. MidCenturyMoldy
    I should have added "Not that the symmetry makes it any better." I liked Post-Modernism back in the early 80s...I have since recovered.
  15. MidCenturyMoldy
    Ooh! Thanks! I was wondering where I could find information like this.
  16. MidCenturyMoldy
    You know, as I find happens to me a lot in Houston, I don't remember what was there before.
  17. MidCenturyMoldy
    The Portland Building without all that pesky symmetry stuff.
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    ^ I ate at the Felix on Westheimer once...in 1985, I believe... I was not impressed. I much preferred Chapultepec, or even the original Tila's (where Katz's Deli is now) in those days. Still, I do miss seeing the Felix sign and name on the building.
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    Yep, Menil Park was there when I lived there. The Center For Photography was a convenience store. What freaks me out is that there are two fairly good-sized live oaks in front of the apartment building where I lived...that weren't there at all when I lived there. Talk about making a person feel old!
  20. MidCenturyMoldy
    Captain Benny's! (I think) You had to stand up to eat. No chairs. No tables. Just ledges on the walls to place your food on. Prince's also had good fried shrimp.
  21. MidCenturyMoldy
    I definitely agree that it's better than what's currently there, and better than just sticking an apartment tower (or two) on the spot. My concern is that its scale is too big for that intersection. Neither Montrose nor Westheimer are as expansive as that rendering makes them look. Now, if they put giant billboards and neon on it and make Montrose at Westheimer a mini Times Square or a mini Yonge-Dundas Square (Toronto) I'm all in!
  22. MidCenturyMoldy
    Yikes! Looks like Randall Davis tries his hand at a Michael Graves knockoff.
  23. MidCenturyMoldy
    No offense, but with that comment and especially with the laughing smiley reaction, you're being a bit of an a... well, you get the point.
  24. MidCenturyMoldy
    It's hard to have a sense of place when the place you're trying to have a sense of keeps disappearing out from under you. I first moved into Montrose (the fourplex at West Alabama and Mulberry...it's still there) in January of 1979. The flavor of THAT Montrose is long gone. Houston's not the only place that's changing so rapidly that any sense of place is at risk...Dallas and Austin are like that to some extent. Seattle, too. Toronto is almost a whole new city from the one I lived in as a kid for a couple of years in the early 70s. . . . Edited to add: I will say this, azaleas, pine trees, pine needles, live oaks, asiatic jasmine, moss on bricks, broken sidewalks, torrential rain and mildew all scream "HOME" to me. I suppose that's a sense of place.
  25. MidCenturyMoldy
    It's not often that I have ZERO qualms about a demolition in Houston.
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