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  1. MidCenturyMoldy
    Don't be too hard on Houston. These three photos are from Toronto. I also saw some from Montreal.
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    I think so. I moved to the neighborhood in January of '79 and I was (until this thread) fairly sure the Kroger was already there.
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    1978
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    I take it back. I was thinking of the Montrose/Hawthorne corner but we're talking about Hawthorne/Yoakum. I do remember the parking lot did not open to Yoakum, so there must have been something there.
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    It's like going to a new city but you already know all the streets.
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    I don't remember that at all and I moved to Montrose in January of '79. CORRECTION: I was thinking of the wrong corner. I don't remember what was there, but the Kroger parking lot was not originally accessible from Yoakum. There must have been something on that corner.
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    As much as I am NOT thrilled by the diagonals, I REALLY like that they have transparent, as opposed to reflective, glass (Or maybe it's just because the area behind them is open to the sunlight).
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    True. And it's my favorite of the bunch. Just wish it didn't have the notch.
  9. MidCenturyMoldy
    There's a lot of blue reflective glass in this photo.
  10. MidCenturyMoldy
    Plus Market Square Tower has a "top."
  11. MidCenturyMoldy
    In the actual photos it looks like they are just windows using a different color of glass or maybe glass with a different reflectivity.
  12. MidCenturyMoldy
    I'm guessing he meant Texas Tower and not the Travis. Texas Tower and Brava have almost the same number of floors but are very different in height...and they're both in the above photos.
  13. MidCenturyMoldy
    The Travis? Do you mean Texas Tower, instead.
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    Call me "boring" if you wish, but I really would prefer it if the top looked something like this instead.I don't like the diagonals. Maybe the top could be a bit more dramatic than what I've done here, but I didn't want to spend forever photoshopping this thing. Honestly, if Hines had just plopped one of these in that location, I would be ecstatic.
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    FIVE OF AMERICA’S MOST INVINCIBLE HOTELS From Miami to San Francisco, these luxury establishments survived their share of crises before the Covid-19 pandemic https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/five-americas-most-invincible-hotels-180977948/
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    Extra tidbit about Numbers: The original entrance was out front on Westheimer where the current entrance is, but for a while, you walked back along the west side wall and entered through a back door and onto the stage. That didn't last. ETA: I spent about half of 1979 at Numbers. Then at the end of '79, Parade Disco opened in the building that is now the Menil's Dan Flavin exhibit on Richmond. I loved Parade because Monday and Tuesday nights were New Wave Nights and they knew what they were doing music-wise.
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    #s was originally called Numbers and "number" in gay slang meant "hot guy" as in "He's a real hot number" or "There's a hunky number over by the bar." Before it was Numbers it was a dinner theater called "Bev's Million Dollar City Dump."
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    It was originally located on Yoakum at Kipling, in a building that had been an ESL school, where the Annunciation Orthodox School is now.
  19. MidCenturyMoldy
    Is that a serious question or a joke? I can't tell. Anyway, if it is serious, Emporis has Brava at 549 feet with 46 floors and Market Square Tower at 498 feet with 40 floors.
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    WOW!
  21. MidCenturyMoldy
    Speaking of Ziegler Cooper, look who's been spotted in the lobby of their Camden Downtown residential tower! 😆 https://zieglercooper.com/projects/camden-downtown/ https://littleredridingbag.tumblr.com
  22. MidCenturyMoldy
    In the early 80s I was taking some art class and one of the assignments was to come up with a "conceptual" project. My decidedly lazy response was to propose the world's tallest and widest billboard with a painting of a mountain on it to be placed just east of downtown. This way the cliché bayou view of Downtown's west side skyline would have a mountain behind it. The eastern side of the billboard would have a painting of the eastern view of the skyline with a mountain behind that. My other (even lazier) proposal was to put a giant, rotating green neon dollar sign on top of the newly completed Allied Bank Plaza (now Wells Fargo).
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    I could hear those “bees” from my house in Montrose. I watched a bit of the race from the comfort of a nearby parking garage.
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    Definitely SOMETHING buried there.
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    Oh boy. Right next door to a small lead fabricating company and a large mound of earth encircled by security fencing.
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