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Due to a lack of weekeday baby sitters weeknights woudl not be a good thing for me at all. Weekends or Friday nights yes, but not week nights.

There is one on the corner of Spencer Hwy and Underwood in La Porte, Texas. It is a 24 hour store now. How about Michaels Jewelry Store.

My presonnal choice would be up in Seattle or one of the sorrounding cities.

I put down the east end but I actually live in the Deer park, La Porte area.

Personally I could really care less what churches do or how they spend their money, or teach their people just as long as they leave me alone. MY only real problem with the majority of American Christian churches is that they seem to have lost the focus on their followers and are now playing a game of one up-man ship. "Look I have a bigger church and more followers than you do!" mentality. Lately I have had the pleasure to do a lot of traveling and I have seen bigger and bigger churches springing up everywhere and not just around Houston. Where their use to be a nice little community church with maybe 100 to 200 seats there is now a 6000+ square foot metal building that looks terrible and so unoriginal. What ever happened to the days of originality and style? I love walking into the church in downtown and looking at the architecture and style and most especially the one in the French Quarter in New Orleans for the same reason. Today

Opp's! I am sorry it was on Ave F. I was on so many streets that day that I lost track of what Ave I was on! Neat find. thanks!

I was driving around and I came across this building at the corner of Ave O and 73rd streeet in Houston Zip 77012. The words City Hall are in concrete across the top left hand side. Anyone know anything about this building? It is in the Magnolia neighborhood subdivision.

They are calling it the survival set up. No anchor stores. just what people need. Clothing stores, hardware, groceries, banks and a few restraunts.

It was the Second Jefferson Davis Hospital. And I think it was the second oldest Hospital in Houston. I could be wrong though about its age.

Except for what I mentioned above. Not a thing left. Just memories! Jind of sad but the place was really getting shabby looking anyway. And the majority of the stores and shops were all closed and boarded up years ago! It was like walking in a ghost town. The old Bowling alley had been closed for years and was only used for storage.

It is mainly the upstairs area that is haunted. And about all I have ever heard people talk about is cold spots, things moving occasionally and on occasion a figure or 2 appearing to people here and there through out the building.

The only things left to remind you of the old Gulfgate mall is the bridge over the 610 loop and the signs. Even the old Movie theatre is gone! There is a Metro transfer station there now. The bridge is currently closed but it is also under renovation. They plan to use it to expand the parking area for the Metro area if I understood correctly.

Personally I like the little accident on the freeway on the lower right hand side. Thart shows me that the atist really knew Houston well when he built this model.

I like the new name congratulations. As much as I enjyed the other topic this is much better suited to this wonderful forum.

I spend a lot of time driving around this city and after years of doing this I have yet to run out of new places to explore and discover. Just the other day I found a neighborhood tucked way back where every street had the same name. (No joke) The only way to tell where you were was by the house numbers.There was only one way in and one way out if you were in a car. I later found out that thre were several little areas in the same subdivision that were just like that. Wierd.

Personally I do not feel that this is a good thing at all. And I can see all too much way that it will be abused. I have a friend (not in this state) who lost his home to development. The city and county wanted to expand a road and straighten it out. A few house including his were in the way. The government stepped in a seized the house telling him that he will be compensated for it. He and the other home owners tried to file an injunction to stop the work or at least delay it but it was shot down. In the long run he lost his house which had been in the family for 3 generations and they city only paid him for less than half of its actual worth. Eight years later he is still living in a rental home because they did not give him enough money to buy a new home and housing is not cheap where he lives. Yes he has a lawsuit pending but the local government keeps getting the dates moved. At this time it will be another 2 years before it comes up in court. No I do not believe that this is a good ruling at all. I do agree that this city needs a make over but all of the new housing being built inside the loop is so expensive that the average family cannot afford it. So they move further out to the out lying communities and the problem starts all over again. My other problem is that the majority of the new developments going up inside the loop look ugly beyond belief and are all being built below standard. I just do not see how this is helping matters in these ares.

They are for the most part.

Well besides my digital camera not working the day they were examine some of the graves in the basement area I have not experienced much. But lately a lot of the workers and especially the nighttime security guards have been experiencing a lot of activity. Work on the building is nearly complete all of the new windows are installed and sealed and many of the rooms are nearing completion as well and they now have air conditioning running in the majority of the rooms. I was chatting with one of the security guards the other day and he was telling me that just a few days ago finished his rounds and the crew had just left for the day after shutting the old girl down and sealing her up. He was sitting in his car listening o the radio when he heard a noise. Stepping out of his car he noticed that every window on the hospital was wide open. How that happened he did not know. He called a fellow office over and they went through and re-closed all of the windows. The only other story is pretty common and has to do with tools moving on their own. A worker will put down his tools to work on some thing reach back down to pick it up and it will be gone and. He may or may not find it and if he does it will be across the room where it should not be.

I use to drive one of those not to long ago. Actually had 3 of them. Great gas milage as well. Now this is what I drive. LOL Actually it is a 1998 white Dodge Neon and my lady has a 1996 Blue Toyota Corolla.

A friend sent me these pics and said that this is suppose to be some where in Houston and would like me to go get her some pictures of it. Anyone know anything about this? Thanks Here's a picture of a public toilet in Houston, Texas. This is made entirely out of one-way glass. No one can see you in there, but when you are inside, it looks like you're sitting in a clear glass box. Would you / could you use it ???

Is that what they are building? Wow! I was wondering. Thanks. Now if they woudl only put a decent route out to my place I might actually be tempted to use the metro.

Another place that I have heard about is Pasadena High School in Pasadena Texas. A number of people that I have meet say that the Auditorium is Haunted but a work man that fell to his death from the upper catwalk.

Houston Public Library The downtown library's Julia Ideson Building is reportedly the home of Mr. Cramer, a spectral violin-playing janitor. Cramer began working in the building when it opened in 1926; at night, after the library had closed, he often practiced his violin in its rooms and corridors. The Julia Ideson Building of the Houston Public Library is reportedly the home of the ghost of a former janitor. Mr. Cramer, who worked in the building from its opening in 1926 until his death 10 years later, practiced his violin there after the library closed. Many visitors have reported hearing his ghostly music, especially on overcast days. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cramer died in the Ideson Building's basement in 1936, and since then, he has made his presence known with ghostly violin playing, particularly in the rotunda and the Texas Room. Many people have reported hearing the music, especially on overcast days, and visitors often report feeling like they are being watched. The Julia Ideson Building is located at 500 McKinney Street downtown. KLOL Radio Another site that Long Star Spirits has checked out is the orginal KLOL-FM broadcasting studio on Lovett Boulevard in Montrose. Several employees of the station had reported experiences ranging from poltergeist activity to apparitions in the building -- including telephone receivers jumping as far as 3 feet and sightings of what appeared to be an Hispanic cleaning lady. The station's modern building is located on the site of the Jesse Jones mansion (the Joneses were one of the wealthiest families in early-20th-century Houston), and Lone Star Spirits reports that at least one murder and one assault have taken place on the premises. When the investigators first visited the location last year, they found that the elevator doors opened and closed for no reason. One of the members rode the elevator to the second floor, and when the door opened, he caught a glimpse of an Hispanic woman in a denim shirt. During the team's second visit, just before Halloween last year, it brought along a camera crew from KPRC-TV. While the reporter was interviewing one of the station's employees, a camera bag fell off a table for no apparent reason, and the room temperature reportedly dropped. Later, the reporter, the camera man and four members of Lone Star Spirits were near the elevator when the door began to open and close repeatedly with no explanation. Battleship Texas The Battleship Texas is the only such surviving vessel to have taken part in both world wars. It was the first ship in the U.S. Navy to have anti-aircraft guns and commercial radar. It fired on Nazi defenses on D-Day in 1944 and was later hit by German artillery near Cherbourg, France. Now retired, the Battleship Texas is moored near the San Jacinto Battlefield east of Houston and is open to the public. The ship is reportedly haunted by a red-headed sailor who appears on one of its decks. Reports indicate the apparition is seen dressed in a white sailor's suit and standing near a ladder, smiling. Also, a caretaker in the trophy room (located on the same deck) claims she entered a space/time slip that sent her to the cemetery at Normandy. The room is used to display guns and other military equipment. Old Town Spring Spring began as a railroad town in the late 19th century, and although many of its buildings from that era are gone, enough remain today -- with a few additional historic structures having been moved there -- to form a district of restaurants and shops along the old railroad tracks. Most of the buildings are well over a century old, and several have reports of hauntings. White Hall is one of the few original structures in Old Town Spring. It was once the Klein Funeral Home, and the bodies of a couple who were killed in an auto accident were brought there; they occasionally appear on the balcony or are seen dancing inside the building. At Rose's Patio Cafe, an old iron leaves its home atop a refrigerator, a rocking chair sets itself in motion occasionally and a keyless dead bolt lock actuates itself. The nearby Puffabelly's is located in a building that was once the train depot in Lovelady, Texas. When it was a depot, legend has it a signalman was decapitated when he slipped and fell on the tracks -- and word in the area is that the spirit of the man still inhabits the building. Perhaps the most documented haunting in town is at the Zwink House, which was moved about 4 miles to its current location behind Puffabelly's and is being restored. Lone Star Spirits visited the house after hearing someone was murdered there; in four visits, they recorded a number of orbs on film and some strange sounds on audio tape. Old Town Spring is located one mile east of Interstate 45 on Spring-Cypress Road, about 20 miles north of downtown Houston.

Actually Yes. Let me see if I can find my list and get it up. But you may have to wait until some time next week.

OH I would not say that! But some people experience stuff where others do not. Have not clue as to why!