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    I'm not a matchbook collector, but I'm sure there'd be interest here in seeing these. There have occasionally been pictures of old restaurants posted, but they tend to be scattered across various threads as opposed to centralized in one thread. There's also an ongoing discussion on local restaurants of yore under the thread title "Defunct Houston Restaurants".
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    Wouldn't be surprised if they rebuild and move across the street. As you point out, they've done it in other locations (the branch on 19th in the Heights comes to mind). Also, the existing building is fairly old and was inherited by Chase when they acquired Washington Mutual - it was a former WaMu branch, and before that it was a Farm & Home Savings branch before that entity was in turn acquired by WaMu. Not exactly sure when the building was constructed, but the Farm & Home Savings branch there dated back to at least the early 1980s, if not earlier.
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    [envisions @samagon making the sign of the cross as he invokes the Parkers' Trinity] Surface parking as the religion of peace is corroborated by the Bible. Jesus himself drove a Honda, but He didn't like to talk about it much.
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    They were supposed to start hiring in January, but at the time this piece was published hadn't yet specified a reopening date: Pappas Restaurants to reopen Little Pappas Seafood House
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    I've seen Rice students refer to the light rail as "the Metro". It makes perfect sense if you consider that this usage is not uncommon in other locales with rail transit, that the people calling it "the Metro" are most likely not from Houston, and that the railcars all bear prominent "Metro" signage, but to native Houstonian ears it still sounds a bit quaint. But what do I know, I still cringe when I hear "the Montrose".
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    There was a Pancho's at Northtown Plaza (Tidwell & I-45) that had been there for several decades, but it closed within the past couple of years - yet another restaurant that fell victim to the pandemic. I think their business had already fallen off before then, however. I met a friend there for lunch a few months prior to the lockdowns and there were only a handful of tables occupied during what should have been peak business hours for them.
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    Aren't they missing some punctuation? "EaDo" - ugh
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    "Scissors & Scotch" sounds like a personal-injury attorney's dream business. Reminds me of a friend who used to sign off his posts online with "running with scissors down the hallway of life".
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    What I am most surprised by in that article is the disclosure that Heights Christian and First Christian have only 14 and 30 members, respectively. Those are eye-opening numbers given the size of the properties, and makes one wonder about the long-term viability of First Christian after the merger.
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    Clearly an amateur. The true connoisseur of 6-wheeled excess would settle for nothing less than a Mercedes G63 AMG 6x6.
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    I failed to notice this was in the Austin subforum when I saw it, and was briefly in disbelief at the prospect of a 58 story tower in the Heights before I clicked through to the linked article and the light bulb went on.
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    I really miss Original New Orleans Po-Boys. Their cheeseburgers were truly world-class.
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    My wife likewise drives to the Galleria area daily (her workplace is on Post Oak), and looks forward to the day when she will be able to hop on the train from the light rail stop that is literally two minutes from our front door and ride it all the way to work. It's possible to go door to door via Metro, but you have to get off the train downtown and transfer to a bus to get to the Galleria, and the bus trip takes a lot longer than a train would.
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    As despairing Heights residents gaze upon the gray monolith, a deep-throated cry goes up for the one person who can save them from decorative mediocrity...
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    I'd imagine "San Jacinto" (with a hard "j" and a short "i") and "Kirkendoll" were covered in that lesson as well. I've occasionally heard Tuam pronounced as "chew 'em", but I'm pretty sure anyone using that variant isn't from Houston.
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    That's not a Roku issue, it's the NBA's fault. As explained on Reddit:
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    I was going to post this yesterday, but for some reason thought it had already been mentioned here. I must've been anticipating you posting it. :-) The plans for Pub to share space with other vendors don't sound great, especially since it appears the administration made that decision without bothering to consult anyone involved with Pub management beforehand. And it strikes me as BS that it was as simple as an either/or issue when it came to Pub having its own dedicated space vs. dining space for grad students. If it had been a priority, I'm sure they could have found a way to accommodate both needs.
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    Or, as someone on the Houston subreddit put it, "Because the name "HARVEY" was not available".
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    I found a reference to it being incorporated in August 1984 as Willie's Grand Prize BBQ, Inc. I have to confess that name doesn't ring a bell, but you know what they say about memory. https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_tx/0071640800
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    I think wistfully of the far-superior Two Pesos it used to be, before it got converted to a Taco Cabana as a result of Two Pesos winding up on the losing end of trade-dress litigation. But neither one of them could hold a candle to the BBQ place it used to be in the mid-1980s, the name of which escapes me now. They had a substantial beef po-boy that frequently fortified me during the winter when I was living in an unheated apartment a few blocks away on Stanford. They wound up moving to a new location outside Montrose after a few years but didn't last very long in the new location.
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    I'd love to see how they'd react to the scene with Elvis and the nurse with the rubber gloves. On a more serious note, it would be great if they got rid of the God-awful upstairs screening rooms and restored the balcony, but it'll never happen. It's hard enough for theaters to make enough money to stay afloat with multiple screens these days. The number of viable single-screen venues that are still operating is vanishingly small.
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    I'm not sure how much of the original building is being preserved. There was at least one comment indicating that the facade would be kept intact. I'll be happy to be proven wrong if it turns out that it's more/most of the building, as opposed to just the facade. Given that there was a lot more heat than light in that thread, the numerous contradictory comments were a bit confusing. Also, "facadeomy" deserves to be formally enshrined in the HAIF lexicon. :-)
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    My favorite comment was a tweet that pointed out that it sounds much worse in Spanish: Biden llama «estúpido hijo de puta» a un reportero de Fox News
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    https://archive.fo/mwFuP
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