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    With the Angels' logo providing an appropriate visual representation. Too bad the 'Stros couldn't manage to complete the sweep yesterday.
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    I hope it's not a communicable disease. But after thirty years on the internet, I've probably developed a sufficient degree of immunity.
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    I didn't realize Willis Carrier was a New Yorker. I could've sworn he was a Southerner, if not a Texan. Who was it that said (paraphrasing) "Texas wasn't truly civilized until air conditioning spread throughout the state"?
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    Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose...
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    If the house specialty isn't a faithful recreation of the Leo's combo plate created for the inside gatefold photo of Tres Hombres, it will be a fail.
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    Theaters that primarily show first-run films, i.e., megaplexes and the large chains like AMC and Regal, as opposed to those that show older and classic films (aka "rep houses").
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    I have often made the argument that everyone in Texas should be bilingual for exactly that reason - Texas was part of Spain and Mexico for longer than it has been part of the United States. And I say that as someone who can get by in Spanish but falls far short of fluency.
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    Ha! I realized some time after I posted that I should have said FM149 but I was too lazy to go back and edit my post. At least the lunch counter at Yale Pharmacy is still open, even if it has outlived the actual pharmacy portion of the business. I would also add Avalon Drug Store's original location at Kirby and Westheimer to your list. The diner was sold in 1993 and both it and the drugstore moved down the street to the current location before the drugstore portion closed in 2008.
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    The Dugan's at 249 and 45, I assume. I have fond memories of that lunch counter and soda fountain as well, although I was still very young when they got rid of it. Hard to imagine that such a thing once existed, and was even commonplace in many drugstores, in the current era of cookie-cutter CVS beige boxes.
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    That would be less than optimal, considering that it's one of the only theaters in town that has (or had, at any rate) the ability to screen 70mm prints. Not that it matters all that much now, as the exhibition industry is practically on life support and the chances of anyone doing a limited 70mm run in a non-repertory setting are probably between slim and none for the foreseeable future.
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    I'm still trying to figure out if they named it after Larry or Harlan.
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    I still say we won't have reached "peak mattress" until we get a flagship Mattress Firm store designed in the Miesian style.
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    Hopefully they've given it a tune-up, because it's gonna get a workout if the boys continue the beatdown they've put on the A's in the first three games of the opening series in Oakland.
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    Also when Soundwaves used to be there in the 90s (on the end where Half Price Books was), before they relocated to the old Walgreens building at Hawthorne and Montrose.
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    The best possible outcome for the River Oaks would be for another tenant to continue theatrical film exhibition there. But people aren't exactly lining up to jump into the exhibition industry in the current climate, to put it mildly, and if Landmark couldn't make it work financially, can anyone? It could have been a good fit for an Alamo Drafthouse location, but would have probably required some remodeling to fit their business model, and given their current bankruptcy proceedings and the associated closure of several of their existing locations, any kind of expansion is almost certainly a non-starter for at least the near future. Single-screen (and quasi-single-screen, like the River Oaks) vintage neighborhood theaters have long been nearly extinct, even when the industry was doing much better than it is now. It would take a deep-pocketed benefactor with a lot of patience to keep the River Oaks open in something like its current form, but I'm afraid it's more likely destined for either a repurposing like the venues mentioned in the Chron piece, or an outright demolition when Weingarten decides to replace that section of the shopping center with something larger and newer, like they previously did across the street.
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    H-E-B and Walgreens are also giving out vaccinations. https://vaccine.heb.com/ https://www.walgreens.com/findcare/vaccination/covid-19
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    It's even better than that. The website shows plural and not possessive - except at the very top of the page where, in what is presumably an early rendering, the sign contains an apostrophe. Scroll down a bit to an actual picture of the sign, and the apostrophe is gone. https://thehoustonfarmersmarket.com/ The inability to correctly distinguish between the plural and the possessive is one of the great evils of the modern age. I blame the demise of old-school English teachers whose sadistic reputations were built on forcing countless generations of junior-high students to diagram sentences on chalkboards until their fingers bled. Now if you'll excuse me, I've got to go yell at some clouds.
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    If I squint, I can almost make out Bevo grazing near those goal posts.
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    NFT + CRE = WTF
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    I saw a rumor going around on Twitter last night about this, indicating that they planned to take their website offline at midnight. It was still up as of a couple hours past midnight but there's now a placeholder page there informing visitors of the wind-down:
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    I did not know that. I'd probably do a double take if I ever saw a Stratos or a racing Delta tooling around Houston. Those are certainly not cars that you see every day, by a long shot.
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    I remember when they were first being sold, as I (very) briefly considered buying one. But I don't recall whether there was actually a dedicated Houston dealer or (more likely) they were available through already-established dealers that carried other makes.
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