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    HCAD's appraised value in 2011 (a couple of years after this piece was written) was 269K, and their stated market values for 2014 and 2015 are running 100K+ over appraised value. My guess is the sales price was in the 250-300K range. http://hcad.org/records/details.asp?crypt=%94%9A%B0%94%BFg%84%90%82zqd%8El%87tXt%5BW%9E%99%A2%D3%89%95%C2e%7CU%8A%81%86%C0%AB%A8%AD%86%5E&bld=1&tab=3
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    Pretty sure this house has been discussed here before: http://www.dwell.com/house-tours/article/shipping-muse
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    The 1923 Majestic was both a vaudeville house and a motion picture theater. http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/1672 There's some discussion of its vaudeville background in David Welling's book Cinema Houston - you can view it via Google Books, although not all pages are available: https://books.google.com/books?id=R6XDCyvuGSkC&pg=PA63&lpg=PA63&dq=vaudeville+houston&source=bl&ots=JA1wSYBlY2&sig=XbOB2_3mcBo-50koUm0HUtYZTUc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAjgKahUKEwj-weKz_8LHAhWBr4AKHWmXBPY#v=onepage&q=vaudeville%20houston&f=false
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    It's truly unfortunate that One's A Meal is no more. What really stands out on that Northline map is the number of shoe stores. Northline was certainly not a big mall by modern standards, but it somehow managed to support no less than seven shoe stores and one shoe repair shop. Also, I never realized that Freeland's Pet Shop was originally in the mall. By the time I started going there, they'd already relocated to the strip center on the south side of Crosstimbers, next to Shakey's Pizza.
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    I've picked up a lot of pizzas from Pink's since they opened, but at this point I've gotten pretty burned out on them. Chicago Italian Beef & Pizza on Airline is better.
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    It's definitely Northline. The stores visible in the picture match the layout on this map: http://blog.chron.com/bayoucityhistory/files/legacy/northline.pdf
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    Not so much negativity as amusement. I'm sure I'll give them a try once they're open. And I'll be thinking of Duane Allman when I do.
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    I couldn't resist Googling Mellow Mushroom after reading the HBJ description of "an Atlanta-based hippy pizza chain". I envisioned a place where psilocybe cubensis had once been the most popular pizza topping (inevitably leading to an unofficial motto of "our pizza will make you puke, but you won't care"), and judging from the pics at http://mellowmushroom.com/about/roots, I wasn't too far off. Of course, like many other establishments, it appears to have evolved into just another hipster haven pushing craft beer, its original brand comfortably diluted and sanitized for consumption by those who wouldn't know the difference between a cow patty and Shinola. Oh, the humanity!
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    She's tan, rested, and ready: Kathy for May...um, Rail Czar:
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    Who can forget Beautiful Southwest Houston?
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    With respect, do you really want to invoke the spirit of the Weathermen in Chicago with the name you've chosen at the same time you're emphasizing the non-violent nature of the protest? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Days_of_Rage
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    I remember that sign as well - it has added resonance for me now, as I've recently been driving out to within spitting distance of Fulshear several times a week. Up until a year or two ago, there used to be a very old street sign near downtown where Preston feeds into Washington. It was rusty but still legible, and had to be close to 40 years old. I kept thinking I should take a picture of it, as it was unusual to see a metal street sign that old still in service, but I never got around to doing so until one day I was dismayed to see it had finally been replaced with a new sign.
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    The original one on Navigation is still there - it's changed hands several times but is still worth the trip, being fairly representative of what it was like in its glory days. There are a couple of others around town but they just licensed the name at some point in the past and there's really nothing to distinguish them from any other Mexican restaurant.
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    http://www.houstonarchitecture.com/haif/topic/23232-westheimer-walk/
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    John McClain's piece in the Chronicle about Stabler is worth reading, including a great story about the Snake showing up before a game in New York with a crippling hangover: http://www.houstonchronicle.com/sports/columnists/mcclain/article/Stabler-leaves-colorful-legacy-including-stint-6376762.php Smoking in locker rooms, playing hungover...man, I miss the old NFL.
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    Yeah, looks like the Tuscaloosa News jumped the gun on publishing the obit, then after a lot of other media outlets had already picked up their story and run with it, they retracted it. Not the first time something like that has happened when a celebrity is near death. When I saw the linked item, the URL still indicated that he'd died, but the headline and body of the piece were devoted to coverage of the Tuscaloosa News retraction.
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    Demeris isn't defunct, they just moved from the old location on Hempstead to a new outpost in the strip center on the corner of 18th & 610. And of course the W. Alabama location is still where it's always been.
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    Tuscaloosa News has retracted their announcement of his death: http://www.foxsports.com/nfl/story/oakland-raiders-ken-stabler-dies-age-69-070915
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    IIRC the printing presses that were in the downtown facility were sold off and moved out within the past year or two - I've seen a photo of one of them being moved, but I can't find it now. They were decommissioned several years before that, and all Chron printing operations have been run out of the former Post facility since then.
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    I wish the newest location on N. Post Oak were open later than 4PM. I understand why they keep those hours, given that there's probably not much of a post-lunchtime crowd in that area, but there have been more than a few occasions that I had an urge for a Prince's Original Cheeseburger in the late afternoon only to realize that they were either already closed or would be by the time I drove over there.
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    I'd be very curious as to whether any vestiges of the buildings' former configuration have remained visible from the interior of the current structure.
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    Yeah, that's not exactly what I'd envisioned when they said they were going to repurpose the building. That's looking more like what's being done with the Sunset Coffee Building at Allen's Landing.
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    They are still in business, but with a greatly reduced number of locations (none in Texas): http://bonanzasteakhouses.com/locations/ Don't forget Bonanza's evil twin:
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    Fair enough, except it's not strictly speaking a residence-only building. The Lawless bar on the second floor (formerly the State Bar) is open to the public. And as mentioned previously, there are several street-level businesses adjacent to the Rice that don't have restrooms, so the only way they're allowed to operate is if their patrons have access to the restrooms in the lobby. I wonder how the Rice plans to identify patrons of those businesses as opposed to _verboten_ commoners intent on loitering in the lobby until they can plant an Occupy flag in a potted ficus? Maybe via restroom/hall passes, like in high school?
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