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I've recently driven down Crawford on several occasions during the afternoon rush hour. Almost every time, there are more than a few mentally challenged commuters in such a hurry to get to 59 via Franklin that they drive into the intersection at Crawford with nowhere to go and block it when the light changes. I'd love to see HPD set up shop there and write a stack of tickets every day, because the far more satisfying corrective of yanking the offenders out of their cars on the spot and forcefully applying a wood shampoo probably wouldn't fly anymore in this kinder, gentler era.

I should have credited JD Doyle's Houston LGBT History site (which I believe has been mentioned here before) for the photo - lots of other photos that are definitely worth a look for anyone interested in the Montrose of the 70s and 80s: http://www.houstonlgbthistory.org/

Your memory is correct. It was across the street from the Chicken Coop, which IIRC was at Stanford and Westheimer or Stanford and Avondale. Katz's is at Crocker and Westheimer, which would be out of the frame to the left in the pic below.

Not surprised. I didn't go, but out of the entire lineup I thought that the Suffers and St. Vincent would have been the two must-see acts.

A fine automobile, and built like a tank. No doubt "the small dent in the trunk" would have been several thousand dollars of bodywork repair on a modern car. My parents had a '68 Delta 88 four-door until a bit later than 1977, and it's to my eternal regret that they sold it to buy a far less impressive car (as almost every domestic car of late 70s vintage was, compared to those of ten years earlier) before I got a drivers' license. It was remarkably quick for something that big and heavy once it got rolling. I still occasionally think about finding a decent one and restoring it - it's rare that you see Oldsmobiles of that vintage driving around anymore. I clearly remember going to the dealership with my parents when they bought it, and being really taken with a 4-4-2 that was on the showroom floor. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to convince them to opt for the 4-4-2 instead of the Delta 88, which would have certainly been quite a bit more collectible. Not ours, but it was just like this one, if this one was a deep burgundy and had the dog-dish hubcaps present:

I think we have a winner. According to the page I quoted, they kill cockroaches (and there's a video of one in motion): http://tenerifeislander.hubpages.com/hub/Ensign-Wasps-are-a-Cockroach-killer Guess I need to roll out the welcome mat for a few more of them, as the local cockroach population has been on a sharp upswing with the onset of summer.

Amegy has been a subsidiary of Utah-based Zions Bancorporation since 2005.

Yeah, it's hard to see them in a still photo, but they're unmistakable when you see one of these bugs in motion.

Is this it? We get these all the time during the spring and summer months, but I have no idea what they are. AFAIK they don't sting and aren't aggressive at all.

"The listing you requested was terminated on 05/30/2015 and we no longer display listing detail information. Please contact your realtor for assistance." Hope that means it's been sold to someone who will appreciate it and not someone who intends to use it as a building site.

Indeed. The interior was probably more interesting than the exterior. In the early 90s my job occasionally required me to visit an HISD department head who officed there, so I got to wander around inside quite a bit. It was an easy building to get lost in if you didn't already know your way around.

Yep, back in the day a 5MB hard drive wasn't something you put in your pocket:

I think someone failed to consider the fact that Revival's supposed lack of "family-friendliness" might be a feature, not a bug. At least until bearded, craft-obsessed locavores start spawning in greater numbers.

I remember a place called Babe's on the northeast corner of Richmond at the 610 feeder. This would have been in the late 60s or early 70s. Anyone know if there was any relation to the later Babe's on Hillcroft?

Ha! When I saw that this thread had been resurrected today, the Marquis 2 was the first place I thought of before I'd even opened it to read the new posts.

The Taj Mahal!

Also the explosion in the number of highly-paid university administrators while the ranks of full professors continue to shrink in favor of lower-paid, non-tenured adjunct faculty. Long but worth reading for anyone with an interest in this subject: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/septemberoctober_2011/features/administrators_ate_my_tuition031641.php?page=all I remember discussing this piece when it first came out with a friend whose career has largely been in various non-faculty capacities at both public and private universities on the East Coast, and he felt that it was a very accurate reflection of what he'd observed and experienced over the past 25 years or so.

That's pretty odd. Given the proximity to Silicon Valley I'd have expected most of them to have iPads/iPhones sporting Square card readers in lieu of garden-variety POS terminals. Businesses always gripe about the merchant fees they're charged by card companies but it still seems like they'd be leaving a bunch of money on the table by adopting a cash-only policy.

I believe I read in one of Metro's press releases that the new lines will be open for business at 7AM, and that folks wouldn't have to wait until the official kickoff to ride them.

That one was definitely a Del Taco. I used to live not too far away from it when it was still open and occasionally ate there.

Old Montrose has been dying for more than 25 years, and 25 years ago grizzled Montrose veterans were uttering the same sentiments about an even older Montrose. I'm sure everyone that's lived there for any length of time has their own personal landmark events signifying that things were no longer as they once were. What really stands out to me is the increasing dilution of gay and alternative culture and the ascendance of foodie culture, exemplified by Charlie's Coffee Shop and Mary's being replaced by Hay Merchant and Blacksmith. I'm surprised that the now-90-year-old bungalow that I lived in back in the day is still standing, but I see that HCAD currently has it appraised at almost $520K, so I'm guessing that the rent's probably a bit higher now than the $500/month I used to pay.

That building was originally a Guest Quarters hotel. Regarding the Hampton/Brookdale rebranding, Brookdale had to get rid of the Hampton name after a lawsuit by Hilton, who own the Hampton Inn/Hampton Hotels trademark.

Also, to put the Rockets' 0-4 record against Golden State during the regular season into perspective, they were 1-5 during the regular season against the Spurs in 1994-95, only to beat them 4-2 in the conference finals.

The Rockets faced Phoenix in the Western Conference Semifinals, where they came back from the 3-1 deficit. Beating Phoenix gave them a berth in the Western Conference Finals against San Antonio and MVP David Robinson.

Kahn's Deli is no more - although the *real* Kahn's Deli died when Mike Kahn sold the business and then left shortly thereafter several years ago. I remember when it first opened, and quickly became a haven for hungry Rice students and West U residents. Quite a bit of misinformation here: http://swamplot.com/kahns-deli-quietly-calls-it-quits-after-67-years-in-the-rice-village/2015-05-15/