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22 hours ago, Highrise Tower said:

I've heard the following illegal drugs can be used for severe depression: Ketamine, Psilocybin, and MDMA.

There are clinics that already offer ketamine therapy under the supervision of a licensed medical professional (psychiatrist). I know someone who suffered from severe depression and underwent ketamine infusions, and it was life-changing - nothing else they tried previously had been nearly as effective.

As far as I know, psilocybin and MDMA have so far only had clinical trials in this regard - I'm not aware of any (legal) way to currently obtain treatment using either of those substances.

The fact that Roland Laurenzo appears to be involved doesn't necessarily preclude it from being Tony Mandola's new location. Mandola's wife Phyllis is Roland Laurenzo's sister. 

43 minutes ago, Triton said:

Cute home. This project is lame.

How could it have ever been anything but lame, when the event that kicked it off was the demolition of the great old house on the corner where the hotel will be built?

1 hour ago, hindesky said:

When I was taking pics near Wolfsmith's in the Heights a guy going in said they were moving to the Near Northside but didn't specify an address.

https://wolfsmithsheights.com

They were supposedly looking at the old tortilla factory on Fulton at Woodard, a block away from Monkey's Tail. Can't remember where I saw this (might have been Nextdoor), but it was some time ago and I haven't heard anything else about it since then. 

7 hours ago, Kinglyam said:

I can't believe that Near Northside can't get a freaking coffee shop. Even the pop-up at Gristworkz closed down after they got their HEB cafe running.

A 2nd Cup recently relocated from 11th St. in the Heights to Fulton a couple of blocks north of Cavalcade.

2 minutes ago, LunaSol said:

I was really young when I went. I remember it being old school and quite grand with curtains that would open to reveal the screen.

Back in the glory days of theatrical exhibition, every screen had curtains, and it was considered bad showmanship for an audience to ever have to gaze upon a blank screen. The curtains opening and closing were meticulously timed so that they began to open when the projector started up, and were fully closed right as the projector shut off at the end of the closing credits. 

Well, that's certainly an, uh, interesting name for an apartment complex. 

22 hours ago, Dave W said:

As I said earlier in this thread, the owner's name was Rose Behar. Another woman may have worked there, although I never saw anyone else there, but if so, she was not an owner.

 

There was an informative article about World Toy & Gift from some years back, when it was still open, that covered the history of the business and mentioned Mrs. Behar as well as some of the other employees by name. I thought a link had been posted here at some point in the past, but couldn't find it yesterday, and I don't remember the publication the piece appeared in.  

1 hour ago, Amlaham said:

Do they usually hold off till the end to demolish the sign or are they planning on keeping it? 

It will almost certainly be repurposed for the new business. You rarely see pole signs taken down as a result of new construction, as they were grandfathered when the city updated its sign ordinance some years ago. Under the current regulatory framework it can be difficult, expensive, or not possible to erect a new sign - it's far easier to repurpose an existing one. The classic example is the old Cactus Music sign at W. Alabama and Shepherd, which was repurposed for the Whole Earth Provision Co. when the previous incarnation of Cactus closed down and moved out.   

Edit: @hindesky beat me to it.

14 hours ago, Highrise Tower said:

Thoughts on a light-grade THC for handling anxiety?  Is Delta 8 safe?

Synthetic hemp THC is safe considering the manufacturing process?

Doctors tend to pass out prescriptions for benzodiazepines like candy to patients that report anxiety.  I think that cannabinoids can be equally (if not more) effective in handling anxiety, and probably have fewer issues than benzos as far as side effects from long-term usage, but as the cannabis industry is still in its infancy there's not a lot of usable data covering a sufficient period of time out there yet. The biggest issue is that since cannabinoids are essentially unregulated, you're trusting suppliers and vendors to know what they're doing and act in an ethical manner, which certainly isn't always the case (I'm looking at you, roadside convenience store with used-car-lot plastic flags pushing delta-8).

It's incumbent upon anyone deciding to use cannabinoids to determine what they're personally comfortable with and do the appropriate amount of due diligence.  The relevant subreddits (r/CBD and r/delta8, among others) can be fairly informative, with the usual caveats regarding any online commentary.

5 hours ago, Naviguessor said:

or...MAKE LOVE WITH EVERYTHING 

 

These stupid neon signs are getting tedious.  

 

Taken as an imperative, that could get you into trouble in most public spaces. 

People have objected to that McDonald's for years. I spent a fair amount of time at St. Luke's thirty-plus years ago when my father had bypass surgery there, and even back then its presence in a hospital seemed somewhat questionable. 

So Sonic's getting replaced with a drive-thru salad place? Oh, the humanity! 

So is the festival itself for sale, or just the property it's held on? It's not entirely clear from the wording of the ad. 

Coulam has been putting on the festival for almost fifty years, and I believe he's in his mid-eighties now, so it wouldn't be entirely surprising if he's decided to retire.

18 hours ago, steve1363 said:

The Aldine book won’t be shipped until March.  Oddly though, there was 1 used book available to be shipped in February.

The March shipping date is only applicable to Amazon - I suspect they got quite a few orders as soon as people became aware of it, and their available stock got depleted quickly.

It should be available from other retailers, and can also be ordered directly from Arcadia Publishing's website:

Around Aldine

14 minutes ago, mollusk said:

If I could only find the one I had... that probably failed to survive some move or another decades ago. 🤷‍♂️

Likewise. Unfortunately, that particular model is highly sought after by Mold-A-Rama collectors due to its apparent scarcity. Some years ago I thought I'd replace my long-lost one, and figured it would be easy to locate one for cheap on eBay. I was mistaken. I've only seen two there in probably the last ten years, and the last one sold for over $100. 

You'd think there'd be more of them around, given the thousands of people that passed through that observation deck, but as I recall they weren't exactly inexpensive. At a time when coin-op candy/gum machines were usually a penny, even a quarter had a non-trivial amount of purchasing power, and I think the Mold-A-Rama replicas were closer to a dollar than a quarter. 

3 hours ago, strickn said:

Not to nitpick but to nitpick… the team didn’t quite end like that, and won the AFL the next year too

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1962_Dallas_Texans_season

Different team - I was referring to the 1952 NFL Texans, as opposed to the 1960s AFL team that subsequently became the Chiefs:

Dallas Texans (NFL)

On 1/15/2023 at 5:23 PM, Ross said:

I'm pretty sure that it was later the Shamrock 6. Went to a movie there in 1979, and my girlfriend had her purse snatched in the parking lot.

Expanded from 4 to 6 screens in 1975, per Cinema Treasures. Ad from 5/23/1975:

18 hours ago, Highrise Tower said:

I really like the store's name.  It reminds me of all those amusement parks back in the day.  Anything with "land" in the name makes me thing of Ferris wheels and games.

Kind of like the trend of using "-rama" as a superlative suffix following the premiere of Cinerama in 1952, the most obvious local example being Sea-Arama.

Mad Magazine once did a parody which spoofed the "-rama" mania, and envisioned the logical conclusion as "Ram-A-Rama", but I haven't been able to find a scan of it anywhere online.  

21 hours ago, hindesky said:

YoYo's Hotdogs is opening a brick and mortar building on Washington Ave.

That was mentioned in the linked Thresher piece:

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Dang also said that plans to open a brick and mortar YoYo’s shop are on hold, pending approval from the City of Houston.

but the wording is confusing - are they just waiting on the normal permit process? "On hold" is not the way I'd have phrased it, if that's the case. 

Ran across a Mold-A-Rama history site containing some scans of an interesting period article about the building when it first opened. For those who aren't aware, the building originally had a coin-operated Mold-A-Rama machine installed on the floor that was publicly accessible as an observation deck, from which you could obtain your own plastic injection-molded replica of the building.

Humble Oil Building

Rice Management Company has terminated the leases of popular food carts YoYo's Hotdogs and Oh My Gogi.

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Morgan Lera, investment manager for Rice Management Company, which is responsible for the university’s endowment, oversees Rice Village.

“Rice Village created an opportunity for temporary pop-up tenants to operate within Rice Village parking lots for the last several years,” Lera wrote in an email to the Thresher. “Parking needs are becoming more critical as Rice Village continues to attract a diverse mix of national and local tenants and, as a result, the temporary pop-ups are scheduled to close.”

https://www.ricethresher.org/article/2023/01/rmc-terminates-leases-for-yoyos-oh-my-gogi

Another longtime Montrose institution gone. Can't say that I was ever a regular, but I certainly visited it more than a few times over the years. The first apartment I ever had in Montrose was on Roseland a couple of blocks away from there. 

I imagine St. Patrick's Day was their biggest sales day of the year - it's unfortunate this happened only two months before St. Pat's. The building looks like a total loss, and even if the owners follow through on their stated intent to rebuild, it won't be the same. That old building had a lot of history in it.  

2 hours ago, BEES?! said:

I loved Jus’ Mac! Are all the ones in Houston still open? Per their site, they have one in Montrose, Galleria, and the Heights. 

They're still open. They expanded their menu beyond mac, so they're no longer "jus" mac - I think the Heights location (the only one I've ever visited) updated their sign to "Jus' Mac & Wings".