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Sam found this last night but facebook was acting up. its where Inn at the ballpark is now. http://www.houstonarchitecture.com/haif/topic/14780-bordens-east-of-downtown/

My mom works at the county jail and has said that the roof of the Pedan building along with some side of the building has begun. Demolition of the entire building will be donge by jan 15. The commissioners court voted to approve an agreement among the Harris County Public Infrastructure Department, the Texas Historical Commission and the United States Department of Energy for demolition of the Peden/Iron Mountain Warehouse Building at 700 San Jacinto Street.

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If i recall i believe there used to be a Texas Historical Plaque located on Commerce between Travis and Milam on the Northern part of the street. Basically in the area by the new entrance with a canoe structure. It was removed when they remade the street and in parking spots. There is a tree next to where the plaque was located. It stated that 2 people were killed when they hit an artillery shell from a sunken ship in the area. The bodies were removed but the ship is still buried there. The ship was heading back/from Galveston. I have posted the question about the plaque about 8 months back. This was only a block away from the current crypt.

If i recall i believe there used to be a Texas Historical Plaque located on Commerce between Travis and Milam on the Northern part of the street. Basically in the area by the new entrance with a canoe structure. It was removed when they remade the street and in parking spots. There is a tree next to where the plaque was located. It stated that 2 people were killed when they hit an artillery shell from a sunken ship in the area. The bodies were removed but the ship is still buried there. The ship was heading back/from Galveston. I have posted the question about the plaque about 8 months back. This was only a block away from the current crypt.

We must have been there the same time taking pictures Friday. Im in the white Astro van and had just taken some and was moving to the 2nd block. Ill post mine here later. I took video as well and you can hear all the construction going around

From the book Houston A chronicle of the Bayou City page113 it has a picture of the dining are of the Brazos Hotel. it doesnt state the year but is quoted...."With music provided by a small chamber group on the balcony, the group dining in the outsied dining area at the brazos Hotel ws capable of dealing with the extremes of the Houston summer. " The picture looks more like a courtyard . Im going to see if i can take a look after work Friday and maybe take a closer look or ask around. ill post my pics here for all to see.

is this tower going by josephines or will it be incorporated in the pavilions

Thank you Subdude. Looks like all 3 surface lots have been just about that for the last 67 years, many used car lots. I want to know what they did out from the corner filling station on Dallas and Caroline. Ill post my pics later. Im curious though as to how this Freds Hotel looked like on Main an Fannin in 1940. I need to dig through old pics.

i went there Saturday afternoon to take some pics of the area. i took several looking east from Main. I then went to the lot that was already torn up. I took several there and i only have one question. What used to be there? I mean there were old steal beams deep in the ground, that had to have been for an early building, warehouse, etc. does anyone know about this. I will post all my pics when i upload them for everyone to see.

a coworker i asked said she remembers it arount that time frame. she stated that adults would take their kids there and than take a tour of the brewery and have a free glass of beer. Her dad took them there a few times for the beer after going to bush gardens. She state it was right next to the brewery and was actually part of the park.

i pass by but always forget to check.... have they put back up the Historical Marker . i think it was for the civil war ship that sank and later some kids were killed due to an active bomb that blew up. if not how can we go about putting up the historical marker back up. for that who took it????

They are public art, i forgot who the artist was but they are on I10 there is some close to the intersection of I10 and I45 on both sides. It was in the Houston Chronicle a few years back. He had more in diffrent areas of town.

I assume these will be similar to the 2004 MLB All-Star game boots that were placed in downtown

I just had that in mind about the old Pan American ballroom. i rember it and was going to look for pictures. Can you post some from PA and Stardust. I forgot how it looked, but last i remember was early 90's when i was 12-17. they nocked it down and is currently parking for Casa de Amigos clinic. Poppa Burger will be missed im going to take pictures of it but hopefully they can stay affloat with the addition of the Northline rail extenstion. Ill take some pictures of the area this weekend to share, along with the other old buildings on N. Main-45

i believe that is in hardy yards

Friday Nights at the Coliseum. I lived in First Ward and my dad would take us there every friday to see the matches.

there was a TG&Y on the corner of Main and Praire. If i remember that was the last occupant before it was resurrected as a club. currently Suede. The old fallout signs were at each corner. i believe Kresge was a forerunner to Kmart

im working on a houston then and now from my own pictures and some from online and the Texas room. how much was that software. ill have to check the video from home .

The "Chronicle Block" is that in refrence to when Jesse Jones owned the Houston Chronicle and built around and over the theater.

Grants in the foreground Zayre One of the first-generation Zayre stores was this one in a Bangor, Maine shopping plaza, seen close-up underneath. Next to it is a shot of a similar store missing its "E", courtesy of Shaun Qualdieri (thanks). Pictured at bottom is a later-built Zayre in Dubuque, Iowa.

W. T. Grant From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search This article is about W. T. Grant stores, for the namesake founder, see William Thomas Grant W. T. Grant was the name of a chain of United States-based mass-merchandise stores founded by William Thomas Grant. The stores were generally of the dime store format located in downtowns. In 1906 the first "W. T. Grant Co. 25 Cent Store" opened in Lynn, Massachusetts. Modest profit, coupled with a fast turnover of inventory, caused the stores to grow to almost $100 million a year in sales by 1936, the same year that William Thomas Grant started the W. T. Grant Foundation. By the time Mr. Grant died in 1972, at age 96, his nationwide empire of W. T. Grant Stores had grown to almost 1,200. Grant's stores were slower than the Kresge stores to adapt to the growth of the suburb and the change in shopping habits that this entailed. The attempt to correct this was belated; by the late 1960s there were some "Grant City" stores, but unlike Kresge's Kmart they were not of uniform sizes or layouts, meaning that a shopper in one did not immediately feel "at home" in another. The chain's demise in 1975 was in part due to a failure to adapt to changing times but was probably considerably accelerated by management's refusal until it was too late to eliminate the shareholder dividend; even after the company began to lose money, funds were borrowed to pay the quarterly dividend until this became impossible. A last-gasp tactic to stay in business involved requiring each Grant's clerk and cashier unfailingly to offer a Grant's credit card application to customers in order to boost sales in the stores. Grant's store-branded electronic and other goods were "Bradford" after the county where William Thomas Grant was born in Pennsylvania.