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    woolworth and grants store
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    where is this house located???
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    yes here is one from the post houston 1994 2004
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    thank you isuredid. this will help me out alot in my research. do they have scanners at that particular library on mckinney or how do you go about getting copies. thanks and i think i found my new home in the Texas room. ive been trying to go for the last few years but time is my enemy.
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    I have a question. why does the Chronicle building hide behind that ugly ficade. They were (are) replacing the ficade or cleaning it. i would love to see how Mr. Jones built the chronicle above and around the old theatre, that is hiding behing that. I think it would look incredible along with all the other building that have fake ficades. The West building was one of those and the ficade was taken out, not the greatest building but looks better without it.
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    if you are talking about the one on the corner of rusk and main. the yes it is still there. i seem to remember they had renditions of what the building would look like without the fake ficade. i actually have that picture as my screen saver. it was a drug store on the corner of rusk and main. They were going to have the rooftop open for a cafe of some sort. I could be wrong and the rendtion may have been for the one on mckinny and main, but it would look great none the less.
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    this isnt church's chicken its the old Jim Dandy chicken chain. notice the the logo has both JD in it Do you all remember the one downtown and where it was located???? at the corner of main and praire at the current jefe bar
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    it was located at the chase bank parking garage the current location is club Copa Cabana the inside is completly diffrent
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    Isuredid ... where did you find that map. im working on my version of houston then an now and that would be a very great source to pinpoint old picures. email me juanh.castillo@mindspring.com
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    ill take a pic with my camera phone and post the new one. you are correct HouTran and Metro bus stops were indeed within a few feet of grants.
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    Correction the ... I was at the Flying Saucer last night and it is actually located on the site of the old Mcdonalds on Tx. The sign is on next to the attendant booth north of the St. Germain on Capital. the pictures is located on ths url http://lh3.google.com/_vTqdpLWFWaQ/RXZci_O...1600/grants.jpg
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    so i was searching through the net and found this picture of the store name on the floor of the parking lot north of the chronicle building. im going to see if i can make it there later. but does anyone have picture or know where this is. P.S. it is not at Market Square. this is at the parking lot between the chronicle and mkt square picture owned by http://bayoucityhistory.blogspot.com/
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    is this the one by the HCC building?
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    That is correct. Too bad they knocked down that mcdonalds. i used to go there before astros games to get some grub.
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    [edit] Timeline 1900: Foley Brothers was opened by brothers Pat and James Foley, two young and enterprising Irishmen, on February 12 with $2000 borrowed from an uncle. The 1400-square-foot store located at 507 Main Street in Houston, Texas, was stocked with calico, linen, lace, pins, needles, and men
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    Niels Esperson Building
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    yea i got the one for 509 and where 12spot on the corner of preston and travis by the Hermann Building is another. here is the one on travis which is the twelve spot building 214 travis here is the one on travis which is the twelve spot building 214 travis Photographs by Hester + Hardaway, copyright 1996 214 Travis Street W. L. Foley Dry Goods Company Building 1889, Eugene T. Heiner The Foley Dry Goods Company store is a rare survivor of Victorian Houston. Fortune tested its will to survival with serious fires in 1976 and 1989. But the determination of architect Guy Hagstette, gallery owner Doug Lawing, restaurateurs Jamie Mize and Dan Tidwell, and preservation doyenne Minnette B. Boesel has overcome Houston's unwillingness to treat its past with respect. They saved the Foley Building and Hagstette designed a pair of apartments on the second floor (with potential for more apartments on the third floor) that maintain an admirable balance between domestic accommodation and architectural preservation. Next door at 220 Travis, artist Lee Benner is pursuing preservation of the shell of a part of the Foley Building, while on the other side developer Doug Crosson and Minnette Boesel have kicked off the transformation of the Hermann Estate Building (1917, F. S. Glover & Sons) into apartments. The sidewalk canopy along Travis is a reminder of what all of downtown Houston was once like.
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    I was just wondering and i have good old pics of these but does anyone know the locations of the original Foley Bros Dry Goods later Foley Bros department store then Foleys' I know they used to be at 506 main in the Slainte bar by Praire. They were also at a building which is no longer there by the building occupied by Live Sports Cafe. I was told they were also at the building occupied by Twelve Spot bar. I know for a fact the first 2 are correct but does anyone know of the others espcially when it was called Foley Bros Dry Goods. thanks and ill post old Foley Bros picture from Main and Preston-Praire
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    INTERIOR 1965 INTERIRO AND WAREHOUSE WAREHOUSE
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    Wilson Stationary Building 1920's
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    My friend lives a block north of Main . Admiral is there but not sure where the Humble gas station was. There is Spanish Flowers to the East and a convience store across Main on the nort. Could that be were the old gas station was. The philips 66 i believe used to be an onle u tot em but i remember it as 7-11. Im a Reagan grad from 1996 and just had our 10 year reunion at the Empire room in the Rice(hotel) Lofts. Reagan has been greatly updated http://hs.houstonisd.org/ReaganHS/
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    i do rember at the old TG&Y downtown on Praire and Main. Now club Suede had the yellow sign outside when the store was open. Also at the old Jim Dandy's Chicken accross the street, where Jefe Bar is now had the same sign for a fallout shelter. They were still there as early as 2000, but are no longer
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    thanks Ron4tx. read your post on the ben milam. wish they had pics of that room when it was unboarded.
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