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    "Hipsters" at TMC? Not hardly. We're all a bunch of nerds the last time I looked.
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    We've got thousands of people flying into Houston this weekend from all over the world to attend the "Off Shore Technology Conference". This is one of the biggest international events in the industry. Should we seal-off our borders to keep them out?
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    Isn't one of these original buildings, the tall one, one that was used as a video project billboard for awhile? It was on the the west facade, so you only saw it traveling inbound.
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    I got vaccinated for the swine flu back in 1976 when I was in college. The vaccination was free at the student clinic, so a bunch of us went and got knocked up. It helped that we were told about this cute nurse at the clinic who was administering the shots. It hurt like hell too!
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    Sage on Hillcroft? Globe was on Hillcroft across from the drive-in. Sage was on Beechnut across the freeway from Meyerland Plaza. Of course, we were just children.
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    Is the Kathryn Smith School the one Mangum?
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    Here I go again, but, I remember when both HOU and IAH had viewing areas on the roofs of the terminal wings. At Hobby you went out a door and up a set of outside stairs on to the roof. You were allowed to walk all the way to the end of the wings. There was a metal railing of course. It was noisy as hell up there. At Intercontinental, you went up an inside stairwell. These areas were on the circular pods out at the end of each terminal wing. The railing was about chest high and of solid masonry. The view was not that great. These areas were closed to the public by the early 70's.
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    It looks like you took this photo from the Feigen Building. I see a window worker's hoist lines in your photo.
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    Cooters! What a name for a night club. Where was Uncle Sam's?
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    Complete air distribution system in slab? oh my! It can't still be operational?
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    I've always had a jaded opinion of Ms. Lee because she always seemed to be looking for a camera to step in front of. This was most evident during the Rita/Ike evacuation dances. The one time that I did meet to her face to face was much different. It was like meeting a different person altogether. I was at a state democratic convention, several years ago up in Ft. Worth, standing in front of the convention center waiting for a person from my delegation to show up. An old clunker car pulled up to the curb and out stepped SJL from the passenger side. She walked up to me, introduced herself and after a few brief pleasantries asked, "Is there another entrance to the auditorium? I'm supposed to speak these evening, and was hoping I could get on inside without having to make too many stops." I directed her to an entrance that I assumed was used for that purpose. She thanked me and walked off, unescorted into the hall. I was impressed by her low key demeanor and casualness. Later on, as I heard her speaking on stage, it seamed like a different person altogether.
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    Let's tear it down and build a train station.
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    That building was once owned by the Houston Chronicle, built as a small distribution center for the paper. It was rumored, mostly by Houston Post employees across that street, that the only reason the Chronicle operated out of that building was so they could keep an eye on the comings and goings at the Post.
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    It doesn't appear that they are adding any new parking.
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    It has been implied that the Sealy & Smith Foudation's generous annual donations are limited to island based UTMB operations only. That would be a consideration for keeping the bulk of UTMB on the island. I think with Craig Eiland's new status as speaker pro tem of the Texas House, UTMB has a better chance of securing funding for a new surgical tower and a much needed campus flood protection project. Note: The present UTMB patient/medical office building under construction in League City was heavily opposed by the Victory Lakes subdivision home owners when it was first proposed. This and the now openned WalMart were preceived by them as unfit uses of the commercial property flanking the entrance to their neighborhood. They claimed the transient class of customer that each of these facilities would draw could leed to higher crime and lower property values.
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    I"m not familiar with the building, but the land was part of the Hofeinz homesite. The house faced Yorktown about midway between San Felipe and Westheimer. It sat towards the back of the site. I'm thinking the St. James is just north of the house. The Hofeinz house was probably torn down around 1971. The judge was living full time in the Astrodome by then.
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    Humble Oil gave away little plastic models of the building at ENCO filling stations back when the building was being constructed. The toy was about five inches tall and had a weighted bottom so that it could be used as a paper weight. My older brother kept it on his desk for years up until he got out of high school. I guess it got thrown away when my parents cleaned out his room, which is amazing because they kept alot of our crap.
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    The Galveston Daily News reported that The Shriner's parent organization lost over 3 billion dollars out of it's 9 billion dollar fund balance. I wonder if they were had by Bernie Maydoff? A lot of charities were ripped off by that guy. It would not surprise me.
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    Rumor has it that Shriner's Burns Hospital will not reopen. They got two feet of water in their building, now they want to call it quits. Come on, Methodist Hospital had two floors totally inundated in 2001, along with Baylor, Memorial Hermann and others in the Texas Medical Center. There was never any discussions about not reopenning. These instituitions rebuilt, and protected themselves from it ever happenning again. What is it with these Shriner people?
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    The four biggies are Otis, Schindler(Westinghouse), ThyssenKrupp(Dover) and Kone. Fujitec has been trying to break into the Houston market for years. This will probably set them back, at least locally. However, everybody remembers the poor doctor that got his head lopped off in an Otis elevator mishap at St. Joseph's a few years back.
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    Yeah, we were all pretty peaved when Penny's closed it's Mall of the Mainland store just as they were announcing the openning of their Baybrook store, only for them to open a store back up in Galveston County a few years later at Bay Colony. Go figure that out.
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    The stables that rented horses was further north on Post Oak than the mounted police stables. Two different locations.
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    Holy crap!, 1979?. I can't believe I was off by that many years . But I do recall going to Sears when it openned and the rest of the mall not being finished. They were open before the rest of the mall.
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