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    The west side of Main Building, the side facing Fannin Street, will also get a facelift. A stucco facade will cover the nine stories of brick mimicking the style of the adjacent Dunn Patient Tower.
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    There was a private airport in Webster along side Highway 3 that was used by Metro Airlines. My parents flew this commuter airline to IAH often in the 70's. I remember going to pick them up once and the pilot had to divert to Hobby because he ran out of fuel after making one attempt to land in Webster. It was funny because nobody at Hobby knew what to do with these passengers, and nobody at the Metro Airlines ticket desk knew what happened until my father called from a pay phone at Hobby and asked the clerk to page me.
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    If you walk into the Men's Club on Sage Rd. and try not to look at the stripper poles, leather couches and naked woman you can almost imagine the Windsor Park Bowling Lanes. Well okay, you can look at naked women
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    The fire ants took over. I'd leave too.
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    Hughes Tool moved to The Woodlands in the early 90's. I got sent over to the Hughes Tool buildings on Polk St. to measure the footprint of some old lab benches and other geological equipment to make sure that the drain connections would work in the new building. It was weird walking around that place. The buildings are all still standing, but are leased to other businesses.
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    The Galveston Daily News Saturday edition quotes the GISD superintendent as saying that Rosenberg Elementary may have to close in two years if the declining enrollment trends continue.
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    My dad, who graduated from Reagan in 1938 told me that Reagan, Milby and Lamar were all three built at the same time as part of a single bond election. Reagan & Milby being carbon copies of each other and Lamar of course being quite different because of it's location at the foot of River Oaks Blvd.
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    There is a story among our family that my grandmother, being one of Kaplan's oldest customers, once went in shopping for shoes. Mr. Kaplan, (the father to Benjamin and Hermann) waited on her trying on all different types of shoes. After trying on almost every womens shoe in stock and not finding anything that suited her she got up to leave. Mr. Kaplan, desperate to make a sale, convinced her in his old word Jewish accent to go outside, come back in and we'll start all over again until we find something you like. Us grandkids never knew if this was a true story or not, but it is a good one nonetheless.
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    I always wondered if the fish being served on the buffet table were from that aqarium up front with the albino looking fish in it. We always got a kick out of talking a vendor into taking us to lunch there just to see his reaction when he read the overhead sign "Fu-Kim"!
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    Oh great! One more thing that didn't need fixin!
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    The bridge will be somewhat aesthetic with steps on each side leading down to the jogging paths below. It will have some details at each approach with aluminum hand rails, not your typical concrete barriers. Most people should be pleased.
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    Yes to all. This is the Cambridge St. bridge. It will connect on the other side with Braeswood and MacGregor. The section of MacGregor (formerly Outer Belt) will be renamed Cambridge. The bridge will be named the Dr. Richard Wenardi Bridge. (he's not even dead yet) On a side note; the section of MacGregor that runs along east side of the golf course will be modified with the westbound lanes being move adjacent to the current eastbound lanes. This will give a buffer between the road and the golf course.
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    I do remember "Rosewaters", it was on California St. just north of UST. It was within walking distance from campus because several of us used to go there after class (1975). It was owned by this guy I went to high school with (Marian High School). I saw this guy later at a "halloween" party dressed in drag. He looked just like his older sister who was a cheeleader in high school. On second thought maybe his was his sister all along and we just didn't know it. Went to "The Old Quarter a few times before then (had to be early 1973) . We liked that place because if you acted right, they would serve you alcohol even before the drinking age was lowered to 18 on September 31, 1973. If you were a jack ass or didn't look the part (cool that is) you wouldn't be served. :closedeyes:
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    The former TWU Mary Jones Gibbs building will remain for the time being. It has been gutted and will be used for non clinical swing space. The dormitories are what is being demolished. These buildings had code and environmental issues that kept them from being renovated, even for a short period of time. TWU is now completely moved down the street.
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    Read The Galveston Daily News this morning, It seems to be a lost cause. There won't be enough students to left by 2025 to worry about desegregation. They could just put every one on a single campus by then.
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    Lee and Westbury along with Sterling (I think) were all built at the same time in the mid 60's, all from the same bond election, therefore the same architect, becoming carbon copy foot prints of their time. Westbury and Lee became instant rivals, similar to longtime rivals Lamar & Bellaire. Both Lee and Westbury drew from Lamar & Bellaire's former attendance zones. Curiously, Lee and Westbury adopted similar mascots, Generals & Rebels. Their fight songs were also similar sounding. All football games were held at Delmar stadium back then and both teams cheering crowds waved confederate flags on the way to the games and in the stands. I can remember those Friday nights going up the West Loop & Post Oak with kids hanging out car windows waving flags and shouting at each other. Those are probably referred to as "those early white years". (No racism intended) Our family lived down the street from Lee when it was built, but I attended catholic school (Marian in Bellaire), so I knew kids from all 4 schools. There was this westside bond thing among the 4 schools back then. Kind of an "us" against "the rest of the city" thing. I assume that bond eventually went away as Madison, Sharpstown and then Westside came on line. Note: The only blacks that lived out on the west side of town back then were in Jeanetta, a small little community out Alief Rd. I'm not sure were they went to school? Possibly Alief schools?
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    I remember in the 60's that the restaurant in the present Hobby Airport terminal was called Dobb's House. There were other Dobb's House restaurants around town during that time. The one on Memorial Dr. at Post Oak Lane comes to mind. They were kind of like a present day Denny's. Someone told me that they had the food concession for several of the airlines. Also looking at a "1940 WPA Guide to Texas Handbook", the map points to the "Howard Hughes Airport" as being out Telephone Rd. Is this the present day museum terminal building? or was there another airport out Telephone Rd?
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    Wow, I always thought the station and tower were somewhere over on the other side of Alvin . I live in the western part of Galveston county near the old KGUL (Channel 11 KHOU) tower location. Were excactly was this building? I'd like to drive by it.
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    Rumor has it that when the contents were being auctioned, that the door knob to the suite were president Kennedy stayed was sold several times. The auctioneer sent a handyman up to other floors to retreive similar hardware to re-install after each "sale". I have one of the coffee cups from the room service china. A mechanic found it in a machine room covered in grease & gunk. He gave it to my dad in the 1970's. It cleaned up pretty well. I used it yesterday as a matter of fact.
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    I remember going there in 1975 to have my wisdom teeth pulled. Ouch! . My brother in-law had his appendicts removed there around 1976. He stayed overnight. It was a real inpatient type hospital.
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    There were several downtown streets that had wooden planks for paving. My father and grandfather have both told me about unearthing these planks at various locations as they were cutting the street and sidewalks for sewer excavations.
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    Probably the "Dog Run". Watch out for those land mines!
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    I just talked with an engineer today that says this thing is a go. They are moving people in to Houston to start on the design. BTW, I was at the Gaylord in Grapevine last year for convention. As a group of us were waiting in line to eat at one of the "Riverwalk" themed restaurants, the waitress asked us if we wanted to sit inside or outside. I looked up to the ceiling as if to ask? huh? It is a pretty nice place.
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    Just a hunch!, but let's wait and see....... It was 1958 when Bishop Nold changed the name of the diocese from Galveston to Galveston-Houston and moved the chancery office to Houston. Fifty years would be 2008, just right for a another name change to go along with the openning of a new cathedral. The diocese has already merged St. Mary's Cathedral (Galveston) and Sacred Heart church (Galveston) into one parish. St. Mary's is basicly a tourist attraction. They are also trying to sell the bishop's palace to the city of Galveston. Bishop Forenze also tryed closing O'Connell High School last year, but he ultimately allowed a group of supporters a chance to keep it open even though it is losing money and enrollment. It is still a catholic school but no longer affiliated with the diocese. I may be wrong.....but previous actions by the diocese toward Galveston show otherwise.
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