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There is a story in the Galveston News this morning (also online). Authorities trapped the above mentioned coyote Wednesday near the neighborhood of Colony Park. It had apparently been killing small neighborhood pets. The health department will check it for rabies before they destroy it. Kind of ashamed, becuse he was sort of a cult hero type of animal to me (and apparently the news staff too), surviving in an unfamiliar uban environment all these years. If it is indeed the same animal, he had been spotted in these same neigborhood streets well before Hurricane Ike.

Check out this article from 1983. It says hundreds of thousands of grasshoppers swarmed a few blocks of downtown Houston.

http://news.google.c...n houston&hl=en

I remember driving to the valley several years back and pulled into a convenience store near Robstown. It was at night and the store lights had attracted millions of grasshoppers. They crunched under your tires as you drove in and crunched again under your feet as you made your way to the front door. The walk off mat inside was smeared with fresh dead grasshopper carcuses. It was a discussting mess.

Another memeory a few years before, coming out of the valley on 281. It was raining pretty heavy and the road was covered with what I thought was clods of dirt. Well it wasn't dirt, it was millions of frogs, jumping all around. It was slaughter as the flattened bodies fipped up into the wheel well, one after another. It went on for miles.............. Very unpleasant.

I've seen recent pictures in the Galveston News about coyotes coming into town looking for food. Some spotted in the Harve Lafitte subdivision near Moody Gardens.

I saw a wolf walking behind Clear Creek (near Walter Hall Park), back in the early 70's. It scared the crap out of me. Nobody believed me, until I told the story to an old timer that lived behind us. He said that there was a pack that lived between League City and Dickinson, and that they sometimes came up to Clear Creek in search of water and food. So all of y'all folks living in Victory Lakes can take comfort in knowing that your house most probably displaced a pack of wolves.

At one time the lower roof of the Pepsi-Cola building extended (cantilevered) out into the middle of arch with an iliptical whole in it for the upright to pass through. I guess time and circumstance got the better of it, but at least the arch remains.

I use to live there, nice to see the renovation, should be a great plus to the area.

I used to eat the rice that was made there.

Picked this quote out of a Chronicle 2005 archive article.

"Metro spokesman Chip Lambert said the pedestrian bridge is owned by Gulfgate, and its maintenance costs will be shared with Metro."

It's Catholic, I've been to open bar events in the parish hall of Catholic churches before.

Or maybe Cafe Adobe predates the ordinance.

And it's okay, so long as you make the sign of the cross before you go inside the bar.

Yes, and notice the overhead power lines and the unimproved shoulder.

Wiki

"The bridge crossing Loop 610 which connected AstroWorld to its share of the Astrodomain (now Reliant Park) parking lot was the only publicly-accessible, privately-owned bridge to cross an interstate highway in Harris County, Texas." Possibly this ...

Oh that can't be totally accurate because there is a privately owned bridge across this same freeway right down the street at Gulfgate!

Can the editor unlock the title so the topic starter can correct the spelling. Cemetery is spelt with all "e"s.

Interesting how they leave a small openning along Betner for tiny view of Dunn Tower. Dunn Tower was supposed to be TMH's premier addition, and it's look to the future. The building was designed to have ten additional floors added when expansion was needed. Interesting how that vision has been discarded for this massive look of glass wall.

How is it that KPF is the architect, but WHR is listed as the architect of record? Is this some sort of joint venture?

Anyone remember the old Institute of Religion building that occupied part of the site, and the bell tower that rang out music at certain times of the day? (Especially at Christmas). The bell tower basement is still there, because the remaining fountain's pumps are located inside. Parts of an old interlocking tunnel system remain underground also. These tunnels once connected, TWU, Methodist (Fondren/Brown), Insitute of Religion, Favrot Tower and an older dormitory where Garage 7 sits. The connections were all sealed off after Tropical Storm Allison.

Are they finally going to remove the statue of that swindler Stanford from the rose garden?

Reagan, Milby and Lamar were approved in a single bond election. Reagan and Milby were built as carbon copies, while Lamar, being situated at the foot of River Oaks Blvd, was designed to appear more upscale.

I've heard the current bond election radio commercial spots stating that some of the HISD buildings "date back to the depression". For god's sake we can't educate our children in buildings that old!

That's ubsurd.

On 10/20/2012 at 12:04 PM, TheNiche said:

Does it still smell like bowling shoes?

Is that what that smell is?

Edit: December 17, 1975 

Windsor Plaza Lanes - 3303 Sage - 622-0300

Exactly!

Windsor Bowling Alley on Sage Rd. Don't go inside now unless you like seeing naked ladies.

Yeah, I am mixed about this also. The previous city council and city manager fought hard to get the height ordinances in place to set some sort of cohesion on Seawll development. Basiclly one is unrestricted on height beyound 2nd street to the east and 103rd st. to the west. This variance now gives each project a chance to present their proposal to the planning commision and then to city council. Just the kind of micro managing the previous administrations were trying to avoid. Galveston already has a bad reputation as a difficult place for builders. This doesn't help.

Niche, I'd love to hear you get into a open discussion with Michael Berry. It would be awsome to hear someone with your language capacitiy and knowlege of current and relevant facts to go at it with Houston's radio loud mouth. The subject wouldn't matter. You would be my hero forever! I'm just saying!

Don't buy the peanut butter!

There is an enormous section east of El Paso laid out in a grid pattern. You can see it from the air when landing at the El Paso airport. Horizon City was the name of it and it stretches for miles into the horizon . I'm guessing that is where all this school land is located. Curious as to why this speculative type of development occured in such a god forbidden part of the state.

Actually they were at the Music Hall in 69 and at Hofheinz in 70. Then at the Coliseum in 71. Saw all three. Totally awesome.

Thanks Fringe, you actually cleared things up. I had a conversation with a guy at work that swears he went to the same Led Zepplin concert that I did, but he claims it was at the Coliseum. My older brother says we are both wrong, because he saw Led Zepplin play at the Music Hall. So we are all right, even though our memories are smoke filled.

There was a Channel 8 special not too long ago about the Immagration Station on Pelican Island. There were two locations, the later Quaratine Station at the tip of Pelican Island was the last one standing. The buildings were built well after the 1900 storm, but the Customs Department quit using them even before WWII started. The buildings remained vacant surplus goverment property until the late 1960's, when Galveston County aquired it and added the site to it's park system. The wooden barracks and hospital building were demolished and then that hedious concrete pavilion was constructed, along with a fishing pier (much longer than it is now). The two Navy vessels came later.

Apparently there was a ferry that crossed the Galveston Channel to take workers to the Todd Shipyards, but I do not think an improved road was constructed out to the Quarantine Station until after the parks department acquired the property. The Pelican Island bridge wasn't built until the late 1950's.

It's a pretty neat location, but take plenty of mosquito spray.

......saw Savoy Brown with Uriah Heep in 1972 at the Music Hall

I was at that concert too. There was a lot of pot at those shows.

I think my earliest concert was Led Zepplin at Hofienz Pavilion, 1969. I remember buying tickets at Brook Mays on the Southwest Freeway.

I'll believe it when I see it.

KMart and Lewis & Coker did operate stores side by side at several locations in Houston, but they were not affiliated other than through these retail/lease arrangements. Once KMart started expanding it's stores into Big K's they eventually took over the adjacent grocery stores. The Telephone Rd. location was an exception. I can remember being in the Galveston KMart (Big K) in later years when you would hear an announcement over the public address sytem calling for a receiving employee to go to the Lewis & Coker loading dock.