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Is it Stewart or Stuart?

Yeah I like the old bridge myself, but this replacement will be very appropriate for the location. Corpus Christi has a beautiful waterfront, and this adds to the overall visual appeal.

Well, there will always be grocery store snobs. That's never gonna change.

 

And there will always be someone like me that will drive by an HEB or Signature Kroger to an Arlan's of Feista. (That is as long is there are those choices still to be had).

  The Harris Gully under the Texas Medical Center comes to mind also. The Harris Gully was converted to twin 15 ft. box culverts as the medical center was developed. It's origin is just west of Main St inside Rice University. It is fully covered until it oufalls into Braes Bayou just north of Holcombe Blvd.

   I knew two engineers that walked it after Tropical Storm Allison to determine that it was clear and unobstructed. It travereses under TIRR, Baylor College of Medicine, UT Health crossing under Fannin and then the Vincor/Kindred facility before crossing under Main St, with two curious looking intakes popping out of the ground just north of the Rice practice stadium. 

I have checked the various links of previous posts without luck finding any results. There is a stretch of City of Houston street that is now known as the 5300 block of Beverly Hill Street.  This is between Rice Avenue and Yorktown.  At some time in the past this was known as the 3300 block of Bingham Manor Lane.  Is there a record indicating when this name change was made?  Commercial map databases have a glitch in them that still identifies a portion of this block of Beverly Hill Street as Bingham Manor Lane.  If you move the mouse cursor or drop a pin at the corner of South Rice Avenue and Beverly Hill Street on Google Maps, it shows 3399 Bingham Manor Lane.  This error is in Google, OnStar, Waze, Bing, and MapQuest, and the USPS site says Bingham Manor Lane is not a valid address for 77056.  Also attached is a photo from an adjacent residence (current photo- 2015)Bingham Manor Lane.jpeg  bingham manor map.PNG

It has always been Beverly Hill Lane. I remember growing up in these parts, This parcel of land just north of Larchmont was originally a nursery. Apartments were then built in the mid 60's with the public road being named Beverly Hill Lane, lining up with Beverly Hill Lane in Larchmont beyond Pilgrim Elementary School. There may have been a Bingham Manor Lane that is a private street intersecting with Beverly Hill Lane.

This picture shows signs of the old service tunnels that once connected Favrot with TWU and the Fondren/Brown building. These connections were walled up after Topical Storm Allison flooded the basements of all these buildings. There is still one existing tunnel intact under Bellows Lane about where that white 2 wheel trailer is sitting. I'm sure it will be eliminated once the new building is constructed.

Redscare!

 

You've been missed. Now, bring out Crunchtastic!

Leave him alone. He's like a pet cat that's been away for awhile. Don't scare him off!

I liked it better when it was Buff Stadium.

Yeah, but our Old Guy Memory Lane opinions only matter to just  a few of us older HAIFers that can even remember such things.

I've heard that Memorial Hermann has plans to tear down the Robertson Pavilion. Robertson is one of the more older buildings in the Medical Center, probably built in the late 40's.

During the opening of the original Pavilion for Women, the Texas Childrens Hospital marketing department had a contractor install temporary lighting on the bridge so that it could glow pink after a girl birth and blue for a boy. We all thought it was pretty silly, but it was apparently a success with the public.

This new tower however, will house strictly pediatric services.

I remember my father got invited to the pre grand opening at Busch Gardens because he worked for one of the major subcontractors that built the brewery. My mother wouldn't let us kids go, claiming that the invitation was just for adults. We found out later that our cousin's got to attend and of course along with a bunch of other kids. Boy were we mad. We stayed mad long enough to not ever go even when our mom apologized and offered to take us anytime. Sorry I missed out on it now.

There are land bridges, well actually under passes all over Texas for wildlife and livestock to cross under highways. There are several on US 77 and 281 where the highway cuts through the King and Yturria ranches.

I'm not familiar with Parker Brothers being part of a shipping business. However, I did have an uncle who drove for Parker Brothers back in the 60's and 70's. He had stories about things being very territorial back then. He told me a story where Parker Brothers was dispatched to a project in Galveston, and the workers on site refused to unload the concrete unless it was delivered by W.A. Kelso. The drivers apparently had to come back to Houston and chip out the undelivered contrete that had set up inside of their trucks.

Stories like this is why I love this site.

There is a pie shaped piece of property stranded on the corner of Fannin and Old Main that has had a pile of debris on it since Hurricane Ike. I was hoping that with construction of the new Bank of America Motor Drive Up that this pile of trash would be disposed of, but oh! no!, the contractor just put his construction fence up around it.

Attached is a poor photo.

This is also the location of the only two or three free street parking spaces in the entire area. (notice the mispelled Holcome Blvd street sign....Ha!).

Actually, the operative word is Fertitta.  I don't think the facade would have made a whole lot of difference to the customers (shoot, you could've really tarted it up with a Rat Pack sorta vibe), but it's not nearly gaudy enough for The Tillman.

 

 

Nope.  This is catty corner from the baseball stadium, across Crawford from Assumption.

 

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It doesn't show up on the post card, but IIRC the white columns also had a nice shiny little turquoise inlay running up them.

Mollusk, I assume you meant "Annuciation" and not "Assumption" (I couldn't help myself).

I worked for a freight forwarder right out of college that was headquartered in the World Trade Center on Crawford St, even though the department I worked in was in the Allen Center. The World Trade Center building housed mostly freight forwarder and shipping line offices. It was a dumpy part of downtown back then, and quite a hike for anyone walking over there.

Huge, Why is your avatar a dated picture of Mark Wallace? Really?

Favrot Tower. I was once told by a resident that Favrot was called the building of a thousands smells by some of the tenants. Not all pleasant ones either, I'm guessing.

No strengthening needed. Both towers were planned to go up to 27 floors. Tower crane shafts and slab knock outs for the elevators already exist. It will have the same TCH look with pink limestone, copper colored and clear vision glass. A roof top helipad will top it off. No funny looking crowns like Hermann.

Arlan's is family owned.

That was Moeller's.  There was also a candy shop.  See's?  Kegg's?  Don't remember.

Moeller's is still in business. They moved to a location on Bellaire Blvd. close to the RR tracks.

If memory serves me ( who knows if it will) before the Lewis and Coker was in the strip center on Westheimer there may have been one on the sw corner of Alabama and S. Rice Ave ( near what is now the Galleria and in the past, the kiddie amusement park Wee Wild West.)

That was a Minimax grocery store and it anchored the Lamar Terrace Shopping Center. W. Alabama was originally Westheimer Rd at that location however the large S curve was removed in the late 50's. The curve in the Tanglewood Center photo shows that the new alignment. 

That rendering does not include the private school (St Nicholas) at 1920 North Braeswood. Do they own that piece of property too, or are they just hoping it will go away after construction is underway?

Those are just the strangest renderings.  Colored geometric shapes that I suppose suggest crystals more than real buildings, like World's Fair pavilions.  It will be interesting to see how the actual project develops. 

 

As an aside, I always enjoy checking out the cars in architectural renderings.  Usually they are heavy on the Audis and Porsches, so I give these guys points for the convertible antique whatever in the realistic-looking drawing.  

The convertible car depicted is a good copy of a Muntz Jet which was produced up until around 1954 or so.

Can't forget Cody's. The views were spectacular up there.