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    I have a suggestion that some may agree to, others of course will not. There are several acres of Hermann Park land south of the zoo across Cambridge (McGregor, Outer Belt) that is really unused, except by Ben Taub emergency room smokers, and an old log cabin. The "Pioneer" cabin can be moved into the park somewhere, or to another location. The smokers can smoke in the middle of the street for all I care. The land sits idle, as a buffer between the Medical Center and the park. Why not let parking garages be the buffer. The garages could be connected to the park with wide pedestrian bridges over Cambridge. (The only problem would be keeping medical center employees from parking there during the day..........or maybe not)
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    It would not be surprising for Texas Children's Hospital to acquire the adjoining St. Lukes properties on Bates and Bertner. They are already attached, sharing infastructure, heating, cooling and other life safety systems.
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    That would be St Luke's on going deconstruction of their orginal 1954 buiding. Thay have started and stopped this project several times in the past years. Now that they have a new owner they may get the thing finally deomolished.
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    I never liked shopping at Randall's in the past because it consciously did not sell beer or wine for years. It was almost like the owners were trying to force their morality on the shopping public. I even remember one of the companies that I worked for back then made sure to hand out "Randalls" gift cards at christmas time to it's employees, thinking that they were doing us some kind of favor by not allowing us to spend the card on beer! I would always give my gift card away anyway, usually to one of the apprentices'. So for that reason alone I never made Randalls one of my grocery shopping choices. However, I did go to the one in Galveston yesterday to get soft drinks, and their prices were competive. The store was clean, fully stocked with all of the choices that Kroger or HEB have. Not sure why they are having trouble these days because this store looked fine to me.
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    I would be suprised if this ever gets built. There was a proposal for a similar amusement park one exit down (next to the Gulf Greyhound Racetrack). It never happened, just a sign on the property for several years.
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    Notice the pink porta potty in post #23's pictures. Ladies used to have to share with the guys back in my days in construction. Cussing, foul language, and smoking were normal activities on construction sites of yesteryear. Things have improved so much in recent years.
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    Bland Cadillac was in midtown for years. Their showroom was over near the Kirby mansion to the north of Spec's. You could see it from the Pierce Elevated.
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    Those final pictures are from Harborside Drive. The wall facing the street was built to hide the central plant, and cooling tower equipment. Before that wall was built in the early 1990's you could still see the section end of the original seawall. It ended at Water St. and went south down 6th St. (present University Blvd) and turned southwest at Broadway. You can still see the top of it along 6th St. as part of the sidewalk, especially in front of Arlan's Market.
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    There was a Diamond Shamrock convenience store at this location for years. A bank branch (Guaranty Federal I think) was next to it, closer to the bayou. Both were torn down after tropical storm Allison. Lands been vacant since then.
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    Does the archery club still use this extreme edge of Memorial Park? As a youth I always wanted to walk back in there and explore around but was afraid of getting shot by a stray arrow. Silly how those things stick in your mind.
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    The Falstaff Brewery building is in really bad shape. There are actually two sections, the older Magnolia Brewing building (early1900's) is on the north side of the property and the later and taller structure on the south end was built by Falstaff in the early 1960's. Magnolia brewed Southern Select beer until it was sold to Falstaff. I was inside the property with a friend of the owner about 7-8 years ago. It was pretty crapped out inside. Salvagers had taken about everything they could. The hospitality room on the roof was all open to the elements, but still had the flagstone terrace and planter boxes intact. (We drank a beer up there). My guide found a ledger that had hand written notes apparently from the last few weeks of brewing by the brew master, still opened to the last entry in one of the control rooms. Other stuff strewn around in the employee area indicated that things had shut down pretty unexpectedly. Falstaff had been taken over by a Mitt Romney type of investor in the late 70's and by the early 80's the assets were all gone.
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    Funny thing is that the FAA uses to call letters IAH for Bush and HOU for Hobby. Hobby was called Houston International Airport after it was determined that Howard Hughes Airport was not an "international" enough sounding name, plus Howard Hughes wasn't even dead yet. Hobby never had the word Intercontinental in any of it's names.
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    There is an aerial image of Robertson Pavilion at Hermann Hospital, showing the entrance that was shot on the Route 66 TV series that FiloScotia bet the farm on. Sorry Filo, start selling of your livestock.
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    What the hell is wrong with you? You start a conversation and then snap at the first person that disagrees with you. You got some kind of social disorder? Where's Niche when you need him?
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    Houston has many examples of facilities that do not fit a particular neighborhood. Who would have that a tuberculosis hospital would have been appropriate right across the street from an entrance to River Oaks? But there it stood for decades without much controversy.
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    I was thinking Brochsteins at first, but Waukesha Pierce is probably more likely
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    Another radio talk show host, this time out of Beaumont 560 AM yesterday stated that he remembers as a child attending Colt 45 ball games in the old Buff stadium. Is it just that they were too young to really remember it right or are their brains fried from too many radio waves. No Colt 45 games was ever played at Buff stadium that I am aware of. I'm 58 years old and I remember the Colt 45 stadium. The stadium was just a metal bleacher type with wooden benches and was located on the north end of what is now Reliant Park. You could see the dome being erected from the seats in the out field.
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    I think one of the lanes in each direction got matriculated!
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    Great home movies. Your "Hi Mom" was a good touch. I too was here in Houston for both of those snow events, and also 5 and 18 years old at the time. Did not have a home movie to document it though (Glad you did). We were bad teenagers also, building snowmen in the neighbors yards before they got home from work........some with boobs! Thanks for sharing.
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    Incarnate Word Academy rebuilt it's buildings in the late 1980's, after selling the Mother House Convent and adjacent former Marian High School campuses in Bellaire.
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    Subaru? Really? I don't think there are 30 Subaru's in Texas much less 30 in one parking lot!
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    Oh yes, it was the place to go on openning weekend of dear season.
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    I used to eat the rice that was made there.
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    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."
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