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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Liberals. Barf.

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?

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.

I was thinking Brochsteins at first, but Waukesha Pierce is probably more likely

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.

I think one of the lanes in each direction got matriculated!

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.

After seeing it for many years, I finally attended mass at Annunciation on February 3--a Novus Ordo mass, in fact.  Before mass, a couple who married there in 1950 came back for photographs and renewal of their vows.

What a gem! Definitely a Nicholas Clayton design.  It's a smaller space inside than it looks from the outside.  I noticed none of the windows opened .  I wonder if that was the case before air conditioning came along.

The adjacent Incarnate Word Academy looks relatively new.  When was it rebuilt?  Wasn't there a parish school in the same block?

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.

Subaru? Really? I don't think there are 30 Subaru's in Texas much less 30 in one parking lot!

Oh yes, it was the place to go on openning weekend of dear season.

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.

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!