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  1. Ross
    I have been known to call certain subdivisions "Stepford Pointe". Sadly, the people who live in those areas don't get the joke at all.
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    Yeah, that was pretty hilarious. Even after it was common knowledge that the owners of the place had sold the property years ago. Those are the threads that sometimes make me despair for the future of this country.
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    So you hate the landowners in the middle of nowhere that would get zero benefit and have their land messed up? That's harsh. One of the failures of the promoters was they treated rural landowners like crap. Ask any petroleum landman what happens when you treat rural people like that. I was never against the project, but I never believed anything the promoters said about ridership. I don't believe the volume of riders is as high as claimed, and if the fares were set to compete with SW Airlines, I would be driving to Dallas, not taking the train, especially if the whole family was going.
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    The guy in the wheelchair died as well. Really bad incident I looked up the driver in that incident. 3 years later, and she is still waiting to be tried, and is in jail after her bond was forfeited for failure to appear and she was finally arrested again.
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    The story says the Permitting Center is waiting for an asbestos report. That sounds strange, since the building isn't old enough to have had any asbestos used during construction. I wonder what is driving that testing.
  6. Ross
    The hacking sounds like a great assignment for the coding club at a high school. As an alternative to porn, how about the Eye of Sauron, with comments like "I'm watching you"? Let's start creating some paranoia!
  7. Ross
    I don't think that's too many. This thread has a lot of posts with lots of pictures, which makes the pages longer.
  8. Ross
    Wait. They demolished 2 historic parking lots for this?🤣🤣
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    We lived in Midtown at the time, and could hear the racing. I had tickets for one of the years, but it was kind of boring due to limited visibility from the stands. We walekd from Midtown to the race, which was far better than trying to park. A huge amount of work was done on the race course to improve paving, and bolt all of the manhole covers down so they wouldn't get sucked out by the car's aerodynamic forces.
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    Seritage is the entity that ended up with the Sears properties in the Sears bankruptcy. That was the memorandum of lease where the Sears/Kmart operating company leased the property from Seritage, which ended up as the owner in the Sears Bankruptcy.
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    In the meantime, we will all wish we could move to a third world country where the traffic is not nearly as bad. Like Kampala, Uganda, where I saw a travel author video about being in a traffic jam that lasted 24 hours.
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    The Briar Club has been around since the 1940s as a place to dine, play tennis, and swim. My wife went there a few times with people she knew, and wanted to jopin, but it was more than I was willing to spend. Here's the club website with the history page https://www.thebriarclub.com/club/story That page mentions that Timmons wasn't paved until 1965.
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    Or even with cars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB3sbNQ1Qt4
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    The hospice building was the family mansion for Oscar Holcombe, 4 time mayor of Houston. Crosswell was married to Oscar Holcombe's daughter, and served on teh Board of TMC for 38 years. Wife's obituary https://www.chron.com/news/houston-deaths/article/Elizabeth-Crosswell-ex-mayor-s-daughter-dies-at-2049573.php
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    The Katy Prairie wasn't flood prone from rising water from rivers and such. Any flooding out there is due to the flow of water being blocked. In general the Katy Prairies absorbed a lot of water. The areas to the East we are discussing can have major flooding from the San Jacinto and Trinity rivers.
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    It was a Reliant Energy generating plant built in the 1940's and expanded later. It wasn't very large, less than 400MW, and was closed and demolished. I don't think there was any other power plant there. Centerpoint still has the substation there, and it looks like CP still has their serivce center, but I don't think that was part of the power plant.
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    From the 1966 aerial. Can't really tell when it disappeared. Edit to add that this is now the location for the Meyerland Animal Clinic.
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    Some of that region is also flood prone, especially along Cedar Bayou, and near the San Jacinto and Trinity rivers.
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    Mention of the 3512 Main location in the 1980 EIS for rail https://books.google.com/books?id=Htg3AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA7-PA27&lpg=RA7-PA27&dq=christies+restaurant+3512+south+main+houston&source=bl&ots=FlA1VwGKQd&sig=ACfU3U3xuTg3v9FA-gha4XO_5f8qdcpvWA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjZ6Pbkqqz6AhVyrokEHVcMDrUQ6AF6BAg9EAM#v=onepage&q=christies restaurant 3512 south main houston&f=false It would have been across the street from the Ensemble Theater. No mention in a 1973 Texas Monthly https://books.google.com/books?id=BSoEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA29&lpg=PA29&dq=christies+restaurant+3512+south+main+houston&source=bl&ots=EncSIWuZku&sig=ACfU3U0ec3FzzGNdffBzkUmqqI9xLh_WhA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj3hdSJraz6AhWOADQIHZCqDWs4ChDoAXoECBwQAw#v=onepage&q=christies restaurant 3512 south main houston&f=false
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    That makes a lot more sense. There was a 4 screen drive in on the East side of Hiram Clarke, where the Lakeview RV park is now.
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    It's not a new development. It looks like a renovation of the existing building that's been there forever.
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    That's farther SW out Main. I can't tell what the structure on the property might have been, but it doesn't look like a power plant. And that's assuming I'm looking in the right place, which I think I am. https://www.google.com/maps/@29.6411877,-95.4726147,565m/data=!3m1!1e3
  23. Ross
    I voted for decade, but would like to see tags for location, etc.
  24. Ross
    The plastics plant would have been located much further North, about where 59 and 610 meet. Post Oak was the road that ran where the West Loop is now. Look for 5208 West Loop South, and you will see that address is on the very North edge of Bellaire. The SA and AP railroad(San Antonio and Aransas Pass), later part of Southern Pacific, ran parallel to 59 inside the Loop, and along what is now the Westpark Tollway. There was never a power plant on the location of the Power Center, at least not that I can find on old aerials. It's all just empty farm land. There may have been something at the Waukesha Pearce site, but I don't think so. The 1953 aerials show an oval track of some sort there, and there's a skeet range on the West side of Post Oak, North of Main.
  25. Ross
    That address is definitely wrong. It's 11504 Willowbend. Should we be nice and tell them it's not correct?
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