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  1. Ross
    From the 1922 city directory. Address was 700 Main. 705 Main is across the street. I think it must have been on the first floor of the Great Jones Building, which still exists.
  2. Ross
    Not related to George R Brown. Property was sold to TMC by Dorothy Brown, a widow living in New Orleans. She bought the land from R E "Bob" Smith, who apparently owned most of that part of Houston. Dorothy Brown was teh widow of Joe Brown. They were wealthy folks in New Orleans, oil and such, owned race horses, etc. Their foundation still gives to various causes. Find a grave for Dorothy Brown https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/122648389/dorothy-brown Their foundation https://www.thebrownfoundation.org/who-we-are.html Brown to TMC.pdf
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    METRORail Red Line

    Ross replied to ricco67's topic in Transit

    I've ridden public transport all over the world. None of them have seat belts. Few passengers would wear them and they would be another maintenance item.
  4. Ross
    No. Worst idea ever. Totally ridiculous, and ignores reality.
  5. Ross
    Along with "Drive 75 and freeze 'em alive"
  6. Ross
    I was marginally taken aback driving up South Main a couple of weeks ago and saw the demolition underway.
  7. Ross
    The area just to the East of WGC is being used for disposal wells and such, and will likely remain there for some time. The area to teh West might be good for a corporate campus, but isn't that already planned for the Bioport? The golf course was built on top of a closed landfill, which may have some effect on future use of the area.
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    It's tunnel access to the garage, not the rest of the tunnel system. Being able to get to the garage without crossing the street is a good thing. And you admit that parking is a necessity for a residential building that size, but you don't like the existing garage. You are also assuming the other lots are for sale.
  9. Ross
    Where is the robocop to arrest and punish the morons who let their dogs run loose there?
  10. Ross
    I stand corrected, and should have known that since I made a post about it in this thread in January. I'll write that off to getting older.
  11. Ross
    That garage is built and is owned by Shorenstein, so it comes with 800 Bell. The other surface lots are owned by people who may not be interested in selling. And, the garage is tunnel connected to the building.
  12. Ross
    Without that garage, 800 Bell is useless. It doesn't have enough space for everyone in the building, but it is needed.
  13. Ross
    I wouldn't bet anything important on that. These mergers tend to reduce the back office headcount at the acquired company by 90 percent. I don't know if Hess has offshored a lot of jobs, but Chevron certainly has, and will replace US Hess folks with people in other countries that cost 25% of what Americans cost.
  14. Ross
    What's your point? That you can copy someone's poorly done memes that can't be read or verified?
  15. Ross
    Where would residents park their cars if there is no garage? Or do you think the owners should risk reducing their potential market by 95%?
  16. Ross
    That's West Webster. Here's a link to the actual building, which is in Midtown https://www.google.com/maps/@29.7465532,-95.369653,3a,75y,216.3h,90t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sL5AmUYsGhfFmuU5b7VYJNg!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DL5AmUYsGhfFmuU5b7VYJNg%26cb_client%3Dsearch.gws-prod.gps%26w%3D86%26h%3D86%26yaw%3D216.2956%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu
  17. Ross
    Socialism! Communism!
  18. Ross
    Minnesota's Kepler learned the agony of watching a season ending called third strike go over the plate without him swinging.
  19. Ross
    The address was 711 Fannin. From the 1923 directory: Haverty probably disappeared when the new part of the Texaco building was built. At least that's my guess.
  20. Ross
    That was the location of the Triangle Refineries building, which was owned by Triangle Realty. Transfers to Triangle from the County Clerk's site Transfers from Triangle: That location is in West U, not Houston.
  21. Ross
    In 1923, Finger's office is shown as 711 Keystone Building Keystone Building is 1116-20 Texas Avenue The building still exists and is lofts. It was designed by Finger, so not surprising his office was there in 1923. Here's a site with some information on the building https://www.downtownhouston.org/guidedetail/residential/keystone-lofts/
  22. Ross
    There was no Goggan Street. Finn's address in the 1923 City Directory is given as 505 Bankers Mortgage Building And the entry for the Goggan Building has "See Bankers Mortgage Building
  23. Ross
    That building is still there as the Judson W Robinson Community Center. Northeast corner of Hermann Park.
  24. Ross
    Prior to the creation of the name "Exxon" in the early 1970's, Standard Oil of New Jersey stations in Texas and other states used the "Humble" name. Jersey Standard was not able to use Esso in most of the US due to trademark issues with other former Standard Trust companies like Amoco, Chevron, etc. In addition to Humble, there were also stations branded as Enco, Carter, and a few other names, generally using the blue oval with red letters. Humble Oil was founded by Harry Wiess, Walter Fondren, Ross Sterling, and others who sold half of the stock to Jersey Standard to get funding. By 1958, Jersey Standard had bought all of the stock of Humble and it was a wholly owned subsidiary. It operated as Humble in Texas due to state law restricting what Jersey Standard could do. My grandfather worked for Humble Oil for 33 years. He had a company car with a large Humble logo on the side.
  25. Ross
    The Mexican Inn restaurant was at 1209 Main street, operated by Felix Tijerina who later opened Felix on Westheimer I am not seeing a Kline Street in the City Directory for 1934, so I don't know where it might have been.
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