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  1. Stephen
    They have a bunch of other plans with arbitrary names for houston also: http://edi-international.com/default/Brochures/On%20the%20Boards.pdf
  2. Stephen
    The name of the backing company is Mill Creek Residential Trust and they have apartment buildings all over the country, so it does not seem like this is a place name but rather the name of the complex. http://mcrtrust.com/our-communities/
  3. Stephen
    I agree with you
  4. Stephen
    When JR Cohen managed it, it was great. It went downhill fast when he left. I think this must have been a failure of management, not anything to do with the location.
  5. Stephen
    Nothing to do with Mayor Parker - the lawsuit was filed in federal court, in Dallas.
  6. Stephen
    yes, it closed. it moved to the north side of el dorado, still on the gulf freeway. I heard that the main reason for the move is that the sales tax is lower there (outside city limits).
  7. Stephen
    that's the right address but the wrong location; it's across the street and half a block east. Location is 29.708160, -95.395030... compare the google satellite image to the 45-degree-angle image. street view: http://g.co/maps/ysdh4
  8. Stephen
    please enlighten the ignorant among us... what/where is ruby's?
  9. Stephen
    google earth shows the house as of 4/2004, no house as of 4/2005. Street view shows an empty lot with a deteriorating concrete driveway.
  10. Stephen
    the historical imagery feature in google earth is a good one for this kind of question.
  11. Stephen
    For anyone still interested, Swamplot has posted that the demolition permit for this property has gone through: http://swamplot.com/daily-demolition-report-shrine-on/2011-06-15
  12. Stephen
    I have been lurking on this thread... found this info yesterday: http://clintonaid.webs.com/ appears to refer to the same cemetery
  13. Stephen
    I don't know what it is, but per the HCAD map, that's part of the St. Luke's parcel. http://www.hcad.org/iMaps/Tiles/Color/5355C3.pdf
  14. Stephen
    So they say... I have my doubts. this is the third time construction has started after having been abandoned twice now. There are two cranes, actually - one was removed from its tower for a while, but the tower remained; in the mean time, the other crane never left.
  15. Stephen
    It looks like invisible_texan is perhaps permanently AFK on this board and also on flickr; I was referred to his photoset on webshots.com (presumably the same photos that were on flickr), though, by Nick Saum, a friend of mine and the flickr user who posted the 2007 photo. Here's the link: http://good-times.webshots.com/album/561982645hxhcVr
  16. Stephen
    The promised photos are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sjalex/sets/72157620576904653/
  17. Stephen
    It's still there as of today. I was there this evening and took some photos which I will endeavor to post here tomorrow. The place is a wreck; it's been subject to quite a lot of vandalism and decay (I don't think there are any windows left, the front porch is collapsed, and the shell of a burned-out bus sits in the front drive) and the grounds are overgrown. The building plays host to a wide variety of wildlife. The place may not be there much longer, however. I came across this RE listing tonight as well: http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-...7546_1110338029
  18. Stephen
    That is true, however the time of day in which the photos are taken makes a big difference too. I took this set in the late afternoon in September and there wasn't any direct light on the building. I have another set, yet to be scanned, that, as I recall, had some harder shadows in it; I will try to get that scanned and posted soon for contrast's sake.
  19. Stephen
    So much for the racetrack. However, one might take perverse pleasure in that the area seems still to be devoted to the automobile: A Google Maps satellite image of it
  20. Stephen
    All I can find about Arrowhead's location is a post on another forum, (click here), that refers to it as Arrowhead Speedway. Evidently it was a racetrack for both horses and cars. It would ostensibly be located, by the description given, somewhere between Reliant Park and Brays Bayou.
  21. Stephen
    Hey, my pleasure. It's a matter of perspective, something I like to explore... Let me know if there are any other buildings I can deuglify for ya
  22. Stephen
    Wow, now that's what I call brutalist. I think it has a certain appeal, actually; though an appeal more to my darker side perhaps. It has a sort of dystopian feel somehow. I like it, but as a government building it's too imposing: it feels as though it would swallow you if you walked in. The effect is amplified, by contrast, by the open plaza surrounding the building. One would expect to see such a thing in a movie like Brazil.
  23. Stephen
    The Coliseum in Rome is showing its age but I don't know about Stalinist appeal... I suppose you could say it has concrete chic though
  24. Stephen
    I find that shooting in b/w lends itself to dynamic portrayal of buildings like this. It's all about the light; it sort of helps one look past the starkness of the concrete itself.
  25. Stephen
    It was still like that in New Hampshire, where I grew up, into at least 1987 by my memory. When they changed it so you had to dial the whole seven digits, my dad had a conspiracy theory that it was so that we would be confused and more likely to dial a long distance number accidentally and thus pay more for the phone bill.
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