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I'm guessing that's probably Fifth Ward. Looks like the home is in a place where the surrounding structures and trees are being torn down. I'm guessing that this is from 1962-63 since I-45 was completed over Memorial, One City Centre is shown standing, the Tenneco building is almost complete, and the state would've been clearing out the Fifth Ward at that time to make way for the East Freeway.

I got to see the inside of McLane Stadium a few weeks ago while visiting Baylor for its annual Pruit Symposium. It's a very nice facility!

Am I the only one who initially thought that the thread starter's title meant that US Airways was suing Southwest since "US" is also the IATA code for US Airways?

Engage in hyperbole much?

No link?

I drove past him on Saturday on Kirby. The Saturday before that, I was behind a line of cars on Alabama and didn't see him, but I saw the sign sailing through the air.

Ya know, Jetero was a typo of Jetera. Luckily, neither name stuck for the airport itself, and while Jetero Blvd. once existed, it had its name changed to Will Clayton in the 70s or 80s, though I think there's a portion still called Jetero to the west of JFK. Can you imagine the flight attendant saying "Welcome to George Bush Houston Jetero Airport"?

Who says they weren't at board meetings and protesting this demolition from the start? The old San Jacinto High School has been able to stick around, get repurposed as the original site of HSPVA, purchased by HCC, and get renovated TWICE since HCC has owned it. I guess they should've maintained the status quo and torn it down in the 70s and put a parking lot there, right?

It was.

The new ramp is open. No more merging with 610 before getting onto I-10 from 290. Things will flow so much smoother when the same is done on the opposite route so you can get to 290 directly from I-10. http://blogs.houstonpress.com/news/2014/10/new_i-10_access_ramp_from_290.php

Nope. He wanted to run for agriculture commissioner, but lost out in the primary runoff.

Could it be Jensen Dr back when it was still US59?

I'm an able-bodied male and I'm not laughing. Anyone, including us able-bodied males, can be a target of criminals in a parking lot.

What may be defined as walkable in one town, or even one country, may not be considered walkable in another town or country. There's just different interpretations of it depending on where you are. Now, some people may not want to hear this, but gentrification also plays a role in determining if a neighborhood is walkable. It's happening in Atlanta. Close-in neighborhoods that 20 years ago were low-income are now commanding some of the highest real-estate values in the Atlanta area. You could probably find people walking to and from their residences to bus and train stops, school, church, and work back then, not because they had the luxury of owning a car, but because they could not afford one. Yet, that area would probably get a lower walkability score than if it was filled with those of higher socioeconomic levels who choose to walk because they want to, and not because that's their only option.

Mixed developments play a large part in walkability, as well as proximity to transit, which are virtually non-existent in your typical suburban tract housing development.

This may sound tacky or kitschy, or even sacrilege for looking up north for inspiration, but how about turning it into a resort hotel and convention center that would be like the Gaylord Texan Resort in Grapevine on steroids?

They were gone by the time I was born, but I know for sure that they weren't projects. My parents remember the apartments and the last ones were gone by the early 80s. The site is now occupied by the Harris County Psychiatric Center, DeBakey HS, The Rise School, and a YMCA. The streets, which were laid out in the late 40s or early 50s, are named after W. Leland Anderson and H. Mark Crosswell Jr., and show up named as such on an old City of Houston street map that I have from 1971. Anderson was one of the first Directors of the TMC, and was President of the TMC from 1953 to 1976. A biography of his grandaughter, Dr. Mary Es Beaver, mentions that Anderson acquired land that created the TMC. The TMC acquired 25 acres of land at S. MacGregor and 288 shortly after Anderson's retirement and named it the W. Leland Anderson campus. H. Mark Crosswell, for whom the other street is named for, was a developer, a former Port of Houston Commissioner, and also a member of the Board of Directors of the TMC. It's interesting that these streets bore the names of men associated with the TMC nearly 25 years before the TMC acquired the property. I suspect that the site that Anderson acquired for TMC expansion may have been this site, and Crosswell's developer status may have helped develop apartments on the land which had streets named after the men. The apartments might have been built as a land bank for eventual TMC use.

You can get all of those things in Houston as others have pointed out before in this thread.

METRO is working on a new route plan now that'll completely re-route many routes. Apparently, these new routes will be run to take people where they want to go. http://transitsystemreimagining.com/web/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Reimagined-Network-Map-0827.pdf

I guess you haven't seen the Gabby Johnson speech in "Blazing Saddles" where he calls the town's minister an "ol' pious, candy-ass sidewinder."

So, now Cadillac says the CT6 won't be their flagship after all. The CT8 or CT9 will come out around 2020. Then, a Cruze based model positioned below the ATS will be coming out in 2017. Sounds like the Cimarron all over again. http://jalopnik.com/cadillacs-real-flagship-isnt-coming-until-the-end-of-th-1644985358?utm_campaign=socialflow_jalopnik_facebook&utm_source=jalopnik_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

Rudy's is pretty good for a chain joint. Gotta love their creamed corn.

MB threw its naming convention out with one of its newer models.The new CLA45 AMG's model number refers to the 450 newton meters of torque that the twin-scroll turbocharged 2.0L 4 banger (which is not a tuned version of the 2.0L I4 engine found in its non AMG brother) puts out.

They could call it HART (Houston Area Rail Transit) and have commercials featuring Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers touting the service as "Hart to Hart on HART."

I don't know whether to laugh or shake my head in disdain at someone who thinks a 24/7 Beyonce station is a "THUG hip-hop station."