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    I had a 1981 'California Contemporary' with the angled walls. Lots of shiny brass colored spotlights everywhere. No conversation pit or beams, though. The biggest tell of the period, to me, are the kitchens. Mine was barely an 8 by 8 box. Even in the custom built, much larger contemporaries in my old neighborhood, the kitchens were tiny. Back then people did coke instead of cook dinner, I guess. And looked a themsleves a lot in the many mirrors. Mirrors were everywhere.
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    Hey, at least it was here. My friggin admin assistant Rick Rolled me! The 60 year old office master sarge! All the interns were dying over it, it was when I was hooking my laptop into the AV system to pull up some stuff for a friggin meeting!!
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    Sadly, I knew that photo immediately. Oy, I need to free up some brain space for something else.
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    What a trip-- I heard them too from Eastwood, first thought fireworks, and then thunder. I actually went outside to look at the sky, and then it stopped.
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    Yea, right! Cozy seat at the Allen Parkway Inn! Or do I have the name right? You know the one. Oh, I have mis-read and see that you mean the actual street. That bar was fun, Allen Parkway Village, not so much.
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    Yes! That was a big deal. Was home from school for the weekend, remember all the people parked on the side of the 1-10 in the Heights area.
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    Interesting, I've never heard of a park being 'previewed,' but what do I know. That seems like a lot of time between the concert and official opening of the park. I wonder what will and won't be done March 1 as opposed to April? Any speculation? You know who they need...who was that guy, I can't even remember how far back, late 80s...the French dude who played electric viloin and did the synced-up light show, where everyone was parking on the freeway shoulders heading into downtown? Was it an International Festival event? Ok, probably that guy is not the best choice. We need something more intimate for a 'preview'. I bet someone has already rented The Grove for the best seats. For the view, you know. I just remembered: Jean-Michel Jarre. He was like the French Yanni, but with a violin and some sort of cred. For a short time in the 80s, anyway.
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    Actually there is big news on the River Oaks......in a bid to squeeze the Mandolas out of the Gulf Coast Kitchen space, and give the Nenos/Vincents compound on W. Dallas stronger competition, Tillman Fertitta has acquired all the land and available retail space in the River Oaks shopping center between McDuffie and Shepherd. Building on the success of his upscale-casual, Mediterranean-inspired La Griglia, he plans to open a new dining concept: a gulf-coast-inspired, outdoor-casual Mediterranean steakhouse concept. Ground level, food-inspired retail and a new coffee-inspired Mediterranean beverage concept bar will provide climate-controlled all- weather seating for guests enjoying drinks before dinner at the new Landry's Las Vegas-Style dining destination: a steakhouse-inspired, Mediterannean-styled raw bar and pizzeria. OK, that's totally untrue nonsense. But sadly within the realm of possibility..... I was reading Meme's wonderfully snarky post It spoke volumes and made me think of Kemah and our local restaurant godfather.
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    I lived in my dad's hometown (San Antonio) for a few years. It really is a small town--Two older women I met, hearing my family name and history, telling me about how my father (the 5 foot 7 'shy' skinny mechanic) loved 'em and left 'em. In 10th grade.
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    Were they on tires actually attached to a Porsche?
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    I'm not seeing Niche as a blonde. Feeling his pain about Christmas, maybe.
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    Bring me a bucket!
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    OK, now i'm totally tripping on this advertising. It's all over the place! Note the greek-ish statue to left, staring into the penthouses. (see, those Titans!). The copy, good lord. What exactly is 'aspiring' to be green? Can condos have aspirations? And the 'competition over ' line (the Titans lost, BTW, mythologically speaking). The overall feel of the art makes me think cheesy mid-century book jacket art. Maybe for an Ayn Rand novel! 'Magnificient Obsession'. ick. Like the building, though.
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    Dude! Me too. (after my Long John Silvers career ended, lol). One on Memorial and Dairy Ashford. I had my first 70's D-list brush with celebrity there. Elke Sommer !!
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    That's a damn good idea. When you just need some Titos and some club soda and don't need to browse the free samples and snack foods. Is drive-thru liquor legal here, or beer and wine only?
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    Hey Vertigo, now Lake Travis is starting to bust at the seams. And worse, with lots of transplanted !gasp! Californians. Sometimes progress is sad to see. The Hill Country I grew up loving hardly exists anymore. And the days of the common man buying a lot and putting a simple house or a trailor on it are loooong gone. Luckily, South Texas is still fairly wide open.
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    Duly noted. And your salary, or perhaps your 'other duties as assigned' will reflect your consistently charming honesty.
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    Niche, you'll be happy to know I've removed my rambling opening statement, so as not to be perceived as less than logical. Quit yer nit picking, and in my future empire, there may be a very tasty position for you as Deputy Mayor of one of my Corner Park Regions. Then you can be as exacting as you wish.
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    Not sure, but I've seen a number of big boys in antique stores.
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    We'd all love to see an independent shopkeeper or cafe owner set up, but that's prohibitively expensive for most unless you're leasing in a strip center, moreso in this part of town. So, banks and drugstores it is. Or gas stations and parking lots, unless there's enough interest for a big developer. If I were super rich, I would start buying up empty lots and corners for little private pocket parks. I could employ a small army of of maintenance and landscape people. Ah, my empire!
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    Oh, Macbro, let me tell ya! I was lucky enough to get the best of both worlds. Jr high was mid-late 70s (the movie Dazed and Confused was, for me, absolutely 100% accurate, it looked just like my own life, if I were one of the incoming freshmen in the movie..... Of course due to a filmaker the same age and who also grew up in suburban Texas....) I was too young for the free love, but not for the weed Anyway, go to high school, it turns into the 80s, and all of a sudden I discover the Clash, etc, the punk clubs in Houston became my second home. The 70s died a swift and merciless death, at least for me. Out in bitchin' camaro land of Katy, not so much. And I was able to transition into something way more interesting than Boy George and preppies. (Not that I begrudge my senior class being at the ass-end of a long line of tradition, with ' Freebird ' as class song ) Of course as a young, Reagan-hating, punkette debate nerd, it took a stomach for ridicule (and getting the hell away from Katy TX at every opportunity). I wouldn't trade the late 70s and 80s for the world.
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    Is that where the Kips Big Boy was located?
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    More people right across the street means Whole Foods is going to be even more like bumper cars, leaving my world un-rocked. But sure, way, way better than a bank and CVS. Does Whole Foods have plans to expand/move? Seems like I've heard that.
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    In the short term. Forward to the day when there really is density. It is a solution.
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    Has anyone discussed congestion pricing at the destination, rather than the artery? I'm thinking of what London is doing, and could it work in the Galleria area, for example.
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