Montrose Patriot

ps - the James Dean screenshot is from his final film Giant (1956) where he is seen as Jett Rink (loosely based on the late Glenn McCarthy) - the hotel seen in the film was based on the Shamrock where Edna Ferber met the real Glenn McCarthy which resulted in the film being made.

I do recall the Shamrock 6 (formerly the Shamrock 4) where I used 2 view the following films since childhood:

The Spy Who Loved Me

Moonraker

Airplane!

The Empire Strikes Back

Flash Gordon (1980 version)

UtoteM assets prior to the Circle K purchase in 1984 are now owned by Alimentation Couche-Tard (based in Montreal, Quebec, CA); Circle K is a division of said company along with ExxonMobil's On The Run located in Canada and the U.S. (the North Texas On The Runs exc. for the one in Ennis off Interstate 45 in the DFW Metroplex were acquired by 7-Eleven; the Houston-area On The Runs did not become Circle Ks - all of the locations were acquired by Landmark Industries (Timewise) with the exception of a few locations now badged as a Star Stop; some Timewise and Star Stop locations sell the ICEE)...

The Houston Metro area has been under a Slurpee drought between 1988-2011 (where Cinemark Theatres now market the Slurpee under a business agreement). Cinemark Theatres is the only way to purchase the Slurpee in H-town @ 10 locations (slurpee.com has the locations on the map)...

i'm waiting for UTotem to make a comeback again...lol

The proposed McCarthy Center served as an influence 4 Gerald Hines - this became the genesis of The Galleria...

The former Oshman's Warehouse off Wayside/45 is across from the Orange Show Center for Visionary Art; there is a twist where Marilyn Oshman is an Orange Show board member (her name is usually plastered during Art Car Weekend)...

I used 2 recall watching a scene from the 1970 film Brewster McCloud where a billboard for MacRobert Chevrolet (later AJ Foyt, now the present-day Kroger Meyer Park) was advertised; some in the Montrose used 2 come across the following dealerships:

Auto Sports Ltd (later Dominion Jaguar) Kirby/West Alabama (where the former Borders bookstore is now located)

Mahan Volkswagen (now Momentum Audi) Kirby/Richmond

Jimmie Green Chevrolet (now the Randalls off Westheimer/S Shepherd)

River Oaks Lincoln-Mercury (now Whole Foods Market Kirby/West Alabama)

DeMontrond (later Hub) Buick (currently a strip mall Westheimer/Kirby - current DeMontrond Buick located off 45/Rankin)

Mossy (later Ray Hewitt, Rice Menger) Oldsmobile - Main/McGowen (later USA Body and Paint late 80s - 90s, now Stewart (formerly Don Massey) Cadillac; Mossy dealership moved 2 the Katy Freeway/Kirkwood in 1979 adjacent 2 the present day Mac Haik (formerly Tom Peacock) Chevrolet, now Mossy Nissan across from Westside Lexus)

Bland-Curran Cadillac (Bagby/West Gray/Webster - now Post Lofts since 1997)

Bill McDavid Oldsmobile (Gulf Freeway north of Gulfgate - later became a furniture store but site redeveloped into a Home Depot)

The only inner loop dealerships still in business without name changes - Tommie Vaughn Ford and Knapp Chevrolet

Back in 2011, 7-Eleven signed a business agreement with Cinemark Theatres where the Slurpee was sold outside 7-Eleven convenience stores after a litmus test was demonstrated in a DFW sports arena (AT&T Stadium, American Airlines Center) where 11 Cinemark locations were chosen - the Slurpee cups are maxed @ 32 ounces. The company recently purchased the CL Thomas assets (with the exception of 22 locations) in late 2012 where 13 locations in Corpus Christi, Victoria, Palacios were rebranded (CL Thomas ran the Speedy Stop stores in these cities and it also includes the Exxon Tigermarket locations in ATX which were rebranded during the summer). There are over 100+ ATX locations where 7-Eleven has a presence exc. for SH71/FM973 where a former Speedy Stop was rebadged as a TETCO. Also, if crossing over into Travis County on SH71, a former Fuelman (co-branded with Shell) was rebadged into a Circle K...

As of late 2013, former Speedy Stop locations in the Houston Metro area (with the exception of the 22 locations owned by CL Thomas still in service) have been rebadged as a TETCO but with 7-Eleven infrastructure and merchandise (w/o the private label products eg. Big Gulp, Slurpee)...

7-Eleven purchased the retail assets of TETCO in late 2012 where the ATX and SA locations were rebranded - the SA locations are located in the northern San Antonio metro area incl. New Braunfels along with the newly-rebranded Exxon Tigermarkets in ATX once part of the CL Thomas business portfolio. I was in ATX during the past few weeks working a photo gig where a TETCO off Guadalupe north of UT had its signage ripped off but one former Speedy Stop (SH71/FM973 east of ABIA Airport) was rebranded as a TETCO since 7-Eleven now owns the TETCO naming rights - I went 2 the former Speedy Stop off the Grand Parkway/New Territory and came across a Slurpee-badged machine but no Slurpee cups. Here's the 7-Eleven assets based in H-town as of November 2013:

6102 Highway 6 North

110 1st st Humble TX (off US59)

5700 New Territory Blvd Sugar Land (off SH99/GPKWY)

2480 S Loop 35 Alvin, TX

305 Meyer Street Sealy, TX

Around H-town, there is an overload of Landmark Industries' retail assets and there are 3 Timewises (45/Sawdust/Rayford) in the same location. The only way if the 7-Eleven signage will return is if the company will acquire an H-town retail asset still in operation eg. Sunnys Food Store - the rest (Timewise, CST Brands (Valero), Star Stop) are overpopulated.

The only way 2 get a Slurpee cup is from a Cinemark Theatres location in the Houston Metro area - 7-Eleven signed the business agreement in 2011...

There are 2 rebranded Speedy Stops (one off W Little York/SH6 and SH349/Grant Rd) which 7-Eleven now owns but they now have TETCO signage (the changeover occurred last week)...

Another note - Landmark Industries is the new NCS (National Convenience Stores) which owns Timewise...

Here's the flix shot in Galveston:

Together Brothers (1974) - music score by Galveston native Barry White

Night Game (1989) - with Roy Schieder (Jaws) as a Galveston cop - Balinese Room used as a filming location

Keaton's Cop (made for cable) (1991)

Don't Look Back (1996 HBO film) - filmed on Tiki Island