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Wasn't Jalepeno's part of this land deal? http://www.houstonarchitecture.info/haif/i...p?showtopic=160

hmmm..probably burned after they closed it....when the property was unsecured. I believe there was a mention in the chronicle when it closed.

I thought the property owner sold their land as part of a parcel to build a Super Target there. They just closed maybe 6 months ago. I think we ate there in March.

you could put your FEMA money to good use buying that ashtray and cup...just kidding So whaddya think? Do the logos jog your memory anymore? might be more on ebay now..since that is a month ago...

Yep..its some sort of school now. ..but I think it was a little more up 45. Between Airport and Monroe. Here is a link to another thread where Sage was discussed along with Globe and some other "dead" stores. http://www.houstonarchitecture.info/haif/i...?showtopic=2794

And now the mall is dying or is dead....what's up with that? Does everyone get everything at the Wal Mart now?

I lived in Baytown in '83. When Alicia came through the TG&Y Family Center on Market closed because of damage and never reopened. A buddy of mine worked at that TG&Y and when they built AIM, they gave him a job there. I guess they decided to put their investment into AIM out at West Town instead of reopening the Market location. I guess it didn't work out for them though. I did not know AMES stores ever bought TG&Y. I think I remember McCrory's buying them out. Venture was an established midwest discount retailer owned by May before they spun them off in the early 90's. I think they tried to expand too quickly into competitive markets - like Houston.

AIM was owned by TG&Y. Sort of a Super TG&Y. Was it actually around more than a couple of years? Spanky's is still open. I go there often and was there last week. It is owned by Gabby's BBQ now.

okay..i confirmed to myself also that it can't be Buff Stadium. From a picture in Houston Freeways (p150) pg 7 in ebook pdf file here http://houstonfreeways.com/ebook/Gulf_Freeway_72ppi.pdf The grandstands open to the north and east (homeplate at the southwest corner) so there could be no shot with a downtown view like that.

maybe....but I have been in Robertson a lot and it seems pretty close to what the view is now. I am not that familiar with how the bleachers at Buff stadium were arranged...but the concrete edge of the stands sure does remind me of Robertson. just imagining the buildings and where 45/calhoun is in relation. I have a hard time seeing it as Buff stadium.

i think this is from the east bleachers at robertson/jeppesen stadium at uh the angle is wrong for rice stadium..at rice you would be looking straight up shepherd/greenbriar and couldnt see downtown

does anyone know what the restaurant was that is to the right (in the aerial shot). just south of the holcombe intersection - across the street

and Rice Stadium is a GREAT place to watch a football game. Really nice sightlines.

1015 broadway puts the theater in Harrisburg. Maybe you mean just off the end of 225 or the south loop but not 45. I dunno what is there but I don't think it was the Bluebonnet. The old theater in the Park Place circle at Broadway and 45 is currently the Circle Pawn Shop..... It opened in about 1941 as the Plaza Theater. It is at (i think) 3818 broadway

Here is a quote from Danax in another thread from July: Maybe he knows if something has changed? Danax?

still here! we go to the one in front of almeda mall ever now and then.

like i said...i can't recommend it. never liked the beer there. if i am in the village i am going to the gingerman. i want the bank draft brewery to come back.

Great pub. Food is pretty good too.

tg&Y ben franklin's gibson's the fair venture the store that went into half of several of the woolco's...can't remember the name..

the blond haired guy for Federated was Fred Rated. brilliant ad agency, huh? How about Kroger FAMILY CENTERS??? I know kroger's is here but I don't think they have these anymore. they had stuff other than groceries..like super target does now. I remember on sunday's - When the Texas Blue Laws were still active - they would have parts of the store roped off. You couldnt buy tools on sunday cause then you might be tempted to work on the sabbath!

Here is the map I was searching for (from the jsc history site) showing all the NASA interim facilities: I also found a picture from the JFK library showing President Kennedy and others standing in front of a model of the Lunar Lander at the Rich Fan Company building (current Ambox bldg - Telephone at Westover).

found the following list on a NASA history site. I saw a map online once that had all of these buildings pin-pointed, but I couldn't find it this morning. Activities of the new spacecraft center were housed in temporary facilities: Farnsworth and Chambers Building, Site 2, headquarters; Rich Building, Site 3, Spacecraft Research Division and Systems Evaluation and Development Division; Lane Wells Building, Site 4, Life Systems Division; Houston Petroleum Center and Stahl and Meyers Building, Site 5, Project Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Flight Operations Division; East End State Bank Building, Site 6, Personnel and Security Divisions; Office City, Site 7, Flight Crew Operations Division; Ellington Air Force Base, Site 8, Procurement, Financial Management, Photographic Services and Supply; Minneapolis-Honeywell Building, Site 9, Public Affairs Office; Canada Dry Building, Site 10, Technical Services Division; KHOU-TV Building, Site 11, Data Computation and Reduction Division; Peachy Building, Site 12, Facilities Division. Later on the center occupied additional temporary quarters in the Franklin Development Center and in a building formerly occupied by the Veterans Administration, and these became sites 13 and 14. The designation Site 1 was given to the Clear Lake site. "Manned Spacecraft Center Interim Facilities"

from arch guide on 2999 south wayside drive Farnsworth and Chambers Building (1957) MacKie & Kamrath