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yep, this site. two links that i found quickly...just using the search function. http://www.houstonarchitecture.info/haif/i...?showtopic=6874 http://www.houstonarchitecture.info/haif/i...?showtopic=4204

a "grant city" store: The W.T. Grant department store chain had a discount division called Grant City. This is one such store in Clementon, N.J.; I had the letters colorized in Grant's familiar orange signage to make them stand out in the picture. found on this interesting website: http://www.wtv-zone.com/dpjohnson/60sdisco...ores/page2.html

i'd say the car is a 61.

i am slightly embarassed that i know that it was the Texas Longhorn Saloon

I think he has been in business - at least - since before 1992. Reason i say that is I remember a Letterman episode focusing on Houston (when he was still on NBC and broadcast at 1 or 2am locally). They had a competion of some sort (can't remember the details) between Hilton and Mattress Mac. Hilton was still using the chainsaw to cut up mattresses and Mac was still jumping up and down...saving you money. Hilton won...whatever it was.

that would fit the bill...right across the street from lamar hs.

The city building permit has Best Buy on it.

from a 1997 chron article: http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive....id=1997_1398054 Buffalo Speedway first appeared on city maps in the early 1920s, extending south from Bissonnet through an abbreviated version of West University Place. At that time of burgeoning modern transportation, Houston's landscape was dotted with small airports and - you guessed it - speedways for race cars. One speedway, according to historian and retired land researcher Ann Quin Wilson, passed near the site of today's Lamar High School. In those days, Allen Parkway, all the way from downtown to the tip end of Kirby, was called Buffalo Drive and ran near this speedway. Wilson suspects the street called Buffalo Speedway, which would have run on the other side of the track, got its name from a combination of the racetrack and Buffalo Drive.

i think it's like 27th and Ave M

i figured it might be pricey. ballpark guess? thanks for the contact, i will pass it along.

I have a friend who needs his terrazzo floors redone. They are mostly just dull looking but they are chipped and pitted in a few places. Does anyone know the going rate to refinish terrazzo floors? Does anyone have a good resource for refinishing them? The house is in Spring Branch. Thanks in advance.

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I can think of four on the southeast side just off the top of my head. telephone road between almeda-genoa and fuqua. winkler near howard (right off 45) college at 45 el dorado just east of 45.

4215 Leeland. was Ballatori's Italian, not sure what it is now. HCAD shows City of Houston is the current owner.

Check out chapter 3 of the history of jsc. It discusses setting up operations in Houston. it also has the map of all the early facilities - that i think musicman was referring to. http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/suddenly_t...ow/suddenly.htm here is the previous HAIF thread on the topic: http://www.houstonarchitecture.info/haif/i...080&hl=nasa the map is there too.

There is a thread on HAIF somewhere that discusses the old buildings esp the old HQ, current parks dept building on wayside. The building on telephone road is currently the Ambox building (i think they make boxes). It's on the NW corner of Telephone and Westover. There is a picture on the internet somewhere of JFK looking at some mockups or some such inside that building.

congrats on your purchase! the documentary was/is probably "This is our home, it is not for sale" (1987) by Jon Schwartz It focused on the Riverside Terrace subdivision on braes bayou, closer to UH and 288. The MFA has shown it a few times and it has been on Channel 8 before.

Top of the World is in the Stratosphere in Las Vegas. Maybe you were thinking Top of the Mark (Mark Hopkins Hotel) in San Francisco?

Snout houses!

i can't seem to locate my copy of Steve Baron's book, Houston Electric but from his webpage here: http://members.iglou.com/baron/photos.htm the caption to the picture you posted reads: Here's one of the earliest known photos of an electric streetcar operating in Houston. Car 8 was built as one of the original 12 cars to inaugurate electric service in June of 1891. This view was made in January, 1892 as the car rounded the curve in front of the Capitol Hotel at Texas & Main. The Rice Hotel was later built at this corner. Looks to me like the sign on the car reads Congress, Franklin, & Main Sts.

probably - all 3 ft of it.

actually when you drive on 225, on the north side, there is a mountain of some sort of refinery byproduct that they stockpile there. It is pretty large, too. Maybe 15-20 stories? just a guess. Probably wasnt there in 1980 though

i think the handy dan was on the northeast corner of shaver and spencer or maybe one block east. but in the same general location that i thought it was -near wards. if i remember right the diner was sort of behind the weingartens that shared the parking lot with wards.

I haven't seen the movie in a long time but i think i recall that diner was in Pasadena not california. was it a restaurant with lots of glass and a dirt parking lot??? Seems like it was just east of the Montgomery Wards on Spencer. I don't think it's still there. I think only the exterior scenes at the trailer park were in california. but i am no expert on either the urban cowboy or pasadena but we did go to that wards a lot when i was a kid. :closedeyes:

COOL! I did not know that. and i thought i was a special customer! Those items are included in a thicker english menu at the 646 location.