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  1. gnu
    cool! that has gotta be the one sootycat remembers. looks like it was at 1315 broadway directly across from the john st. intersection. today that would put it smack dab in the middle of the concrete abyss that is the 225/broadway intersection.
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    from the hctra website: Motorcycles require a specialized EZ TAG due to climate conditions associated with motorcycle use. also looks like they have another option for rental cars: PlatePass.com has arrived in Houston! PlatePass enables you to enjoy the speed and convenience of high speed non-stop toll road use while renting a vehicle throughout the United States
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    wow. i don't see how they could NOT have been moved - with the current katy freeway construction
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    ooops. yep you would still need to buy a tag for the vehicle. the security deposit and rental fee are no longer required. so...i wonder if it WILL work without sticking it to the glass?? maybe you could do like i used to do to my parking sticker in college and suction cup it to the windshield. you might have to expose the chip so that it touches the glass if it needs to touch it for an antenna. i dunno if i believe that though.
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    if your reason for not sticking it is so you can swap it to different vehicles, i think they are dropping the "rental fee", so it would not cost you any more to get a tag for each car.
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    Milby is definately buried in glendale, but they don't even mention him on the historical marker. (he needs to get another agent!) here is the text of the historical marker at the glendale cemetery (at the east end of E.Magnolia): evidently that was also the spot of the original harrisburg townsite.there is also an african-american cemetery in harrisburg (sort of at the end of phil st.) here is the text of that historical marker not sure which Milby lived at "Milby Mansion" but according to Houston's Forgotten Heritage the Charles H. Milby house was on the sw corner of Elm at 614 Broadway. It was built in 1885 and demolished in 1959. here are two excerpts from the citation:
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    i dunno. the bluebonnet theater is/was a block north of 225 on the east side of broadway.
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    me too...or i can just wait and read it off of sevfiv's website.
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    The Bridge City Public Library, of course
  10. gnu
    that sounds cool. if it works, i say its worth it. can i borrow it when you are finished? i tried a product called Ready-Strip that is environmentally friendly. http://www.readystripoutlet.com/ it worked pretty well but it always seemed to leave some of the very first coat on the wood. it was also a little messy...especially when working against gravity like on door headers and archways. their ultra-strip product seemed to work a little better and quicker but i would just buy the regular version - it was adequate.
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    if you are going to paint directly over oil based paint (which most lead based paints should have been), latex paints will not stick well and will eventually peel. you will need to rough up the surface to get it to stay down or you might get away with painting oil-based kilz over it first. unfortunately the previous owners just put latex over oil and it started peeling the day they left! i fanatically stripped ALL the paint off of my son's bedroom windows and baseboards before he was born. it was a LOT of work. i stripped the baseboards in the other bedrooms and then decided the labor would kill me before the lead would. the majority of the rest of the house i encapsulated using the method described above. we have been lucky too, since i have never seen him chewing on a door or window ledge
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    i heard that Jeanetta was historically a black community. do you know anything about the history of the community?
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    no telling what will eventually happen but the east end line is supposed to stop at the magnolia park transit center - regardless of the route taken to get there. wulfe has lobbied for it to continue on to Gulfgate. not sure if they mean to take it down evergreen or how they plan to get it there. the southeast line is meant to eventually link up to hobby airport. the first phase of the southeast is supposed to end at long/mykawa/griggs then when the next phase is built is was supposed to continue down long, right on telephone, left on airport to Hobby. who knows how it will all shake out or if it will even happen
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    maybe the blimp anchor towers from the old hitchcock blimp base? they are just south of hwy 6 though.
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    "Colonial House...shaped with you in mind." "Hi. I'm Michael Pollack, and for the past six months I've been inviting you to see our incredible apartments and new lifestyle at Colonial House. And based on the overwhelming response, a lot of people are looking for that new and unique lifestyle they've always dreamed of." "you get a free VCR when you sign a six-month lease." one of the commercials had a bikini clad woman leap up out of a hot tub or pool holding a vcr over her head
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    would this be the former Tang City Mall property that Olajuwan bought?
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    I guess you are going to the weekday matinee or something because i would say most of the time when i go it is 70% full maybe and i usually have to wait in a longish line to get tickets. this would be typical for a fri or sat evening at either a 7 or 9-ish movie. i cannot tell you the last time i went to a megaplex to see a movie. but i have been to the river oaks, greenway, and the angelika in the past year with the majority of trips to the river oaks.
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    I seem to remember that the Woolworth's and its Grill was still open inside Almeda Mall into the mid-90's (i guess until when the company declared bankruptcy) I know, as a kid, we ate there a few times.
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    I may just be old fashioned or i just don't watch the kind of movies that require all the special sound equipment nor do i need to sit in a lazyboy to watch a movie. the river oaks is perfectly fine for me. i always have a good time window shopping, grabbing a bite to eat next door, and then seeing a movie at the river oaks.
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    PID= public improvement district
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    It closed along with the HEB pantry at Bellfort when the new HEB Gulfgate opened.
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    Ms. Hurlburt....elementary school kids would have had a field day with that name. I think she was depressed after you moved away and ended up a lonely old woman begging for change under the I-45 overpass at park place. j/k know her first name?? found this short obit in the chron archives. This could have been her since the services were at the funeral home on Broadway (near Park Place)
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    yeah. its much MUCH larger than south park in sf. the land must have been purchased for a song if they could plan on a park that large and still anticipate a profit. I find it interesting that these developments way out Clinton Road (Port Houston, Brunsville, Fidelity, etc), seem to be planned on long (North to South) narrow (East to West) strips of land. I am sure it has to do with economics probably since it minimized the frontage near the only road out there (Clinton) - but a curiosity none-the-less.
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    Paul Laszlo

    gnu replied to Jersey01's topic in Houston Mod

    its at 2523 Maroneal. full text of listing (typed quickly...sorry for any typos) you can probably pick up an architecture guide at the brazos bookstore on bissonnet
  25. gnu
    i haven't heard of it for mosquitoes but i have heard that people whitewash the trunk and/or put foil around the trunk , to just protect it from the extreme texas sun.
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