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  1. gnu
    Sorry to give you some bad news but i found this on the internet about industrial home. it looks like you won't be able to see the exact building - sorry. In 1980, the GanoMission Center, located a few blocks from the Fletcher Center, became part of the Baptist Mission Centers. This sizable property included the historic Industrial Home,a three-story building that provided housing for visiting missionaries. This building was demolished in 1999 to make room for a new building that would provide improved facilities for missionary housing and ministry programs. http://www.bmchouston.org/History.html looks like it was at the current BMC facility at 1815 Gano - that is just north of downtown. Evidently it will be where there new building is.
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    Are you primarily trying to describe the old angled atrium around the base? I have a picture of it in a book but Unfortuantely I have a broken scanner right now.
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    Farrell's was discussed a long time ago in another thread. but no time to hunt for that now Houston had three locations. The Galleria, Almeda Mall, and Northwest Mall. http://www.happyitis.biz/Locations/historiclocations.htm I only went to the Galleria and Almeda locations. The Almeda Farrells was at the main east side mall entrance. I think the last thing to be in that location was Marcos' Mexican Food. I had one birthday at Farrells (almeda location). I remember many red light siren hats being worn by the staff when they came out to your table to acknowledge your birthday. I was very embarrassed by all the attention!
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    i think they may have only recently (within the last couple of years) demolished the building. the police substation had used it (as you said). i think they are building (or have built) a larger facility across two blocks. if you look on google maps, doesn't the building look similar to the same outline as the old longfellow building shown on the sanborn map posted earlier (but with an addition to the north). but then sanborn shows it in a different position on the block though...closer to chartres. hmmmm. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&...m=1&iwloc=A
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    Geee...the last i checked there WAS sidewalk dining - right next door to the river oaks theater. and they show midnight movies at the RO. What kind of 24hr destination do they want there from 2am to 6am??? IHOP takes over the black eyed pea spot. Wala! They don't have to tear down anything. What a joke
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    i disagree with your generalizing statement about environmentalists. as an example, i don't think the katy prairie is populated by wealthy folks and yet "careless" environmentals tried to protect it. it is fair to note that in this instance the freeway was planned long before the land was a park. Not that it doesn't deserve to be protected, nonetheless. Txdot should do all they can to minimize the impact on the park. Maybe they should do a parkway and also delete any feeder roads.
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    You have probably done this but, have you looked for high school yearbooks for your missing data? I don't know how easy they would be to find (shouldn't aldine hs. have copies?) they typically always list the schedule and scores for the various sports teams
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    luckily we lived on a close knit street and knew a lot of the neighbors. it did cut down on outside kids coming onto our street. i remember it being pretty deserted on a lot of halloweens after most of us kids on the block got older.
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    yep..definately took a lot of the fun out of halloween. http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive....id=2004_3813766
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    where was the weingarten's on park place?
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    yep..that sure is one great looking parking lot! houston is a better place for having it. i nominate it as a houston landmark to protect it forever. still mad btw...great pics sevfiv. i really like the one that you used to use as your avatar. very ominous.
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    how about 5120 montrose...or...4817 montrose? http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=1987_469098 from the chron archives: You can probably find more about Hedgecroft, if you can find the book cited in the article: http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00...4987351?ie=UTF8
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    Good call on the flood maps. I agree - that makes sense. Since no maps show the lake - even the 1913 map, maybe the city removed the dam after they took over the park.
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    This is the only map i have seen to offer any clues. This is from the 1924 Sanborn map. I will hypothesize from the orientation of the lone park structure shown, that the circular canopy may have faced the lake. Thus the lake would have been in the part of little white oak that is currently under I-45.
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    book info: http://members.iglou.com/baron/book-info.htm all it says about the lake is: "the work included construction of a dam across little white oak bayou, creating an artificial lake large enough to accommodate motor boats." and then he cites a newspaper review of the park from the time: "surrounding the artificial lake, the banks of the bayou form a natural amphitheater skirted with majestic pines..."
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    There is a short chapter on the park in the Houston Electric book (btw, i highly recommend it). The park was developed in 1903 by the streetcar company to entice more people onto their trolleys. It was an early success but later when it wasn't generating revenues for the company - they sold it to the city in 1911 - and they eventually renamed it Woodland Park.
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    you are right. woodland park used to be highland park. i am not certain exactly where the lake itself was. they probably dammed the bayou there. maybe it was in the current i-45 r.o.w.
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    a real shame. i really liked that house. a lot of very cool features - especially for a 1941 house. Sort of precursor to where the mod house movement would go.
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    i think its still under gulfgate. it comes out on the east side of 45 http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&...mp;t=k&om=1 it also goes underground again at 610 and broadway but then stays above ground weaving beside 610 and 225 until it hits sims bayou. my guess is that this causes the frequent flooding at 610/broadway and in the area near stubbs cycles on telephone.
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    it was built right over the top of plum creek. i think they put it into conduits and buried it.
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    A story in today's chronicle on a similar issue in Austin that would affect Las Manitas/Avenue Cafe: Is the River Oaks Center a Houston ICON?? http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metrop...an/4082738.html EDIT: oops just saw this was posted in its own thread by Sevfiv. http://www.houstonarchitecture.info/haif/i...st&p=103366 ( but i think the ICON preservation part of it is more relevant in the river oaks thread)
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    yep..i guess i am just a crazy liberal pinko commie. the destruction of historic structures are a "pollutant" on the city's psyche. If pollution sources must comply with various regulations - thoughout their lifespan, then why not significant buildings of other purposes. i don't see the difference. Somebody chooses where to put any building, just like somebody chooses where to put a sewage plant. The River Oaks Shopping Center was designed to be something special and was certainly never typical. There are plenty of locations for condos out there that are not historic. The city should protect locations and structures that have become such. River Oaks shopping center has always been a significant structure and was so when they purchased it. Regardless, and unfortunately, they did not have to have any expectations to deal with anything other than what is best for their pocketbook because it is located in Houston: The Open City! :closedeyes: I am not only protesting the loss of a "tiny" theater, i am protesting the loss of a sigificant and contributing part of the whole River Oak Shopping Center and a loss to the fabric of the City itself. A city should have the ability to protect any structure they deem of civic value. Unfortunately, there is no way to tell if something will be historic in the future but there is certainly something there now that is. i don't want weingarten to give the public anything. Weingarten entered into a contract with the public when they purchased such an important city structure. simple as that.
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    I saw my last 4 movies there. The ONLY other theaters I have patronized this year have been the Greenway and the Angelika. I go out of my way to spend my money at these businesses because I believe they offer something more substancial to the community than the typical megaplex. ah..it is only NOT legally wrong in houston. and that's why houston is so screwed up. is it legal to build an incinerator there? probably. Landowners should not have free reign, there should be constraints. if you can restrict the location of sewage plants, then you should, similarly, be able to prohibit the decimation of an historic structure. i see no difference. The River Oaks Shopping Center is within the government entity of the city of houston and the city should have the right to protect their jurisdiction. these buildings exist in the public domain. they are a part of the fabric that is houston. it is Weingarten's responsibility as owners of historic property to maintain it as such. If they didn't feel they could handle that responsibility then they should not have purchased the property.
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    Can anyone help me remember a "fancy" restaurant somewhere near the medical center. maybe off OST and Greenbriar. not exactly sure. I remember going there with my parents in the early 70's had a name like the Cellar or similar. It could have been the Cellar Door (see above) but i am not sure about the Goode company location. I think it had those one-way tire spikes in the parking lot, where you can't go out the in driveway etc. That might be why it stood out to me as a kid.
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    but, as with any election or issue, the side that has the biggest war chest and/or most effective marketing (or scare tactics) usually wins - whether or not - it is in the best interests of the citizenry. i.e. developers have the money to promote their view and present it in a way to make it acceptable to the masses. BTW, I think houston would benefit from some limited uncomplex zoning. But i'm not a developer
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