sevfiv

The only 15-story hotel I'm aware of that was in the Med Center was the Anderson Mayfair on Holcombe, but I haven't seen a good picture of it.

man, this took a long time, but here she is:

on a weird note, the reverend who sent the card was from st. anthony center on almeda, which has now been converted to the alta lofts

this thread is becoming a little troll-esque :closedeyes:

Is this like one of those drive thru wedding places in Las Vegas, Nevada?

it was...sort of. you could walk in, buy a ring, gun, lawnmower, guitar, get something notarized, then walk over to the outdoor gazebo and get married

there was also an older limousine there - maybe he drove the newlyweds down the road - to the blue top perhaps?!

"The knowledge you seek

Floats and drifts on springtime wind

404 Not Found"

i think i have gotten that one before

you can make your 404 (or whatever) messages say anything you want

maybe if diet coke is good for grass i could use mentos and diet coke...

http://eepybird.com/dcm1.html

haha!

check out this video from another thread

video

That would have been a good rail commuter line out to Katy. Would have served some nice dense areas, too (Alief, etc.).

wasn't a track somewhat recently dismantled along i-10 west?

oh, that's nice.

let's see here...say you work downtown

$2,400 gas card

say it's a suburban with a fuel tank capacity of either 31 or 39 gallons (link)

at roughly $3 a gallon, that's about $93-117 per tank.

let's say you are in a royce home that's in their mid-distance range from downtown (baywood oaks west, perhaps) - the "san pedro" model, at 5418 bur oak dr., about 19 miles.

that's 38 miles a day, 190 per week, assuming you go nowhere but work and back and only work five days per week and never go out on the weekends...

2006 suburbans get an average 19 average highway miles, and 14 city. we'll take the average of 16.5, since i am sure the a/c will be needed

16.5 mpg, 190 miles per week, that's about 11.5 gallons per week.

okay, so the gas card will cover it, but i think i just made myself have even more reason to never commute (and do things other than go to and from work )!

owwwwww

Mt. Tiki Soki !

that's awesome, but not as cool as:

between short light timings, short distances between lights, and dufuses blocking intersections, it is definitely a driving nightmare to be avoided.

there are a few sheriffs at the intersection of main and university that (poorly) help direct traffic. maybe they can relocate them to the galleria, since they cause more problems than good where they're at now...

No Sev, and the truth is, they would use neither, and no one is gonna be getting on and off in their neighborhood also. Here is a solution, make no stops in the AO section, probably need at least one though. and a rule that no train whistles are to be blown going through the neighborhood.

oh trust me, i know they wouldn't ride buses!

august 1st marks the implementation of the "quiet zone" - i am sure that could be extended in the residential portions (although yesterday a train horn sounded right next to me, and it sounded like the zoo choo-choo! ). of course we couldn't have the residents plummeting into the trains, either

I'm not one of the most eloquent members on here, but I have a great amount of experience with traffic on here and know most of the city of Houston as a whole better than alot of people know some of their own neighborhoods.

WOW - i just caught up on about 40370837 pages! sheesh!

ricco - your statements were right on key.

While I am not going to pretend the people in your neighborhood would use transit, face the fact that construction is going to be part of A-oak's future with the road needing some serious repair. The fact that they will probably also widening the road, you will probably lose your median anyway.

this is an important point - richmond can be quite awful as is. construction of light rail has been desperately needed in this city since passenger rail was dismantled by 1940.

the AO folks know that richmond is a prime artery, but you're right - how many of 'em would utilize public transport?

i would love to live in AO and have the prospect of living on a rail line. even if i were to become a little snotty (okay, okay, i know people who live there that aren't that way - who, btw, HATE richmond in its current state)

and do AO'ers really like buses thaty much?!

the big post office is on franklin

the correct answer is "no, that is great, amazing, you bought the best sod ever"

seems like you made a sound investment. years ago i worked with plants, and we would sell cheap sod that looked awful (holes, not alot of dirt, bugs). i am pretty sure that's the type one would get at larger big-box-type stores.

buchanan's is known for good products (but since they don't buy in the same volume, it costs more).

i would recommend anyone to support buchanan's before any other large chain (and for goodness' sake, buy native plants!).

murff turf will deliver and install...not sure on the exact cost, though (has to be better than 1.50/sq. ft.!).

as far as watering, you might wanna opt for a regular 'ol sprinkler

Yes, those parking lot views are so aesthetically pleasing now. I can see why they don't want to ruin the view.

yes - and that horrible reliant stadium, too. i don't think i take their "aesthetic concerns" with even a grain of salt.

and the tentative theme is Best of Texas, re-creating Texas courthouses and town squares.

oh please, no...please.

we have the walking trails downtown, we (had) the weekly outdoor happy hour thing (does that still go on?). i think the things you mentioned went over better in the burbs (woodlands, kemah).

as far as venders, concerts, and so on, it happens, but there's so much red tape

Another Tejano Station?

There are currently no Tejano Staions on the FM dial in Houston. The only Tejano format is found on 980 AM and that really doesn

i would say warren's, flying saucer, or agora

unless people want dinner - i can only think of small, cramped places!

another postcard, advertising the "cock n bull grill"

Aye, a bonnie wee alamo.

I just spotted this obituary in the Chronicle this morning, and thought of this thread. I assume it's the same Ted Kipperman.

Also stumbled upon this page containing a transcript and a RealAudio file of an All Things Considered segment from 1993 on Kipperman's Pawnshop.

man

thanks for posting the links!

The Globe at 6907 (?) Lyons still stands and is now Denver Harbor Tire Co. A retractable garage door is where the entrance used to be. The outside stairs from the balcony/projection booth are still attached (if this place was large enough to have a balcony). The vertical sign over the entrance is probably a holdover from its earlier days as a theatre.

while browsing, i found this page on texas escapes ( )

i had no idea denver harbor was known as that

http://www.texasescapes.com/Houston/Podunk...uston-Texas.htm

i spent most of my childhood in bellaire, and went to horn elementary and bellaire high school.

it is nothing like it used to be (and i'm talking even within the last fifteen years)

What do you guys think of this house?

3643 Olympia

10000 ft of faux castle meets McMansion. I'm speechless.

eek

3.8 million for an almost 10k square foot home on a 15k square foot lot?!

and "faux-finishing and extensive crown molding of the highest caliber"

niiiiiiiiiiice

So help me out. What's the allure of these structures to the design-conscious?

good question.

maybe it is kind of like how tom wolfe described:

All at once they are willing to accept that glass of ice water in the face, that bracing slap across the mouth, that reprimand for the fat on one bourgeouis soul, known as modern architecture.

And why? They can't tell you.

They look up at the barefaced buildings they have bought, those great hulking structures they hate so thoroughly, and they can't figure it out themselves.

okay, a little dramatic and dated, but still