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That used to be a Stables restaurant before the house was torn down (~2003, address was 3734 Westheimer) - the other Stables (on South Main) got quite a bit of photo attention before its demolition, even here. Even the newspapers didn't appear to cover the closing of the Westheimer location (according to the indices from 2000-2004).

If you're down for some hunting I bet there are some print ads out there (Texas Monthly always had the restaurant listed but no ads to my knowledge) - a lot of times there are at least renderings of the restaurant included. I *think* the Stables was there from maybe 1969 until demolition.

The Randall's stores at 9660 Westheimer (near Gessner), 1407 Voss (between Woodway and San Felipe), and 14610 Memorial (at Dairy Ashford) were all Handy Andy stores.

I want one of these (not as portable, though!)

Yes - check out the above thread for the latest discussion and information

And the demo is underway today

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=9097369

Name a place, date and time and I'll do my best to attend.

Ditto!

What a shame.

Wow - I was going to stop by there to check in on it but I think that will do 

This, Texaco, Holiday Inn...same old story year in year out, but maybe this is it. Unless something miraculous happened I was under the impression the owners were planning on just letting it sit and rot like its older half did because they were unwilling to take any reasonable offers..

Wow - I can't wait for the full "after"

I finally found my old 806 Main pictures (and postcard): http://arch-ive.org/archive/carter-building/

Very cool! I found more ads like below recently and updated my page: http://arch-ive.org/archive/battelsteins/

Thanks for the updates! I was in the area last month and it was busy!

Secret Squirrel is my hero for posting these.  Back in the day I was able to get into the old abandoned Texas State and Sheraton Hotels.  I need to dig up the pictures.

Please do - and I'd be more than happy to host them for you!  

Cool thanks!!

The Portal is an awesome resource - I'd expect to see more and more from it since they offer fairly reasonable digitization programs to libraries that want to collaborate

Thanks!  Contributions have slowly died down at westburysquare.net so it's nice to see more!

Here is a pic I took yesterday. Looks even better in person.

Thanks for the update - not bad but totally unrecognizable!

Congrats on 10 years

Thanks! Hard to imagine it's been that long...!

Thanks for posting these (and they'll be great years ahead when things change in the area)

Here are some pictures of it before and right after the start of the renovations: http://arch-ive.org/archive/2403-bagby/

Yes this weekend they were really gutting the old building ; saw a woman taking pics thought it might have been a fellow haifer - it will be an impressive before and after and no matter what crowd it brings more infill = more fun! With the redo of bagby I can't help but see Bagby as Houstons version of McKinney ave in Dallas.

I was going through old pictures to post and looking up this thread for information - that totally could have been me (though I was only out there for a second or two!)

I forgot that way back when I made a quick reconstruction of the neighborhood from the block book maps - it would have been larger than this (it extended about twelve blocks more north). Also, I don't know if it was mentioned before, but one of the streets heading north from the ovals was named "Park View" so it's pretty safe to say it was some sort of elaborate park.

http://www.arch-ive.org/houston/brunsville/brunsville_reconstruction.jpg

Here's a better link for the above: 

http://www.cohtora.houstontx.gov/ibi_html/sldpmtsl.htm

I think it may only work with older versions of IE (I've tried the latest IE, Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Midori). 

houstonpermits.org - but I can only get it to work with certain browsers (IE)

Sev, try this website.

 

www.pciplan.com

Thanks! I have group coverage now (I only needed it for a few months) but this is a good thing to keep handy just in case!

I think the pre-existing conditions part rolls out next year - I was unable to buy health insurance from anyone recently.