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    This gave me a reason to test out a quick slider tool - 1915 topo/current Bertner location: http://www.arch-ive....ou_bertner.html 1944 (1953?)/current Mills Park location (realignment was already well underway): http://www.arch-ive...._millspark.html 1944 (1953?)/current east of Scott location (old alignments on north and south sides of the bayou): http://www.arch-ive...._macgregor.html
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    Apologies if this has already been posted but this Chronicle article from 1997 explains a few: http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=1997_1407015
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    ...aaaand we're the tenth "dirtiest" city according to Travel and Leisure http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/americas-dirtiest-cities
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    More pictures here - definitely NOT in good shape from my experience (water, mold, you name it): http://arch-ive.org/...central-square/
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    Neat - thanks for posting! I'd love to see a 360 of that area (Ben Milam/Willam Penn/DeGeorge hotels, Federal Reserve, and so on) from that time..
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    Sorry to hear about this - was it demolished last year? Looks like the latest owner used it for something commercial maybe.
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    ^Agreed - I was there a few weeks ago. Sad.
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    Royal Palms used to have a cool sign - I got this back in 2005: and the Loma Linda sign:
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    MD Anderson to demolish MacKie & Kamrath dental school. MD Anderson Cancer Center has informed Texas Historical Commission of its plans to demolish the former University of Texas Dental Branch, 6516 MD Anderson Boulevard in the Texas Medical Center. MacKie & Kamrath were the architects for the original five-story building, completed in 1955, as well as later additions constructed through the 1980s. Neither Houston’s historic preservation ordinance nor the Texas Antiquities Code apply to the property because the building is not located in a historic district and is not a designated landmark. Preservation Houston is encouraging MD Anderson to document the building before it is demolished. The historic building has been vacant since the UT Dental Branch (now UT School of Dentistry) opened its new facility at 7500 Cambridge earlier this year. The dental school was founded as the Texas Dental College in 1905 and became part of the UT System in 1943.
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    Yep, it's the old Montgomery Ward
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    The only thing I could find was a Trinity/General Portland Cement at 501 N York St. (https://maps.google.com/maps?q=501+n+york&hl=en&sll=29.755987,-95.333340&hnear=501+N+York+St,+Houston,+Harris,+Texas+77003&t=h&z=20) That building is from the early 1960s, though..
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    Just old enough to have gathered a few directories and online resources
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    Just for reference, this is the view from the roof of Ben Milam (the current roof doesn't go too far from Texas Ave., though):
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    The first thing that comes to mind
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    Here's the HAIF thread (with the pictures) that Swamplot links: http://www.houstonar...burne-cafeteria and the Swamplot post: http://swamplot.com/...lan/2012-08-09/
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    ^Welcome to HAIF - and yep, even part of the old Eckerds sign is up there!
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    That's too bad - I never lived there but toured it. I ended up at the sister site on Greeley by HSPVA (which I loved and hated - but it was CHEAP).
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    Notice - the Thief Who Came to Dinner posts now have their own topic here: http://www.houstonarchitecture.com/haif/topic/26897-the-thief-who-came-to-dinner/
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    In 1976 it was Lancers Club
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    Neat - thanks for making and posting the video(s)!
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    Not much except that she was found inside a home: http://www.click2hou...xz/-/index.html
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    Even *I* can't knock Taco Bell!
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    1970:
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    The windows were just different originally and they decided to keep them that way instead of what the rendering showed (without the larger plates of glass). Maybe the tinting is just for environmental issues..
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    Yep, the Pink Pussycat was at 219 Main St. where three buildings were demolished in 1983 (the Sheppard Building, the Dumble Building, and South Texas National Bank building). Just a few years later the Bethje-Lang building was demolished in the middle of the night - it was where the old Warren's used to be on the opposite side of where it is now in Market Square..
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