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This reminds me that I need to get an eye exam. I'm the past I've always had perfect vision, but haven't had an exam in 2 years. What's most efficient way? I used to go to my family's eye dcotor but it's way too much of a hassle from where I live now. I've had people tell me Costco. I just want to do a quick walk-in for a basic exam.

I didn't have much time last time around, so I actually went to the Sears optical on Main and Wheeler - eye exam/dilation, lenses and frames, and it was decent and fast.

Putting a call in to Stan Watkins might help identify viewing areas. I'll try if I get a chance.

^Maybe the Droubi's that used to be on Kirby and Main?

The historicaerials.com 1981 map of Meyer and Hardy show something that looks like a rail car at the SW corner of the intersection:

http://www.historicaerials.com/?poi=4329

Records show that the property changed hands from the Wilshire Village Corp. (run by J. Howard Cohen and registered in 1939) to Dilick in November 2002.

In 2002 it was Flat Stone II (run by Dilick) and then it changed to Alabama & Dunlavy Ltd c/o Commerce Equities (both of which are run by Dilick).

I can't find any association between Cohen and Flat Stone, Alabama & Dunlavy, or Commerce Equities, but that doesn't mean one doesn't exist. Current tax rolls show Jay H. Cohen owning a LOT of small, old, almost worthless homes in the 77004/77020 zip codes..

Here are the corporations' information:

-Wilshire Village Corp. (J. Howard Cohen)

-Flat Stone II Ltd. (Matthew Dilick)

-Alabama & Dunlavy Ltd. (Matthew Dilick)

-Commerce Equities (Matthew Dilick)

Just a brief comment - WOW, Detroit's drop out rate is 78.3% !

edit - wow, they're all crappy rates (most less than 50%)

^Geez...maybe that deserves its own topic...

edit:

http://www.houstonarchitecture.info/haif/i...showtopic=19426

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6280447.html

The U.S. Postal Service is selling the downtown post office after 47 years of sorting and delivering mail from the 16-acre operation.

Whoever buys the property at 401 Franklin must build a replacement processing facility for the postal service, as well as provide a retail location near the existing site where consumers can mail packages and buy stamps.

Yeah, it was built by the Greater Zion Missionary Baptist Church which is just a couple blocks south on Hadley.

Booth topics combined

With a small hike in your rate and no unusual activity on your part, something else seems to be sucking your electricity (faulty appliance? neighbor?).

That's a huge jump, even if you average it out over the past couple months...can you look up how many kWh used this time last year?

Yikes - definitely check your kWh usage, your rate for that bill, and cross reference the number on your meter.

I had a huge jump like that once, but it turned out to be a problem with the AC unit running inefficiently (and it wasn't summer, but still).

I think it may be a Robert G. Durst v. a Robert A. Durst (or something like that).

^I agree, and thanks to Ben for posting it.

I had some of the Kroger king cake (comes in the box pictured above with the choking hazard).

They had two kinds - regular and filled (the one I had was vanilla-filled). There's the icing on top, then vanilla icing-like stuff leaking all over. It was the most sugary food I've eaten in recent memory, but it was actually pretty good..

The golden baby was pretty creepy, though, outstretched arms and all..

Topics combined

^It's now Greenway Court apartments, and I would have never known..

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source...000000000000017

http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&...1&encType=1

Unfortunately, like others have mentioned, the Chronicle leaves out a lot (including a source to see the text of this proposal).

The article mentions "The proposal has aroused critics who say the city should not use public funds to help people pay down car loans, credit card balances, or other debts" - specifically highlighting credit cards and cars, even if the "other debts" make up some portion of what this is going toward. But who really knows..

This is all I could find so far, from the City Council agenda:

21. ORDINANCE deappropriating $444,064.90 from the TIRZ Affordable Housing Fund 2409 (Fund 2409) under Ordinance No. 2008-828 for the Temporary Emergency Home Repair Program (“TEHRP”) in connection with Hurricane Ike Damage; approving and authorizing guidelines for a New Credit Score Enhancement Program; reappropriating $386,390.00 from Fund 2409 to a New Credit Score Enhancement Program, including delivery costs; and reappropriating $57,674.90 to the TEHRP for Project Delivery Costs

If your credit score isn't great (and you have some credit history), it's probably because you have derogatory account(s), make late payments, or have a high debt to credit ratio.

Maybe not the best time to buy a home..

There is now a list from this thread pinned at the top of the Houston Mod forum

From BenH, WAZ, grayhomes, and Jersey01:

M+A Architecture Studio

http://www.maarchitecturestudio.com/

Savino Architecture (Monica Savino)

http://savinoarchitecture.com/

Collaborative Designworks

http://www.collaborativedesignworks.com/

Robertson Design

http://www.robdes.com/

Intexure

http://www.intexure.com/

Interloop

http://www.interlooparchitecture.com/

Nonya Grenader

http://nonyagrenaderarchitect.com/

Gordon Wittenberg, AIA (Wittenberg Oberholzer Architects)

Glassman Shoemake Maldonado

http://gsmarchitects.net/

Natalye Appel

http://www.appelarchitects.com/

Su Nguyen, Metropolitan Design Group, inc. and StudioMet.net.

http://www.mdgi.net / http://www.studiomet.net

Strasser Ragni

http://www.strasserragni.com/

The one with the half-timbering on the NE corner (1212 Hyde Park)?

My goodness.

For those interested in checking it out, the SAVERPLUS promo code works just fine when entered here:

http://www.championenergyservices.com/residential.asp

No he didn't Panicky Patty, the link is a direct link to the site, no ID, no edits either.

www.championenergyservices.com

It was edited - the notation was left off. Fixed now.

And now the HAR listing has changed - no interior photos anymore, and this is the text:

A long private drive leads to this fabulous 3+ acre lot located in the heart of exclusive Sherwood Forest. The heavily treed grounds create a beautiful park-like setting backing to a tributary of Carter Lake. This is truly a rare opportunity to create the estate of your dreams.

Also, the exterior photo of the home that is still on the listing has this description:

A long private drive leads to this fabulous 3+ acre lot located in the heart of exclusive Sherwood Forest. Photo shows previous home no longer in existence.

Oh, and this was the house he built for Robert A. Mosbacher (who sold it to Giorgio Borlenghi in March 1979, who sold it to ALV Interests. Ltd. in October 2007).

More on Borlenghi here: http://interfin.com/ManageDetail/CDetail_P...x?contentid=486

ALV Interests also recently bought the Gerhard Wurzer Gallery at 1217 S. Shepherd.

Here's an excerpt from Howard Barnstone's The Architecture of John F. Staub:

The style of the Mosbacher house is best described as as a cross between an American Georgian house and a Louisiana plantation house. The shuttered windows and shingled dormers recall the former, the slender brick piers and colonnades the latter. Staub introduced an irregularly spaced rear colonnade and Chippendale-like woodwork in lieu of conventional balusters. The colonnade, once carried along the entire rear elevation of the house, has since been abruptly terminated by the addition of an enclosed sitting room. In the front, Staub sought to vary the symmetry of the principal mass by placing the main entrance one bay off-center.

Grantor: MOSBACHER ROBERT ADAM ETAL

Grantee: BORLENGHI GIORGIO

Date: 19790306

Type: W/D

Desc:SHERWOOD FST

Section:0D

Lot:L0007

Grantor: BORLENGHI GIORGIO ETAL

Grantee: ALV INTERESTS LTD

Date: 20071002

Type:W/D

Desc:SHERWOOD FOREST

Section:0D

Lot:L0007

Not sure what ALV Interests is, but this is from the SEC and Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts:

ALV INTERESTS, LTD.

Amy Vaughan King

Amy Vaughan King, President

Amy Lynn Vaughan Interests, LLC

General Partner

AMY V KING

300 WEST AUSTIN

MARSHALL, TX 75670