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  1. Tumbleweed_Tx
    Today from the pavilions garage
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    huh huh... you said big units... lol
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    Today
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    They built 3009 (?) Post Oak on speculation and sold it to the first tenant when economic conditions were iffy (that was before we realized we were in a boom), so this one will happen, with the same result.
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    ok, that would explain the setback I see on the top floors
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    I have done many epic road trips. My favorites were the ones where I was by myself, just me and my car. The first one was in 2000, when I drove a ragtop Fiat Spider to Ashland, Oregon. The car had just come out of the paint shop and didn't run worth a damn- I think the air filter got clogged by paint dust. I gave it a tuneup and an oil change, then headed out the door. Apparently, the car had a slight oil leak because every time I stopped for gas, i would have to pop the hood and put out a small engine fire (Oil leaked directly onto the exhaust manifold... don't use Castrol, that shit buns at a lower temperature than other oils!!). When I got to El Paso, I stopped at a fiend's house where we fixed my oil leak problem and put a new points on the distributor. I hung out with another friend, the guy who first got me in to small ragtops. He did an anti voodoo dance over my car, and off I went into the night... I stopped at a rest stop in AZ, adjusted my car's timing a little, then headed for the Bay Area... i made it through Phoenix where a guy had the freeway closed because he was going to jump off a bridge, and started looking for hotels to stay in for the day. Mind you, this was July of 2000, it was 120° outside, ragtop, car had no a/c... I drove by the windmills in Palm Springs, through Los Angeles, wondering why my car was sputtering, and eventually made it to Bakersfield, where I crashed for the night. I the morning, I checked my distributor again and found out I forgot to install a locking pin so I went to a convenience store and bought the only thing I could find that had a pull tab top- a can of Slim Fast. So, I rigged up a locking tab out of that pull top, and off I went for the Bay Area and my place to stay for the night.... When I got to Napa and my friend's shop, my car was running on two of it's four cylinders, so we did ANOTHER tuneup, did an oil change to get rid of that Castrol crap, and rested for the night... The next day, with my car once again purring like a kitten, we set off for Ashland Oregon... Nine Fiat 124's and a 128, all headed up I-5 and eventually to a campground 30 miles outside of Ashland. The road getting to the campground is a twisting, hilly drive that ill test your car's endurance... Fortunately, mine made it up the ride home a couple of months later is another long story.... lol
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    it will look better when they pull the protective layer off the glass I hope.
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    We are all waiting on Salata to open. ..
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    WTC before 911 didn't have a core, it had elevator shafts and stairways. . That's why it collapsed as all the downward force was supported by the outer columns, which were compromised.
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    I'm easily entertained... i must have watched it for 30 minutes, waiting for big chunks of concrete to fall
  11. Tumbleweed_Tx
    I'm catching all kinds of destruction today.... The wrecking ball in action... They are dropping it from about 15 feet
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    With picture goodness this time
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    scavenging and salvaging are still going on, but now they're hitting things with sledgehammers to start the demolition
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    ex, and I burned them all... lol
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    All the Alief kids used to call me and ask how my old lady got her picture on the Babes billboard....lol Fond memories of that place!
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    Frank's Pizza IS monumental... It's oh so good when it's hot, which is a real treat for me since the a-holes I work with never tell me the pizza arrived after a long bike ride where it..... ummm..where were we?
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    I was told they have to go over the tracks because the soil is too contaminated to dig under
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    the one at Hwy 6 and Bellaire was torn down to build an HEB
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    that staircase / scaffold has been up there for a few months. It's out of range for my cell phone camera to get a clear picture from the pavilions garage
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    They are. I took a peek during a break
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    No, maybe 3 or 4 floors
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    Best thing they could do to improve main st is to close down the convenience store and the weave place at Walker
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    H&M is going to City Center because the demographics of the area around City Center fit the profile of what H&M wants in a store location. Downtown doesn't... yet.
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    southwest corner, methinks
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    in the grand scheme of things, the Superbowl doesn't matter. The NFL gets people into the NFL Zone at the stadium and does their best to keep them there. Most businesses see no rise in income during the super bowl, except for the hotels. NOW... NCAA Final Four, OTOH.... THAT is a money make for the city. now... with that said.... WOOT, THERE IS A BUS CUT-OUT AT HOB.... LOL we thought we were losing it forever. pushing road cases over to polk street sucks, but it's our current reality until construction is done.. lol
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