Tumbleweed_Tx

ah, Texas Tapes and Records.... Many days of my misspent youth were wasted there, waiting in line for band autograph sessions. I can remember walking through the doors of that place as late as '86, when I decided that driving from Alief to Pasadena was a total waste of time, money, gas, life, etc just to buy a record that I could get for the same money at Cactus in Sharpstown (another store I miss!)

Randall's didn't sell alcohol until Safeway bought the chain. A good way to get rich in the 70's and 80's was to open a liquor store next door to Randall's!

The Halloweens my friends and I spent in Montrose in the early 80's were the best ever!!! I worked for an audio company in the mid 80's... We did two places in Montrose- lights and sound in a lesbian bar called Crystal's (I remember it being north of Westheimer, maybe off of Fairview, but, the memory is fuzzy), and we put a sound system in a place on Lovett called Rooster's, which became Mothers. I used to have a bad-assed cigarette lighter- it was waterproof, you wore it as a pendant around your neck. After we finished a service call at Rooster's, About halfway home, I realized I left my lighter at Rooster's... My boss was like, "forget about it, man, it's gone, we aren't going back there unless we're being paid"... lol (and you audiophiles would FREAK OUT if you ever saw what is driving the sound system at Numbers.....)

These plans were scrapped because it was deemed to close to the existing Midtown store West Grey and Shepherd.

3.16.11 looks like 2 floors plus pool level removed in 2 weeks

looks like they have removed the top two floors and the swimming pool area in the last two weeks. I'll snap a few pics when I go in to work tomorrow

the Grand Opening is April 9 http://www.houstonballet.org/CenterForDance/

first direction is where you are in the Loop system... Second direction is dependent on which side of the divisional freeway you're on. For the West Loop and the East Loop, it's I-10 For North Loop, it's I-45 For South Loop, it's 288