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  1. mollusk
    Right arm, S'dude. Sports heroes are a different deal, IMO. I wouldn't mind calling 288 the Nolan Ryan all the way into town (and I don't think I ever hear anyone call it "the South Freeway"). And if Spur 5 / TX 35 ever gets built out, I'm all for naming it after Jack Johnson (the Galveston Giant, not the musician).
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    I liked the old World Trade Center MUCH better before the reskin to make it look "old."
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    The Shamrock Tower was going to go where Hines's 609 Main is now going up.
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    If you punched Moursund through from Bertner to Fannin, it could be a continuation of what is already called University Boulevard (along the south boundary of the Rice campus), and then just turn onto a renamed MacGregor.
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    BTW, I think Triton's arrow shows the correct relative position, even if a more current rendering would raise the roof and therefore have the arrow another inch or so up.
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    I knew I'd seen this recently, and wondered what was proposed for inside...
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    Agreed. I don't see a Wally World being built anywhere closer to the Galleria than the Crackhead Walmart that's already there on Dunvale.
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    It's been called the Katy Freeway for as long as I can remember, which goes back to when it stretched all the way from Post Oak to Bunker Hill. It was built over Katy Road, which was a four lane undivided road, similar to Hempstead Highway; Old Katy was on the other side of the MKT railroad tracks. There were some West Fwy street signs put up at some frontage road intersections (in the 70s IIRC), but they didn't last very long.
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    Really? Yet they apparently think having two Macy's is high end. (*sigh...*)
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    Very nice. Once upon a time that was most assuredly not a good place for an evening stroll. I'm pretty thick skinned about places others might think are sketchy, but the Bayou at night was too skeevy even for me unless there was some sort of event going on.
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    Cool pics. But really, in this age of helicopter parents and generalized fear of everything, what on earth is that kid doing downtown on his cute little bike (even if he IS wearing a helmet)?
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    Her phrasing was inartful (to say the least), but apparently accurate. The structures are actually put up by building contractors, not architects, and in most places the government does set out minimum safety requirements. We used to have far more construction deaths on large projects here in the US, as well. Roughly 100 died putting up the Hoover Dam, a dozen on the Empire State Building, and so on...
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    BTW, in answer to the OP's question, Dal Tile carries that sort of thing, though you may have to order it. The street names (and for that matter, the little hex tiles) are an unglazed porcelain tile. Even though it comes in sheets, nobody said that you can't pull the individual tiles off of the sheet.
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    You forgot the eye roll. Perhaps it's just me, but the people who go into a tizzy about "turning into California" also seem to be the same people who demand to only be served Freedom Fries. I suspect that they also listen to a lot of radio, but not music. Besides, what's so all fired dreadful about California to begin with? Good grief, it was the home of Nixon and St. Ronald of Santa Barbara, and Ahnuld still lives there. Its budget problems stem not from too much spending, but an early adoption of belief in the money fairy combined with its cohort, contortion of its tax system at the expense of the middle class (see Prop. 13 and its fallout) - a road we're now following. Relax, demo, the only thing that is going to turn Texas into California is a sudden uptick in earthquakes, more temperate weather along the coast, and real mountains starting in Conroe. Plus an infusion of a generally higher standard of services.
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    mkultra speaks the truth.
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    Please don't conflate Texas with the south in general. Sure, we've had plenty of conservative Democrats (many of whom became Republicans if they were still active in the 1980s), but we've also had plenty of liberal Democrats, as well. A short list from years past: William P. Hobby, Sr., Pat Neff, James Allred, arguably LBJ, Maury Maverick, Ralph Yarborough, Henry Gonzales, etc., etc...
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    mollusk replied to Timoric's topic in Way Off Topic

    Further to that thought, in some other parts of town nobody would likely notice (and not just the Memorial Park running trails).
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    I think you are correct, Subdude. Looks to be along what is now roughly the third base side concourse.
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    Separate doors may not return as a result of tax credits... but we did have them at one time ourselves, until the early 60s.
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    I don't recall one way or the other - but being the kid haven that it was, they prolly had more suspicious stuff on the floor than the Oak Village Theater would have had on a Saturday afternoon.
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    The 80s weren't a good decade for GM as a whole. Under the Roger Smith regime, pretty much everything GM touched turned to a smoldering heap of wreckage. Even the 80s Corvettes were nasty. In Dan Niel's 50 Worst Cars of All Time collection, he has this to say about the Cimarron: "Everything that was wrong, venal, lazy and mendacious about GM in the 1980s was crystallized in this flagrant insult to the good name and fine customers of Cadillac."
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    No, Monty... "bland" = "infill."
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    It has always cracked me up that Two Houston was built before One Houston (now LyondellBasell), and that it's on a corner of the project while One isn't.
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    Since small starchitecture and ugly skyscrapers both draw attention to themselves, I don't really see them as infill. What I had in mind is something that more or less just blends into the background - for example, Two Shell (at least until whatever remuddling is afoot takes place).
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    The early Japanese cars were absolutely way ahead in terms of fit and finish, and for the most part reliability as well. Most of them drove pretty well, too - early Civics in particular were an absolute blast to drive. The early Japanese cars did appear to very much have a design life, though; it seems that once things started to break on them, everything would go south in short order. OTOH, the early Japanese cars also used some of the thinnest materials available. My folks had a Datsun B210; we had bathroom towels that were thicker than the "carpet." And who can forget the cheezy vinyl on the driveline hump and in the back of the original 240Z, in all its Chairman Mao's jacket quilted glory.
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