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    EEEEEEEKKKKKK!!!! GHOSTS!!!!!! It's not even finished and it's already haunted!!!
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    ^ The opening frame puts it starting on December 6, 1935, which is well after hurricane season. That flood resulted in the construction of Addicks and Barker Dams up in the headwaters of the Buffalo Bayou watershed.
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    METRORail Green Line

    mollusk replied to a topic in Transit

    BTW, if anyone has a contact at HRT - somehow or another, they haven't figured out that the catenary pole is blocking the walk/don't walk light at the SE corner of Travis and Rusk. Rusk Travis 2.pdf
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    That's what often happens when you go to trial. Vindication!!!! Sweet, satisfying Victory!!!! almost never occurs. For either side.
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    This shows how tight downtown space is getting. JW Marriott, HRT, Skanska, et al have all been using conventional office space (well, converted GFR) for their site offices.
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    OK, I can no longer resist. This is not kind, and full of stereotypes. But there is also truth: "You may not be from Plano, but then again, nobody is, because Plano was invented in the 1980s." http://jalopnik.com/a-guide-to-plano-texas-for-toyota-employees-being-forc-1579103819 Does the "no bashing Dallas" rule run out when you get past the High Five?
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    GROANNNNNNNN....
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    I work downtown, just a couple blocks away from the event site, and yet was completely unaware that it was going on - even on its opening day. If you have zip for publicity, it's danged hard to draw a crowd.
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    If I understand the system correctly, the structural portion of the panel is a sheet of concrete (presumably reinforced); the "bricks" are actually thin appearance pieces adhered to that panel in some form or fashion. They don't have any load on them beyond that required to remain glued to the wall.
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    Prolly no less durable than any other veneer facade system. IIRC, the baseball stadium in San Francisco is built with these so that it can look like a brick building but not have the unreinforced masonry come tumbling off during an earthquake as would happen with a standard brick veneer.
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    I don't know if it's been studied, but I'm willing to bet a freeway with feeders probably has more of a heat island effect than one without. Likewise, and germane to Houston's flat geography, all that concrete is a direct take away from permeable earth, with all of its storm water having to be drained off to somewhere (unless it's forming an ad hoc detention pond, as sometimes happens).
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    I am reminded of why I like internet and public radio.
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    No city limits. Hmmmmm... sounds like a paean to sprawl. Which isn't far off base, of course.
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    Since we're hijacked... one of my metrics for a really clear day is whether I can see arriving and departing planes at Intergalactic from downtown.
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    My Director of Domestic Bliss really enjoys Game of Thrones. I do not (albeit for reasons other than the gore level - which previously was under my radar). So I find something else to do when it's on.
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    That certainly takes me back, almost as much as The Thief Who Came To Dinner. My guess on date is 1980ish, though, since what is now Chase is about halfway framed.
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    Blowouts on the front are harder to control than those on the back. I've had a couple over the years, and each time had a pretty strong vibration before things let go, which caused me to try to get over quickly but as smoothly as possible, and to gently get on the brakes. I suspect that having a front tire go suddenly, without warning, at highway speed would make things pretty interesting pretty quick, though.
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    Heritage Plaza was see through for several years after it was built, until Texaco moved in (vacating the Texaco Building now being renovated). It was also the last big building put up downtown until Enron put up its second building as it imploded. We started getting the wisps of bad stuff the rest of the country was going through in about 1982, with stuff really going into the dumper in '83 - '84. I'd say the bottom here was around 1989, with slow but stable absorption of foreclosed and otherwise vacant properties after that for a long time. It well into the '90s (if not longer) before things started to pick up again.
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    Not that surprising, in light of the fact that most of central and south Texas was settled by Bavarian, Polish, Czech, and other central European immigrants, with plenty of Mexican heritage as one goes south. Galveston was one of the larger immigration ports of entry back in the day. That said, according to the article, Mr. Radetski was at least second generation American. One of my brothers raised his kids in Bellville - I remember wondering if I could buy a vowel when looking over the high school graduation programs. FWIW, "-ski" is usually Polish heritage, "-sky" is typically Russian.
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    It may not be a violation to noodle down a free flowing freeway at 40, but it sure is a hazard.
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    I remember reading somewhere or another (perhaps on a Woodlands area thread) that when Exxon was moving its top echelon out of New York, they intentionally did not consider Houston or other places with large existing operations because they wanted to have some distance.
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    I suppose Freaky Foods (the Richwood Super Market, next door to King Cole Liquor on Richmond at Woodhead) would also qualify as a superette. It certainly knew the neighborhood - in the late '70s - early '80s, it had an amazing selection of soft porn for every taste, quite the assortment of rolling papers, and a cookie aisle that was beyond belief. And yellow beacons on top of the storefront.
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    I'll take the Opel Manta (this side of the Challenger). A very fun car to drive, and pretty quick for its time (when even Corvettes were powered by gerbils).
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    Extremely nondescript tan brick moo-plex that had no style even when new? I'll grant, we don't have a whole lot of those downtown. Thankfully. There is a reason that building couldn't draw tenants for love or money. I toured the joint when looking for office space a few years ago. We spent less time there than in any of the other prospects. Edit: I tried m-e-h again, and got autocorrected to a lowing cow. Dangit.
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    It manages to do the crown (which will be pretty much the only part visible from outside downtown) pretty well as crowns go, and the first floor is going to be a game changer for us Mole People by opening up what was the dankest, most non-ADA part of the tunnel system. All in all, I'd say it's a +.
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