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    "Travelers headed to Hobby Airport might want to consider an alternative to Broadway for the next couple of years, with a rebuilding project set to start soon." Yeah duh. I quit taking Broadway to Hobby years ago - too many lights and too much side traffic.
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    This is not a game changer.
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    IIRC, the mural resembles the mosaic that was originally on the Fannin side of Methodist a couple eons ago.
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    A stepping stone to LA or New York I could understand, but somehow I just don't think that DFW is that much of a bigger or more glamorous or whatever market than we are - instead, going there would seem to be more of a lateral move, unless it's to go another notch or two up the newsroom pecking order (i.e., reporter to weekend anchor, or weekend to weekday).
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    Living next to a cemetery isn't really that big a deal. We did for a while when I was growing up. They are very quiet neighbors.
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    I'm not an architect, but I have owned a house built in 1923 for the last 25 years. I agree with everything arche_757 has posted on this thread. All I can add is to talk to some of your neighbors whose remodeling jobs you like to get their comments on how the process went, how they feel about the results, and whether or not they'd recommend whoever did the work. Also, since this is your first project - It is a very stressful thing to do. I'm not saying it's not worth it, but just be aware that there will be surprises along the way, most of which will add money or time (or both) to the project. I have a friend who re-did his own very old house top to bottom while still living there. The only way they maintained their sanity was they had one room they started and finished first, before any other work was done. They called it their oasis, and would retreat to it and repeat over and over, "it will all look like this some day." Second, make sure that all the details of the work are agreed upon, and that you have a firm understanding of the budget, the scope of work, and the schedule - all of which need to be incorporated into your written agreement. Third, my experience is that there are three major components to this kind of project - Money, schedule, and quality. If by the time you finish you hit two out of three, and get somewhere in the neighborhood on the third, you will have done well. Good luck.
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    Perceived speed also has a lot to do with where you are in relation to the ground and how much metal is around you.
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    Funny - I don't remember being particularly terrified driving the Houston freeways in an air cooled VW with all of 50 horsepower on tap back in the day - and it would do 70 - 80 all day long. Zero to 60 was best measured with a sundial, and it would not do 85, except downhill. Perhaps my fear gene hadn't really kicked in yet. Then again, there wasn't as much traffic back then, and the traffic that was around was accustomed to the much broader band of acceleration ability that existed at the time. I also remember (during the same era) bombing serenely through west Texas at around 90 in my mom's enormous Chrysler station wagon with engine to match, Mom calmly sitting beside me and the DPS ignoring us because the 55 mph speed limit hadn't been invented yet so they had no need for radar.
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    It's a bit taller than 12, but not much. It's now occupied by a couple Marriott concepts. The old Humble Oil Building can be seen in some of the photos in the 1111 Travis thread - it's the obviously older, dark brick building.
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    Actually, the destruction of Penn Station is one of the key events that kicked off the preservation movement.
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    When it really gets weird is when there are super wide feeder roads combined with closely spaced exits - I'm looking at you, Culberson Katy Freeway. Trying to make a right onto Bunker Hill from the exit of that name requires all the aggressive driving skills for which Houstonians are famous. I certainly don't miss feeders when I'm traveling some place that doesn't have them.
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    I did remember that a fully built out Houston Center would have nixed Discovery Green, but I didn't realize that they didn't even make it all the way through Phase I. BTW, nice work, rechlin.
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    Yuck. I get the concept of wanting to make the floor plates bigger, but this is a mistake. Anyone want to bet that in 40 years or so, someone will be trying to replace the fins to honor the original design, just as we're now trying to repair the damage caused by the '60s pasted on cladding on things like the JW Marriott?
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    Pretty prophetic - guys in business suits salivating over a truck. I'd forgotten how Spartan the standard cab was in the pre-'67 Fords.
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    Anything that has a number on the elevator buttons that's 14 or larger has a 13th floor. It's just whether they call it that or not. In the meantime, a little local history... Ladies and gentlemen, the 13th Floor Elevators. Trippin' their trucknutz off, no doubt.
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    Not just bucket seats, but extra padding on the doors, a console, and plenty of chrome not seen on the more work a day examples. I notice yours is also a Custom Cab - I wonder if that was a separate option on top of being a Ranger (IIRC, you could get that on non Rangers, too), and if so, whether they even made any that weren't - kinda like the stripper muscle cars of the era. That is one beautiful truck.
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    While a lot of those blocks were cleared in anticipation of the dream of the massive Houston Center development that got eaten by the 80s, a lot of those blocks weren't part of that dream - many of which remain the Parking District.
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    ahhh, arche, you need to develop the unique Houstonian skill known as "blocking off the merging lane without leaving your own." It takes much practice, Grasshopper.
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    METRORail Green Line

    mollusk replied to a topic in Transit

    Perhaps the additional time is to take into account condemning and acquiring additional land?
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    IIRC it was an HL&P adjunct to the electrical substation across the street and underground. It even had a glass capsule elevator that went up and down to the facilities above below for the benefit of tours, which were shut down by our terror of terrorists.
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    Pure, blind luck. If I didn't already know that he was there, Plan B would have been to turn in the direction away from the grade school, etc., and just invoke Our Blessed Lady of Acceleration and my knowledge of back streets. I'm pretty sure I could have eventually lost Billy Bob Ray Jack in his camo'd out old K5 Blazer.
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    Hickory Hollow is alive and well. I remember introducing the place to a new co-worker - a strapping guy who'd been a football player in school, and who literally barely fit into my (not that small) car. We talked him into just the middle one (after he started making eyes at the one that's pretty much the entire bottom of the cow). He finished, but was nearly in tears afterwards.
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    Agreed. We must preserve our precious bodily fluids.
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    Of course not. I only drive by it daily. It's overgrown around the edges where the light is. Yes, between White Oak and the bayou is nice; the other side, less so.
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