IronTiger

I believe that was when the Weingarten chain was sold to Grand Union. GU changed the logo to reflect theirs at the time and opened a few more stores, but was shedding more than opened. Safeway bought most of them in January 1984, including one in Bryan (it closed in January 1992 as an AppleTree). One even opened in College Station in November 1983 but it closed within two months. (Thanks for backing me up otherwise)

Looking up the history of AppleTree, when they imploded in 1993 and sold off all their remaining stores, Kroger bought the 1938 West Gray store. Since AppleTree never opened a store of their own (even up until 1989 Safeway was still opening and remodeling stores), it had to be a Safeway at some point, however brief.

Out of curiosity, do CM riders ever cross light rail or normal railroads, and if so, do they ever run the red light?

Since when did running red lights and breaking other traffic rules become First Amendment rights?

The same argument is used for light rail. My opinions? I'm a bit depressed. That part of the freeway wasn't even limited access a decade ago, and look it at now...

There we go. The video is that old?!

Every year or so this gets discussed. One of the big things is how College Station wants to get on a route, which mucks with any Austin-Houston/Dallas-Houston routes, but can't be dismissed since there's a lot of political power there.

Was that located ABOVE the Kroger? It looks like when I looked it up, there's shops and stuff above the Kroger (which used to be Safeway, and briefly an AppleTree--either a really fancy AppleTree or a dumpy AppleTree in a nice neighborhood)

Was Zone D Erotica in Galleria area still a restaurant in the 1990s? I think I read it was originally a restaurant.

Oops! I had forgotten to upload the new copy. It should be up by now.

The thing ATE what I didn't write in quotes! Anyway, what I said is that the people organizing it (making the Twitter, website, etc.) should be the ones to pay for it. Maybe temporarily raise the ticket prices for running a red light?

Update added.

Yeah, there's a cap to growth in the southeast, and sooner or later, Houston's boundaries will be physically hemmed in, with suburbs blocking it in every direction, like Dallas. Unfortunately, even greenbelts and large urban parks (like George Bush Park) means that subdivisions will still grow like cancer, only farther away from the cores. The only way to stop or reverse growth would be something drastic, like raise taxes dramatically and/or torpedo the economy, but both, obviously, aren't preferable options.

Where was that? I don't recognize it at all.

Their main transmitter is in Anderson?! Gee, I thought the one behind their main office was the main one. Also, I miss Bob French.

One thing for sure is that in addition to rails still downtown, there were all sorts of crazy railroad crossings: MKT running through the Heights, crossing roads straight through intersections and directly parallel to the road (with not much ROW), Westpark and Edloe, Memorial Heights and Washington Avenue. That last one serviced a number of businesses demolished in the not so terribly distant past: Sacks Waste Paper, the Sears warehouse, etc.

I know that I made a thread on the Interstate 10/Katy Freeway demos, but the problem was is got way too unruly and out of control. Knowing that, instead of trying to post here, I've made a separate page online in an attempt to catalog the changes. Check it out here. I know it's pretty crude HTML but I intend to round it out with more additions. What do you think? Potential? Needs new additions?

I think the Pantry stores came in 1991 or 1992 (I'll have to check the Chron archives). Not sure about Houston, but a professor of mine told me that they were going to open a full line store in BCS but were spooked by a new Randall's and opened a Pantry store instead (there was a full store in Brenham by then). A full HEB did not open in CS until 2002.

Earlier poster said it was Studemont. I believe the only rice mill left in Houston proper is the Gulf Pacific Co. one on 290, which will almost certainly be torn down for the highway redevelopment. Sigh...

I think there was a regular Oshman's in Post Oak Mall, though it was a regular (not SuperSports) store. I also remember it in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure where Ghengis Khan trashes one location (it was a stupid movie, but it makes sense in context)

I typically like Houston's naming schemes. Northwest Freeway is far shorter and way more descriptive than Sen. Politician Somelastname Freeway. Bonus points if they add a middle initial.

Yeah, there were lots of grocery turnovers during the 1990s. H-E-B entered with the seemingly-innocuous Pantry Foods concept, AppleTree spun off from Safeway in '89 but imploded a few years later, the life and death of Food Lion, and the relatively short time of Albertsons. Houston Cellular became Cingular around 2001, which became the "new" AT&T. Wasn't another thing in the 1990s involved the annexation of Kingwood?

Sorry to hear that. January 1990 is now 24 years ago, with December 1999 being almost 14.

What I read was that Astroworld's affordable admission basically gave parents with unruly kids a "babysitter" and thugs would hang out there. I mean, this happened just three months before closing. Another thing I remember is that in the Houston Museum of Nat. Science, the McDonald's was still there, but they offered an expanded menu including themed meal sets (I remember some sort of planet-themed combos, and they also had "shaved ice", which were just snowcones)