IronTiger

Get a cat, perhaps?

Appearing in court today, attorney is Mike DeGeurin. Heard of him? http://www.myfoxhouston.com/dpp/news/local/110323-jessica-tata-in-court

Wow, so it was Plastic that caused the split? Gosh, back when I first heard of Plastic, I thought that the comparison to me was a bit of a compliment...

I don't think so. Although I can't confirm, it looks more like the original Houston streetcar trolleys. The interurban ran on its right-of-way, I read (this is taken up by high-voltage power lines nowadays). There's some pictures by Boris somewhere on HAIF with pictures of the backfilled tunnels, but I haven't been able to find them.

I have no problem with over-the-shoulder laptop-type bags. It's just the people who think they're "artsy" and do it just for that (sexual orientation notwithstanding)

Well, she's making a court appearance today in Houston... http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=8028902 They brought her into Harris County with a bulletproof vest for her own safety... She also cut her hair very short.

Were any new AppleTree stores built after the Safeway breakoff? The one in Bryan moved to a location catty-corner to the original, which had the Safeway stucco roof. There, it remained up until the late 2000s, when it was replaced by Village Foods. The original is now a church and bingo parlor.

I once visited this church in Sugar Land for a conference back in 2009. It was huge: this rock-concert-style auditorium (no stadium seating, though), a large lobby, six floors, a coffee shop, and a gift shop. A few years later, I watched the "Growtivational" video on YouTube (see above), which, even for my own college church service, hit a little bit too close to home (not to extremes, though). I switched to a smaller Bible study a few months later.

I don't know. I seem to recall some big case a five years ago or so about a guy barbecuing the remains of his girlfriend, or something. That was Houston, wasn't it?

Well, I found a sizable list of nearly all the Houston locations of AppleTree, plus some others (not Austin, though) http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=1993_1167927

US-59 and Westpark Tollway took up the old right-of-way of the Texas & New Orleans Company (T&NO) Railroad. I've seen it on AbandonedRails.com that a segment was dismantled in summer 2001. When were the segments of the Texas & New Orleans railroad abandoned and dismantled? I know at least the segment between the UP line that parallels the west segment of 610 was dismantled in 2001, possibly both ends. But even by 2000, the line only ended a little past Edloe Street. According to the 1989 aerial, it got at least to Banks Street, past Kirby (by the way, the Kirby patch is still visible, so it hasn't been repaved in at least 15 years). In the 1950s, it went all the way downtown. I'd like a know a few things: when was it abandoned across Kirby, and did it ever cross the UP line instead of the UP line bisecting it?

No, RIce Epicurean is a separate chain.

Last week, I had an opportunity --my first-- to drive past the mall. The Sears was empty, the theater had a really tacky facade, and the old Foley's almost had a shade of green. Was it originally colored green, or was that just the result of fading and weathering?

***BREAKING NEWS*** Tata turned herself in to authorities today...or at least her brother claims she did. http://www.kbtx.com/..._118300514.html

I figured that many AppleTree locations would be under the Fiesta name nowadays, besides, the stucco roof blends in nicely with Fiesta's decor.

I'm curious of former Safeway/AppleTree Markets in Houston. I'm pretty sure that Safeway did take some of the older Weingarten's locations (1955 list of Weingarten's locations found here). The only one I'm 99% sure of is the Little York location (northeast corner of 290 and Little York)--it looks similar to an old Safeway/AppleTree location in Bryan, and I'm sure it was both a Safeway and AppleTree at one point. Anyone have more information?

Now admittedly, I've stayed mostly out of Way Off Topic for months on end, but still do visit it now and then. I noticed this: When was it added? I sure don't remember it being there even when HAIF upgraded to IP.board a year or so ago.

290 is a fascinating study in slow longitudinal waves if you view it from the right angle.

I've recently wondered how Houston has grown over the years and expanded. I think it's fascinating how Houston has grown from the inside outward, like a rapidly multiplying organism. To my knowledge, the way Houston has developed has gone like this: Downtown was built in the mid-1800s or before. Surrounding Downtown were the Wards, developed in the 1860s. Surrounding the Wards were the streetcar suburbs, which includes Montrose and the Heights, in the early 20th century. Then came the first automobile suburbs, like Sharpstown (in the 1950s). This and the previous three were incorporated into the Inner Loop. The edge cities came next, and are also part of Houston. This was 1960s and 1970s, post-Interstate. Highly automobile oriented, these included things like Greenspoint and Uptown. That was when the second loop started to get developed. The border cities came into play in the late 1980s to the present, cities that were and are independent of Houston city limits, including Cypress, Katy, Sugar Land, and more. These were highly developed with new master planned communities, and are definitely outer loop. The Grand Parkway will supposedly go through all of these, assuming it gets completed. I don't know how other cities developed, but that seems to be the way Houston has. What do you think? Did I get anything completely wrong?

I think he was referring to the patch in the concrete. No actual tracks are visible, I don't think.

What abandoned railroads are there in Houston? The only ones I know of were the following: - The MKT went from Katy (its namesake) into downtown, abandoned 1997, currently I-10 expansion and bike path (Heights Bike Trail) - Columbia Tap Rail Trail was abandoned as early as 1985 as the Houston Belt & Terminal - Westpark Tollway and part of 59 take another railroad, don't know what it was called. It was "broken" in two parts by the railroad that goes parallels the western segment of 610, abandoned circa 2001, at least parts of it - There were some railroads downtown completely gone now (no trace)

I do hope you realize I was just joking, right? The phrase "I feel", when applied to my post you are referencing, was deliberately added in to drive home the fact that it was just an opinion...not a lecture.

I'm sure that the I-10 reconstruction helped (and possibly the Westpark tollway, too). But really, some of these best/worst places of whatever are all rated on pointless figures. One of the most notorious examples I remember was a website or magazine rating Oklahoma City Zoo as the best zoo because it had the most restrooms.

You're one of the people who puts the "fun" in "dysfunctional", I'm guessing.

Dead baby comedy, I feel, is immature and really offensive when applied to reality. That being said, I did enjoy it in high school. However, something ceases to be funny when that something is put into effect in reality. After someone in my grade committed suicide in my junior year of high school, making jokes about suicide was highly frowned upon.