IronTiger

I'm gonna miss the H-E-B...it's the last HEB Pantry I know of.

Ding! Although I don't live in a highly suburbanized area (is that a word?) I feel your pain and wish I could take out those dogs with a vengeance. "Hey, uh, ma'am, there is an ordinance on dog feces..." "I'm not touching that. It's Fido's..." "Walk the dog, pick up the crap." "Uhh, no!" (gets gun) BANG! "Now pick up the crap and the dog." "I'm telling!" "Be sure to tell it was my property and your disobedience."

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=30....mp;t=h&z=16 I've always wondered...can someone tell me what it is called and what the major stores are? I'm confused...

I went to the one in the Houston Riverwalk. Pretty tasty, actually. The food was a bit overpriced but the environment was kind of impressive. Unfortunately, it's one of those "go once or twice with friends" place and not a place one would eat regularly.

Oh shoot, you beat me to it.

There's a monstrous old abandoned building on Bryan Street that said "Dallas High School" and has three stories. Is it still around? Still vacant?

Houston seems to have clean air, but Baytown is pretty ugly. The mornings always seem hazy and there always seems to be something in the air...

I remember going to the Mall of the Mainland and it said JCPenney had moved to Baybrook! So was JCPenney not there before? Or did they move into the Wards pad?

Course, I've never seen the show, so who am I to judge. Unfortunately, many people don't follow this philosophy. Most of the people who claim Huckleberry Finn is rascist have never actually read it.

I don't know...I guess it offended Catholics. Advise: don't be afraid of everything because it can offend, just stay away from things that may be offensive religiously, morally, or politically.

1) An entirely new music genre will arise. OR 1) A new music artist will have upbeat, clever songs that catch people's attention. 2) At least one Houston mall will shut (Northwest Mall is on the endangered list) 3) Pepsi's hideous new logo will bomb. 4) The Trans-Texas Corridor will get axed due to budget concerns 5) Amtrak will shut down.

It's so classy!

Oh, come on. The 1990s were great economically. If it went back to the 1920s, then...

My fantasy for Sharpstown Mall is based on solely on light rail. I feel it can be revived like Mondawmim Mall in Maryland. It was initially an open-air mall in the 1950s with Sears...enclosed in 1971. Unfortunately, it lost Sears in the early 1970s and went downhill. A Washington DC metro station was installed nearby but the mall declined throughout the 1990s, until in 1999 when the station was remodeled. Now its a bustling center with no connected anchors but a Target and a grocery store nearby Scroll down to Baltimore's Mondawmim Center here: http://mall-hall-of-fame.blogspot.com/2007...01_archive.html That is what I hope can save Sharpstown.

Having only flown on planes twice, I would have to say I don't really remember Dulles very much...so that should be Houston, then Tampa, and finally, Easterwood Airport.

That was the signature of LTAWACS, but I'm wondering what projects that Atlanta gets. Is it like, cool buildings, or mass transit, or what???

I especially liked the "notch" for the palm tree growing. The first one was a bit homely yet looks quite functional. It looks like it wouldn't take millions to restore/renovate. Shame, shame.

Does it have the downtown Sears?

Here it is. I never got my request answered, but somewhere else I think I got a picture of where I thought it was.

Funny you refer to yourself in third-person...that or someone was controlling your account. Third option is you have a sockpuppet posing as a generic HAIFer and you forgot to use that one. Of course, maybe I'm looking too deeply into this matter.

Websites plural? There's HAIF and some LA site, is there more? edit: nevermind, I found them Do you maintain ALL of them?

- Some confusing aerial photography suggests that the mall never did a major expansion. It looks like Foley's was razed for Dillard's, and that was it. - Was the original Foley's one story or two? - When did the food court open? - An upstairs area near Sears was once a Loews 6, and at another time it was an amusement park area. When were they these things, and what is it now? Please note that in looking in an aerial that shows the sides, it does NOT connect to the current cinema. So what is there now? A possible suggestion is that the escalators once led up to it is in the space reserved for that new sports grill. Do they occupy it now? - I'm preparing a replacement to the Wikipedia article for the mall, which you can see here. Please edit and tell me what I did wrong/need to add.

Here's some recent history...a 2003 floorplan shows the mall just after the major remodel, where Target, ice rink, etc. have come. There are big differences. Mervyns and Lord & Taylor still exist, a water feature is in the original "crossroads", Old Navy and Panera Bread are instead Borders and Cheesecake Factory, respectively. The fireplace is a Panera Bread. And the cinema is not finished. Remember, Town & Country is still alive at this point! http://web.archive.org/web/20030820071745/...lease_plans.pdf

Wait, he didn't know you were the webmaster of HoustonArchitecture, did he?