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    I believe the energy plant on Fannin & Braeswood/Pressler is CenterPoint. Don't think it's TECO? This past month there has been law enforcement stationed within the plant. I can only guess this is due to the recent rise of utility plant attacks? I wonder why the constant guard? Kind of scary, but they are protecting it.
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    Anyone remember a fireworks stand at the intersection of South Main Street at Fondren Road? Any pictures? Who was it ran by? This advertisement is dated December 20, 1961
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    I was browsing the newspaper The Bellaire Texan dated May 6, 1970 and came across a business advertisement for Hunter's Restaurant located at 4118 Willowbend Blvd. Does anyone know if this restaurant is by the same family of the bar/ice house at 10549 South Post Oak Road called Hunter's Pub? I would guess Hunter's started out on Willowbend by the train tracks and ended up on S. Post Oak. Houston Junior Odd Fellows Benefit Dinner Saturday, May 9 11 A.M. - 3 P.M. $2 Hunter's Restaurant 4118 Willowbend
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    Demolishing happening soon?
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    The 601/600 Travis tunnel next to the Hines office has matched Levit Green's wooden bench idea. Very cool! 601 Travis food court: Levit Green:
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    A waste water permit was pulled yesterday. What exactly is going on here? Is Carrabba's leaving and a new restaurant going in? An expansion? Just plumbing work?
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    A site work permit was pulled yesterday.
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    A permit was pulled yesterday for a water/waste water application for the 7550 Greenbriar garage.
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    Not in downtown but in the Texas Medical Center. This advertisment is dated December 20, 1940. We Three Hosiery Shop 6643 So. Main K-3-5763 "A Pair and a Spare" (Three stockings)
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    I was browsing the 1930 Houston Chronology and noticed a The Houston Chronicle article that was transcribed onto the document. I couldn't find anything else about this place. I wonder if the proposal did not go through? Or if the name was changed? I did see a Lakeside Park in Smithville, Texas in 1909. Probably not the same though. Aug. 24, 1930 Lakeside Park will be the name of Houston's new $250,000 amusement park and playground.
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    Mad Daddy's Inferno Club was located at 4807 Bissonnet Street. From the newspaper The Bellaire & Southwestern Texan dated March 17, 1965. 'Mad Daddy's's Mad Say Will Return Mrs. Paul Porrovecchio and a delegation of young people appeared at the Bellaire City Council meeting Monday night, supposedly to protest the closing of "Mad Daddy's Inferno" a teen-age night club which has been operating at 4807 Bissonnet--
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    Como Club was located at 6219 Grand Blvd. From the newspaper The Jewish Herald-Voice dated August 9, 1956: Newcomer or oldtimer, here is your chance to break the ice at the gala get-acquainted party being given by the Beth Yeshuruan Sisterhood, at the Como Club, 6219 Grand (adjacent to the Town and Country Apartments), Tuesday, August 14, 6:30-12 p.m.
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    This was the Town & Country Apartments located at 2504 S. MacGregor Way. From the newspaper The Jewish Herald-Voice February 9, 1950: Getting Married? If So . . . Come Out To Town & Country Apartments and select your apartment before they re all occupied 2504 S. MacGregor Phone JU-2401. Nearly 20 years later on January 5, 1967 the multifamily complex changed hands? and was called Field Town Apartments. From the newspaper Rice Thresher: Field Town Apartments, 2504 South MacGregor, 10%. There was an on-site daycare center called Little Britches Day Nursery School that had a Shenandoah address. I'm not sure if the huge complex had two addresses, or if the day nursey had a separate building with a different address. The advertisement clearly says "In the Town and Country Apartments." The nursery was owned by Mrs. Saraethel Balke and she had a previous located at 1601-3 Wheeler Street. August 28, 1958 from the newspaper The Jewish Herald-Voice: Little Britches Day Nursery School In the Town and Country Apartments 3111 Shenandoah - Call JA-a-8923 or OR 4-0130
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    I was browsing the publication Houston's forgotten heritage : landscape, houses, interiors, 1824-1914 and came across an article about Beatty's Truck Farm. Dancing at Beatty's Truck Farm, Sunday afternoon ca. 1900. North Post Oak Road wat Woodway, north side of Buffalo Bayou. Left to right: Harry and James W. Kennedy, Archie and Mitty Beatty, Sam Kennedy. Truck farms located on the outskirts of Houston produced fruits and vegetables that were sold from the farmers' wagons at the City Market on Market Square. Noted for its superior watermelons, the Beatty farm abutted Post Oak Road and Camp Logan (now Memorial Park) on the east. On Sunday afternoons Archie and Mitty Beatty entertained their friends with dancing under the pine trees. During hot weather the refreshments included watermelons iced down in large barrels.
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    A plan review fee permit was pulled yesterday for the 8-story garage sitework.
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    TMC3!! wow!! One Discovery Way: Unknown street, leading to the McNair campus next door? Collaborative Building: Helix Park, 1st section: Helix Park, 2nd section: Helix Park, 3rd section: Helix Park, 4th section: Mixed-Use Garage getting near topping out:
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    Something is going on across the bridge on Buffalo Speedway. I see a lot of company flags for which they have underground transmission lines. Marking them because there is about to be digging in the area? AT&T orange flag: CenterPoint Energy electric flag: CenterPoint Energy gas flag: Comcast CATV flag:
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    I took a tour around building 1. wow!! Levit Green is a masterpiece!
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    Looking good!!
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    This week in details:
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    New campus signage: New parking pay stations!
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    New signage:
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    Anyone ever been to this park? I used to come here back in the day! Here's some information about it. http://www.westburycrier.com/greenspaces This 8 acre park has a .51 walking trail and is adjacent to Anderson Elementary. Hager Park, with its covered basketball court, is located between Landsdowne Drive and McClearen Dr, and attracts many in the neighborhood for outdoor sports. There is playground equipment and a soccer field.
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    Houston sure is getting some big players in the life science development sector: Alexandria Real Estate Equities Beacon Capital Partners Hines Texas Medical Center With the famous Boston architecture firm Elkus Manfredi Architects handling 4 of our life science developments as well.
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    Are the Houston Rockets going to be good this year?
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