Astrodome, original scoreboard

I loved the snorting bulls and six shooters. And the concerts… and the rodeos. Who remembers ‘Luv Ya Blue’?

Alabama Theater

The Alabama on S. Shepherd opened October 23, 1939 with the film “Man About Town”, starring Jack Benny and Dorothy Lamour.
I remember the Alabama [as it's always been known] as a Bookstop in the River Oaks Shopping Center, sandwiched between Whole Earth on one side and Whole Foods on the other, a Butera’s sandwich shop on the south end.
They finally closed the Bookstop last year and though the old Alabama is listed as a historic building, it’s definitely on the ‘endangered’ list.
I loved that shopping center but don’t think I want to see the big, bland concrete edifices that have gone up on either side of the Alabama. Progress, you know.

The River Oaks theater on West Gray, also built in 1939, is sort of a ‘sister’ site and is also endangered.

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It’s been snowing in Houston the better part of the day. Not much sticks, but some areas have itty bitty drifts; it’s so cool!

This is my SIL’s front yard in NW Houston… she set the webcam in the window so I can watch the snow come down! Yeah, you can’t see it in the still shot, but it’s there…!

Snow pics at Chron.com!

There’s nothing like a vicarious snowflake on ones tongue… especially when one is sitting in a sauna…