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.

Garden Oaks

Maaarvin Zindler, eyewitness news!

Astroworld

Opened June 1, 1968 on 57 acres, it ultimately expanded to over 75.
Sold to Six Flags in 1975, it was our Disneyland. Its last day of operation was October 30, 2005 and it was demolished soon after. According to wiki the space where it stood is now empty grassland used occasionally for parking.
That’s just sad.

Allen Parkway

We all ate Sunbeam... and liked it.

Constructing 288

Gaidos

The Shamrock Hotel

Constructed near the Texas Medical Center in the forties, the Shamrock succumbed to Houston’s deep micro depression of the eighties and was demolished in 1987.

Houston Police mounted patrol

On the way to Galveston

Kiterick

If you were a child in the Houston area in the 60′s, chances were excellent that you watched Kiterick on channel 13 every afternoon.

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…