Outside of a few well-built historic places in the Heights, there isn't crap in this city worth saving. We build cheap crap, let it fall to pieces or turn into ghetto, then developers buy it, build shinier cheap crap, and the process starts all over again. Like I said in the Dome thread. Houston is a young, rapidly growing city with little direction or regulation. This begets strip malls, P.F. Chang's, and Perry Homes. Only when the economy starts slowing down and the growth rate normalizes will we start to see some sense of history develop. Until then, enjoy your awkward teenage years, Houston.
Houston has been the 4th largest city for close to two decades. I don't know how it is young. It is growing, but no different than Dallas, San Antonio, or Austin.
there was a movie theater on the corner telephone and long drive. i'd drive by it weekly thinking, "man, i wonder what it was like to watch a movie there before it featured PrOn." then it was razed. gotta admit, i was a little disappointed to see it go.
Preach on. LOVE Sundance and the small theaters compared to the crap in the suburbs. No kids texting, no talking, just normal adults taking naps after our popcorn coma.
Club Blue Planet on Richmond must be saved. That place was a gold mine for picking up dirty leg back in the day.
Cities that also have very little history. Between all 4 of those very large cities, there is only one real cultural/historical landmark, the Alamo. The best Dallas has is a piece of concrete where JFK was shot. Houston has the Astrodome (which says plenty about the lack of history here). Austin has the... uhh, capitol building? Relative to the Northeast, Houston is young. Relative to the rest of the world, Houston is incredibly young.
I saw Nine Inch Nails at Numbers once. I think it was 18+. What about Rich's? Is that place still around - used to be great on Thu nights back in the late 90's.
I believe Rich's got into some trouble from the TABC for Jay-Z's party during the NBA All Star Game and closed. The place was dirty as hell, but back in the 90's it was the shiznit! Thursday night was EVERYONE IS ON XTC night!! I was at the NIN show at #'s too, right when Head Like a Hole started getting big. I believe that was in 1988, my freshman year of HS. So awesome.
Was even better back in the early to mid 90's! It's opening up as some other club soon, forgot the name.
This shows how little y'all know about your own city. There are several architectural masterpieces in Houston including the Astrodome. Here are a few others: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothko_Chapel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menil_Collection http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston_Museum_of_Fine_Arts The academic mall and St. Basil at St. Thomas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_St._Thomas_(Texas)
Every city was young at some point. Heck Minneapolis (incorporated 1867) is younger than Houston (incorporated 1837) but has more of a sense of history than Houston.
I don't care much for Moody Park, I almost got shot there in 86', luckily I have ninja like reflexes... ....... ....... .......
Yes, so? Good for Minneapolis (although on a national level, nobody would consider Minneapolis a historic or culturally rich city). That has no bearing on my point.
Now you are just being snarky. Besides Minneapolis LA is actually younger than Houston and has been doing a better job of preserving it's history Anyway if your point is that Houston is young therefore there really isn't a point in preserving stuff that fails to address that cities younger than Houston have a better sense of history. Youth isn't the issue. Frankly it seems more like ignorance on the part of Houstonians.
