One thing y'all need to consider is that history and culture and what draws people to a city isn't something that just happens by accident. Chicago for along time was considered a culturally backwards boomtown on the edge of the prairie. Rather than just accept that many in Chicago worked to make it into one of the great architectural cities. That was even dealing with many who wanted to tear down much of Chicago and replace it with newer stuff, that is why the Southside has concrete monstrosities like Cabrini Green. That is why they still have things like the Tribune tower and Wrigley.
There's no functionality with these obsolete structures. They've done nothing for me lately. I love Chicago, I love Wrigleyville, but Wrigley hasn't added any value to my life. Just memories. If it was a Starbucks at least I could hop on the internet there.
That is not my point at all. Youth is a contributing factor to Houston's cultural identity problem. Youth in and of itself is not a reason to tear stuff down, but age and history naturally bring about more reasons and opportunities for preservation. When you couple youth, massive growth, lack of planning, and so on, you get what we have now. There's a reason the most historic part of the city is the Heights. It's older. It's settled down. The crap went away and what was worth preserving is still there. Most of Houston has yet to go through such a transformation yet. Houston really does have a problem with how it is building itself, however. There's a sign downtown at the Main Street plaza that says "As we build, let us imagine that we are building forever". That is a philosophy that has not taken hold in Houston.
LOL...I was being serious, I HOPE you are joking, if not you're like this guy Spoiler ....... ....... .......
Pretty sure you're thinking of the Santa Rosa Theater on Telephone. I went to the single screen edifice countless times. Heck, I saw Old Yeller there when it came out, and later John Mclaughlin and the Mahavishnu Orchestra. The night Hurricane Carla struck, we went to see something at the Santa Rosa, came home, and a tree had fallen through my bedroom window.
Yeah I just found that out a earlier -- turns out I've actually been to that location also, just completely forgot about it.
Thursday night was the same at Rich's in the mid-late '80s. God that was a fun time. Definitely worthy of historical landmark status.
yep, that's the one. it was featured in the book Telephone Road, Texas. http://www.amazon.com/TELEPHONE-His...qid=1383858026&sr=8-1&keywords=telephone+road
We went there all the time. I don't know how many people realized it at the time, but they had terrific steaks that were very reasonable. The Chinese food, of course, was wonderful. I lived in the area for years.
Why would I be joking? I played soccer on its fields and also played basketball on the hard top and inside the gym. We also held parties in the community centers, and I even went to the original swimming pool before it got removed. We also were constantly going to Poor Leonard's for raspas. I didn't live exactly near Moody, but I was there lots of times every year.
