Vintage roadside attraction photographer Molly Block sends in the fresh shot above of the empty triple post that previously held up the neon beacon of Gulfgate all-night diner Dot Coffee Shop (along with a previous portrait of the sign itself, circa 2013). Block snapped the picture of the bare poles over the weekend; an employee tells Swamplot this morning that both the Dot sign and the sign for also-Pappas-owned Pappas Bar-B-Q next door had to be temporarily taken down out of the way of that planned reworking of the I-45-Loop-610 intersection. The project will add another pair of direct connectors between the 2 highways, and retool the southbound I-45 frontage road, which runs along the edge of the restaurants’ parking lots (as shown in the TxDOT schematics below):
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- IH 45/IH 610 Interchange [TxDOT]
Images: Molly Block (photos), TxDOT (schematics)
Their food and clientele is questionable but the dinner rolls are delicious!
*noms*
While I mourn the temporary removal of Dot’s sign, it is about time that they put a real connector between the southbound Gulf Freeway and westbound Loop 610. A driver exits then ends up at a yield sign followed by the light at Woodridge then an on-ramp.