Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Whatever houses we demolish end up building us.
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Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
We are aware only of the empty space in the streets, which only yesterday was filled with structures.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
We may demolish and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the bulldozer.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
That’s what this demolition is; that’s what we’ve got.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Demolition is the final form of love.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Success is not final, demolition is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Be happy for these demolitions. These demolitions are your life.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
A graceful taunt is worth a thousand demolitions.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
The cure for this ill is not to sit still, or frost with a book by the fire; but to take a large hoe and a shovel also, and demolish ’til you gently perspire.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Our demolitions are often the cause of our safety.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
So goodbye, they’ll be leaving; I see no sense in this crying and grieving.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Your demolitions never end. Life has a way of changing structures in incredible ways.
MEMORIAL BEND’S WILDER DAYS 
“My family was the first to own 419 Electra back when it was first built and I was 6,” a reader writes. “My siblings and I loved playing in the bird sanctuary beyond the back fence (Is the treehouse we built still there?) And swinging on rope swings over the creek with all the water moccasins! One time the dad at the house next door pulled out a tree stump in his backyard and a whole nest — literally dozens — of baby rattlesnakes crawled out. All the dads in the neighborhood ran to the house with hoes and shovels and the moms kept all the kids back. On summer nights, there were so many tiny baby frogs on the sidewalks you couldn’t walk without stepping on one. I imagine all those kinds of critters are gone now. It was a sweet, family neighborhood, with lots of kids playing games, biking in the street, and listening for the dinner bell. Of course, there was the peeping tom who lived next door in the now-McMansion, and the exhibitionist across the street who stood in the doorway with his open robe when all the neighborhood kids home from school, but doesn’t every neighborhood have its charms?” The house came down last month — one of about 19 demolitions approved for the neighborhood since Harvey. [Previously on Swamplot] Photo of 419 Electra Dr.: Memorial Bend Architecture
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Whatever you demolish may be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
One is not exposed to demolition who, even when in safety is always on their guard.
