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Thursday, January 15, 2009

The Meanest Strip Mall in Houston

John Nova Lomax, in the second installment of his 3-part version of his and David Beebe’s IAH-to-Downtown slog, passes by this rough-and-tumble strip mall just down the street from the Aldine ISD’s W.W. Thorne Stadium, — and figures out why the street is called Aldine Bender:

In one corner lurks a closed down bar called Sassy’s. The doors of this place were open even though it was abandoned. Someone had pulled much of the furniture out of it and left it on the sidewalk out front.

Flanking Sassy’s were a donut shop and not one, but two different Spanish-language chapters of Alcoholics Anonymous. And the piece de resistance was an abandoned Pontiac, complete with flat tire and faceprint in the windshield. A faceprint that went inward toward the dash, not outward from the driver’s seat. Perhaps the rival AA chapters got into a parking lot fracas

Photo of 1215 Aldine Bender Rd.: John Nova Lomax

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Monday, August 18, 2008

Bush Airport Makes Hay: $20 a Bale

Baling Hay at Bush Intercontinental Airport

The Houston Airport System has found its first customer for some of those bales of hay you’ve seen lining roads leading to IAH. The hay-harvesting project began as a pilot using contractors 2 years ago, but airport employees are now doing the work.

Of the 10,000 acres that comprise IAH, 250 acres are presently being used to harvest hay and 50 of the 2,500 acres at EFD are being used.

Right now most of the hay is a low grade Bermuda grass mainly used to feed livestock such as cattle. . . .

When the hay project is finally in full swing some 2,000 acres of land at IAH and EFD will be used to grow hay, providing a projected revenue source of roughly $4 million dollars a year. Cutting and baling at the airports this year will continue until the fall.

500 round bales at IAH and 400 square ones at Ellington Field are currently available.

Photo: Houston Airport System

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Thursday, September 20, 2007

Daily Demolition Report: Falling from the Heights

1411 Allston St., Houston

A home from the 1930s comes down from the Heights. Plus: an Intercontinental casualty. See our daily address list of destruction—after the jump.

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Monday, August 6, 2007

Daily Demolition Report: Bash Place

Nine houses and three buildings leave Houston. Our list of the newly departed begins after the jump.

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Monday, July 30, 2007

Daily Demolition Report: Decimation Street

More homes around the city turn to dust. Plus a baker’s dozen demolitions in Greenview Manor—all after the jump.

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Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Daily Demolition Report: Winter St. Discontent

Nine houses fail to please. Read today’s list of unappreciated structures—after the jump.

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Monday, July 23, 2007

Daily Demolition Report: Abdicating the Crowne

The Crowne Plaza Hotel in the Med Center goes down, Green Hill Dr. gets flattened, and more in today’s demolition report, below.

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Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Daily Demolition Report: Thinning Harrisburg

Twenty doomed structures today. Say goodbye to them—after the jump.

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Friday, June 22, 2007

Daily Demolition Report: Jill Comes Tumbling After

More of an end to Greenview Manor, plus other exciting demolitions . . . after the jump.

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Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Daily Demolition Report: Fall of the House of Irma

Another day, another set of demos. Today’s list features a downtown lunch favorite, more rubble in Greenview Manor, and some scraps leftover in an historic district. See it all after the jump.

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Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Daily Demolition Report: What’s Going Down in Greenview Manor

Fourteen soon to be forgotten houses have a date with destruction. Our list begins after the jump.

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