Hooked ourselves a long and low one. Steady or it’ll wiggle!
Ernie drove off into the sunset, radio blaring. And these structures came down:
Congratulations on completing the structured part of your education. Here’s your diploma.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
It’s all business. And business removal.
The new brick building across from the Cavalcade station on Fulton St. that went up next to the former Dairy Queen corner spot known as Dairy Land is meant for Dairy Land, new lettering attached to the recently completed replacement structure attests. The signage went up shortly after the old building at 310 Cavalcade St. (pictured below) was demolished last week.
Where to direct our goodbyes today. Who knows what we’ll be leaving tomorrow?
Let’s work on these for now, until bigger fish make themselves available.
Last call came for the Mimosa Lane Apartments a couple of months ago — residents of the 1960 garden apartment complex in Avalon Place (along with those of its neighbor, the Argonne Forest Apartments) were given notice in early October of an end-of-November clear-out. That was apparently plenty of time to get word out about a goodbye party or 2.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
The numbers may be down, but the quality of destruction has never been higher.