The Case of the Missing Dot Coffee Shop Dot, Where the Gulf Freeway Meets the South Loop

7006 I-45 South at Woodridge, Gulfgate, Houston, 77087

7006 I-45 South at Woodridge, Gulfgate, Houston, 77087 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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Excerpt from TxDOT I-45/610 exchange rework plans

Excerpt from TxDOT I-45/610 exchange rework plans

Images: Molly Block (photos), TxDOT (schematics)

Gulfgate Rearrangements

2 Comment

  • 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.