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What Brought Garden Oaks Deed Restrictions into Question, and Question Marks...
What’s the story behind the tiny question marks that recently appeared at the end of the low-dangling “DEED RESTRICTIONS ENFORCED” signs on at least a couple Garden Oaks welcome-to-the-neighborhood...
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Comment of the Day: What Keeps Houston Billboards Standing Tall
“If you only knew how much the city has gone through to reduce billboards. Their billboard ordinance was pioneering. Existing billboards in the city are under an abatement condition – if you take one...
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Possible Omens of Magic Island’s Prophesied Reawakening, As Spied from a 59...
As of lunchtime, more than half of the MAGIC & COMEDY SHOW lettering has been removed from the sloped wall of vacant freeway-side magic club and faux Egyptian temple Magic Island. A reader spotted...
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METRO Red Line Train Actually Turns Red For Now
On the growing list of things getting dressed up for the Super Bowl: this Red Line light-rail train, caught above at the corner of Main and Franklin streets this afternoon wearing a shiny new...
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Mod-ification and Makeovers at the North End of Glenbrook Valley
The retro Glenbrook Valley neighborhood entry sign above is now standing on Broadway St. north of the intersection with Santa Elena St., Robert Searcy notes. The neighborhood civic club’s new Mod...
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Brenham Home Listing Photo of the Day: But No More
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Comment of the Day: Big Signs for Big Texas Corners
“I wish they’d rethink the billboard laws in Texas. Allow more and bigger billboards. The billboards could be taxed, and the money earmarked to our State Parks — they desperately need it. Scenic routes...
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That Thing About the City of Houston and Digital Billboards
A reader with “nothing better to do today” writes in with a question for Swamplot readers: “I do not see any digital billboards in Houston city limits. I see them popping up in Baytown and I’m sure...
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Cedars Tapas Bar Banners Now Providing Cover for Abandoned W. Gray Ship & Shield
Banners for Cedars Tapas Bar — the new restaurant on its way to 403 W. Gray — are now covering up both the plywood board on the building’s forehead and the sign left over from Ship & Shield’s...
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Fleet Feet Sports Now Up and Running in Neal & Company’s Abandoned Antique...
The 1950 building at 4502 Greenbriar formerly home to the Neal & Company antique shop has been taken over by Fleet Feet Sports. The running gear retailer bought the building — last renovated in...
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Montrose Blvd. Aqua Car Wash Wants To Add Mixed Drinks to Its Menu
The Aqua Hand Car Wash & Detail on the corner of W. Dallas could get even wetter pending the TABC’s permission for the business to serve mixed drinks on-site. The photo above, sent in by a...
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Randalls To Leave Behind Another Grocery-Store-Sized Hole in the Shopping...
Yet another Randalls is seeing itself out of a major shopping center space — this one in the Keegan’s Meadow complex at the corner of W. Bellfort Ave. and S. Kirkwood Rd. in Stafford. The photo above...
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Neo Baguette To Pick Up Where North Loop Auto Supply Left off on the Corner...
All car-related signage has come down from the Heights building North Loop Auto Supply once occupied 9 blocks south of the North Loop on the northeast corner of Harvard and E. 20th. In its place, a...
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The Unseen Evidence in the Buc-ee’s vs. Choke Canyon Lookalike Logo Legal Battle
Buc-ee’s scored a sweeping victory in Texas federal court last month when a judge found rival rest stop chain Choke Canyon guilty of 4 wrongs: trademark infringement, dilution, unfair competition, and...
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New Laundry Tag Could Soon Hang from Gibbs Boats’ Redone Building as a Sign...
Next Saturday, Houston’s historic commission is set to consider a request that new old signage be installed on the former Gibbs Boats building at 1110 W. Gray as part of the renovation to turn it into...
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Framed Animal Portraiture Heralds Slowpokes’ Fall Migration to Levy Park
There’s now some still life clinging to the Kirby Grove office building across from Levy Park where Slowpokes plans to debut its second location sometime this fall. Already open in the 16-story...
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Fresh Tide Branding on Shepherd Leaves Dressy MW Cleaners Sign High and Dry
MW Cleaners’ bowtie logo is now going out of style on the corner of Shepherd and Colquitt St. as the franchise dresses down all of its 36 black-tie-branded locations in Houston and redecorates them...
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New Old Richmond Signage Throws It Back to Drew’s BBQ’s Furniture Store Past
The recent removal of Drew’s BBQ’s signage at 819 Richmond Ave has left a piece of its predecessor Tonala Rustic Furniture uncovered along the street. The barbecue joint closed down last month after 3...
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Rice Village Dat Dog Receives TABC Blessing
Across the street from Torchy’s and next door to Hopdoddy Burger Bar, the vacant corner storefront at 5504 Morningside now has clearance to serve guests alcohol. It’s the most recent development for...
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Hiram Butler Gallery’s New Gay Conversion Therapy Parking Lot
The newest work showing at Hiram Butler Gallery occupies a special position on the grounds: It’s right outside along Blossom St., facing the townhouse that River Pointe Church owns and uses for...
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