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Old 03-28-2015, 10:40 AM
 
Location: Energy Corridor-ish
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I rarely go south of 59 (or 90, for that matter) anymore, but I believe that Los Tios is still there, and maybe the Luby's. I think that Target location is now a Gattitown. Didn't there used to be a Sugarfest where the Super Target is now?
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Old 03-28-2015, 07:52 PM
 
Location: C.R. K-T
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I grew up in Alief, but remembered when the site of First Colony Mall was a vacant field and Lexington abruptly ended and detoured to Austin Parkway. I wonder how history would have been different if the mall had been built a decade before, if not for the oil bust?

West Oaks was still bustling for a few more years after First Colony opened. It was the renovation of Memorial City Mall that killed it though. Sharpstown got hit on the 80's/90's-era gang banging hype/fear by Channel 2 (ironically down the freeway), Houston's #1 news station (the Ron Stone era had just ended). Westwood seemed to be the overflow mall of Sharpstown where Dillard's and Sears had to go since there wasn't anymore room for anchors there.
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Old 03-28-2015, 08:43 PM
 
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Didn't know Los Tios is around that long. It is still there along with Lubys.

I always wonder why the place look so old, it really is old.
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Old 03-28-2015, 11:25 PM
 
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Didn't know Los Tios is around that long. It is still there along with Lubys.

I always wonder why the place look so old, it really is old.
Yup those have both been there since the late 80's at least and are still there! The Pizza Hut, Walgreens, and Randalls have been there probably just as long also. The Target closed back around 2000 or 2001 when the Super Target opened at 6 and 59. I still live in the area and know the places.
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Old 03-28-2015, 11:27 PM
 
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Anyone remember when the tornado hit Dillards around 98 or so? My friend across the street from me actually saw it out their window.
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Old 03-29-2015, 01:08 AM
 
Location: Houston
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Yeah as I worked at the mall at the time.....town center was a glorified pasture also

If you went to fame city via highway 6 it was a dull drive......
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Old 03-29-2015, 07:30 PM
 
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Anyone remember when the tornado hit Dillards around 98 or so? My friend across the street from me actually saw it out their window.
I was in college in Louisiana, but it made the news in Baton Rouge. I think it was during a hurricane?
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Old 03-30-2015, 06:13 AM
 
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I was in college in Louisiana, but it made the news in Baton Rouge. I think it was during a hurricane?
it was just some bad weather that moved in that created the tornado... i was living in the missouri (misery) city at the time when it happened.
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