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A Couple Of Days In Downtown Houston

Specifically, last Saturday and Tuesday. Downtown Houston and nothing but Downtown Houston.
Various, often repetitive in subject matter, photos. Lots of Pennzoil Place, Texas Commerce Tower/JP Morgan Chase Tower/Whatever-It's-Called-Now Tower,
Discovery Green Park, MetroRail light rail.

Just a note about those cowboy hats in the City Hall photo; it's Rodeo time. Rodeo time is the ONLY time you ever see cowboy hats in downtown Houston. Or just about anywhere else in Houston.

A note about the "Texas Company, 1915" photo. “Texas Company” is the original name of Texaco.

A note about the Pennzoil Place interior shots; That place has been there since 1976, yet I had never, until last week, photographed the interior lobby. Photographed the exterior a gazillion times, but, for some dumb reason, I always felt I’d be chased out if I photographed the interior. Nobody chased me out on Tuesday. Strangely enough, the shots looking up inside Pennzoil remind me of being in the glass-topped elevators in the Eiffel Tower. Go figure.

All photos mine. Can be seen on Flickr at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/233332...h/49611435178/

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No matter how people hate on Houston I love their downtown architecture, old and new. Beautiful photography and thanks for sharing.
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No matter how people hate on Houston I love their downtown architecture, old and new. Beautiful photography and thanks for sharing.
It's a great place for people who know it. Pretty awful for many who don't. Definitely keeps its charms hidden. Hideous summers. Good people. Great food. Thanks for the comment!

Honestly, I wish the new architecture in Houston were less conservative. I am endlessly disappointed. The city could use a 21st century version of the 70s/early-80s Gerald Hines/Philip Johnson collaboration.
Houston could learn a lot from Los Angeles. Or New York. Or Chicago...Toronto...Melbourne...

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super photos thanks. dt houston keeps coming along.
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Some nice scenes! And I love seeing the gorgeous live oaks lined up along the walkway in Discovery Green!

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And I love seeing the gorgeous live oaks lined up along the walkway in Discovery Green!
You have to assume that was where an east/west street was before the convention center was built in the 80s. I mean, Discovery Green Park is only 10 years old. Those trees are a lot older than that. I just have to wonder what it (once) was about that street that it was lined by those trees in the first place.
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Whoa, great visuals there. Nice.
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Nice pictures! Downtown is more urban than I would've imagined!
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Downtown is more urban than I would've imagined!

What did you imagine? I mean, look at these photos of Houston in the 1920s, '30s and '40s. It pretty much has always had an urban core.


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It's a great place for people who know it. Pretty awful for many who don't. Definitely keeps its charms hidden. Hideous summers. Good people. Great food. Thanks for the comment!

Honestly, I wish the new architecture in Houston were less conservative. I am endlessly disappointed. The city could use a 21st century version of the 70s/early-80s Gerald Hines/Philip Johnson collaboration.
Houston could learn a lot from Los Angeles. Or New York. Or Chicago...Toronto...Melbourne...
i agree. seems all we get now are bland boxes - with a few exceptions here and there... but it's mostly boxes... and their dumb names...

energy centre III

the terrace at woods glenn

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i agree. seems all we get now are bland boxes - with a few exceptions here and there... but it's mostly boxes... and their dumb names...

energy centre III

the terrace at woods glenn

ugh.
Cripes! How I wish we'd get some buildings like these. Going to have to wait until this current recession/depression(?) is over, though.


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Looks modern and vibrant, I always wanted to visit Houston one day!
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The only Texas city I've been to is Dallas, which I loved. However, Houston looks even nicer. It's more tropical, and it looks a lot greener than Dallas. Also, Houston's architecture looks nicer. I'd love to visit there some time and combine it with a trip to San Antonio and Austin.
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Looks modern and vibrant, I always wanted to visit Houston one day!
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The only Texas city I've been to is Dallas, which I loved. However, Houston looks even nicer. It's more tropical, and it looks a lot greener than Dallas. Also, Houston's architecture looks nicer. I'd love to visit there some time and combine it with a trip to San Antonio and Austin.
DON'T VISIT IN MAY, JUNE, JULY, AUGUST, SEPTEMBER, or most of OCTOBER!
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DON'T VISIT IN MAY, JUNE, JULY, AUGUST, SEPTEMBER, or most of OCTOBER!
Ha! Wise advice! I had a job interview in Houston in August 2004. After flying down from Detroit, the moment I left the airport and stepped outside I immediately thought I didn't care if they offered me the job there was no way I would move to Houston. I just couldn't imagine living there in that intense heat & humidity... I had never felt anything like it before. I did end up accepting it and relocating there for 2.5 years, though eventually the heat & humidity did play a part in driving me away. However outside of those 6 months you mentioned the weather is reasonably decent!
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Wow! Pleasantly surprised and very impressed. Downtown's architecture looks stellar and the area looks charming.
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