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- From: paco@cs.rice.edu (Paul Havlak)
- Subject: Re: Houston moviegoers please help
- In-Reply-To: skadron@owlnet.rice.edu's message of Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:30:41 GMT
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- Reply-To: Paul Havlak <paco@cs.rice.edu>
- Organization: Center for Research on Parallel Computation
- References: <1993Jan26.082448.1@radm10.is.rice.edu> <C1Gz76.3wK@rice.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:53:52 GMT
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- In article <C1Gz76.3wK@rice.edu> skadron@owlnet.rice.edu (Kevin Skadron) writes:
- >I don't think the Village cinema will be torn down; there was an oblique
- >reference in the Chronicle to a desire to have it placed on the National
- >Historical Register.
-
- Don't bet on it. Market Square downtown (by the bayou) is a National
- Historical District, but in danger of losing that status as old
- buildings bite the dust. Just in the last year, two or three of the
- oldest buildings in town were demolished. Kennedy Corner was the
- oldest, from around 1860, and the owner just let it rot until it
- almost fell down on its own. The Pappas family (you know, the ones
- that have those fake old restaurants) tore down another, after
- "accidentally" getting a demolition permit they weren't entitled to.
-
- And the Rice/Weingarten Realty partnership has already told World Toy
- (next door to the Village Theater) that they will be kicked out. The
- owner (one of the two old ladies) didn't take it too well, and has
- since died -- her nephew says of a broken heart.
-
- The Shamrock Hotel was a lot more historic and had a lot more popular
- support than the Village Theater, and it's *gone*.
-
- --paco
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- Paul Havlak Dept. of Computer Science
- Graduate Student Rice University, Houston TX 77251-1892
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