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Braes Heights, located west of Buffalo Speedway, [13] consists of 13 sections, numbered 1 through 13. [14] Blocks 1 and 2 of Section 1 are in the City of Southside Place. [15] [16] As of 1995 Braes Heights has 896 houses. [17] Katherine Feser of the Houston Chronicle said that Braes Heights had "a broader range of properties" than Southern Oaks ...
The city of Houston, Texas, contains many neighborhoods, ranging from planned communities to historic wards. There is no uniform standard for what constitutes an individual neighborhood within the city; however, the city of Houston does recognize a list of 88 super neighborhoods which encompass broadly recognized regions. According to the city ...
Development in Old Braeswood in 1940 and 1941 made use of some architects new to the neighborhood including Wolf and Hoyt, Otto F. Woestemeyer, Theo G. Keller, G. Ancira, Irving R. Klein, Dixon and Greenwood, and Ben F. Greenwood. [13] Then, legal restrictions on non-essential construction during World War II brought a temporary halt to ...
Biggio's is a sports bar and restaurant in Houston, Texas. [1] It has been described as the largest sports bar in Texas. [2] Created in partnership with Craig Biggio and the Houston Astros, as well as Marriott Marquis Houston, [3] [4] the bar has been described as MLB-owned by the Houston Press.
The original Houston store has 21,000 specialty food stock-keeping units (SKU). They account for 11% of the store's sales. [7] Nicole Potenza-Denis of the Specialty Food Magazine said that the Downtown location, which the Rydman family calls the "mothership" store, is "reportedly the largest single wine and liquor store in the world." [7]
Charley Sherwood Cryer (September 2, 1927 – August 13, 2009) was an American entrepreneur. After forming a partnership with Mickey Gilley , Cryer became co-owner of Gilley's, a Pasadena, Texas -based western nightclub and bar.
Mary's, originally called Mary's, Naturally and sometimes referred to as Mary's Lounge, was an iconic gay bar located in the Montrose neighborhood in Houston, Texas, in the United States. [1] The bar opened in 1968, and by the time of its permanent closing in November 2009, it was the oldest gay bar in Houston and one of the oldest in Texas. [ 2 ]
Braeburn is a community of subdivisions in southwest Houston, Texas along Brays Bayou west of Hillcroft Avenue and south of the Sharpstown community. The first of these middle class subdivisions was developed after World War II at a time when the Richmond Farm-to-Market Road (later renamed as Bissonnet Street) provided the route into the city ...