Shepherd @ W Gray

I like that movie theater but can also understand the need for redevelopement. Things change...it wasn't always a movie theater either.

 

Why, there are plenty of theatres. The Bookstop is the best bookstore in the city, they have everything.

 

I guess it is what you are used to.

Interestingly, the Bookstop is either owned by Borders or Barnes and Noble. I can't remember.

I like bookstores, including B& N and Borders, but I would hate to see the River Oaks Theater taken down. It is definitely a historic landmark in Houston and will only get more so in the next years if they can keep it alive.

I would like to see a big bookstore in the actual downtown, like you see in many cities, as I think it would make it a lot easier to spend a whole night downtown. You need more than just restaurants, theater and sports.

 

Couple of threads on this subject....thought I'd update in here.

Here is the video

 

jeff should have started a saveourshoppingcenter.com

 

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Did anyone else ever frequent this odd, unmarked bar in that shopping center called Marfrellas, or something like that?

It was... interesting. Especially if you're, say, a 60-something executive needing a place to take your 20-something affair.

A bunch of thought that was a funny back-drop to hang out and drink. Spent a New Year's Eve there.

 

Was that a video of the movie theatre or the surrounding shopping center getting torn down? Or was it both?

 

was that the blue door?

been there a couple of times... definitely an interesting place. should've taken a lady to one of the back chairs in the back when i had the chance.

 

Dude, if you haven't made out upstairs at Marfrela's at least once, you aren't a real Houstonian.

 

So true, but it took an Austin woman to introduce me to it.

 

The bar is Marfreless.

 

used to have better couches and was much sleazier. In 1998 they "cleaned it up"

 

Home to MULTIPLE CONQUESTS

 

Interesting, I'd only been there pre-98.

 

Rosie Palm and her 5 sisters?

 

Went to Marfrellas. Boy was that place.... different.

It was... it was a .... I guess a "makeout place" for lack of a better term. Dark and quiet.... couches.... shadows... just weird, but not in a bad way. IT seemed really sleazy, but ...... I guess it was just freaky naughty.

 

It was kinda like this, but with less light.

 

Awesome!

 

Agreed 1,000,000%, although I didn't make it up there until about three years ago.