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Looking up at the Alamo! (At the 1940s-era Alamo Plaza Motor Hotel, actually.) Captured several birds in this photo, including a large metal one in flight, while aiming the iPhone-cam toward the sun. :)
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Vintage sign for the Alamo Plaza Motor Hotel, 4343 Old Spanish Trail, in Houston, Texas
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Railroad track-shaped vintage neon sign? Yeah!
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Old Houston [iPhone panoramic shot showing some context for the fab railroad-shaped vintage neon sign shown in previous photo]
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Yes, I love this sign. [This is the 3rd of 3 shots I'm posting of this awesome, abandoned, railroad track-shaped vintage neon sign in east Houston.]
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Big Boy street art?
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CENTERETTE! Sign of Houston's past - soon to be demolished
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The end . . .
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*Elite* (& more!) 2012
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*Elite* (& more!) 2014
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Admiral Motel -- sign of Houston's past
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Looking up in Houston
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Pay phone booth repurposed as a free library / tiny library
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DO•NUTS
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DO•NUTS -- Shipley Donuts' vintage neon sign in Houston. (Shipley's is Houston-based.)
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Neon shoe -- Oak Forest Shoe Shop, in Houston, TX
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Artist Jim Sanborn’s illuminated sculpture outside the M.D. Anderson Library at the University of Houston
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Dot Coffee Shop's neon sign -- a Houston landmark
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Vintage neon + graffiti
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BLUE
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Central Houston bluebonnets -- not in a spot where you'd expect to see Texas wildflowers. What a great sight!
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Take a seat
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1960s architecture in Aug. 2014 -- featuring cool breeze block, stone, and interesting railing on the stairs and balconies
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Vintage neon sign for Yale Grill & Gifts, on Yale Street, in the Heights neighborhood in Houston, Texas
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Old Houston, N. Main Street
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All that remains is this sign
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The Alabama Theater's vintage neon sign in Houston, Texas
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So, this happened: The city of Houston got its first Trader Joe's. Now the long-empty historic Alabama Theater is filled with happy shoppers.
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"Lee Wright Top Quality Automobiles" -- vintage neon sign on Washington Avenue, Houston, Texas
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Fine example of Googie architecture -- the Penguin Arms apartment building, built in 1950, in Houston, Texas
