Poop Deck!

January 5th, 2011 Posted in Heydey Galvez, Party Hearty Galvez
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Poop Deck!

Poop Deck!

One of the precious handful of seawall relics that have somehow managed to survive the wrecking ball (not to mention record storm surges and hurricane-force winds).

I can still remember the old Poop Deck tavern from many a childhood vacation, as we passed it by strolling along Seawall Boulevard.

And it only took me another thirty-five years and a relocation to Seattle, Washington to finally figure out what a "poop deck" actually is. (You can imagine my working definition in all those intervening years.) I’m a quick study, clearly. Read the rest of this entry »

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Welcome 2011!

January 1st, 2011 Posted in Party Hearty Galvez
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The Galveston Pleasure Pier returns!

October 6th, 2010 Posted in Heydey Galvez, Party Hearty Galvez, Recovery Galvez
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Galveston's flagship eyesore

Galveston's flagship eyesore

Anyone who knows me even a smidgen has got to know, often painfully if I’m on a rant, that I am an architectural preservationist of the first order.

When it comes to old buildings, I teeter on the brink of fanaticism, a hard admission for me to make, since I count myself among those civilized folk of all stripes who rank fanatics of any skew way down there on the list with, well, bad and dangerous people.

And so you might find it odd, then, that I should be thrilled, giddy even, to learn today that the old 1960s-vintage Flagship Hotel, mortally wounded by Ike two years ago but even before that on a moldy downward spiral, will at last be razed, not refurbished as earlier planned. Read the rest of this entry »

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