| # | Name | Comments |
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| 26301 | Gabriela Lopez-Rogina | |
| 26302 | Elin Shaddox | |
| 26303 | Anonymous | |
| 26304 | Katharina Gilbert | I don't want this theatre to go! This is the only movie house I even bother to go to these days! |
| 26305 | Anonymous | This theater has so much history and such a positive setting. We have plenty of room for large book establishments in other places. |
| 26306 | Samantha Dante | |
| 26307 | Anonymous | I don't think it should be torn down but renovated |
| 26308 | Anonymous | As a former Houston resident, I still go to movies at the theater when I'm in town, visiting my parents. It is a landmark in the Houston area, a city full of non-descript buildings. Even if the theater has to go, please keep the facade -- look at downtown DC for how this is being accomplished. |
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| 26311 | Megan Vrolijk | |
| 26312 | Peter van Bemmel | |
| 26313 | Bonnie Goodrich | |
| 26314 | Maaike Van Bemmel | |
| 26315 | Anonymous | |
| 26316 | Masha Alaupovic | BEST THEATER IN HOUSTON!SAVE HOUSTON LANDMARKS! |
| 26317 | Ray Thibaut | Save The Alabama Theatre ! |
| 26318 | Anonymous | |
| 26319 | Robyn McFadden | I was born and raised in Houston, and I grew up loving these buildings! My parents once ran the Arthur Murray Dance Studio just up West Gray from the River Oaks Shopping Center, and I spent many a fun evening singing along with "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" at the Alabama! My current love of architecure, particularly that of Art Deco design, is directly attributable to these beloved buildings! You simply cannot tear them down!
"Any new building, no matter how much green technology it incorporates, represents a new impact on the environment. An older building represents a heavy prior investment of resources and energy. If you tear that building down, that investment is wasted-but if you keep the building in use, you're saving energy and conserving resources. That's what people mean when they call preservation the ultimate recycling."
-Richard Moe, National Trust President |
| 26320 | Sarah Morris | |
| 26321 | Anonymous | |
| 26322 | D. Tucker | Being a native Houstonian, I have to say that in all my travels I have seen another city anywhere in the world with a greater disregard for it's own heritage and history. Will this town ever develop a sense of self or are we all doomed to forever witnessing the bulldozing of what little history we Houstonians can connect with? Unless the people here can affect some serious changes in the attitude of this city's leadership, soon there will be nothing left but stripmalls and tacky styrofoam fake townhouses. Enough. Every other great city takes pride in it's past. The attitude that has prevailed here for 50 years seems to be "erase it". For those of you not fortunate enough to have ever been awed by the old Metropolitan Theater and so many other long gone landmarks of Houston...you don't know what you missed. I do. And I still find their wholesale destruction a genuine embarrassment to this city. Wake up Houston. If you truly want to be a great city...act like one. |
| 26323 | darlene | History is vital and important to future generations. |
| 26324 | Tammy Ritchie | I'm a proud Houstonian. Why? Because we take pride in our city and it's rich heritage. Those are just more than buildings, it's a link to our past. I long to walk the halls that our great-grandparents had and enjoy these buildings the way my great-grandparents did back in the old days. It's like holding a book that your grandfather read when he was a boy and watching your child enjoy it just as you had. Handing something, especially a place down to children gives you the grandest feeling. It gives them roots to build a great life. You tear this building down, you're tearing a part of us away. I doubt that you would like for someone to tear down the place that you first met your spouse and fell in love or got married. Years later most of us will say, "You see that parking lot over there kids? That's where your mother and I had our first date. There used to be a beautiful theater there. Sorry ya'll couldn't see it stand today but at least someone's making money. Darn shame that a part of our heritage went down with the building." How about letting our children and our great grandchildren enjoy a movie there? I wanted to take my child to Astroworld when it was still in operation only to find that my baby will never enjoy the Texas Cyclone or Greezed Lightnin' like I did as a kid. It saddens me greatly to not be able to share something grand with my child. One of Houston's grandest places have gone down earlier this decade... Please don't let another one be destroyed. |
| 26325 | Kirby McDaniel | To demolish the River Oaks Theatre would be very unfortunate indeed as many theatres of this era have already met the wrecking ball. The Lakewood Theater in Dallas was
saved and it is a nice landmark for the era. I deplore the idea of tearing down this River Oaks
Shopping Center and Theatre. |
| 26326 | Phil Gyford | I lived in Houston for a while and have fond memories of River Oaks. Good luck! |
| 26327 | Matt Spottswood | What kind of psycho-nutball, loony tunes, nitwit came up with this lousy idea? Good lord folks, aren't you tired of worshiping the money grubbing Houston developer yet? Boy it's a good thing there are no rain forests around here. What can we do about this? I don't know but it sure would be nice if those do nothing corporate shills that get elected to city government would think about Houston for once instead of their buds in the construction business. Hey Mayor, here's a neat thought. How about using eminent domain to snatch up River Oaks to assure that Houston will have a cultural heritage. Maybe then people won't keep moving away. |
| 26328 | Mark Webb | |
| 26329 | Tim Ryan | I love this theatre. It should be a historic landmark. |
| 26330 | Leslie Cox | |
| 26331 | Jacob Shiach | |
| 26332 | Tito Toro | |
| 26333 | Anonymous | |
| 26334 | Anonymous | Give us a break! It's the only neighborhood theatre left of its kind. Don't let big money tear down what's left of our freedom to keep our creative integrity intact. |
| 26335 | Anonymous | This is the reason Houston has very little character. Developers don't care about the past, only the future...it's greed that's destroying the character of the city. |
| 26336 | Jeryn Woodard Mayer | |
| 26337 | Anonymous | Please save the River Oaks Shopping Center and The Alabama Theater. |
| 26338 | reynaldo morales | it takes less energy to save an old building than to create a new one. |
| 26339 | Veronica | It would be a shame to tear down this theater. It is one of the only places to see independent flicks and the location is great. Don't get rid of the RO theater! We don't need another corporate conglomerate taking over the center and destroying what few landmarks are left in Houston. |
| 26340 | William Gralewski | Please don't let this happen |
| 26341 | Michael R Honig | "Newer" isn't always "better". Money is important, but not all that matters.
Weingarten knew what they were buying, and knew that it was a landmark property.
If it's not profitable enough for them, let them sell it to someone else and put the money into another property.
PRESERVE THE RIVEROAKS AND ALABAMA THEATER COMPLEXES!!!
PS: Another reason to have zoning. |
| 26342 | Jason Borden | |
| 26343 | Lisa Dennison | |
| 26344 | Adrien South | |
| 26345 | Kennie Aguero | This theatre is amazing!! One of a kind, unique. Please save it! |
| 26346 | Anonymous | |
| 26347 | Greer Hawkins | ĻAmerica is aspirin-packed forced hilarity until you die from laughing. Itīs megaplex superplexes. Itīs Wal-Mart, Samīs Club and McDonaldīs. Itīs drywall communities and Disney on Ice! Itīs virgin pop stars and Pepsi. The Charities are even vicious...Ļ -Pretty Little Mistakes. Please, let us preserve the small amount of character that Houston has left. Tearing down monuments such as the Greenway Theatre, and now possibly the River Oaks Theatre, we become more of the America everyone loves to hate...and understandably. |
| 26348 | Anonymous | in a city as highly developped, urbanized, and industrialized as houston, where we already have about three barnes and nobles, ruthlessly tearing down the river oaks theatre or any part of that shopping center doesnt benefit the city at all. instead, it permanently destroys not only a gorgeous and cherished area of houston but the last remnants of an accompanying cultural or historical heritage that houston sorely needs, to which yet another barnes and nobles simply cant compare in any way! please consider this and save the theatre!!!!!! |
| 26349 | Lynn Edwards | I'm a native Houstonian and would hate to see this landmark destroyed for a highrise. One of my memories from that theater was going with my dad (now deceased) to see Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time." And you wouldn't find that at just any theater... |
| 26350 | Chris Gizinski | Please save this. |
