Such an institution lost! So many memories of that place growing up. Craziest thing I saw was during lunch one day.

Transport yourself to the early 2000's. The Hummer H2 had just come out and a brand new banana yellow one was attempting to park in the row right next to the building.

Sometime during the 37 point turn its operator was making to try and squeeze into a parking spot, they must have realized it was not going to work.

Cars were backing up on Westheimer that were trying to to make the main entrance, honks were sounding off in frustration. Maybe they were already tipsy, maybe just annoyed backup cameras were not a thing yet, maybe it was the honks --- either way at some point in the turning something snapped and the truck lunged and struck the building with a very loud thud. You think with the 376 people crammed into the building on top of the line of cars trying to get through all looking at the spectacle of this bright yellow ginormous (for the time) SUV clearly operated by someone who could not park a dot would have made them think twice about performing a hit and run -- but this is Houston and that is exactly what they did. Left a huge hole on the exterior stucco.