Designed
By
Fort Worth Architect Wyatt C
Hedrick
The
Shamrock Hotel Was
An
18-story Building Constructed Between 1946
And
1949 With
A
Green Tile Pitched Roof
And
1,100 Rooms
The
Hotel Was Conceived
By
Wildcatter Glenn McCarthy As
A
City-sized Hotel Scaled
For
Conventions With
A
Resort Atmosphere
The
Shamrock Was Located In
A
Suburban Area Three Miles (5 Km) Southwest Of Downtown Houston
On
The
Fringes Of Countryside
And
Was Meant
To
Be
The
First Phase Of
A
Much Larger Indoor Shopping
And
Entertainment Complex Called McCarthy Center
Anchored Alongside
The
Planned Texas Medical Center
At
The
Hotel's North Side Was
A
Five-story Building Containing
A
1,000-car Garage
And
25,000-square-foot (2,300 M2) Exhibition Hall
To
The South Was
The
Hotel's Lavishly Landscaped Garden Designed
By
Ralph Ellis Gunn
A
Terrace And
An
Immense Swimming Pool Measuring 165
By
142 Feet (43 M) Described As
The
World's Biggest Outdoor Pool
Which Accommodated Exhibition Waterskiing
And
Featured
A
Three-story-high Diving Platform With
An
Open Spiral Staircase. Despite Protests
By
Local Preservationists
The
Shamrock Was Demolished June 1
1987
The
Institute Of Biosciences
And
Technology Now Stands
In
Its Former Location
. .
Cypress Creek drains
a
significant portion of northern Harris County
the
river flows
for
52 miles (84 km) through
the
suburban areas of Cypress
and
Spring before joining
the
San Jacinto River
the
creek's watershed
which covers 310 square miles (800 km2)
is
one of
the
largest
in
the
county. . 11.2 Tactics
Evel Knievel jumped 13 cars two nights in
a
row
drawing over 100,000 spectators
to
the Astrodome
in
January 1971
and
though there was talk of him making
an
actual jump over
the
stadium itself sometime
in
the
future
it
never happened.
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