Business
March 1, 1986
Doin’ the Social Climb
From the heights of the Dallas social heap, they leaped to the national celebrity circuit. Rich, young, and fashionable, Twinkle and Bradley Bayoud are a case study in how to rise to the top.
Real Estate
News & Politics
August 1, 1984
The Eccentric Genius of Trammell Crow
He changed the face of Texas by building warehouses that looked like office buildings. Then he built office buildings that looked like warehouses.
Style & Design
May 31, 1984
Move Over, Southfork
Up for sale in Dallas, the Shanbaum house boasts a whopping 28,000 square feet and what may be Texas’ most comprehensive collection of sixties and seventies kitsch—along with a $2.75 million price tag.
Business
May 1, 1984
High Noon at the Circle C
Gary Bradley, a hot young land speculator in Austin, was in the middle of a $50 million deal when he ran into an outraged environmental movement and a lobbyist with some powerful clients. The fight was on.
Business
March 1, 1984
“I Beat Ben Barnes and John Connally in a Fair Fight”
When Bames-Connally Investments announced plans to build apartments in a South Austin neighborhood, the residents banded together to try to stop them. They won the battle but lost the war.
News & Politics
November 1, 1983
Fantasy Island
It’s a high-rise developer’s dream. Houston’s old guard wants to turn 34 acres of downtown warehouses into an island of classy shops and pricey condos. They thought they had it wired, until Kathy Whitmire was elected mayor.
News & Politics
April 1, 1982
Life With the Sutherlands, Frontier Family
Outside the back door stretches the lonely prairie; there is deep silence broken sometimes by gunshots and things that go bump in the night. But here on the edge of Dallas’s suburbs, you can always retreat to the whirlpool in the bathroom.
Business
January 1, 1982
Trust Me. Just Sign Here.
Whenever you buy or sell a house, hundreds of dollars of your money goes for something called title insurance. Title insurance is a great deal—for the title company.
Business
October 1, 1981
Losing Big
Everybody knows the story about the young Texan who goes into business, works hard, and makes millions. But what happens when his luck runs out?
News & Politics
March 1, 1981
Home Sweet Home, Good-bye
And hello to high prices, high interest rates, high rents, and a new low for the American dream.
Politics & Policy
September 1, 1980
The $38,000 a Year, Wife and Two Kids, House and a Pool Blues
Is inflation deflating your standard of living? You are not alone.
Business
June 1, 1980
Who Owns Texas?
The biggest landholders in the state, acre by acre.
Politics & Policy
November 1, 1979
The New Apartment Slums
Behind the gleaming facades of many new apartment villages are the crumbling walls of next year’s urban blight.
Business
October 1, 1979
Talking Money/The Heavy Hitters
What’s what and who’s who in Texas real estate.
Business
October 1, 1979
The Man Who Built River Oaks
Architect John Staub, the forgotten genius of River Oaks, transformed a few nondescript Houston streets into Millionaires’ Row.
Business
September 30, 1979
Sherwood Blount’s First Million
He believed in the American dream and it paid off.
Business
August 1, 1978
Trouble in Paradise
Resort hotels and luxury condominiums line the shore of South Padre, yet foot by foot, day by day, the island is washing away.
Being Texan
July 1, 1978
Brave New Vacancies
Give us your tired and freezing Yankees, your studious Arabs, your ambitious young hustlers just blown into town, and we will rent them one bedroom and a bath for $215.
Style & Design
May 1, 1978
Cabin Fever
Years ago, kids used to play pioneer with Lincoln Logs. Today grown-ups are playing pioneer—only with real log cabins.
Design
June 30, 1977
Hello, Walls
When is a wall not a wall? When it's a work of art.
Business
May 31, 1973
Why a Condominium? Why Not?
Condominiums are springing up all over Texas. It’s a good concept, but you need to know what you're doing.