1800 Walnut Street (Bastrop, Texas)

From Casa Chapala's official website (see below)
As the new version of Carbon-izer premiers in a few days, and with it will be a handful of new entries covering Houston, Caldwell, and Austin, but there were a few removed, namely 1800 Walnut Street in Bastrop, facing Highway 95/21 and not far from a Buc-ee's built around the same time. It was developed with two tenants—a meat market (one story) and a Mexican restaurant (two stories) though neither one appear to connect to each other or have common ownership. Jalisco Meat Market (opened late 2012) is part of a chain of Mexican restaurants found in this area, and like any other Mexican meat market, small, sells meat, produce, some baked items, and a taqueria, including nopales (cactus) as an option for breakfast tacos. (At least that's what some early reviews indicated. I'm not 100% sure on that now.)

The other side of the building is a two story Mexican restaurant. The two-story La Hacienda Restaurant & Bar opened in fall 2013 (after a long delay for some reason) and closed in December 2017, being replaced with Casa Chapala Mexican Restaurant.

West's Original 7-Eleven (West, Texas)

The West News, 3/31/1977, courtesy Portal to Texas History Online
A bit of a bonus post as I'm planning a revamp to my existing coverage in West, Texas but 700 West Oak Street was a 7-Eleven when it opened in March 1977 (the opening ad is above...a full line of fresh produce?!) with a gas station, but in 1988 it was sold to Circle K, which in turn became Skinny's/Fina in 1999. It shut down in the early 2010s after I-35 ate the gas canopy area (and roadside sign), so it never became Alon (and if it did, it was extremely brief). It was abandoned in 2013 and became JoAnn's Bridal in 2014, though it relocated within a decade, and within a few years of that the building was completely demolished. By that time, there was a modern 7-Eleven catty-corner, but it bears little resemblance to the 7-Eleven that opened here in the late 1970s.

Former Albertsons #4021 (Victoria, Texas)

Picture by author, 2016
I first wrote about the Victoria Albertsons (1309 E. Red River Street) back in 2016 on Safeway and Albertsons in Texas Blog. Now that I have some better resources, it was indeed planned and built as a Skaggs Albertsons, though by the time it actually opened in August 1977, it was just a regular Albertsons¹ and closed in October 2002, the last South Texas store (if you don't count Kerrville and New Braunfels) to close.

In January 2008, after renovating the building, StarTek moved in as a call center, but only operated until January 2010; it never did max out the 600 employees it intended to have, and closed with 269 employees. Capgemini moved in soon after, but it came and went. By the end of 2012, it was empty once more.

It was at this point I came across the building in July 2016, repainted but empty. Below are additional pictures from July 2016.

In January 2017, Grifols Biomat USA Plasma Center opened in part of the building. The following year, BCFS Education Services opened Victoria County Red River Head Start, an early childcare program, but with the address of 2102 North Laurent Street (the west side of the building). From 2019 to 2022, Victoria-based OfficeSystems also occupied space on the Laurent Street side.

From what I can piece together, today (August 2026), both OfficeSystems is gone (moved out in 2024 to their own offices), BCFS Head Start Victoria moved to the front of the building and using the Red River address, and Christian private school V1 Academy using the Laurent address.

1. The store number was 4021 at closing, but Albertsons did change a bunch of store numbers around 1997 as part of reorganizing the San Antonio/Houston divisions, so I'm not 100% positive this was ALWAYS 4021. I'm still doing research on that sort of thing.

Holiday Inn Family Suites - Lake Buena Vista (Lake Buena Vista, Florida)

From the hotel's original website.
Back in 2021, I added the somewhat awkwardly named The Nickelodeon Hotel—when it was just a Holiday Inn, addressing the flaws of a Defunctland video on the subject (during its time as the Nickelodeon hotel) while showing off more of the original hotel.¹ As of this writing, the article is in need of an update, but I wanted to post it to Numbered Exits as part of a revamp to Carbon-izer.

In any case, the property at 18000 International Drive (the last address of Orlando's International Drive)² opened in 1999 as "Holiday Inn Family Suites - Lake Buena Vista" and after dropping the Nickelodeon branding (which by 2016, had dropped all references to Holiday Inn, having lapsed the naming agreement with Holiday Inn. Afterward, it became the "Holiday Inn Resort Orlando Suites - Waterpark" (the Holiday Inn Resort brand created as a replacement to replace the older Holiday Inn SunSpree brand, though few SunSpree hotels made the transition).

I believe that the address was 14500 Continental Gateway through the Nick days.
The current hotel offers Lakeside Cafe (the breakfast buffet), Antonio's Pizzeria, Burger Theory & Pool Bar (near the pool), Hershey's Ice Cream, Red Panda & Sombrero's (rice bowls and Mexican food), and Hideaway Bar & Grill (full service).

1. I'm not sure what Defunctland does these days, I have to assume the high subscriber count translates into Patreon dollars, and that has to be a significant amount...but given how few videos are being put out that means getting thousands of dollars a month for doing literally nothing. It's unfortunate, but life's just not fair.
2. While I have previously covered another International Drive business with hopefully more to come, this segment of International Drive does not connect to the Orlando road. There is a short gap between Florida 535 and World Center Drive.

Sawmill Square Mall (Laurel, Mississippi)

A bit of a bummer they didn't light up the neon for the "Cowboy Maloney's" part, but at least its still open.
This is a bit of a bonus post since it's outside of our schedule, but I wanted to properly integrate a post on Sawmill Square Mall onto this website, particularly because that while Corn Dog 7 has long maintained a presence in the mall, they only recently opened a new Corn Dog 7 (the first and only stand-alone store) in June 2025 to the north of the mall. While this is exciting news for Corn Dog 7, it doesn't bode well for the location inside the mall, or the mall itself. Catch up more details on what I wrote for Sawmill Square Mall on Carbon-izer.com after I visited it in July 2024.

Kroger #241 (Dickinson, Texas)

Photo by Joshua Bailey on Google Maps, cropped (source)
New entries in Houston will be posted on The Houston Files, but that doesn't apply to suburban Houston...while the Dickinson Wal-Mart was relatively short-lived, our post today is a bit further north on Gulf Freeway (around the same exit), at 3410 Gulf Freeway, the now-defunct Kroger, which operated from 1980 to its closure in 2025 (when several Houston-area Kroger stores closed around the same time). While we covered it on the "Galveston" page on Carbon-izer (currently still up, though I plan to reorganize this out of existence by the end of the month, so here's the archived version), it doesn't cover its closure.

Of note, there is a good photo of this store as to what it looked like in the early 2000s as it's on the page of CDA Architects (a commented out photo is on this page for safe-keeping) though it unfortunately shoots the renovated version in shadow, making the "Greenhouse" Kroger objectively nicer-looking (they do have another photo there).

The vacant space was a Walgreens located at 3400 Gulf Freeway, which was later incorporated into the Kroger's expansion, with the Walgreens here until 2000 (moved to 4016 Highway 3). This allowed the Kroger to become a Signature store as it went from 33,000 square feet to around 56,000 square feet. Despite its closure, it did get Kroger's new logo, if briefly. In July 2026 it reopened as Crunch Fitness.

Former KFC in Dallas (Dallas, Texas)

From Loopnet, slightly cropped. I'm not sure WHEN they took this picture. It looked like they scanned it in.
Among various projects here on Numbered Exits is splitting up or retiring various posts that don't fit anymore (about a dozen posts remain in this category, roughly). This post is a short one, splitting off from this post to focus on the restaurant next door, 3806 South Polk Street.

This was a KFC; according to the Loopnet link above the actual building dates back to 1979 (looks more like a mid-1980s build to me) with Kentucky Fried Chicken first building here in 1971 (and rebuilding later).

Al Chile Tacos currently takes up residence. It is the fourth restaurant after the initial replacement; after KFC left, it was replaced by "Chicken House", then "Tu Taco", then "Don Taco".

As of this writing, Al Chile has a looping video on their website that shows this location among various other food items, though their "Sushi Estilo Sinaloa" they show prominently (beef fajita, sour cream, and avocado wrapped in rice and rolled in what appears to be Tajin) is not at this location.