Saturday, February 14, 2026

KFC at Ella and North Loop (Houston, Texas)

From Google Maps, "Belly G.", with minor color touch-ups done.

Located at 1526 North Loop West (the northeast corner of North Loop and Ella), from the 1970s until around 2001-2002, this was a Shell (something that Houston retail historians would refer to as a "Hexashell" due to its roof canopy shape of three interconnected hexagons). In 2002 it was redeveloped as a KFC/A&W (and as of 2008 still featured the old Shell highway signage to advertise) but in the early 2010s was renovated, ditching the A&W co-brand due to the separation of A&W from KFC parent Yum! Brands. (This post was formerly part of this page and originally appeared on Carbon-izer.com).

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