Texian Inn of Waco (Waco, Texas)

This picture is from Agoda.com, taken sometime in the 2000s or early 2010s.
Our Waco coverage coverage continues. While we previously discussed this at Carbon-izer.com, those items are being moved to Numbered Exits.

In reality, Texian Inn (at 115 Jack Kultgen Expressway) was demolished several years ago in the late 2010s and the place where I grabbed the picture from, Agoda.com, seems to have numerous other photos that clearly were not from the same hotel. Texian Inn opened in March 1985 to great fanfare as the hotel chain spread throughout Texas and beyond (they mention that at least one hotel opened outside the state with that name, though I can only confirm Albuquerque and Oklahoma City), with the hotel celebrating one year of business in March 1986. They opened a few in the major Texas cities, and even one in College Station. Within five years, the chain had folded and the motels were sold off (the College Station one, with the Waco one becoming Lexington Inn around 1990, Americas Best Value Inn in the early 2000s, and finally Executive Inn & Suites (around 2015-2016) before being torn down in 2017. Soon after, the Jack in the Box next to it (connected to the parking lot), which had been there next to the motel's entire lifespan, was also torn down. (The restaurant operated from around 1984 to late 2017).

Unlike the College Station Texian Inn it at least kept its original stone facade to the end.

The replacement SpringHill Suites by Marriott was under construction in 2019 and opened in the early 2020s.

UPDATE 05-17-2026: Added address, removed 7-Eleven/Arby's mention

Plum Creek Plaza (Lockhart, Texas)

As I'm trying to phase out other pages quickly, this is only from Realnex.
Plum Creek Plaza (1710 S. Colorado Street) is a small strip center in Lockhart, Texas that is signal-controlled to the former Wal-Mart across the street (now government offices) and US-183. It's an unremarkable brick shopping center built in the mid-1980s (until it was painted white at some point between 2019 and 2020) and as of 2022 contains Security Finance (suite 101), PAM Health Rehabilitation Clinic of Lockhart (suite 102, formerly the home of Hibbett Sports in the late 2010s), Anytime Fitness (ste. 105), Beauty Nails & Hair (ste. 106), China Palace (ste. 107), Factory Connection (ste. 112, since closed), and Guadalajara Mexican Restaurant (ste. 114). Also of note is two outlots in front of the building.

There's an Exxon (1706 S. Colorado Street), which goes back to the 1980s as a Diamond Shamrock/Corner Store and was still a Diamond Shamrock as of spring 2008 (it was a Valero by late 2009); unfortunately, Circle K, the successor to Corner Store, decided not to do a full rebrand on this store and pulled out by late 2019. It became an Exxon a few years later. The convenience store is unbranded, as of 2023 you could still see the scar of the old Diamond Shamrock-era Corner Store logo, though it's a little harder to see now due to a repaint. The Verizon store (1904 S. Colorado Street) out front next to the Exxon opened in 2011. From 2003 to around 2010 it was a Jack in the Box restaurant.

There's not too many entries left on the Lockhart post as of this writing and will continue to shrink.

Failed Jack in the Box and Commercial Circle (New Braunfels, Texas)

Source: Crexi
This failed Jack in the Box at 3211 Commercial Circle only operated from around 2011 to 2018, and it's not hard to see why. It's also not easy to see the Jack in the Box, even from the highway frontage road.

It's neighbors are New Braunfels ER & Hospital (3221 Commercial Circle) and Shipley Do-Nuts (3201 Commercial Circle), the latter has done much better than Jack in the Box has.

Village Flowery and Wagner Hardware (Houston, Texas)

I couldn't get a good shot of Wagner Hardware. (2013 Street View). I titled this post the way as it was these two businesses on the 6100 block of Kirby that imprinted on me and those two businesses kept those names between 1989 and 2010. The first one, the current River Oaks Plant House which I best remember as Village Flowery (after all, it had that name for about 25 years) goes back to the mid-1960s when Tom Payne Typewriter Co. moved to 6125 Kirby from 6103 Kirby as by 1966 a new restaurant out of California that had begun fast expanding in California and the Southwest was built...Jack in the Box. Sometime around the mid-1980s the restaurant closed (relocating to 5114 Kirby Drive) and by 1989, Village Flowery was operating out of the space. It had common ownership with River Oaks Plant House, a garden center operating at 3401 Westheimer Road. For over the next twenty years the two garden centers operated in their respective parts of town. However, in late 2013, River Oaks Plant House got kicked out of its old location at 3401 Westheimer Road, and as a result, they simply rebranded Village Flowery to River Oaks Plant House (despite not being near River Oaks anymore).

The other building was Wagner Hardware. When it began construction of a building fronting Kirby in May 1948, it already had been a known name moving from the Rice Village area, and after completing the building, continued to operate for the next 60 years. That all started to change in 2009, when it introduced a store-within-a-store for eco-friendly products called "New Living". Not too long after, the store changed hands and the store was remerchandised and rebranded to the "New Living" concept.Most of the hardware lines were dropped for furniture and mattresses in addition to paint, and in 2014, New Living dismantled the old Wagner Hardware sign above the store. Between 2015 and 2017, New Living refocused from "sustainable design and furniture" to simply "organic mattresses". I'm not sure how the transition between New Living and Houston Natural Mattress (the similar replacement tenant) occurred, but it happened between October 2019 and March 2020. They seem to have different phone numbers. (This post is adopted from something on Carbon-izer.com, but removed in a later update. Street View here).