>>On Thursday November 5th, in Houston, Texas, the Loews Cineplex Spectrum
theatre hosted an event marking the debut of TheatreVision technology in
that
city. TheatreVision technology allows blind persons to listen to a narration
of events taking place on the screen in-between moments of dialogue and
during action sequences.<<
The location of this theatre is very telling. I spent weeks researching the
title to that property and other Houston land in which the owners had an
interest. These men were not only connected to George Bush and his friends,
but they also had connections to the Bronfman family, which is one of
Clinton's biggest donors. Here is part of what my research revealed:
In 1962 the Houston Corporation received a loan from Rice University for
$850,000, secured by land just north of the Galleria and five tracts on the
south line of Westheimer. The first tract, which fronts on S. Post Oak, in
October 1970, was conveyed to Gimbel Brothers, Inc. of New York. This land
had previously been leased in February, 1965 to Loew�s Theatre & Realty
Corporation, but the lease was terminated in 1970. Gimbels acquired a
portion of Lot 7 in that block from I.S. and Sam Brochstein in 1972. This
property is Houston�s Saks Fifth Avenue shopping center (the Pavilion) in
the Galleria. According to Anthony Sampson, Gimbels and Saks Fifth Avenue
and later Marshall Fields were purchased by British American Tobacco (BAT),
but he does not say when.
In December 1977 Gimbel Brothers and Saks Fifth Avenue conveyed the property
to a corporation called 1800 South Post Oak Corporation which received a
loan from Northwestern Mutual Life and then leased it back to Saks.
According to Ralph Bivins in his article in the Houston Chronicle on August
19, 1995, 1800 South Post Oak Corporation was actually a British pension
fund. An agreement attached to the lease shows that all shares of the
corporation were owned by Airways Pension Fund Trustees, Ltd., with its
offices at Kershaw House, Great West Road, Houndslow, Middlesex, England,
c/o Jones Lank Wootton, 375 Park Avenue in New York (the Seagrams Building).
The address for Saks and for Gimbel�s was 1275 Broadway. According to David
G. McComb, Sakowitz announced in 1955 that it would build a store at the
corner of Post Oak and Westheimer, but the store did not open until 1959.
In 1963 Joske�s opened a store across the street, and Neiman-Marcus was
built at that intersection in 1969.
In August 1965 George Butler, as president of the Houston Corporation, sold
a tract of land in the same subdivision to Post Oak Bank Building Co., which
constructed the Post Oak Bank of which he was president. According to
Tarpley and Chaitkin in their unauthorized biography of George Bush, Butler
"represented the ultra-secretive W.S. ("Auschwitz") Farish III, ... [who]
was the founder and controlling owner of Butler�s Post Oak Bank, and was
chairman of the bank�s executive committee as of 1988." But it is possible
that Farish was merely nominee for other parties, since he was partner in
both Underwood, Neuhaus and W.S. Farish & Co.
The Houston Corporation also owned the tract on which the Spectrum office
building at 5858 Westheimer was constructed. This blue glass building,
located at a diagonal angle back from Westheimer, is accessed on Augusta,
but it backs up to an innocuous office building called 2425 Fountainview,
which is adjacent to one of the branches of the Charter Bank at 2401
Fountainview. Both 5858 Westheimer and 2425 Fountainview are connected with
the Duncan Coffee heirs, and both were built by Duncan�s favorite builders
in Houston�a firm called Treptow and Murphree. According to Marguerite
Johnston, Duncan Coffee was founded by H. M. Duncan, a Kentuckian who came
to Houston in 1907 to visit his uncle, J.W. Neal, who made Maxwell House
Coffee. Charles W. Duncan, Sr. was his brother. The two brothers owned
Duncan Coffee Co. together. Charles, Sr. had two sons: Charles, Jr. and
John House Duncan. H.M. Duncan married Linnie Dunn, who, after his death in
1957, married Joseph Jefferson Wynne. One of their daughters, Amelia
Duncan, was married to Lewis N. White, a partner at Vinson & Elkins, and
another, Harriet, was married to Paul A. Taft. Family trusts were set up
at Bank of the Southwest, with the bank�s trust officers acting as their
financial advisors.
In 1981 a builder named Frank Hudson was also located in the same building.
Hudson, who was president of Cadillac Development and Cadillac Fairview, had
previously given his address as 5901-R Westheimer, a small space in a strip
center at the southwest corner of the Fountainview intersection.
Butler does not appear to have a strong connection to the Duncan or the
Hudson brothers, but he seems to have been there just ahead of them.
Another example is that the Houston Corporation in 1961 borrowed $400,000
from Jesse Jones� Bankers Mortgage Company, secured by Lots 6 and 7 and part
of Lot 8 of Block 135 downtown (fronting on McKinney). This lot had been
purchased by trustees (John Sealy, E.R. Brown, R. Waverly Smith, E.E. Plumly
and Geo. C. Greer) of the Magnolia Petroleum Company, a joint stock company
with offices in Galveston, in 1919, from the estate of W.A. Botts. Block
135 is the location of the First City Bank Tower. (Eustace Mullins claims
that the First City Bank of Houston was owned by the Rothschilds.)
The tower was constructed as part of the Houston Center project one block
east of the building the bank built when it decided to move out of its
original location in the Kirby Building. American General Insurance
executed a lengthy real estate contract to buy this building, but Gus
Wortham decided instead to move to Allen Parkway, and Texas Eastern
Transmission moved into the old building. Texas Eastern was a corporation
which George and Herman Brown and their cronies took public with help from
Dillon Read, another Rothschild front.
Cadillac Fairview, the Bronfman company, owned 50% of Houston Center 1 and 2
(according to the appendix in Susan Goldenberg�s book) and provided
financing for a part of the development of the project.
In May 1986 Cadillac Fairview exchanged its 50% interest in 14 undeveloped
blocks in the project for a 100% interest in Blocks 97 and 129 which lie
directly east of the Chevron Building and Garage, and Texas Eastern bought
out its interest in the developed land. Gulf Oil, which merged with
Chevron (formerly Socony) has also always been very much involved with
members of the Houston elite.
Butler became a director of Gulf Resources in 1961. Gulf Resources had a
role in providing part of the funds which were found in the Miami bank
account of Watergate burglar Bernard Barker, described in George Bush: The
Unauthorized Biography
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