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Manifestor_of_Light

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2. His nickname was "Concrete Bob".

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sun Dec 21, 2014, 01:22 AM

Dec 2014

He was well liked.

The nickname came when he was the head of METRO, the bus/toy train agency. He got a billion dollars out of D.C. for METRO to use for the light rail, widening freeways and so forth. He was a poor boy from Baytown. Baytown is east of Houston on the ship channel and home of the Exxon refinery.

My dad had Concrete Bob for a professor in law school and took Administrative Law from Mr. Lanier in approximately 1948 or 1949.

Rest in peace, Mr. Lanier.

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Former Houston mayor Bob Lanier dies at 89 [View all] TexasTowelie Dec 2014 OP

Rest in peace shenmue Dec 2014 #1

His nickname was "Concrete Bob". Manifestor_of_Light Dec 2014 #2

May he rest in peace Gothmog Dec 2014 #3