Talk:Uptown Houston
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The popular "water wall" located adjacent to Williams Tower is worth a walk even in the hot weather. During the evening, it is lit from the bottom and is quite beautiful.
If you stand on the "inside" of the semicircle, the falling water and lack of other visible reference creates a very amusing optical illusion which I won't spoil by describing here.
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Does anyone actually call this Uptown? I've lived in Houston for years and only ever heard it called "the Galleria area"... people say things like "I live over by the Galleria", not "I live in Uptown". --Delirium 01:18, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
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No, the only people I ever hear call it Uptown are city officials, chamber of commerce types, and a few of the fanatic 'Houston is the new Utopia!' types. Ya know, the kind that obsess over what exact date our city will pass city X in number of Cheesecake Factories per thousand residents. So I edited the first paragraph slightly to note that the term is only a very recent marketing gimmick. Heck, why don't they just go all the way and change the name 'Houston' to 'We are a World Class City, Just Ask Us'? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.199.206.213 (talk • contribs) .
