![]() ![]() Refurbishing program for furniture and equipment. Guests have the option of reusing their bed linens and towels. Refillable shower dispensers for bath products in guest rooms. To reduce water consumption, we utilize low-flow faucets, showerheads, and toilets. Motion sensor lights in front and back of house offices. Building/Guest RoomsĮach guest room has an individual climate control with a motion sensor that determines if the room is occupied.Īir conditioning and lights are controlled by a building automated system and turned off when meeting rooms are not in use. We have implemented several initiatives to reduce the environmental impact on our planet, and we are constantly looking for better ways, products, and resources to further reduce our environmental impact. From 1990 to the present, either plain yellow covers or stock photographs of city scenes have been featured.As part of the Royal Sonesta Houston Galleria's Culture of Caring, the hotel strives to provide sustainable and efficient services. Wallace again began creating whimsical line drawings once again for another three years. In 1981, Southwestern Bell again switched to basic yellow covers until 1987 when an otherwise unknown artist named B. Like Hoefle, Baxter's work contained funny subjects hidden within larger pictures meant to delight the viewer. Baxter had become known for his pen-and-ink drawings of city skylines that were used as covers for more than ten years in other cities. This trend lasted until 1978 when Norman Baxter, commercial artist and co-founder of the Houston firm Baxter & Korge, began to design the covers of Houston's Yellow Pages. In 1972, in an effort to cut costs, Southwestern Bell discontinued these line drawings and began to publish the Yellow Pages with covers featuring basic graphics in shades of yellow. One famous example of a hidden subject in his covers was a mother cat named Pittens leading her brood of kittens through different harrowing situations. The covers for Houston featured detailed sketches of the city in which Hoefle drew hidden subjects and situations in the over-all panorama. ![]() The directory continued to feature the City Hall motif until 1958 when it was replaced by photographs and paintings featuring Houston or Texas themes a trend that continues to the present.įrom 1959-1971, Karl Hoefle, a commercial artist from Dallas, designed covers for Southwestern Bell Yellow Pages in several cities. Around this time, the directory was divided into Yellow Pages for businesses and the Directory for individuals. This motif was used until 1955 when it was replaced by an etching of Houston City Hall. Beginning in the 1930s advertisements largely disappeared from the front of the books being replaced with the Southwestern Bell logo and/or a drawing of an angel holding lightning bolts dubbed “The Spirit of Communication”. From the late 1800s through to the late 1920s, advertisements for local businesses were found on the outer covers of the directory. Over the decades, Houston-area Southwestern Bell telephone book covers featured a variety of different images. ![]() In 2005, SBC communications bought AT&T, and the area covered by Southwestern Bell became known as AT&T Southwest. Over the years it absorbed other regional telephone companies, eventually changing its name to SBC communications. In 1984, AT&T was broken up and Southwestern Bell became an independent once again. In 1917, it merged with several other regional companies from Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri to form the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company within the American Telegraph and Telephone Company (AT&T). Southwestern Telegraph and Telephone Company was organized in 1881 to operate exchanges in Arkansas and Texas. ![]()
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