Military Depot

You can barely make out the EAS (from Eastgate) here, but I think the shadow next to it was from Military Depot, not its predecessor tenants (May 2014).

Military Depot was on the short list in 2017 (internally, "Season 3") and probably would have come after "At Home" on the Boriskie Ranch but as that post describes, things happened and it got shelved (it got close enough to have a post mostly written up). This post is intended to replace the the big Eastgate post.

105 Walton started out as a UtoteM in 1961 with a 1967 article mentioning it was going to 24 hour service (which must have been rare at the time, even 7-Eleven had only experimented with 24 hour stores in Dallas-Fort Worth and Las Vegas) and continuing to do so until the chain was bought and rebranded as Circle K in 1984. However, soon after rebranding it, Circle K was ready to pull the plug on this store (and the store at 1405 University Drive) and sold it in fall 1985, becoming Eastgate Food Store. It seems that it permanently closed in 1991 and possibly served as Talon's Collegiate Wear around 1992-1993.

You can see Eastgate Food Store listed as part of this 1992 streetscape study:


Sometime around the mid-1990s (definitely by June 1996) Military Depot moved in (it used to be at the mall) and it has been here since. There's also a green roofed building next to it that held a few tenants years ago, including Robinson Pet Clinic in 1989, but it's been vacant for a number of years now. The picture was taken in May 2014 with no activity since.

Here's another view of the sign, from May 2014.

UPDATE 06-22-2025: Removed old Editor's Note and got some better dates about comings and goings

University Flowers

Taken way back in May 2014 by author

University Flowers has been here at 1049 Texas Avenue South since at least 1980 and all indications show that the building was built in the 1970s and opened as the flower shop. In the late 2000s, a "store-within-a-store", BCS Gold & Jewelry, opened at the site. It has common ownership and the same address (even the vehicles UF drives around has both names on it), but a different phone number.

Editor's Note: With a new schedule carved out of the wreckage of the three "series" posts, I now have a plan going forward. That does include, of course, filler posts, like this one I've had since 2014, taken with other Eastgate photos.

Former Mechanics Unlimited

There hasn't been much activity here in years.
Mechanics Unlimited was the last known business at 102 Lincoln, which was briefly covered on what was originally called "Mobil & Mechanics", a post published back in 2014. As of this writing, this post has been removed from the Index to be rewritten and updated.

102 Lincoln was likely built in the 1940s (according to what I can find, the city estimates it was built in the 1940s, and it was definitely in the 1960 aerial) and sits on a tiny lot. Known as "Murphy's Garage" in old listings, the building hasn't changed much in at least six years. When I photographed the building in 2014, you could see the the maroon-painted plywood that boarded up the garage doors, as well as some of the maroon paint that was once on the bricks. If I recall, these had been painted maroon after Mechanics Unlimited (which was painted on the outside of the facade) closed (which I recall closing in the early 2000s, though can find little proof of it except in this 1990s-era listing).

Looking inside, there's remnants from Stratta Auto Repair next door.

The pictures seen that aren't linked are the ones taken in June 2020.

Chili's Texas Avenue

I never ate at Chili's all that often, so I don't have memories of it.

One of the themes of the future posts coming up (though not all of them) is a trip back to 2014 to cover some places in the Eastgate area where I actually lived. It's all part of improving the Eastgate article which hasn't been touched since 2014 (as of this writing). These pictures were taken in 2014, not long before the signs were upgraded to the newer logo, and I believe by this time many Dallas stores had been upgraded already. Today it has the upgraded prototype.

Picture of the older sign.

Chili's #235 was built in 1991 and has upgraded on the inside and outside more than once.

Pizza Hut, University Drive East

In 2014, the sun was starting to set on this Pizza Hut, figuratively and literally. (Picture by author)
With the recent news that Yum! Brands is closing some 500 sit-down Pizza Hut locations, that is, the ones that haven't already been closed down, it's high time for a look back at the sit-down Pizza Hut that College Station once had at 102 University Drive East (there was another short-lived Pizza Hut on University Drive proper in Northgate, and I promise I'll cover it soon enough). From newspaper archives and other sources, the Pizza Hut opened in 1974 but closed around July/August 2017. It did retain its iconic 1980s logo for a while after Pizza Hut started rolling it in more stores (probably as late as 2007), and today is home to additional parking for Fuego Tortilla Grill. The roof was redone in brown around this time.

Alfred T. Hornback's

Picture from author, May 2014
For many years (at least since the early 1990s), Alfred T. Hornback's was located in Eastgate at 120 Walton Drive and featured a large floor with pool tables and country music. Eastgate was not a huge draw like Northgate was and it closed permanently in summer 2011 though remained open for special events a few years following. It's currently occupied by DC, Inc., after DC (Dixie Chicken, not DC Comics) moved out of the building that later contained Blackwater Draw Brewing Company. There's also a small professional office (122 Walton) that has dental offices (Dr. Dwight Hirsch and Dr. Monica Brown as of this writing). The building was built in 1967 as the Eastgate location of Ralph's Pizza, which it would be until 1973. In 1980, it was the home of Texas Moon Tavern, which featured steak, burgers, and beer, and while it had a different address for some reason (124 Walton) it had the same facade. The only mention of this restaurant on the entire Internet comes from this page though there's another ad for it I found. It was also the home of an even older bar called Sparky's, which is talked about more than Texas Moon Tavern. A comment from one Jim Gates on the old Eastgate page mentioned this about Sparky's: "A bar with a blacked out room lit by - you guessed it - black lights and painted in fluorescent paint graffiti. There were also two neon snow flake looking things on a tall pole overhead that flashed back and forth."

UPDATE 09-17-2021: Added mention of Ralph's Pizza to the article. Removed old Editor's Note.

Layne's of College Station, Eastgate

Picture from author, May 2014. Note the former Sully's in the background.

Built in 1962 and home to Wilson Plumbing Company for many years, Layne's of College Station has been in operation at 106 Walton since 1994, serving little more than fried chicken strips, Texas Toast, and a spicy mustard-based dipping sauce. It is similar to the Raising Cane's chain, though actually predated the chain by two years, but unlike the 400+ locations of Raising Cane's, Layne's just has three, the original, Southwest Crossing in 2006, and a third location near Caprock Crossing opened in October 2015. (This post is split from this one).

It should be noted that Brazos CAD says the building was built in 1962, but Wilson's website suggests that they have been at Eastgate since 1945. It's entirely possible that they moved or rebuilt once while in Eastgate.

UPDATE 04-08-2025: Sadly, while Layne's still looks like that on the exterior, it has sold out—bigger menu, more locations, and drastically more expensive.

1501 Texas Avenue

It appears that the doors out front were sealed later.
Built in 1980 as a bank office building, today this building houses offices for Texas A&M University. A 1998 directory lists it having the Texas A&M Foundation and offices for "United Bank College Station". I'm also told this had a branch of Aggieland Credit Union before that branch moved to Southwest Parkway around that time. Picture was taken in February 2019 as I had no previous picture for it before.

Shiraz Shish Kabob

Picture taken January 2017, I had been holding onto this for over two years!
When I added this post in February 2019 (which itself got transplanted to a new post following a reorganization of the website at that time), I didn't have the resources I do now. This restaurant started out as a rather typical (for the time) Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant as what those restaurants looked like at the time. (It also had the address of 100 Dominik Drive before changing to 110 Dominik Drive a few years later, which it still is today. In late 1986 it closed and moved to Park Place Plaza where it still business as KFC (after a few remodels) and is currently engaged in an ongoing war with the Popeyes catty-corner to it.

In 1987, Quick as a Flash, a photo studio, moved here from Post Oak Mall. Ritz Camera eventually bought it to become "Ritz Portrait Studio" or "Ritz One Hour Photo" (not to be confused with the main Ritz Camera store, which later moved in across the street) and it eventually closed in the mid-2000s. For a very brief time in 2007, this was "The Pump". One of the old comments erroneously referred to it as "The Filling Station" but described it as such:

It specialized in fried everything. They were quite good if you could exist on fried everything. Chicken, chicken fried steak, fried livers and gizzards. They also baked beautifully decorated Christmas cookies. Interesting place.

By fall of 2008, the restaurant was being renovated into its current tenant, Shiraz Shish Kabob, which opened in December of that year. While the heavy lifting was done by The Pump in restoring the building back to restaurant use (I'm guessing that when it became a portrait studio, connections required for food service were simply covered up rather than removed entirely), Shiraz added a fountain to the main dining area for ambience (though it made the restaurant a bit humid). I'm guessing that when it became a portrait studio, connections required for food service were simply covered up rather than removed entirely.

UPDATE 02-27-2023: Complete rewrite done.

Gumby's Pizza, Dominik Drive

This was taken sometime in January of this year, when I did the Whataburger re-post.

107 Dominik Drive was built in 1976 as a College Station branch of Pepe's Mexican Food but became a branch of Gumby's sometime in 1997 (The old Gumby's was next to Sweet Eugene's, the parking lot bumpers still mention Gumby's despite moving twenty years prior).

The history behind the Gumby's pizza chain is murky, the website for the chain gives no clue of its founding and I can only guess it was licensed from the decades-old children's TV show many years ago and allowed to fester and grow into its own identity to present a pizza chain more common for the college crowd. Even in the 1980s, there was a pizza known as the "Gumby Dammit". The website also features classic Gumby videos, which are bizarre in their own right, and almost feels like something they'd show on Adult Swim, as it gets even weirder when you're sleep deprived or otherwise under the influence.

It's the pizza chain that's very rare (less than a dozen locations, all near colleges). It's the one where you can get a pizza delivered at 1:15 in the morning (they stop at 2) and sells pizzas like the Stoner Pie, which includes mozzarella sticks, french fries, pepperoni, and sausage. It's also a place that can get away with having a non-lit sign and choosing instead to string Christmas lights around the non-functional signage.

I've eaten at Gumby's a few times and it's, well, it's not very good and if I was in the area (which I was a few years ago) I would probably go to DoubleDave's. The drama around Gumby's got interesting a few years back when they opened up a location in Wellborn called Black Sheep Pizza, which featured a different logo but still the same menu (and presumably the same recipe). The way I understand it is Gumby's was sold among different partners, and Black Sheep Pizza (renamed GranDandy's Pizza & Meals after a trademark dispute) spun off completely, with a clause that Gumby's could buy them back, which they did after GranDandy's became a moderate success, leading the owner to build Howdy's Pizza (long story...) with the modified recipes and menu.

UPDATE 02-24-2019: In October 2018, Gumby's moved to the former Wolfies location at Post Oak Square so that Whataburger could expand and rebuild.
UPDATE 02-26-2023: Since this post was written, Whataburger still hasn't done anything with the property, so it, the old gas station site, and the Gumby's are still as they've been. Howdy's Pizza unfortunately fell through and the restaurant that eventually opened in Caprock Crossing wasn't even the same restaurant. Gumby's has been here since approximately 1997, Pepe's was here from 1976 to 1994. The post has been amended to reflect that, while changes "(still in the works)" to "(long story...)".
UPDATE 01-15-2025: Sometime around 2024 Gumby's was finally demolished but Whataburger still drags its feet. Tags updated including changing [1980s] to [1970s].

Walton Shopping Center

Some of Eastgate's tenants. (May 2014, picture by author). Years ago I had a blog post that was titled "Random Eastgate Thoughts" (later retitled as just "Eastgate") that was a large, unfocused post that told of some of the buildings at Walton and Texas Avenue, but also some of the neighborhood around it going up to Thomas Pool (RIP). In the interest of metrics I decided to permanently remove the older post and focus on this post, which used to solely focus on 109 Walton, rather than the strip around it, which was built around the 1950s with some later additions in the 1970s.

I should preface this with a note that the addresses found are very, very spotty and addresses don't necessarily run sequentially at the same time. So some of where things should be can be inaccurate.

All the tenants here have a Walton Drive address (I lived on Walton Drive once with roommates during my college years, though it's been demolished...it won't be getting a post). Despite the age of the center, the oldest reference I can find for 107 Walton is The Guitar Shop¹ in 1990. (105 Walton, of course, is Military Depot). References are spotty prior to 2000, I can find a few businesses that may have operated here (a Catholic bookstore may have operated here in 2000, but if it did it was only for a few months, and there was a tuxedo rental shop just prior to that). But the most reliable stuff I have for this address only starts in the early 2000s when Valley Cyclery (with its capital-Bauhaus font) moved here from 3122 Texas Avenue South before closing permanently around late 2003. In 2004 it was replaced with vintage clothing store Left-Handed Monkey but that only operated for less than a year before becoming Blissful Wishes Bridal (closed 2008) before becoming Textbook Solutions for another decade, and between 2018 and 2022 Textbook Solutions closed and became a larger location of TooTer's Vape Shop, which relocated from 113 Walton.

Primo Pizza in better days, September 2013
Moving onto 109 has more information behind it. The first hit for this address is 1952 as "Battle's Plumbing and Sheet Metal Shop. In 1955 it was Venetian Blind Factory (not actually a production facility, but custom-made blinds and repairs of existing ones) until it moved in 1958 to 3506 S. Texas Avenue in Bryan ("We Are Next Door to Orr's). In June 1959 a Greyhound terminal was established there as a depot for a few years. In 1961 it was the Red Star Cafe, then a few years after that became University Flowers (they didn't immediately move out to their current home and I have yet to find if it's even the same business)...by 1971 it was the East Gate Lounge, then a nightclub called "The College Station, then a second location of The Peanut Gallery², then Murphey's (which closed in the early 1980s but reopened under new management) before giving way in the mid-1980s to Eastgate Live, which opened in 1986. By 1989 it was The Guitar Shop, then Partners Food Delivery by 1990. (I'm guessing that around this time the storefront was divided to the previously-unused 107). Partners operated for a number of years (food delivery outside of pizza was generally rare, and would be for another few decades). A dining guide from 1999 mentions it specialized in stuffed baked potatoes but also offered hamburgers, salads, and sandwiches. It moved in 2000 and was replaced by "Wing Zone" (still there in 2005) before giving way to Leaning Tower Pizza in 2008. I remember that Leaning Tower used a blend of cheeses for its cheese pizza but was particularly greasy (a bit of an acquired taste) and rather grimy for a College Station restaurant, but I didn't mind because that's why you have pizza...hot enough to kill any dubious bacteria. It had some garden furniture for an "eat-in" area and had "free delivery" that had a significant discount if you picked it up in store, which means it wasn't actually free at all. For whatever reason, Leaning Tower closed in May 2013. Local restaurateur Charles Stover, bought the store, along with recipes and equipment, promising to reopen with a new name and theme. Unfortunately, a wrong turn was taken from the start and the resulting restaurant, Primo Pizza & Rolls, opened with "gourmet" takeout pizza, stuff that included pesto on every slice (this opened in late summer 2013). Unfortunately, gourmet takeout pizza without an eat-in area wasn't something the market could handle (especially located in a neighborhood that was largely populated by college students and minorities) and in about six months it was gone (the way it was worded in February 2014 indicated that the closure was temporary but by May it was gutted). I did get Primo Pizza's webpage, archived in PNG form before it disappeared. (Also some photos from May 2014, Gutted PP, May 2014. This is where the counter and menu were. The kitchen was behind that wall. This configuration was intact for both LTP and PP&R. While an Eastgate pizza place was no more than a memory, it did have one more tenant afterwards that opened by fall, La Gabriella, a pastry and coffee shop.³ This was one of my favorite places in my neighborhood when I lived on Eastgate, cinnamon rolls for breakfast if I was running late for school, decent coffee and espresso, and even (though I don't know about it today), a selection of used video games (from her husband) for sale, where I bought Pikmin and I believe Metroid Prime. I haven't made much progress in either, though. They're still on the backlog!⁴

111 Walton is another one I don't have much on. In 2000 it was the old location of Blissful Wishes, then in 2001 became Eastgate Barber Shop, with four stylists, two of which came from other shops. By 2005 it was known as Eastgate Hair Shop for Men, and is currently (since 2024) "Main Street Barbershop".



This concept art was from the mid-1990s that showed a new arrangement of the intersection but the tenants are accurate for the time. 113 Walton's first tenant in 1951 was "Beall Floor Covering Company" and then became, in 1954, Battle Plumbing Company (moved from 109). In 1957 it was Manning Smith (an office of Insurance Company of North America back when they did home insurance), then Redmond Real Estate, then not much until an outlet of Daylight Donuts in 1991,⁵ which became a franchise for Southern Maid Donuts by 1996 and after that classifieds start appearing for Partners.⁶ References to Partners end around late 2004 (last mention was a restaurant report card from January 2005, but Partners would've closed by then). Occupying both spaces makes sense if there wasn't a reference for Wing Zone until fall 2005. In any case, "113A" was Russell's Aggieland Boots in spring 2006. By spring 2012, it was the recently relocated Oasis Pipes & Tobacco. It used to be on University Drive before that whole strip was demolished for the Northpoint Crossing development. When checked out 113 in 2014, there was some baking equipment inside the space. By 2016 it was TooTer's Vape Shop, by 2022 they moved to 109 Walton; as of 2025 a Farmers Insurance office occupies the space.

References to 115 Walton could only be found in the 1950s as Redmond Real Estate, leading me to believe that 113 and 115 were the same physical tenant. By the late 1950s it was Dishman Real Estate, which continued into the 1960s, by 1970 it was known as Seaback Homes Incorporated. No other references appear after that date.

There doesn't seem to be any references for 117 Walton, but 119 Walton's oldest reference is Denco Photo & Camera in 1980 (guessing one of the newer buildings in the strip). By 1986 it was yet another address used for Partners Food Delivery according to classifieds, indicating they might've used all three of the spaces simultaneously, though I can't Partners using this address after 1997. As of 2012 this was a piercing studio called "To The Point" (and before that it was the old home of Textbook Solutions), though by 2017 it was absorbed by Aggieland Apartment Finders next door (at 123 Walton).

121 and 123 Walton appear to be the same, the first reference for 121 was Culpepper Realty in 1951, however, this is complicated by the fact that in 1960 this end of the shopping center did not exist (wasn't built yet) and no other building was on the site, indicating the "old" 121 was west of here. Other hits for this address are Three-C Construction Company Inc. (1975), Executive Secretarial Service (1979), under that company they became Executive Temporaries in 1980, then Executive Employment Consultants⁷sup>. After 1990, there's no more results until Advanced Cellular Aggieland (1998)...yet Executive Travel appeared again in 2001 with the same address! After that, references for 121 Walton end, with 123 being used for Executive Travel until 2004. It was Apartment Aggieland Finders by 2007. That has been the case since, though the block of stores from the barbershop to the apartment finding agency was upgraded from a cedar shake roof to a metal roof around 2024.

Another Eastgate shot from 2014, this one showing the ones to the east.

1. The Guitar Shop also used 109 Walton as the address.
2. All this rapid turnover means I'm almost certainly missing something.
3. Originally named "My Daily Bread Bakery" until 2017. 4. A sizable portion of Carbon-izer.com is dedicated to video games with the games section being renamed as "Exor's Dungeon", named after an enemy from Super Mario RPG. If you would like to visit that site, click here. Also as far as video games and my other projects go, there's also Yoot Tower Guides.
5. I'm suspecting I'm missing small offices over the years.
6. Given how both appear simultaneously, I'm guessing Partners occupied multiple non-adjacent spaces, but I don't know.
7. Additionally, "Executive Travel" was operated out of the same location.
UPDATE 01-27-2026: Extensive update that transformed the Primo Pizza page into a full Eastgate page, integrating from the other older Eastgate post. Many of the original content of the Primo Pizza page has been left intact. New tags were added.

Former Mobil, Texas and Lincoln

The former Mobil rides again.
Located next to a Century 21 office (which still does not have a picture or entry on this site), this (901 Texas Avenue South) was a Mobil for years (at least back to 1980, which is when I have phone books...and the building dates back to 1959 according to BCAD) but closed in 2004 (to the best of my memory) and was converted to Stratta Auto Repair a few years later before it abruptly closed in the early 2010s. I never released these pictures because the direct sunlight tended to mess them up, but here they are.
Looking at the garage, September 2013. Sorry my thumb partially obscures the shot. It was bright!
Another view, September 2013. I think that chimney is from another building which I believe may be part of the same complex. I remember the name of the business was written on the side wall facing Lincoln, but I'll have to do more research into it.
The pumps are still intact, September 2013. What a time warp!
Mobil signs, September 2013. A lone shadow looks in.
September 2013.
September 2013.

About a year later, noticing the activity at the site, I returned to take a few more pictures. Sadly, inquiring within about the Mobil signs had no positive response--the signs were gone, likely disposed. A FabricCare appeared to be going in the garage area next to a tobacco store (collectively, "Aggie Stop"). Here's some more pictures from Sept. 2014.

Wow, this thing still lights up!.
Another pump that lights up.
More lights.

Shortly after making this post in mid-September 2014, the renovations were completed at this location. A sign replaced the long-empty Mobil that read, "The College Station" with "Discount Tobacco" written under it. Based on photos from others, it appeared that the FabricCare (now departed) was a "store-within-a-store" operation and not actually a tenant.

At the time, I lived in Eastgate, just a quarter mile away. I liked the fact that they made efforts to make this look very similar to the Mobil that was once here, but for a while I actually believed that it was only made to look like a functional gas station and not a real one, given that they had custom numbers for the gas station and not the electronic ones (every passing year more and more Shell and Exxon stations would add it). I should've noticed that the prices were indeed changing with the market, and what ended up happening is that during late summer of next year, a Valero banner was placed over the sign. It really took me off guard, because not only was Valero buying essentially a dated gas station (the pumps were updated, they were not mock-ups, but the station hadn't seen a lot of updates over the years), but it was real the whole time! I felt a bit stupid for having thought so (plus "The College Station", the name, was a decent enough pun, though the "Discount Tobacco" threw me off) but the likelihood of reopening a closed-down half-century-old gas station that hadn't operated as such for a decade was so unusual I dismissed the possibility.

Sadly, Valero upgraded the prices to digital numbers, ending the unique features of the gas station and making it just like Valero took up operation in a dated and dying gas station.

UPDATE 11-6-2020 - Minor clarifications. Previously updated July 2020 with new post name and integrated updates.

Former Kerri's Stacked Enchiladas

Kerri's in better days. Sorry for the terrible scan and image quality, but this is what I have.

Where Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers sits today replaced the original 1045 Texas Avenue South building, and I've attached a picture of the last restaurant to operate it, Kerri's Stacked Enchiladas.

Built as a branch of the defunct Sambo's chain (which had over 1000 in 47 states at its peak), the restaurant originally opened March 1974, replacing empty land. But in the early 1980s, Sambo's imploded. With mounting criticism from its name and theme by politically correct groups and problems stemming from a massive expansion, it filed for bankruptcy in 1982 and closed by 1983 (but not before renaming it to "Season's" in late 1982 as many stores did) remaining vacant until Wings 'n Things opened in 1988 (a franchise out of Houston). I don't know much of the details but apparently, something happened and Wings 'n Things (that is, the College Station location) became Wings 'n More, but I'm not sure exactly how the breakup worked because Wings 'n More later franchised stores in Houston (ultimately renamed to BreWingz, except for one location on North Freeway).


In January 2003, this location of Wings 'N More moved out to a modern location at University Drive East and Highway 6, where it remains today, but it wouldn't remain closed for much longer. In 2003, a new local restaurant replaced it, Kerri's Stacked Enchiladas. Despite a strong start, including winning Best New Restaurant in Best of the Brazos 2003 and Best Southwest Texas Cuisine a year later, it folded by 2005. Kerri's made no changes to the outside of the old Wings 'N More, and from what I've heard, not much to the inside, either (except adding some new Aggie memorabilia).

Despite the advertising, I believe Kerri's wasn't nearly as racy as this ad suggests. (Battalion ad 1/20/2004)
Open from 11am to "late", this is what the Dining Guide of 2004 had to say on the matter. Keep in mind that since I haven't heard great things about Kerri's in retrospect and this was written by the restaurant, chances are high that parts of this paragraph are blatant lies (already I see that they must have forgotten Kokopelli's, and the full paragraph is as follows:

The Brazos Valley's first Southwest restaurant has already been recognized among the very best restaurants in the entire Brazos Valley! Our unique stacked enchiladas are made fresh from scratch daily --topped with the freshest produce in town! At Kerri’s we also boast the best Fajita Stacks in town and offer a diverse menu sure to please everyone, from healthy choices like veggie quesadillas, veggie stacked enchiladas, stack house salads to main stay favorites such as ribeye steaks, chicken fried chicken, southwest lasagna, burgers and much much more. The desserts alone are worth the trip to Kerri’s. We have catered many special area events such as weddings, receptions, concerts, business luncheons and dinners, numerous city council meetings and an array of late night party events. Consider Kerri’s for all of you catering needs -- we will deliver to the location of your choice, or reserve our spacious dining and stage area or huge outdoor patio. Kerri’s has the freshest food in town at the most reasonable price. Go see for yourself why Kerri’s was voted Best New Restaurant in the Brazos Valley! While you’re here relax and enjoy our full service bar and ask your server how to get a
"soon to be famous"

All that disappeared by 2005 when Kerri's closed down. After the restaurant closed, someone made some sort of bizarre Pac-Man graffiti on the roof, with (illegible) names next to Pac-Man and the ghost. I'm not sure what they meant, but with the highly visible graffiti, a nearby dead Mobil (which closed in about 2004), and the closed Texaco down from it, by mid-2005 it contributed to a feeling that the stretch from University to George Bush just started feeling really run-down.

By January of 2006 (according to TexAgs archives, and sounds right in my memory), the building was torn down and a Raising Cane's was put in its place by summer, opening June 2006. You can see a picture of the building here that I took in May 2014.

UPDATE 07-20-2025: Part of this post was rewritten. A Battalion link died and was not able to be replaced, references to Tales of Defunct Restaurants II were removed, Season's reference added, actual Kerri's Stacked Enchilada ad was added with the full logo instead of just talking about it, other links changed, and Raising Cane's no longer puts the store opening. The title was also renamed to "Former Kerri's Stacked Enchiladas" and [Texas Avenue] was added as a post label.

Blue Baker Dominik

Taken January 2017 by author.

201 Dominik Drive started out as a franchisee of Danver's, a restaurant chain out of Tennessee and while it lasted a few years longer than the other Texas locations (this one operating from 1978 to 1985), it still didn't last a decade despite extensive advertising.

Unknown source, but has much of its menu--burgers, roast beef sandwiches, and more!
From 1987 to around 1993 it was a location of (what was then) Texas Aggie Bookstore when it briefly had expanded outside of its Northgate home. From 1994 to 1996 it was Brazos Brewing Company, which unfortunately didn't too long due to the restrictive laws on Texas brewpubs at the time.

Taken from the Facebook group from the late New Republic Brewing Company (who knows how long it will stay up?); the coasters were adorned with an image of wheat and hops.
In 1998, it became the new home of Brazos Blue Ribbon Bakery, which opened in 1998 but was locked out in 1999 for tax evasion. Luckily, their baking equipment did not go to waste, a new company, Blue Baker opened in May 2001.

Blue Baker went onto open several more locations (a location off of University Drive East opened in 2007), and two more locations opened elsewhere (Highway 40 and Austin, though the latter folded by 2022). Around 2018, an entrance opened up from George Bush Drive East, allowing direct access that way (but not an exit out).

I actually have a menu from 2002, with prices and items similar to the original 2001 mix (clearly they've gone up...), but I have yet to scan it.
UPDATE 01-13-2025: While this was extensively rewritten in 2019 to re-focus on Blue Baker after several rewrites and spinoffs (it originally was titled "Dominik Road: Of Beer and Sandwiches" and covered several properties) it was again rewritten once more with some new dates and other features.