Texas Commerce Bank began their several year run, prior to being bought out by Chase in 1987, of hosting a Christmas Snow Festival.
It was the one time of the year you could wear the heaviest coat you owned and not sweat. Lots of us didn't have any waterproof gloves and just bare-handed it.
The truck would pull into the parking lot facing South Belt and the hose guy would get to work spraying it down with ice, which to us Southerners is the closest thing we know of snow. You'd need to be quick scooping up a handful to make into a snow ball before it congealed into a single mass of ice. Those things could hurt if you got hit straight on. Eventually the entire mass would melt into slippery ice that was impenetrable without tools and it would wither away in the warm Houston winter humidity.
Thanks to Michelle (and parents) for snapping a photo of the hose guy!
(Note the TCB sign still says "future home" since the bank was just being finished in 1979.)
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