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Article: Tour Guide Shares Her Knowledge of Houston.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- January 30, 2003
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Houston Chronicle Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jan. 30--With the skills of a responsible race car driver, Faye Sooppan nimbly maneuvers her gigantic tour bus along Allen Parkway as if it were a high-performance Maserati.
"See those gates?" she says taking Kirby Drive into River Oaks. "Those are the gates of paradise."
Cruising the streets of Houston's most exclusive neighborhood, she shares gossip about the mansions, the people who live in them -- and her own 38 years as an informal expert on the city of Houston. Hollywood has tours of movie stars' homes, but Houston also has its share of larger-than-life characters -- and there's ...