If you're looking to blow a rainy day exploring Houston's past, check out this web site: http://www.tanasreminisce.com
it's run by new HAIFer Tana, and is full of great old photographs and information about Houston.
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Posted Sunday, November 20, 2011 at 9:09 AM
Great compilation...thanks for sharing!
I loved those fountains at Gulfgate.
Nice car section.
I loved those fountains at Gulfgate.
Nice car section.
In Will Hogg's 1929 City Planning Commission Report, Hare & Hare's advise on adopting a city plan to include zoning & parks, ..."the people of Houston and their officials will have to decide whether they are building a great city or merely a great population."
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Posted Sunday, November 20, 2011 at 11:08 AM
Nice site. I didn't know there was an "Atomic Dinner Club" downtown!
"Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb
like the sun; it shines everywhere"
like the sun; it shines everywhere"
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Posted Sunday, November 20, 2011 at 12:36 PM
Welcome to HAIF, Tana. Loved your site. You've pulled together a lot of stuff from many sources and tied it all together with a nice narrative. I particularly appreciated that you documented your sources; so many people just take what they want from the work of others and ignore giving credit where it's due.
I've added a link to your site to my History Links section.
Here's a little more on that flagpole sitting stunt at Gulfgate in 1957.
I've added a link to your site to my History Links section.
Here's a little more on that flagpole sitting stunt at Gulfgate in 1957.
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Posted Monday, November 21, 2011 at 9:40 AM
I'm glad Tanya is now a member and that she posted her new website. She had previously had her stuff on an old Westbury High School website. I've been meaning to compliment her on her new site ever since she sent me an email about it a few weeks ago. It really is one of the best Houston historical sites. Way to go Tanya. You found the right audience here.
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Posted Monday, November 21, 2011 at 6:21 PM
WOW! Thank you so much for the encouraging comments. And I am very glad that many of you are seeing the site. I really love doing it and love even more hearing from people who have seen it.
It is ongoing. My life's work some days!!!!!
Tana
It is ongoing. My life's work some days!!!!!
Tana
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Posted Monday, November 21, 2011 at 6:27 PM
brucesw, on Sunday, November 20, 2011 at 12:36 PM, said:
Welcome to HAIF, Tana. Loved your site. You've pulled together a lot of stuff from many sources and tied it all together with a nice narrative. I particularly appreciated that you documented your sources; so many people just take what they want from the work of others and ignore giving credit where it's due.
I've added a link to your site to my History Links section.
Here's a little more on that flagpole sitting stunt at Gulfgate in 1957.
I've added a link to your site to my History Links section.
Here's a little more on that flagpole sitting stunt at Gulfgate in 1957.
Thank you very much for the additional info on the flagpole stunt in '57. I already loved your blog, but missed that part I guess.
Tana
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Posted Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 6:20 PM
Great job, Tana. Great to revisit memories of my old hometown. Thanks!
If you see two people and one of them looks bored, then the other one is a politician.
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Posted Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 8:01 PM
I'm so pleased to see the new members, welcome! I've been away a bit, school papers kept me busy.
Such great information on HAIF.
Such great information on HAIF.
In Will Hogg's 1929 City Planning Commission Report, Hare & Hare's advise on adopting a city plan to include zoning & parks, ..."the people of Houston and their officials will have to decide whether they are building a great city or merely a great population."
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Posted Thursday, December 15, 2011 at 9:17 AM
As a longtime, but now former, Houston resident, I also want to thank Tana for putting up such a great website about Houston's history. Her photos really take me back to a time when Houston was a great and fun place to live and work.
Tana: Your website looks very professional, and I think you could create websites for a living, if you're not already doing that.
Those old shots of the Gulf Freeway reminded me of a wonderful E-Book a Houston writer did a few years ago on the history of Houston's Freeways.
It's a well written and very informative story with a multitude of fascinating photos of the city before, during and after the freeway system was constructed. If for no other reason, it's worth checking out just for the photos, because most of us have probably never seen them before. They show what different areas of the city looked like in those days, from the ground and in aerial shots.
Here's a link to that E-book. http://www.houstonfr....com/ebook.aspx
Somewhere down in the chapter on The Loops, you will find a dramatic and terrifying photo of a cloud of ammonia gas rising over the SW Fwy-West Loop interchange, taken only moments after that ammonia truck crashed there back in the 1970s.
Correction: I shouldn't have said "after". There will never be an "after" for Houston freeway construction.
Tana: Your website looks very professional, and I think you could create websites for a living, if you're not already doing that.
Those old shots of the Gulf Freeway reminded me of a wonderful E-Book a Houston writer did a few years ago on the history of Houston's Freeways.
It's a well written and very informative story with a multitude of fascinating photos of the city before, during and after the freeway system was constructed. If for no other reason, it's worth checking out just for the photos, because most of us have probably never seen them before. They show what different areas of the city looked like in those days, from the ground and in aerial shots.
Here's a link to that E-book. http://www.houstonfr....com/ebook.aspx
Somewhere down in the chapter on The Loops, you will find a dramatic and terrifying photo of a cloud of ammonia gas rising over the SW Fwy-West Loop interchange, taken only moments after that ammonia truck crashed there back in the 1970s.
Correction: I shouldn't have said "after". There will never be an "after" for Houston freeway construction.
Edited by FilioScotia, Thursday, December 15, 2011 at 9:43 AM.
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Posted Thursday, December 15, 2011 at 7:55 PM
Just as tree rings are used to estimate the age of a tree, you can use the number of freeway lanes to estimate the age of the nearest neighborhoods.
If you see two people and one of them looks bored, then the other one is a politician.
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Posted Thursday, December 15, 2011 at 7:56 PM
Thanks for sharing, FiloScotia!
If you see two people and one of them looks bored, then the other one is a politician.
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Posted Friday, December 30, 2011 at 7:04 PM
Let me add my thanks to you Tana as well. I too had seen your previous site and very happy to see the new and improved one!
BTW I am also a Westbury grad....1968
BTW I am also a Westbury grad....1968
