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This home by Wylie Vale, located at 5650 Meadow Lake Ln. in Houston, is scheduled to be demolished very soon. The home was built in 1953 and was 2,347 Sq Ft, with 3 bedrooms and 2 baths.

Thank you Devonhart for posting that clip. Brought back memories. In the early 1980s, friends and I (all students from Rice University) used to go see films at this theater. It had expanded to six screens and was renamed The Shamrock Six, although the theater was already going to seed by that time and so people nicknamed it "The Sham-schlock Six" and later "The Armpit Six" because the facility got so run-down. I remember seeing the bad film "Supergirl" there in 1984 in a nearly empty theater (with a couple of groups of kids talking loudly in the back rows). The theater was in awful shape. One of my more horrible movie-going experiences.

I was reading a HAIF forum thread about Westbury Square and one the first page, a HAIF member named "Stu" posted an aerial shot of the Meyerland area in 1960 that showed the Meyer Speedway under construction. The photo's description by "Stu" read: Here is a 1960 photo that MK made reference to in an earlier post of his about the location of an old airfield in Westbury. This came from a website about old air fields in the Houston area. This is of an area of Westbury South, where I bought my first house in 1961. You're looking south in the picture with South Main (Hwy 90A) running east-west across the top. Chimney Rock is the north-south street to the far left. Landsdowne (street my house was on) is the next street to the right running parallel to Chimney Rock. That's Meyer Speedway under construction at the top. W. Airport is in the middle of the photo, starting at the little curve in Chimney Rock. No Hillcroft yet.

There used to be a Weingarten's located at 1500 Richmond Ave. (see photo above). The Menil Collection purchased the property and kept the outer shell of the original Weingarten's store (which had a lot of nice decorative motifs along the top of the building), and remodeled the property into the Dan Flavin Installation at Richmond Hall. Here's a short history of the building: http://www.hamiltonshirts.com/blog/2010/06/28/dan-flavin You can see interior shots of the Flavin artworks (made of colored lights) here: http://menil.org/visit/flavin.php