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I'm glad to hear that this was just a case of technology doing what it does best. 👍 The older I get, the more I begin to think that technology is more of a pain than it's worth sometimes.

Hey y'all 👋 I noticed that https://www.arch-ive.org/archive hasn't been working for about a week or so now. It could have been longer, but that's just when I took notice. It also seems like the owner, sevfiv, hasn't signed onto HAIF since July 2020. 🙁 Does anyone know if he/she are okay? I just wanted to see if anyone here has heard from them.

While researching some things in Houston, I stumbled upon this awesome website called "Houston Time Portal." I'm sure every one in this forum has seen and admired (and maybe even collect) those beautiful hand drawn postcards depicting various parts of Houston in the old days. Well, this site is not only filled with them, but each one has a present-day view of the same area in the post card. As if that weren't amazing enough, the creator of the website has a great collection of mailed historic postcards, and he or she went through the trouble to translate the message and give a backstory of the sender and recipient. I'm not sure who created this site, since I couldn't find a name on it, but if you're on this forum, you've done an amazing job with this collection of postcards and I truly appreciate you taking the time out to do this. I've been looking at this site for about 30 minutes now, and just had to share it. I figured if anyone were a sucker for then and now shots and just great historic content in general (like i am), they'd probably be on this forum. I'm sure someone may already have this saved in their bookmarks, but for those of you who don't, I figured I'd share. I hope you enjoy it as much as I am! 😃

No, i'm already aware of that one, where pershing middle school is now. i'm just an idiot and legitimately thought that drainage ditch was a race track. it was the aerial view that fooled me. :/

....aaaaaand now that i the street view from right in front of it, i can now see it's definitely just a ditch. Oh man, what a first post fail. @de la rosa, yep! i post on r/houston quite a bit. but don't worry, what i say on r/houston will stay on r/houston. this is not reddit. thanks for the welcome. i've already bookmarked so many historical places to check out around town.

Does anyone know what this used to be? By the way, hi everyone! This is my first post, so i hope i'm doing everything by the rules. I'm a history nut (Anthropology major with a focus in classical archaeology) and have spent the past day lurking through the entire Historical Houston section of the forums. I'm about halfway through all of the posts, and while checking out the Old Main Loop, noticed this racetrack looking formation off of Buffalo Speedway. I figured i'd ask you guys and pick your brains about it. I look forward to learning as much as i can about this awesome city from y'all!!