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    When you sell your house you are required to disclose if anyone died in the residence. You are also required to disclose if a ghost resides in the house. I doubt if most people admit to a death in the house. I'm pretty sure I would admit to the ghost part.
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    I remember when Sakowitz closed the downtown store and consolidated to the Galleria location. I was a kid and worked to help move the phone system. We got to rumage through what was left downtown. My parents still have a set of silver flatware used in the restaurant. One of my chores was to crawl through the 30 foot ceiling and drop telephone lines to the cashier stations below.
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    I made some phone calls. You are right Eldridge Parkway was built on top of the old Addicks-Fairbanks Road. The area to the east was a temporary re-alignment used during construction. As a side note...historicaerials.com has some nice aerials of Addicks-Fairbanks Road back to 1957.
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    Actually the old alignment of Addicks-Fairbanks Road is only a few yards to the east of Eldridge Parkway. Check out my page on the subject http://www.texasfreeway.com/Houston/historic/abandoned/Addicks-Fairbanks/images/Houston-Addicks-Fairbanks-Abandoned.html Ron
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    TX-6 from I-10 to US-290 was FM-1960. For the most part FM-359 from US-90A to Hempstead was TX-6. (Info verified by TxDOT highway designation database)
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    I found a photo in the Life photos in Google images which appears to show the turn of the spur to Rice. U. http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f?q=HOUSTON+source:life&prev=/images%3Fq%3DHOUSTON%2Bsource:life%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Dactive&imgurl=7636d355e3c3a176
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    I came across a couple of photos title "Hermann Park Reservior" while on a photo hunt. Has anyone heard of it and have any more info? Here is a link to the page. http://www.houstonarchitecture.com/Building/2779/Hermann_Park_Reservoir.php
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    German Church in Addicks I read in the Chronicle a while back that this church will be torn down by developers. What a shame.
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    Here are some photos of the old home place taken back in January of 2004. http://www.texasfreeway.com/stock/MeyerHomePlace/
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    We have plenty of other places to build on. How about tear down Meyerpark and put up a complex.
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    We don't all share that opinion. I enjoyed walking around the old property. I would to see it become a natural park.
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    You are close. It is across Braes Bayou from the old Fluor building (now Aramco/condos). It's bordered by Braes Bayou on the north, IH-610 on the west and south, and Willow Bayou on the east. The garage was still standing until the early '80's. If you want to visit the original two gates face the west bound frontage road of IH-610.
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    I have explorer and photographed the property. The foundation of the house and garage are still there. the house was roughly the same shape as the old Astrohall. The was(is) a fish pond out side the front door (south side of the old house). The old pond mainly grows weeds, but is still full of water. The driveway still circles around through the property. The shower of the main bath had the old baby poop yellow tile on the foundation. I plan to add a small section on TF on the property, because of its relation to IH-610. I will pull some of the photos from storage disk and post them.
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    If you check out Google Earth or Maps you can still see the oval at the southeast corner of S. Main and Hillcroft.
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    Not all of the City of Houston falls within Harris County.
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    Here is something to scramble your noodles... I got on the website for the Harris County Appraisal District to check out their plat maps. WOW!!! 1. Most of OMS still exists "Officially". 2. It did extend east past the railroad tracks thriough the utility easement 3. The streets mentioned by Kevin were for a subdivision never built, but is still platted. 4. It still goes COMPLETELY through the Dome parking lot. 5. Rice University owns some of the land were OMS and S. Main intersect. I have created a composite of the different maps. WARNING: LARGE FILE SIZES. http://www.texasfreeway.com/stock/HCAD-OMS.jpg (5MB) http://www.texasfreeway.com/stock/HCAD-OMS.pdf (33MB)
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    Yes. I read on the net somewhere that the street "Stella Link" was named so because it was the most convienent route to Stella Junction. The article talked like Stella Junction was a bigger deal back then.
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    This cutting from a 1950 Houston Street Map sheds a little more light on the history of Old Main Street. Note how OMS crossed the railroad tracks and continued for a short destance before turning south. The heavy red line is the current Main Street. What you can't see on the portion is that on this map Main Street is cosigned as US90 and US59. So it appear the ORIGINAL Main Street took you out across the tracks, turned south, then crosses over the tracks again. I would hate to have been on the section between the tracks if a train had to stop. It may be one reason the current Main Street takes its current turn to the south. This clip from a 1962 Harris County map shows the end of OMS truncated at the tracks, but also shows more development to the southeast. Here are a few of my photos on OMS. The first is looking southwest, at the current end of OMS. Notice how the lines keep going straight across the tracks. There is also paving all the way up to the tracks, most of it overgrown. This second image is just across the tracks. You can still the original road through the grass. I was even able to see some striping before getting chased off by the horses.
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    During the 70's, 80's & early 90's the lot at the southwest end of Old Main was used by a pipe fabricator/supplier. The several roads you see in the sat photo are the service roads used in the pipe yard. If you look closely in the sat photo you can see a faint section of Old Main in the utility easement. I checked it out a few years ago and was able to see roadbed with traces of center strips in this short section. From what I have able to tell Old Main in its earliest form crossed the north/south tracks, continued for a short ways before turning to parallel the tracks which follow the currect South Main Street. It then stopped and you crossed the tracks again to follow the current alignment. I am still gathering evidence to support this idea. I have several Astrodome construction photos in which Old Main can clearly be seen cutting through the parking lot. One of my upcoming additions to TF is a photo essay on Old Main Street. Ron Jackson TexasFreeway.com
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