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Ronald Clark O'Bryan's Home At 500 West Pasadena Blvd.
gonzo1976 replied to enviromain's topic in Historic Houston
I once interviewed a TDCJ inmate who was in prison for murder. He was taken in about the same time Ronald Clark O'Bryan was arrested (or sent to prison, I can't remember). Either way, he knew him back in the '70s. He said O'Bryan was often a victim of beatings at the hands of other prisoners. Inmates don't take too kindly to crimes committed against kids and women, from what I was told. -
Same here. To add more confusion to the matter, my 1939 Chamber of Commerce map has Airline ending at North Main. Fulton turns into East Montgomery near Moody Park and continues north from there.
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This makes me wonder if anyone has ever put together a map showing the evolution of AISD's boundaries.
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I think we've come full circle!
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Ugh. Another parking lot.
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From the link: Save Mount Houston Campaign We need to put this up there with the Save the River Oaks campaign.
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That screwy 1964 map of mine lists the road now located at West Mt. Houston and I-45 as Westbrook. I guess West Mount Houston was named as an extension of Mount Houston road.
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Yep. Here's the entry from the Handbook of Texas: Howellville, south of Brays Bayou near the Fort Bend county line and ten miles southwest of Houston in southwestern Harris County, began as a station on the Texas and New Orleans Railroad. It was named for T. E. Howell, owner of the townsite. It shows up on my 1953 map of Houston. As for Dairy Ashford, the road at that time must have run from U.S. 90 to Beeler Road (Westheimer). The Handbook of Texas reports that Ashford (along with Thompson Switch) is another name for Satsuma. Also, now that I remember this, there was an effort to have the I-45/Dyna, West Road area designated as part of the Texas Independence Trail. I don't know what came of it, but apparently some fighters traveled through the area en route to San Jacinto. In fact, there's a mural on the side of a building (if it hasn't been ruined by graffitti) on Airline Road in that area that depicts Texas independence. It's been a few years since I've seen it, but I think that's what it depicted. I know it was tied to the supposed link to Texas independence.
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When I was in elementary school back in the 1980s, we had a section on Aldine/Texas history. We were given these blue books that described the various areas of the state, etc. I remember the book said the name Aldine may have come from the trains that used to stop in the area. The conductor would yell "ALL DINE" when the train pulled into the area. From there, the name Aldine came to be. That may not be the truth, but it was taught to us schoolkids!
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Was the district of any help? I'm sure there has to be some district historian at AISD.
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Whoa, they closed the one on Lawndale? I remember going there to eat with my parents before my grandfather's rosary.
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Yeesh, it sure is. Those kids have to go to Klein Forest up on Bammel North Houston, south of Champions! I don't know why AISD never acquired that area near Acres Homes. Looking back, I went to Eisenhower and other AISD schools in the area, and I can't name one person who attended those Klein schools. It's like they were part of another world or something.
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Hah! Stuff like that has taught me to never take a map as the God-honest truth. Even Mapquest has been known to get stuff wrong. I'm sure they would have put more effort into it had they known that! That's probably the first grocery store I can recall going to. I have lots of memories of shopping there, playing video games at the entrance, and going to the Farm and Home Savings across the parking lot. My dad attended North Harris College sometime in the mid-1970s. He said W.W. Thorne would stand outside and greet students coming to class.
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It's a 1964 Texaco street map with credit given to Rand McNally. I picked it up off eBay a few years back. Here's a link to the area you mentioned in the previous post.
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Here's where I picked up the Alamo HS reference. I tried to find some kind of history on the AISD Web site, but I didn't have much luck.
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This was a little before my time, but I looked at a 1964 map of the city and noticed that Aldine HS was once called Alamo HS. When did the change occur? I thought it was always called Aldine HS.
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Nope. I remember the old blimp base. That was way up near Holzwarth, I think. I was finally able to dig out my 1953 street map. It looks like it's where Aldine HS is today.
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Which was the I-45 Drive-In before that. I'm not sure what was there prior to that. I grew up near West Mt. Houston and Steubner Airline, by the way. Actually, I have a 1950s map that shows a tiny airport where Airline reaches U.S. 75 (north of where Aldine HS is today). I've never seen it on any other maps. I'm away from my research materials now, or else I'd provide the name of the airstrip.
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Cinema West Theater At 5341 W. Alabama St.
gonzo1976 replied to icepickphil's topic in Historic Houston
Not sure if it was a chain. In August 1974, the theater was showing the X-rated flick "The Resurrection of Eve" starring Marilyn Chambers. It was located at 5341 West Alabama, between South Rice Avenue and Yorktown Street. -
Haha! Somehow the term "preservation" doesn't quite fit. Sounds more like a six-month time-out to me. Do you know (and maybe I just missed it in all the coverage) if the River Oaks theater has seen an increase in the number of moviegoers since this news broke?
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Here are some more from a 1930 directory: Hadley Fairfax Lehigh Taylor Wayside Capitol Park Place (?) (example: Park Place-23) Valentine
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Can this be a thread of its own to allow more people to see it?
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Yeesh, can that area even support the traffic a shopping center like that would bring?
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From the article: I think, and correct me if I'm wrong, that this is the first time the community has used the Internet to rally around a preservation effort. If true, then that would make this issue unique, compared to other unsuccessful efforts at preservation.
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I guess what happens to the Alabama depends on what happens to the River Oaks Shopping Center. I guess it wouldn't be so far-fetched to think that site plans have already been drawn up.
