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I know the story of that property. This is indeed part of the Beauchamp Springs (pronounced Beechum) tract of 54 acres which Thomas D. Beauchamp purchased from James S. Holman, A.C. Allen and Angus McNeil on June 16, 1838 under a vendor's lien for $1362. Supposedly Beauchamp was shown the large spring in the area by Bidai Indians. Another post in another thread on early suburbs of Houston mentions Beauchamp Springs as an early suburb, but it was actually an early idea for a suburb that never came to fruition. The acutual spring was just to the east of where Houston Avenue is today and right along the banks of the bayou, which was a high bluff in those days. The spring was not around Woodland Park as some have written. It was on the south bank of White Oak Bayou just above (meaning upstream of) the juncture with Little White Oak Bayou. Just below the juncture with Little White Oak Bayou, and on the east side of White Oak was the Riordan Spring. In a nutshell, Thomas D. Beauchamp never paid off his lien and so, when he died the property was auctioned off. Actually, the property wasn't auctioned off until many years after he died, but that's another long story. The man that bought the property at the aministrators sale was one of the little known Allen brothers, Harvey H. Allen. Eventually two families, the Puls and the Bartels families wound up with most of the original Beauchamp Springs tract. Puls had 10 acres and the Bartels eventually wound up with about 35 acres. The land where 1518 Weber is located belonged to the Bartels family. The Puls house was indeed on Weber street, but was not in that block and not built of brick. It was at Sabine and Weber. Both the Puls and Bartels families were farmers and farmed that land. In 1893 the Puls and Bartels families joined together and had the remaining portion of that land that they still owned platted out as the Beauchamp Springs subdivision. The lots where 1518 Weber are located were lots 2 and 11 of block 13 in that plat. The first deed record for that lot was from 1906 when Julia Bartels sold lot 2 (where the brick house is) to William H. Taylor. The deed record more or less said that there were no improvements on the lot. What it actually said was, that if improvements were made on the lot, it was up to the buyer to insure them. Mr. Taylor bought the propety on time and Julia Bartels was the lien holder. Mr. Taylor was a bricklayer and built brick houses by profession. 'Nuff said on that. When Mr. Taylor sold the lot in 1910 (with improvements) he sold to a man named Robert Mellor. Mellor leased lot 11 for several years as a yard and then purchase it from Julia Bartel's son Frederick several years later. That is the story of how those two lots became one.

FedMart was at Griggs and Mykawa and was open during the same time that Globe was. It started out as a membership store and later on was open to everyone. It was a lot like Walmart. There was another FedMart where the Whole Foods is now in the Bellaire Shopping Center. I always thought that FedMart was a few notches up from Globe.

The Home Depot occupies the space of the old Winkler Drive-In Theater, which was on Winkler at Flowers Street. Globe was on Woodridge across from Gulfgate.

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I stand corrected. That's what I get for trusting the web. Great match collection though.

From a history of Luby's: With Bob Luby as president and Charles Johnston as executive vice-president, Luby's entered the Houston market in 1965 with an upscale cafeteria which offered an expanded menu and more expensive food items. Operating under the Romano name, the cafeteria quickly became a huge money-maker. The modern structure with its rich decor served as a model for revamping efforts at existing Luby's and proved a market existed for cafeterias with a very modern style and design. Luby's growth in the Houston market was propelled, in part, by the nation's space program, initiated in the early 1960s, with its mission control headquarters in the area. In subsequent years, the oil industry and its attendant financiers in the banking and financial services industries would fuel the economy further.

I seem to remember having a home version of this contraption, although on a much simpler scale. It came with plastic sheets which were heated and then it used a vacuum to cause the plastic to form over the mold. I don't remember what it was called, but I think as soon as we ran out of the plastic sheets we lost interest.

I remember those pictures and trophies. They had the same thing at Austin. Old photos of guys wearing leather helmets with no face guards. I had an English teacher named Mrs. Harris who was on the third floor NE corner room. She was quite old already and so, was probably gone by the time you got there. She was the teacher that had all of the contents of her desk dumped out the window along with everything else in the class that wasn't bolted down. Mrs. Harris got tired of reading the same stories to her various classes several times a day so she would record them on a reel-to-reel tape recorder and just play the stories back for each class. The only problem was the sound quality on the reel-to-reel was so bad that no one could understand a word of what she was saying on the tape but her. Nobody ever said anything about it though because it was a nice break. I remember one of the stories was "The Ransom of Red Chief" by O. Henry. She would sit there listening with a rapt look on her face, and would occasionally chuckle when she heard the funny parts of the story. I could understand the title and after that it was just a garbled mess of muffled sounds. Another thing I remember about her class is that boys would chew paper into paper mache and then throw the wad at a framed picture of George Washington up in the corner of the room (you know the picture). By the end of the semester the picture would be totally obscured.

Good eye one the sign...I was too busy looking at the building. So if you could find out when they played Cullen in 1970, you would know what day these images were taken. Here is a aerial shot of the Jeppesen Statium area from that time. Bounded by (N) Holman (E) Cullen (S) Wheeler (W) Scott. The entire area was owned by HISD until 1971 when it was sold to U of H. The road that led to Little Jeppesen is now called Cougar Place and the location of the stadium is now student housing. Unfortunately they took down most of the pine trees that you see on the east side of the stadium

Susan...do you know the name of the girl with the pixie haircut?

Anyone remember which rival school wore maroon and white?

This photo gives reference to the location of the stadium by the buildings in the background

Here's a photo of the band from that same football game. Check out the outfit that woman is wearing..the 60s weren't over for her

Thanks....I was just doing research on that very topic...so now I can stop. I couldn't remember if it was called Jeppesen Jr. or what, and so was searching for the answer, but you are right...that's where we played Jackson home games. I played football at Jackson too 10 years before you. I also ran around the Golfcrest Country Club after it closed. We used to go hunting with our pellet rifles over there. I didn't take long for it to go wild.

There may have been a previous Barnett Stadium, but the one on Fairway was opened in 1976. Butler Stadium is way out S. Main Street past Hiram Clark. Delmar Stadium is the one off 290 and Mangum. In reference to one of your previous post, when I first started going to Jackson I rode a yellow school bus to school and Mr. Marcontel was the bus driver. I guess he needed the extra money. The kids on the bus were always mean to him and he had a hard time with taking control. I don't remember the wood shop teacher, but my metal shop teacher was Mr. Morrison. I had Mrs. Law for Texas History and Drama. I had a teacher named Mr. Porter for math. He was very shy and wore thick horn-rimmed Clark Kent type glasses. He would pace back and forth behind his desk during the entire class and had worn off all the varnish on the floor. He used to write little witticisms on the board every day. He spoke so low you could hardly hear him...he was a low talker. Wasn't there another teacher named Camarata?

I was in 10th grade at Austin when those pix were taken. My running buddy Louis Trevino had asked Olga Campos to homecoming so me and another friend of mine went to the Jackson game to see Olga cheerleading. Bonnie Kruse and Kathy Seeber sound right. Donna Phillips sounds familiar, but I don't think I knew her. For homecoming we went to Valian's. It was a fun night, but I don't think Louis and Olga dated much beyond that night. I knew Adrian quite well. He was in the same class as I was. Louis Trevino

Olga Campos Then Olga Campos now

This one shows the woman a bit more:

Jackson Cheerleaders 1970 I think that's Olga Campos on the right Principal Marion B. Skains

I was a bit mischievous in jr. high so I got my share of pops. Me and a friend of mine had a contest to see who could collect the most chalk board erasers. Each of us had a bout 15 of them in our gym bags which got searched while were were lining up in our team rows. Coach Herman called us to his office and when we got there he and Coach Gross had the erasers all in a pile on their desk. He was grinning, but he still gave us swats. I remember those courtyards in the middle of the school, one was cemented in and was used to pass through from one wing to the other, but the other one had plants growing in it and was always closed off. Somebody mentioned throwing things out of the window. I had a teacher once on the third floor who got called to the principals office and, while she was gone some of the mean boys in the class (no...not me) took everything out of her desk and threw it all out the window. All of her papers were blowing down Polk street. I think she about had a nervous breakdown over that. Another thing mean boys used to do was to flush M80 firecrakers or Cherry Bombs down the toilet on the third floor in the boys room...they would travel down to the 2nd floor and then explode in the pipe, sending a geyser of water up onto whoever happened to be sitting in the 2nd floor girls bathroom stall. Coach Herman and Coach Gross

Susan...I think I was just a few years ahead of you at Jackson, but I have a much different memory of it. For me there were plenty of knives and guns and gangs. There were hispanic gangs that we called Pachucos back in '67-68 that used to rob me of my lunch money all the time at knifepoint. I think the Pachuco look was left over from the 40s and 50s and was like the Zoot Suit look without the suit. I knew someone who refused to give up his lunch money and got slashed across the face with a razor for it. There was a large gangfight in either '67 or '68 that we called the Eastwood Park Fight. I knew a guy named Cowboy (don't know what his real name was) that got stabbed in the back with a butcher knife in that fight. I knew more than a few people that brought guns to school on more than one occasion. Coach Herman showed me a box up in the coaches office once that was full of all the switchblades, brass knuckles, pipes, and chains that had been confiscated. There were a few kids at Jackson who's parents were Bandidos and the kids would wear the colors around the school. Maybe things quieted down after you got there. Many people I knew used metal shop to make knives. Drugs were also quite common.

I had a roommate during that time who had a boyfriend that set up the electronics for various touring bands. Her boyfriend was working on the Clash's Combat Rock tour. When his bands came through Houston we could get in free and sometimes hang out with the bands after the shows. The next day the band would usually go to Austin and me and my roommate would take a road trip to see the band again in Austin. The bands always stayed at the same motel on South Congress, but I can't think of the name. It reminded me of the Allen Park Inn in Houston. Anyway. while we were there they were filming the "Rock the Casbah" video and we got to watch them making that video. I think the concert was at the Austin Coliseum. I don't have my tickets anymore to the Clash show, but here's another ticket I have from that time: I thought The Stray Cats show was very good, but after the show we went to some Icehouse down the street when we heard some there were some blues guitarist playing. The blues guitarist were Stevie Ray and Jimmie Vaughn, Joe Ely, and "Little" Charlie Sexton. After listening to that group jam for a few hours, the Stray Cats show didn't seem quite so good anymore.

I found this in one of my boxes of stuff that I never threw away. We are coming up on the 30th anniversary of this show.

I drove past the house on my lunch hour and I didn't see anything at all going on at the Robinson house. In the words of David Byrne it was the "same as it ever was". There was some construction at a house catty-corner across the street.