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1029 Kirby would be the address

The area around W. Cowen, E. Cowen, and Crestwood was the location of the Army Base hospital.

Where did the FBI comment from from? That sounds strange to me seeing how Mr. Hughes was in bed with the CIA on the Glomar Explorer project to raise the sunken Russian submarine.

Norman Baxter picked up the phone book duties when the other artist stopped: "In 1983 the University of Houston campus was featured on the cover of the Southwestern Bell Telephone Yellow Pages. Illustrated by artist Norman Baxter, founding partner of Houston advertising firm Baxter & Korge, the cover is a realistic drawing of campus dotted with whimsical vignettes. There

It's not that unnoticeable and it's easy to find if you know where to look. It used to have more distinguishing features (metal ornamentation), but someone removed that to discourage too many visitors:

I found it interesting that the soldier who took all those photos mentioned, in one of his letters home, catching horned toads in the Memorial Park area. We used to find horned toads when we went dewberry picking in SW Houston in the 60s. I wonder when horned toads disappeared from the Houston area and where is their closest habitant now.

Yes...you are right...I must have received some bad information.

Actually...his name was Norman Baxter

People forget where the water courses used to be with all of the filled in gullies, but when something like Allison happens, the water remembers. Troon Road in River Oaks was originally a deep gully that was landscaped and paved. I imagine Tiel Way was too. I know the houses on Tiel Way flooded during Allison, but I don't know about Troon.

Here is a topo map of the same area a few years later:

The Washington Road used to cross Eureka Junction at street level until the 1930s when they added the underpass. That crossing behind the guy on the tracks is Eureka Junction crossing before the underpass was built. The photo I took shows the same scene, but a track has been added and the place where those warning barricades are in the old photo, are now the top of the bridge of the RR tracks over the underpass. The track on the right is the old Houston & Texas Central (Southern Pacific) which runs along 290. The track on the left, I think, is the MKT track and wasn't added until the turn of the century. That is the link to Stella, or the Stella cutoff, or the Stella Link which runs through Memorial Park. This would be the area marked Eureka Pines on the Camp Logan map. Here is another view of the same location from an automobile's perspective:

Here is a "Then and Now" photo of the area where the soldier is lying on the RR tracks:

I think there are many here that would love to see your photos of Kiddie Wonderland

Here is an article from 1951 on the old Brookline School. I wonder how hard it would be to remove the stuco from the Brookline and Cage Schools and take them back down to red brick:

Filio described it just as my father did, but it was a dangerous job. You had to stand up on a ledge above the pins and, of course, pins went flying and could hit you. Sometimes they splintered and sometimes the jerks bowling would roll the ball while you were still setting the pins

Here is an article on the Milby Mansion. I think this thread is discussing two different mansions. The Milby mansion was on Elm and Broadway and was demolished in 1959. I don't know what the name of this other mansion on Old Galveston was or it's history, but I would like too. I would like to see some photos of that one too. Can we get a do-over on the Milby House demolition?

Here is another shot of the Milby house:

When my dad was growning up one of his first jobs was as a pinsetter in a bowling alley before they had the automatic pin setters. I think the Palace Bowling Lanes either are or were owned by the Houston Turnverein. Can someone verify this?

Here is my working list of restaurants and clubs: Famous Chicken House - Telephone Road Old Munich Inn - Telephone Road Old Hickory Stick - Telephone Road Old Mexico - Gray Foote's Cafeteria - in Bellaire Galli Spaghetti House - Telephone Road Mr. Sirloin - Telephone at 610 Liberty Hall - Red Beans and Rice Valian's - both the restaurant on Main and the pizza place on Shepherd Big Humprey's Pizza - Belfort Italian Beef House - Telephone under the Coca Cola sign Samperi's - Telephone Road Ray Hay's Broiler Burger - Telephone at Dumble Leo's Mexican - 2203 S. Shepherd The Whistle Stop Bar-b-que - Old Galveston Road The Cellar Door Bar-b-que - two locations Cardet's Cafe (Cuban) - 1927 Fairview The Hoagie Shop - 3507 S. Shepherd Zorba's - 202 Tuam Alfred's - On Rice and Stella Link Marini's Empanda House - Westheimer Swiss Haus - In the Village The Village Cheese Shop - In the Village Captain Benny's - in the boat at Greenbriar and Main Sonny Look's - on Main The Hobbit Hole - 1715 S. Shepherd St. Michel - 2150 Richmond Prufrock's Tavern - 423 Westheimer Joseph's Wine Shop - 1408 Westheimer The Chicago Pizza Company - 4100 Mandell Chaucer's - 5020 Montrose Cody's (really a jazz club) - 3400 Montrose Mrs. Me's Cafe - Dunlavy at Indiana La Bodega - 2402 Mandell Weinerschnitzel - Westheimer at Commonwealth Spud-U-Like - 416 Westheimer Butera's - 5019 Montrose and the Grocery Store on Bissonet Matt Garner's Bar-b-que - Gray (Good as it ever was) Las Brisas - 614 W. Gray Captain John's - W. Gray at Woodhead Gantry's - 1658 Westheimer (now Marks) The Wine Press - W. Gray Renu's - 1230 Westheimer Mana Eleni - 1115 Missouri U.S. Bar & Grill - 1220 Taft Quasimodo's Sanctuary - 1985 Welch (now Mockingbird) Metropol - 1007 Waugh Missouri Street Cafe - 1117 Missouri River Cafe - 3615 Montrose Albritton's Cafeteria - Waugh Glatzmaier's - Old Market Square Landry's Seafood - 2912 S. Shepherd The Stables - S. Main at Greenbriar

That record store started at the corner of Greenbriar and Bissonet next to Alter-Alley (clothing alterations). Here is my one good Ronnie Bond story. I was in his record store one day, and since I was a regular, and we had talked about Bruce Springsteen at Liberty Hall, he told me that Bruce Springsteen tickets were going to go on sale the next day at Foley's downtown at 10:00 am. I asked how this could be true as I had heard nothing about it on the radio or in print. He said he got the information from a reliable source. Well, the next day I show up at Foley's at 9:45 to wait at the door, and the only other person there was Ronnie. I told him he must have gotten some bad information, because there was no way only two people would know about such a big event. I could tell he was beginning to have his doubts too, but since we were already there, we waited until 10:00. As soon as the doors opened we went upstairs to the ticket booth. I walked up to the window and said "Do you have Bruce Springsteen tickets for sale" and the clerk replied "Yep, we sure do". I then asked which tickets they had left and was told that I could sit anywhere I wanted, I was the first customer. I bought 4 tickets on the first row center isle. The show was at the Coliseum. At one point in the concert Bruce jumped into the audience and stood on my chair for a minute or so playing Thunder Road. He always put on a great show. There is a video of Really Red playing at the Isand on YouTube

This is from a Texas Montly article on Montrose. I think this photo was meant to capture the diversity found in the neighborhood at that time

I would add The Metropol to that list of dance places