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I went to the Dome for a seminar on relaxation techniques. It was wonderful! With very little effort, I was able to fall asleep in a very short time.
No, wait. Now that I think about it, it was a soccer game I went to. Still fell asleep quickly, though.
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I have a number of wonderful memories from the Dome, two of them involving the Rockets and
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I worked for a Dutch pipe supply company at the time, and someone from the main office sent us a newspaper clipping from a Holland paper about the fire complete with pictures.
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If Louie Welch was mayor, maybe Houston could have a "Shoot the Homeless" policy?
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Reminds me of the time not long after Houston went bust. Many people who bought overvalued homes at outrageous interest rates suffered, and some became homeless as a result. A number of homeless lived under and around the San Jacinto River Bridge out 59.
I saw more that one interview from that location, and was amazed at how many people complained on air about how they had nothing and needed help
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Thank you, Sir!There's more information in that one post than in most web sites. Good job!Just wanted to add that I no longer refer to the founders of Houston as "The Allen Brothers". Truth is, Charlotte Baldwin Allen played a large part in the founding and formation of the new city, but rarely receives due credit for her role.
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Houston was never aI took visitors from Philadelphia to Downtown Houston on a Friday afternoon. They were amazed on how wide the sidewalks and streets. -
I have 8 acres of cedar elm trees, and I
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As a kid, usually on the way to Galveston or San Leon, I would gaze longingly at the Helena as we passed because it had such a great looking swimming pool. As it lost its luster, and even with the name change, I would still get a warm feeling every time I passed the place.
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If you can find a copy of the book, The History of Houston Heights" by Sister M Agatha, there is a fold out map of the original Heights attached to the back page.
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There used to be a place I went
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In Marguerite Johnston
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Carnation Milk was on Waugh just south of Allen Parkway. I worked there in '65-66 while at Reagan.
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Jetero might have been known as Jet Arrow right at first.
I have a Houston map from around 1962 which shows the location of the proposed airport. No roads existed within the boundaries of the location. The existing roads at the time were Greens on the south, Aldine-Westfield on the west, Lee Rd on the east, and Humble-Westfield (1960) on the north.
The area is identified as
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Speaking of Roderick, there used to be a family of aerialist s that lived on Roderick. They had their trapeze set up and would work on their act there. I only went past there a couple of times. We lived on 14th near Beall, so we often crossed Roderick, but rarely had occasion to drive past the place. If I recall, it was just north of 14th.
I don
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A portion of Nashua still exists further south, around 12th. The street that was obliterated by N. Durham at that point was called Rodrigo, I think. My aunt had a house there in the 50s; the house still stands but it's on N. Durham, now. Rodrigo only ran north from 12th for a few blocks, perhaps.
Shepherd used to be called Lowell. B. A. Shepherd was the first banker in Texas. He opened a private banking operation in 1847.
West of Shepherd Dr was Boyle, Victor and Nashua. Nashua is still as is, but Boyle became Laird, and Victor became Roderick, later a part of Durham. An old map shows Nashua going north to beyond 29th. It now stops at 16th.
Durham north of 16th was not a road, so I suspect that portion was created by creating a new throughway. Nashua may have been torn up and returned to residential. This part I got from the aforementioned 1913 map of Houston, so it could be that the streets shown were planned at the time but not yet built.
Anther Heights change was Railroad St, which is now Nicholson. My grandmother lived at Waverley and 14th, and I used to love to watch the trains when they still operated along that line.
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Valian's was the only pizza in town, when I was a kid...and it was the best!
Christie's on South Main had written on the west side of the building, "We serve Pizza Pie". We ate at Christie's often from the early 50s on, but I never had the pizza. In fact, I didn't even know what pizza was until much later.
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I believe I have answered my own question
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The only one I can remember going to was the one on Long Point at Antoine, but I believe there were a number of them around town.
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Great menu, SpaceAge!
I swear someone posted a photo or post card of the restaurant with the two Indians on the roof. Maybe it was Subdude, but I haven't seen him posting recently.
Tbird, are you out there, Buddy?
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For added photo
The Abandoned Astrodome And Its Future
in Sports and Stadia
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Did anyone go to the Boy Scout Jamboree there?
Anybody know why that event was significent?