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Heights2Bastrop

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  1. 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

  2. There's more information in that one post than in most web sites. Good job!
    Thank you, Sir!

    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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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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