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A 1913 map shows Delano St. near TSU was called Shepherd St., Winbern St. used to be MacGregor Ave. Bastrop St. used to be Broadway St., MLK/South Park used to be Chocolate Bayou Rd. near the present day UH, Stuart St. used to be Felix Ave., and Francis St. used to be Clarence St., and much more. Now, Elgin turns into Westheimer once you get west of Brazos, but at one point, it was called Hathaway St at that portion, I guess a "buffer" name between the two names of the major throughofare. And here's a pretty recent name change. A small portion of Fellows Rd. used to run from just south of Almeda-Genoa Rd. to BW8. They changed it from Fellows to Scott St. But south of the Beltway, Scott turns back into Fellows. And another interesting note, back in the 30s and 40s, Scott was referred to as "Scott Street Road", a little redundant dontcha think? Current day South Main from the OST split to Stafford is designated on some 1950s era maps as OST all the way out to Stafford. Fannin south of Holcombe was Knight Rd I think, until they turned it into a boulevard in the 60s. 1913 Houston Street Map: http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/arc/maps/images/map0435.jpg

Cullen through UH used to be St. Bernard Dr. I think there was a MacGregor St. located near Rosedale and Wichita Streets before the current day N and S MacGregor Ways were built in the late 20s/early 30s. Fulton St. used to be E. Montgomery Rd. (which explains today's W. Montgomery Rd. in absence of the E. variant)

LOL, thanks. I don't know about you, but when that dust cloud was starting to advance my way, this asthmatic and a few other spectators took off running (which explains the rather abrupt end of the video). Some came armed with masks, I probably should've donned one with some goggles and I would've gotten some of the aftermath. I was standing at Fannin and Holcombe when I made the video. I did a brisk jog to my car which was parked at S. Main and Holcombe and managed to avoid the avalanche of asbestos.

And videos! http://s42.photobucket.com/albums/e339/joe...nt=100_2997.flv

I went to Johnston from 1998 to 2001. It just shows you how much has changed. There was most likely a male gym teacher in those late 50's/early 60's swimming sessions, we had a woman swimming instructor when I was there. I just can't imagine such a thing occuring in this time and day. If it did, I could see many a modern male student objecting to skinny dipping and happily accepting an "F" for fears that they may become effeminate as a result. Then again, the male student body at Johnston during my time there had a few who would probably welcome the nude swimming classes with open arms! And some of the girls would too. The exaggerated sense of modesty among young girls was LONG gone by the time I got to Johnston. I caught sight of some girls peeking thru a door from the girls locker room into the pool facility while some of us guys were drying off at the side of the pool. If it was a nude swimming class, they probably would've busted that door down! (yeah, right!)

Why is this thread in the East End forum? Palm Center isn't in East End, it's closer to South Park, Riverside and Foster Place.

Yes, that's what I thought. That other map of the current Medical Center area from the early 50's was a bit deceiving as it has S. Main and part of Fannin listed as just "Hwy. 59", not US or Business.

Looking at that map, it seems as if US 59 was routed through the south side of Houston on Fannin, down Holcombe for a bit and eventually down S. Main to Rosenberg. But I thought US 59 was multiplexed with O.S.T. through the Riverside area down to S. Main before the freeway was built. Maybe I understood it wrong. Was Fannin and S. Main north of OST "Bus. US 59" while OST itself was "US 59"?

They've completed the construction of overpasses between FM 517 and SH 6. So, 288 is now a full freeway from downtown to Highway 6. From SH 6 to SH 332, it's still a mix of divided four lane highway and freeway.

I'd say 1948 or 1949, since the hi-rise building in between Fannin and S.Main was completed in 1949.

I thought I remembered reading somewhere that Scholes can support aircraft as big as the Boeing 767, not fully loaded of course.

Maybe so. Because the B-36 wasn't used during WWII. It was a Cold War era plane, I think the first ones went into service around 1949, and the last one was decommissioned in 1959.

Were they parked at Sam Houston airport? Though their runways may not have been long enough to accomodate a B-29.

Southland Elementary never closed down. It first opened in 1915 on Allegheny St. Another structure was built on Dixie Dr in 1949. It's address was changed from Dixie Dr. to Tampa St. in 1978 when a new wing was added, and it's name was changed to Ruby L. Thompson Elementary school in the 80's. It will be moving to a new facility at 6121 Tierwester for the Fall 2007 semester. There was a farewell ceremony today for the old facility, I attended it since I went to Thompson from 1992 to 1994.

I seem to remember that Northline had a 60's style bus stop shelter on the side away from the freeway, did they level that too?

Oh well. There goes another one of my favorite homes in the area. I know progress must take place, but I don't like what it's doing to this neighborhood. The demolishing of two historic homes in the past two weeks, and for some reason, a whole bunch of trees on the banks of Brays Bayou were razed, and are resting, dead on the banks. I'm sure if the developers could have their way, they would just take away all the character of the neighborhood. They'd just buy out all the homes and put down lofts and condos, put a high priced apartment complex where Parkwood Park is, and probably make N. and S. MacGregor one way all the way to their terminus at Calhoun. As a resident of the area, I see nothing wrong with these so called "McMansions", as long as they are built on already empty lots. I wouldn't say there are of the worst quality. They look quite nice, but their locations are horrible, except if you like speeding cars through your front door, not being able to leave your driveway in the morning due to traffic, and weirdos from the bus stop defecating in your front lawn. I think the one at the SW corner of the intersection is being built by State Rep Borris Miles, and isn't really a house, but some sort of condo or duplex.

I was at Longfellow for a short period of time in the mid 90's. Is Mr. Beringer still principal?

I'm not sure, but I rode by it today. It's 2615 Riverside Dr.

My high school no longer exists. It was called Middle College For Technology Careers High School (whew! I hated telling people where I went to school because the name was so long and nobody had really heard of it, so we called it MCTC for short). I was there from 2001 to 2005. It was orginally located somewhere on the southwest side, then relocated on TSU's campus in the late 90's. It was VERY small, only 300 or so students at its peak. It was in the technology building, then beginning with the Fall 2001 school year, which is when I began, they'd moved into the old George Allen Building at Tierwester and Wheeler. It was less than a block away from Yates, and once there was an "attack" on some of our students from a gang of guys from Yates. Some "he said/she said" mess started that. The building was in serious need of repair, for a technology high school, we had some mighty old desks and computers. Ceiling tiles were missing. It was cold in winter and at times, the AC would stop working when it would get hot out. The basement would leak, and the walls had cracks in them. I graduated in May 2005 and was gladly looking forward to college. HISD finally realized early on in the Fall 2005 school year that the building was unsafe and moved it to share a building with a middle school in one of the hoods south of the South Loop East. After Spring 2006, the school merged with Wheatley High School. This meant a brand new building, state of the art technology, etc... But, it was now Wheatley, no more MCTC.

If it's by Cozy Kitchen, that's I-10, not 610 that it's near.

It's not uncommon to see homes go for over $600k, or even $1M.

I can look again tommorow, but I didn't see a sign of that road.

Just some photos of some mods in Riverside Terrace that I really like. This one here's on N. Roseneath, built in 1947. And this one is on S. Parkwood, built in 1950.

I believe I know which house you speak of. It's not on N. MacGregor though. I think it's on Ennis, Calumet, Live Oak, or Riverside. And yes musicman, I think these will either be high priced condos, or high priced gated housing like the nice sized houses behind those gates and walls on Dixie Dr. right next to 288 and Grocers Supply.

My grandfather used to drive 18 wheelers for Weingarten's. He drove them until he was 69 years old, so that was around the 1981-1982 timeframe. Before that, he did some other work for Weingartens. My uncles worked in the stores too, I know for sure one worked at the Almeda Rd. location where the post office now sits, and my grandfather and other uncles at the N. Main location that's now an auto parts store.