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    I couldn't believe it, when I saw this building! The sign near the road is newer, but the building looks original (maybe someone can confirm) and the sign on the facade is how I remember it, originally, in the 60's, or was it the 70's? Alfies. I remember the location on Nasa Road 1, and one on Edgebrook, by a pizza place, close to Old Galveston Road. Address for Texas City location, from Google Earth is approximate, @ 2151 FM 1764 or @ 2170 9th Ave N. and another location with facade, still unaltered, 60's white with brown, Olde English look. 108 E. Edgebrook Dr.
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    OldHouseLover, I think the second house is the one located in Forest Hill, on Pasadena St. It's still standing, overlooking the bayou, and faces a NE direction. It's also near the old section of Forest park cemetery. We have talked about it quite a bit on this forum. It was originally built by a person associated with the railroads. And btw, the original main entrance to the Forest Hill neighborhood was off of Harrisburg Blvd.
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    I can remember thinking how strange it seemed, when the 281 phone numbers were introduced. Don't have a clue what year that was.
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    Enjoyed this list, and looking these addresses up... thanks for sharing your memories... SEVFIV check out #10) 1636 Gessner... I think that's another one of those Asian style - cleaners buildings.
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    I'm looking at HistoricAerials,com maps from 1973, and earlier (sixties). Its hard to tell, but directly across Holcombe, south of the main entrance, there may have been a few scattered houses. I'm also seeing an actual plotted neighborhood,too, but that's across Brays Bayou.
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    The changes or lack of traffic on HAIF, particularly under Historic Houston, may be a reflection of the social media changes. Along with individual internet blogs, there are Facebook area specific sites, such as "I grew up in _____", (Park Place, Magnolia Park or East End, etc.) that people may be following, instead. Just an idea.
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    http://www.houstondeco.org/1930s/sears.html I stand corrected... Rice University now owns the land. link/ web site was year 2014. Cite 67 has a nice article on the building, as well. Says the original structure was built with a granite exterior, backed with concrete on the bottom floor, stucco exterior for the second floor.
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    William Marsh Rice owned the land, willed it to Rice University. Sears has a 50 year lease.
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    http://digital.houstonlibrary.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/images/id/3402/rec/48 ... thank you torimask for pointing out the photo collection.
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    That's funny ArchFan, how customer tastes change, we are back to parking outside the individual stores again. Well, I guess you are correct, IronTiger. Looks like those stores weren't standing in the area I am thinking of. I like to discuss it all, to see if there are some remnants of original design we can uncover. I looked at HistoricAerials. One thing is for sure, T&C Village development started between 1964 and 1966. That main road may have been either the current feeder road or the precursor to the beltway. Looks like there were some low profile shops, in a row, near that main road. Maybe someone recognizes it, and can verify for us. There is also a large T&C sign in that photo, at the center entrance, coming off that same main drag.
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    I'm speaking of the photo in the HC link - see post #8. 1965 - The trees/ medians layout/ main curved road/ and shops to the left. There is info. on original tenants and 40 yrs. plus. shops. I've been to the bookstore Barnes& Noble, I think it is, that now sits in this area. The layout, although re-developed, probably several times, seems somewhat similar to that photo. I know the large store (Joske's) to the west of this area I speak of was added in 1969. The photo captions state this info. This all would have pre-dated the T&C new "mall". I need to look at HistoricAerials for a 1950-60's layout.
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    Here is an older HAIF link from Historic Houston, where we discussed the S. Main Sears building, along with other store locations. http://www.houstonarchitecture.com/haif/topic/7130-sears-south-main/?hl=%2Bsears+%2Bmain
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    It's interesting to think that the T&C Village part has always kept it's profitable layout. That's a good b/w photo of it in the Houston Chronicle article. There is an old grocery store around the corner from the TC Village. Or, it may be in an adjacent one. It has a similar 1950-1960's slender suburban design. I believe it is by that bank building with the nice horse mural. You can tell it's a very old grocery store building. It sits on Memorial Dr. What store is it, Rice? and which one was it originally? Lewis & Coker, maybe?
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    The Los Alamedas building with the bayou view is gone now. And that Thornhills near Woodridge and Gulfgate, what was near it? I can't recall ever seeing it. I know that area well.
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    The specific landscape design/ layout of the gardens may hold a clue to the estate's identity.
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    Maybe the difference lies in their interpretation of restoration vs renovation. Just a thought. It looks completely new to me.
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    whoa. I'm surprised it hasn't been dozed.
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    I don't know... but, if you look at it with the magnified tool, you can see two hot air balloon shaped poles? (middle of horizon) with two skinny things in the middle of them. Bizarre looking. And to the left, there is some sort of slender bldg... maybe an entrance gate. Could it be "Wayside"/ Simms Estate? off Lawndale, by Houston Country Club? just a wild guess. I looked again, I think those balloon shapes may be entrance gate urns.
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    i remember that place ARC from when I worked in the area, would drive past it at lunchtime. I bet they are related. I would like to visit that flight museum at Hobby, to get some pics and browse those books. I saw a publication once about the WASP lady pilots of WWII and their role during the war. It was regional, talked about Hobby airport's role. It was in a display at the hotel across from Hobby.
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    I understand the distinction, but I have never thought much about how many there are. I was surrounded by fountains growing up here. They were by the zoo, at the cemetery entrance, in the shopping malls, at the restaurants (Kemah's Jimmie Walkers penny fountain, Don the Beachcomber's Koi pond/ waterfall), and presently at the hospitals (waterfalls). IMO, they aren't just visual decorations. They have a distinct purpose...They calm and cool a very hot place. Too bad the Prudential's is gone.
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    Interesting topic... and nice photo. Never heard of that airport before... JLWM8609 --- I concur. This map is from the Perry Castaneda collection. It shows Cunningham as an abandoned airfield in 1956. The 1949 map shows the larger fields in the area, and their general location in proximity to Cunningham and the VA Hospital. Those sectional maps are great sources of field info. Maybe Cunningham was used as a practice field for training of WW II pilots. I read somewhere that the local airfields up from Ellington were used for touch and goes and soft field landings. Just an idea. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/topo/250k/txu-pclmaps-topo-us-houston-1956.jpg http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/topo/250k/txu-pclmaps-topo-us-houston-1949.jpg P.S. I just noticed it says Air Reserve Training Center on the 1949 map, around the VA and Cunningham Airfield location.
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    Building at Hardy & Opelousas and RR tracks was standing on unpaved road in year 1896. Sanborn Reference #63 posted on U.T. Perry Castenada Map Collection. (I'm making an educated guess here, with that 3 referring to 3-story structure). See isuredid's post 74 for the better photos of the old building.
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    pertaining to the other parks... specifically Woodland Park... it was called Highland Park before that, per Wikipedia... On July 5, 1903, the Houston Electric Company developed and opened a park named "Highland Park" to encourage ridership on its Houston Avenue line.[11] The park property was leased to property managers who would then operate the facility. It was sold to the city to become a municipal park in 1911, and its name was changed to Woodland Park in 1914. Woodland Park is still in existence in Woodland Heights.
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    Here is a visual reference of the proposed Colonial Park location... first map, no exact date, early 1900's, second image is GoogleEarth-Aerial from 1944. Note: It is not lined up, correctly. If you glance at it, you can see development was slow to fill in, on the south end of the area. The postcard in post #14 shows many trees, reminds me of Hermann Park. They may help to match up the exact location of Colonial. Have you noticed those small RR tracks in the early maps? see 2nd map link... post #12. They look to be smaller gauge than the normal RR lines. They run up to around Southmore, down to Bissonnet. Another runs from Rice University to where the Sears dept. store sits, around S.Main and Eagle St., maybe. And, would it have been plausible for the coaster to have been dismantled and moved farther out on S. Main, to Playland Park, instead of demolished? Just a thought.
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    so, the link shows that Luna Park sat in the valley directly south of White Oak Bayou. I-10 cuts through the area now, around the merge with I-45N, right before downtown. Look at all those parks on the map. Map from UH digital archives. Not sure of date.
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