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Really? There was no service department for the location? I wonder what was in the back then where there were no glass walls at then. I figure the wall you can see to the right side that is aligned with the glass blocks above the awning I figured that might be sales offices but there is quite a bit of space on the left side past the blocks that couldn't be sales offices too could it? I wouldn't know I contacted the Harris County archives to see if there were plans for the building as there had to have been plans drawn up for the remodeling after Henke and Pillot left cause the building was just a square block while they resided here and then when Ivy Russell took over it was this art deco style. Sadly all Harris County archives could find was a land value ticket for 1969. The woman that looked into it for me said the complete file unfortunally has become lost. Really sucks for me because I don't know how the building was laid out internally let alone externally. For me for my project if there was no service center at this location it was just sales well then that really hinders my project because plans I had made for the second half of the project would be pointless as it revolved around a service center.

This is a photo of the Ivy Russell dealership Yale @ 11th street, this photo was taken in 1957 or early 1958 showcasing 1958 year model Fords. Ok with this said I want to ask if anyone has any photos that shows this dealership a bit better? I am working on planning a 1/25 scale model of this dealership and I will be taking some liberties with it for not knowing exactly what vehicles were on the lot at the time of mine was in '56. But I would like to know more about the layout of the parking lot. Such as where were the cars parked at? Were there only cars or were trucks sold as well? Things like that. Aside from that I am also attaching photos taken in during the renovation.

That is what I found out a couple months ago when I had the pleasure of talking to the daughter of Weyand. Actually seeked me out and sent me a message. I got confirmation that my 1979 dated service sticker was filled out by her father based off the hand writing but haven't heard back in a few months on if he recognizes the car or my grandfather. All good information that has been noted in my notebook till I can get a proper scrap book album going. I also have a old photo of the car in question but don't know the date but have to find it, boxes of photos have been moved around a few times so might take time.

Sad to say I was doing some searching and came across this post and figured I would update everyone. Some time between Oct 2012 and Oct 2013 that station was demolished along with the whole corner of that street with all the houses. Really sucks as I have not gotten to get a photo of my car in front of the building. I didn't even bring it home from my grandmothers house till August 2014.

Its still up there. Although its painted white now its still pretty much there. Its also good to hear the history as well, I didnt know the car was a yellowish cream color at one time (said yellow and I asked parents and they said it was more of a cream color as they remember it) But if you can get that photo loaded up I can say for sure the story above will be copied and pasted to the description of the photo after I save it. One thing I do is try to keep the history and stories with the photos where possible. Such as the story of that one car coming from dallas to houston that ended up wrecked on the incomplete overpass. Only thing that I would really love to see is more photos of the old Ivy Russell dealership on yale street. I have the one color photo but would love to see some more photos of the place as a dealership and the inside. I have no idea how the inside even looked. To be honest I am looking for that to try and duplicate the inside (not sure if cars were parked inside or not) to compliment mh 56 that was bought there new.

Sounds sorta like Waltrip when I went to it back in 2003-2006. It wasnt bad to the point where there was racisim against the minority which happened to be white. I think it was cause most of the white kids were "ghetto" and acted more like the black kids so they were accepted. Other than that the school was a hell hole. There were always fights, and my senior year we had someone set fire to trash cans in restrooms trying to burn the school down the last week of school during finals. But its the reason why more and more parents are going to private school, better education and the "bumbs" like I described above typically cant get in. Thats just like I got suspended for a week from waltrip because two idiotic football players (one hispanic and one black) were saying how they were going to come to my place and steal my cars. I calmly told them to try it cause they would leave the property in a body bag and there would be nothing the cops could do since Texas allows lethal force to protect your property from theft. Make a long story short they ran to the head HPD "rent a cop" that just happened to be black saying all this bs bout how I was going to take them out to the woods and put a bullet in them and all that. The cop belived them because they went to him first but proceeded to treat me like a criminal. Its just amazing how cops just appears to have no brains anymore. But then again it didnt help me any to be a loner cause no one wanted to go against the two football players by saying what they really said so it was just my word against theirs. Then the cop held me 2 hours after school let out and didnt even allow me to atleast call my ride at the time so they didnt know wtf was going on, the school didnt know wtf was going on because the cop took me to his office not the school office and then finally he just let me go because no one came to get me and he let me go with the final question of would i seek those guys out to harm them. That was funny as hell if there was strong evidence that I was going to kill them why would he ask me a question like that and then let me go. It was nothing but racial harrasment.

Yep, it was a small dealership where the cars sat under a type of polebarn type building. If I knew where I put the 63 folder at that has the orignal owners manual and every last work order since new in it I could get the name of the place and the address. I know it most likely has since been torn down. Sucks though because I wanted to take the car back over there when finished to get a photo of the car with the abandoned dealership in the background. I didnt think bout Mike Persia, even though I have some radio recordings that include Mike Persia radio ads.

I wouldnt know bout a reshoot of the Thunderbolt commercial but I do know that they got into trouble for dumping their waste into the sewer system. Was going to have them do my transmission work since they been around the longest but not after that. Just like I wouldnt have Joey`s Engine (now under its third name and third new ownership) anymore after they quoted me a price did unauthorized work lied bout it and then jacked the price up from $80 to $500. This doesnt fall under dealers or repair shops but western auto is still around its under new name now they go by Advanced Auto Parts. They used to not even be in houston but they are respreading out. Built a building across the street from oreilly that i used to go to and started going there. They moved now and abandoned the building. Just my luck cause now I am stuck driving further for a part or deal with the idiotic loons at orelly, autozone, or napa. All of which belive the customer is never right. But what about that Cypress dealership? I cant remember the name and I cant remember where I placed my orignal work orders but my 63 Chevrolet came from Cypress. Dont know the name or the address if I knew where the work forms were I would get the name and address. I know the dealerships been bulldozed down not that long ago.

Came across this topic looking for something else, didnt read all 3 pages but scanned through the first page. I see alot of errors in what people were saying. First off the confederate flag, I am assuming people are talking about the bars and stars flag which one person was saying you shouldnt have it cause its a flag of a old dead nation. Problem with that statement is the "stars and bars" confederate flag was a battle flag carried in battle, it wasnt the national CSA flag. That would be what is called the "bonnie blue flag" which was a solid blue flag with just one star on it, which later gave way to the national bars and stars which was simmilar to the US flag but only 2 bars of red and one bar of white with 7 stars in the field of blue. In any case I think its purely insane to censor any part of history and the twisted history that the schools teach. I dont see one issue with owning or even displaying flags like the bonnie blue flag, or the confederate stars and bars or the german nazi flag. They are historic flags but they do not denote who a person is, the "stars and bars" confederate flag was a battleflag that has been tainted over time by use of racists and neo nazi`s in marching which is the reason why uneducated people are against these flags because they dont know the true history. For instance and this is just alittle bit of how the government has re written history and is teaching people a altered history than it really happened. For instance in the civil war we are taught the civil war was started by the confederates that attacked a union fort, fort sumter. That is a nice washed down history but what they dont say is that this fort is located in South Carolina, and five (5) days after they succeeded from the union Major Robert Anderson abandoned his fort, Fort Moultrie without orders from the US government and headed to fort sumter. At this time the Confederate States called for the Union to sell all their government buildings in the south and to remove their troops out of their newly founded country. The US government refused and then further instigated the start up of the civil war by increasing its troop size more and more (which was the big reason for the succession because they planned to invade southern states to kill a rebellion). Then a ship paid for by the Union sailed for Fort Sumter to attempt to resupply it and re-enforce it. By all means this was taken as an act of war and an invasion and the Confederates opened fire upon them to repel the invaders. Now I dont want to make this about telling history I just want to point out that in every war the victor of a battle/conflict/war always, ALWAYS writes history how they want it. They go so far as to say that the south was fighting to keep slavery even though in states like texas at the time of the civil war (who was part of the CSA) didnt make up but on avg only 25% of the total population (it was higher in some countys and lower in others as low as 0%, 25% is just my rough avg). It is safe to assume the majority of those that fought in the civil war wasnt fighting to keep slavery but were more than likely fighting for their ideals and viewed the government as a tyrrant and was doing what the constitution gave them the right to do. The Union did all they could to stop them going as far as denying to sell out their forts after they broke away. I will also admit I do have multiple CSA flags, I also have union flags but the reason for these is to preserve history and for the fact that I had ancestors (two brothers) who fought for both the Union and Confederacy, which is where the proof of slavery wasnt being fought for to keep by the south because my ancestors never had a single slave and spoke out against them. Now this is the big kicker if this war was to end slavery why did the Union outlaw slavery in the south instantly at the surrender of the Confederate army but yet it took 1 full year for the north to abolish slavery. Then another way this civil war could have been avoided if this was about slavery was to stop the import of slaves. The union was the major importer of slaves that were then sold to the south. Reduction of slave expansion would have eventually lead to the death of slavery naturally as it became unprofitable. So in the end this was nothing about slavery but in my opinion a desperate attempt at the US government to keep the southern states from breaking away when they belived the US government was becoming a tyrrant and becoming too powerful by dictating what states have to do. Honestly if we look at how things are now, one can see how the government has done nothing but got more and more powerful over time. Now about the schools, I think its crazy to make a big deal over a school named "Robert E. Lee", It is a name of a person that did his duty to his state when the government wanted to march in troops in force turning guns on their fellow citizens to coarce "obediance" from them. I also dont see a issue with the flags. I mean I never heard of anything happening to that hispanic principle who took down the US flag and ran up a Mexican flag. Now if you are flying the confederate state of america flag above or inplace of the US flag then there might be issues but long as no other flag flys above the US flag including state flag theres nothing can be done by anyone it is your right. Theres a guy here that is flying a "dont tred on me" flag below the Texas flag which is below the US flag. Some would say that flag is offensive because people want to rock the boat and change something they dont like. Can we all remember those people protesting saying that "under god" is a christian prayer even though "god" is generic and cover any god.

I hear in the 50`s it was owned by a german named Shauer (belive thats the correct spelling). I also hear it was a Gulf station and then a sinclair station. As far as I know the only proof I have is of a door service sticker the the address saying "Harley R. Weyand Gulf" How ever, I will try to look for that photo. I have a idea of how everything looked from description but seeing in a photo would be better. I hear there was a garage off to the right (when facing the station) that was used by Shauer to repair cars and that the "garage" is seen to the right in the photo. To be honest it looks alittle small to be a garage but this is what I am hearing from family that was here in the 50`s and 60`s. The only history I know of the station is that my grandfather who lived in the heights took his 56 fairlane to get gas there all the time and as evident by the door sticker most likely had service done there alot. But I hear he also took the car to bobs on Yale street. Any luck though I have been throwing around an idea for a building I was going to have built later on, on some property I have and try to recreate that fuel station (just the islands and the overhang not the whole building). Story I hear is that in the photo I posted those houses with for sale signs were all sold including this old station and was all bulldozed down to make way for town homes all on that corner.

I have been here for a while and havent made many posts. I have how ever pretty much filled up a 4GB flash drive with mostly photos of just Houston. Also got photos of freeways throughout texas from different years. But atlast I still dont have photos I would like to have so this is my list of photos I am seeking. 1. Photo of the fuel station in the heights at 1402 Oxford St. Door decal from 79 says the station was "Harley R. Weyand Gulf" and I have a fairly current photo before the building was torn down (thats what I heard) but I am wondering if there was any photos of the same station taken in the 1950`s or possbily early 1960`s when it was still open? 2. Any photo taken in the heights during 1956 - 1965. Prefer photos that shows vehicles in the shots. 3. Any photos of Ivy Russell Ford Yale & 11th street. I have a photo taken in 1958 but if anyone has any photos of the building that I dont have or have photos of the interior of the building taken in the 1950`s or 1960`s I would like for them to be passed on. These two photos are in relation to #1 and #3. #1 this is the gas and service station I am seeking photos of taken during the 1950 - 1965 before becoming abandoned #2, this is the photo of Ivy Russel I have, I would like to see other photos if they exsist other than this one both interior and exterior preferably 1950`s - 1960`s Might be alittle much to ask for specific photos but I figured might as well ask maybe someone out there just happens have one of the photos I am looking for or know where they can be found at. In any case thanks in advance.

Dont know if their in the same location but Chuck Davis is still around. Did a search for "Chuck Davis Chevrolet Houston Texas 1960`s" to try and get a old address and found a recent listing. Chuck Davis Chevrolet Incdocument.write(''); 2277 S Loop W, Houston, TX 77001 Phone: (713) 794-2500

Yep the car is still there as well as the shop. I drive past it every now and again going to this paint shop that sells paint to all the paint and body shops in town. Its on yale past 6th street on the left just before the freeway. Alittle pricy but they can match up your paint using the paint code and put it in a spray can for touch up work. What I hear though is that this auto shop does restorations as well. I never personally see their work but they have been listed as restoration shop in business listings ive looked at. I thought about them since I seen some high value cars in there stripped apart (think 1959 Caddy convertibles and 1964 - 67 GTO convertibles) but I will probably either have them or freedom paint and body do the bodywork and paint on mine.

If anyone is interested I have two names for the above station which was not really a station by itself it was also a shop. The very first name I have heard given to this i "Shauer's Garage". Came from family members seeing as my Grandfather bough gas and had some maintance done from them. But theres still a sticker on the door of the car that says the following. Harley R. Weyand Gulf 1402 Oxford St Houston, Texas 862-1584 The service sticker is dated 10-25-79. So it is fully possible that this "station" used to b Shauer's Garage and then became Harley R. Weyand Gulf. Either way I have phyical proof that it was atleast Harley R. Weyand Gulf station that also did services. The sticker said the transmission and axle was checked.

Ive been by the other day it has a for lease/for sale sign out front and it looks nice looks like it was put back like it was minus the door on that flat cornered edge but it looks nice. If that for lease/for sale sign that i remember seeing was real and I had the money id buy that place up lol.