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Correct, it was on Main and Congress across Main Street from the old bank building. I do not believe it was ever on Franklin unless it was before 1967 when I started working in that area.

The caption on the Houstoric Project for the PP should be corrected.

Does anybody remember what was in this building during the 70s and 80s? I should, but don't (at the moment).

The Pink Pussycat definitely was not on Franklin between Main and Travis.

Southern Pacific RR office building was at 913 Franklin. What is now the Islamic Center at the corner of Main and Franklin took up the majority of the block across the street.

According to the linked article, the family no longer owns the original Ninfa's on Navigation.

Niel Morgan of Legacy Restaurants does.

Also, the Harris County Clerk's site, www.cclerk.hctx.net has records back to the early 60s. You'll need the Block # and Lot # and possibly the subdivision where the house is located. Those bits of information are on HCAD.

Apparently this location was an Exxon before it became a Texaco as the "owner/occupant" is listed as Downtown Exxon on the permit.

In a quick search of the Harris County clerk's site, a Mr. (or Ms) Kim has owned lots 1-12 of block 440 in SSBB (SouthSide of Buffalo Bayou) since September of 2008. If the property has been sold to anyone, the County clerk's site has not been updated.

Enjoyed the photos. I'm wondering though, if the letter carrier is able to get to those 2 mailboxes behind the iron gate!

Thanks for sharing.

Hopefully the building will still be with us. And another welcome to HAIF.

The guy's been released. It wasn't him.

I thought I heard or read somewhere that while it was not the 'doggie door' guy, it was a baddie that had warrants and that he was "off the streets".

I disagree. In spite of my parents best attempts, I never did jack **** back in school, and I turned out just....oh, well never mind.

And, I highly suspect that early on you had an intelligence level that many (if not most) of the general student population in HISD (and surrounding area school districts) do not have. You did turn out just fine, IMHO.

But, I do agree that it takes parental participation for the most part.

I also believe that not all kids are born 'smart'. Some will be average and some not even that. And, try as they may, even good teachers cannot make a kid learn when there is no incentive to do so. To hold teachers wholly responsible for kids' test scores is a laughable concept to me.

That is probably the same school. I was a "mid-term" student so I probably only went there for one semester. I know we had to catch the school bus very early in the morning and it seemed a very long ride.

Interesting that the school was only used for 11 years before being replaced. As to being in Houston or not, I'm going by what my folks would say in later years when the subject came up. Looking at a map now, and if the address of the school now is the same as it was in the 50s, it really was not that far from where we lived. Of course, many of the streets/roads did not go through then as they do now. Orem was one of them.

In the late 50s, Hiram Clarke and that area was very isolated. There were no grocery stores anywhere near. Shortly after we moved in a convenience store went in up on Hiram Clarke at the entrance to Pamela Heights. That corner is where we caught the school bus.

We were given a choice in junior high schools, Jane Long or Cullen. I'm not sure why. Guess we were in between boundaries. I went to Cullen because I had a cousin already there and thought it would give me an edge. It didn't.

We moved into Pamela Heights when it was newly built. The first three streets were Knotty Oaks, Trail Lake and Ebbtide and they were only one block long. That was 1957. No nearby schools at all. I rode a bus to Fondren Elementary in Missouri City.

For junior high in 7th, we (2 or 3 of us in the 'hood) were bussed in to Cullen Junior. Then they built Albert S. Johnston and we went there in 8th.

San Jacinto High was made into a 4 year school so for 9th grade, we were bussed into town. Finallly, Westbury was built and we had a high school home!

I graduated in spring of '64 from Westbury. We moved shortly afterward.

Yes, we picked the mascot and colors, named the newspaper, yearbook and drill team. And yes, the #9 post sums it up real well. We never considered ourselves racist, we were just "rebels", for whatever reasons.

There is a very good website started by an early Westbury graduate that has an essay about the (now) controversy over the mascot and flag.

www.westburyhshouston.com

They are at 5628 Lawndale, between Sunnyland St. and Dismuke St.

Southern Pacific's address was 913 Franklin. And yes, the watch company next door could be accessed through the SP lobby. All railroad watches were bought and repaired there, at least for the Houston area.

On the other side of the watch company was J.N. Taub Tobacco.

I remember the sky bridge but it was just "there". It wasn't a novelty at all.

A friend sent me this link. It's the Westbury High School class of 62-65 web page. When you go to the "Tana's Reminisce" page you will find a ton of great historic Houston pictures and trivia, not just Westbury. Worth taking a look at.

Warning: turn down your speakers before you click the link. It's one of those pages that automatically starts blasting music.

Westbury High Web Page

Thanks for posting this. I was in the class of '64 and saw many names that I remember. Photos were great too.

Not quite ready to sign on and join though. Not all school memories were good ones.

How do they justify not giving change? Is it even legal to not give change?

It should be interesting for those flies on the wall, when a big old boy gets all irate on them. Or a big old gal.

I am not wrong more often than not. I just take a point of view that is contrary to the prevailing pro-developer/anti-preservation view that is prevalent on this message board. Thus, plenty of people say things that are completely wrong (HAHC being able to control political content of yard signs--actual post in Historic Ordinance thread) and get a pass. But, I make a reasonable argument/observation (Bungalows in good condition at a certain price point sell quickly in the Heights) based on my personal experience of being in the market for over two years (and friends being in the market for another year beyond that), and I get a pile of responses because I do not share the anti-preservation view. Just because my arguments and observations start a debate doesn't mean that they are invalid. I do not have to post links to every sale of a bungalow in the Heights just because someone knows of an overpriced bungalow with a horrible rennovation that won't move. And I do not have to see a link to the bungalow that won't move and won't call that person a liar for not posting one because it is just an argument on a message board. Many who are pro-preservation and/or anti-Walmart have been bullied off this message board by people who pick apart their posts and call them all kinds of names. Debate is what makes message boards interesting. I am all for that. But discounting opposing viewpoints as being invalid because they do not share the prevailing bias is lame.

But the fact that you continue to use the term "anti preservation" instead of "anti ordinance" does diminish your credibility. It seems that you are "discounting opposing viewpoints" yourself.

We are preserving a home, several counties away from Houston, that is older than any that the Heights has to offer. It is in a rural area and thankfully no one is telling us how to do it. We could have torn it down and rebuilt for what it's costing us but we actually want to live in an old, somewhat historic home. We oppose the current historic ordinance but we are not at all anti preservation.

I would hope there was more to go on than a "reported sighting". This young man just looks so ordinary, so 'normal' and so much like a hundred other young men all over Houston. Or maybe hundreds of other young men. I really doubt that he would hang around the medical center unless he was really in pain or bleeding all over the place. I mean, what are the chances that the officers would actually recognize him?

He's probably long gone from Houston.

I wonder if Walmart considered this location.......

Is that the Lone Star on Calhoun, er St Joseph Parkway? Just the sign though, not changing the bar, right?

Made some beautiful memories there in 1966.

I read the posts from SM3H, and I have to think that he/she is a she....lots of folks call him a he, but I believe he is a she.

I've thought that from day one last summer.

The HISD building in the 1100 block of Telephone Rd. used to be a Weingarten's, according to one of my older neighbors. Per HCAD, it was built in 1939, but she doesn't go back that far so is not sure if it was originally built as a grocery store. Still, to see that at least part of the old building has been saved and repurposed is a good thing.

Sadly, the old Cage Elementary a bit down the road from there has not fared so well.

Last weekend I saw a piece on Ch 13/Sonia Azad about some residents in Glenbrook Valley having second thoughts on their becoming a Historic District.

Seems everyone who signed the petitions was not completely aware of what they signed. Some there want to retract but apparently don't know how.

Lulac is supposed to be looking into it to see if there were civil rights violations while collecting signatures. The story is probably on 13's website, I just wasn't able to locate it.

It bothers me that the pro ordinance folks have no qualms about bending the words in order to secure a signature. And now, Parker is mailing out notices over her signature asking for support? Doesn't that make her a party to the deception?

Yeah, with sm3h and that whole stop the Walmart crowd, it's never really been about the traffic or the 380 or walkability or any of the other "issues" they throw around. It's always been about their blatant hatred of Walmart.

Not any other store. Only Walmart. And most of them say they've never been inside one.

I used to never shop Walmart mainly because there wasn't one nearby. It wasn't until HEB stopped carrying so many items that I liked/purchased that I ventured outside the loop to find that hated Arkansas chain. HEB in my area has gotten so bad that they've quit stocking many national brands in favor of their house brands.

And I agree with Red. How can folks in their townhomes (and McVics, imo) claim that Walmart will ruin their 'neighborhood'??

Telwink, RDG and Backstreet Cafe were on the "CBS Sunday Morning" show today.