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  1. Dave W
    I was born there too, many long years ago.
  2. Dave W
    My all-time favorite Houston restaurant.
  3. Dave W
    That Warwick sign was there for many years after 1945. Note the extra-wide esplanade. As you drove north toward OST, the west side of South Main became noticeably higher than the east side. That wasn't rectified until years later.
  4. Dave W
    It was apparently a Methodist institution, not related to the YMCA/YWCA. In the Internet Archive, I found references to it in the 1942-43 and 1945-46 reports of the Woman's Division of Christian Service of the Board of Missions and Church Extension of The Methodist Church. Since the residents are called inmates, I wonder if this was for "fallen women."
  5. Dave W
    In this video, Mrs. Piquet says they started out on Rampart in a hole in the wall.
  6. Dave W
    I remember it being on Rampart, nearer Hillcroft than Chimney Rock, but I'm not sure.
  7. Dave W
    The house on Yoakum was nice and large but not a mansion.
  8. Dave W
    It must have been at another address, Harris County property records show that 5309 Griggs is a vacant lot and has been since 2017 or earlier. I don't remember a barbecue place there, but there certainly could have been. The busiest restaurant in that area was Kip's Big Boy on the SW corner of South Park (MLK) at Griggs, which opened in 1965. Always packed. Montgomery Wards was just south of Kip's, across South Park from Palm Center.
  9. Dave W
    That would be the livery stable from which Sigmund and Sid Westheimer started their business in 1883.
  10. Dave W
    What do you mean by retail groups? Lucky 7 was a group of independently owned stores. Rice and Lewis & Coker weren't, they were both family-owned chains. The two biggest chains back then were Weingarten's and Kroger.
  11. Dave W
    @Highrise Tower I just noticed your edit. The displays were in a wing of the existing Carnegie Building, which was replaced by the new Central Library (now the Julia Ideson Building) in 1926. The collection, or most of it, was displayed in the new building until it was moved to the zoo, where it stayed until the current building was built in the 1960s.
  12. Dave W
    Yes, this is the foundation of what became the Houston Museum of Natural Science.
  13. Dave W
    Mystery solved. According to this article, the Lumberman's Bank was at Main and Prairie (400 block), founded by Samuel Fain Carter who built the building in 1908. Two years later, Carter built the Carter Building at 806 Main. The bank moved to 806 Main in 1923 and was renamed the Second National Bank.
  14. Dave W
    The Medical Towers building was built there in 1957, taking up the whole east side of that block. So unless it was a tenant in the ground floor retail, it must be earlier than that.
  15. Dave W
    I don't doubt you, but that has nothing to do with the stock show riders, that ride didn't end at Hermann Park and wasn't in the fall.
  16. Dave W
    The Stock show ride (Salt Grass Trail Ride) ends at Memorial Park, not Hermann Park, and it's always been in February. Riders could be seen any time of the year on the Hermann Park trails.
  17. Dave W
    Almeda Stables was located on Almeda Road at the eastern edge of the park. But it was a privately owned business, even though the customers used the riding trails in the park. A quick search says that the business moved to the location off 288 and Almeda-Genoa about 20 years ago and was renamed Sam Houston Equestrian Center, but Google Maps says it's permanently closed. That doesn't tell us where George Hermann's stables were located, or if it was a predecessor to Almeda Stables.
  18. Dave W
    This wasn't a regular furniture store, it was a warehouse outlet operated by Westheimer Transfer & Storage, whose corporate headquarters had moved to the Kirby Drive location by this time. The business was established by Sigmund J. Westheimer, a nephew of M.L. Westheimer.
  19. Dave W
    As I mentioned in the Sinclair station thread, that was not 7800, it was in the 6500 block. I remember the building but not the store.
  20. Dave W
    That station was on Main at University, but that's 6500 Main, not 7800. The Sanford map you're showing is a different location. 7800 was Kiddie Wonderland, near where Kirby later was extended to Main. Not sure what 7800A was. IIRC Mr. O'Quinn was the father of (in)famous Houston attorney John O'Quinn.
  21. Dave W
    I remember that diving tower. Our next door neighbor worked for Prudential and I was invited to swim there a few times in the 50s.
  22. Dave W
    I believe this would be the old numbering of South Main that we've discussed elsewhere. Hwy. 90A at 59 would place it in the Missouri City area.
  23. Dave W
    He opened the South Main St. location in 1936 so I believe these were all expansions of that location.
  24. Dave W
    I remember the Cinnamon Cinder, but that wasn't right by the Como Club.
  25. Dave W
    I think this was a ground floor office in the Medical Towers building.
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