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should we go to city council with this?
I hate to use an overbearing and obtrusive ordinance to protect something that is truly historic, but according to the historic preservation ordinance....
anyone have email addresses handy?
City Council Home Page
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Oh, I forgot I made a Google map of theaters, too (extant and demolished):
http://maps.google.c...77&ll=29.758417,-95.313263&spn=0.89652,1.234589&t=h&z=10
Great pictures and map, two more you might add to your map.
Bluebonnet Theater
1015 Broadway
1930 to 1950
Broadway Theater
1325 Broadway
1950 to 1969
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I didn't even notice Kitirik was hot at the time, it was watching the kids grabbing all the pennies they could hold that entranced me.
In 2nd grade in 1963 or 1964 Kitrick visited my class at Rummel Creek Elementary in spring branch.
She was a very petite woman, but to this 2nd, grader she had the longest legs I have ever seen.
To this day I can still see those legs.
This was the same class that I saw my first teacher cry, she was called out of the class by the principal
who was also in tears, then they both came in to tell us JFK had been shot.
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What is this?
Kitrick was a children's television character portrayed by Bunny Orsak.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitirik
Big on channel 13.
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Anyone know where the Southern Pacific Hospital mentioned in article was located?
Edit: Never mind I did a little research and apparently it was also called the Sunset Hospital and is now the Thomas Street Health Center on Thomas St. just North of downtown. It was the first I had heard of a Southern Pacific Hospital in Houston.
Thomas Street Health Center now.
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My mother in law lives right behind the Glenbrook pool and I remember those houses. I think some of them are still there. The only way to get to them is from Highway 3. One of the houses over there actually had a dock on the bayou and kept and old cabin cruiser type boat there. I always thought that was pretty neat that you could live in Houston and still have a dock with a boat. It was a long haul to the ship channel and anywhere else but I still thought it was pretty cool.
Also along those lines there is a piece of property at the end of Neal street behind the pool that a doctor has purchased and is building a huge house on. As neal bends and becomes another street there is a driveway that serves the house on Neal but continues up a little hill and goes back near the bayou. My wife and mother in law walked up there one day and looked around. It's a huge house with a concrete domed entry way and looks like it will be 5,000 sq ft plus house. Years ago a man by the name of mr. Boyd owned the house on Neal, and the house that used to sit on the hill. The house on the hill burned years ago and Mr Boyd and his wife moved to the house actually on Neal. After his death the property was pieced out and sold. Now someone is actually building a mansion where the old house stood.
We had many boats over the years , the oldest dock goes back to the 1940s. That belonged to Mr. Miles, his house he built in 1938 close to Old Galveston Road. He always had boats and his boat house even had a ramp for launching and retrieving boats. When he passed away in the 80s his cabin cruiser was moved to my neighbors dock close to the main channel on the same street. Since then most of the people that where into boats have move on, and the storms have done a lot of damage to the docks that where left. That and since 9/11 the Coast Guard really doesn't want pleasure traffic in the ship channel. Here are a few pictures of some of the boats we had.
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Memories Of Park Place
in Historic Houston
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NenaE, both are now gone.