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  1. 57Tbird
    You got it! Gaido's was directly across South Main from Playland.
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    Nice video. However, if I'm hearing right, the big shrimp was said to be at Christie's. It was at Gaido's, not Christie's.
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    The Village Theater was near the NW corner of University and Morningside. University Men and Boy's Wear was on the NW corner and the Village Theater was next to it.
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    No.. Pier 21 was on Old Main (now Fannin) just south of the bayou.
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    Wow!! What a trip to the past... my past. I graduated from Lamar in 1953. I think I recognize some of the kids. I will have to check my yearbook and see if I can find them in the jr/soph sections. I still see and correspond with a lot of old Lamar classmates. I will send this video on and see if they know anyone in it. That was the Village theater box office. I went to both the Village and Alabama many times in my youth and on into my adult years. I remember the Yacht Restaurant. It was on the west side of S. Main. I don't remember if it was north or south of Gaido's, which was across S. Main from Playland Park (9200 S Main). It was most likely toward the south. I think it was gone by the late 50's. Thanks for the video. It brought back a lot of memories of the fashions and cars of that era.
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    jakdad, I don't think you are referring to the same post that I referred to. My reply to Mark's post was on July 31, 2006. Mark's post that I replied to and referenced in my post was dated July 29, 2006, 8:20 PM. I guess that post and accompanying pictures have been deleted by Mark, because I no longer see it. It had pictures of a race track and some sprint cars that Mark said was Playland Park in Houston. I investigated and found that it was a Playland Park in Coucil Bluffs, IA. Mark later responded and agreed. That post has been deleted also. I think you are talking about a post dated August 1, 2006, 2:45 AM, that shows a picture of AJ turned sideways at Playland. Of course, those are midgets.
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    Christie's came way before Valian's, at least it seemed that way to me. When I was a kid in the mid-40's, my folks would take me to Christie's after church on Sunday. I always got a dozen jumbo fried shrimp for $.75. Valian's came into being sometime in the early to mid-50's, I believe. I used to go there often while at Rice in that time-frame. I remember eating my first pizza there. It came with the aforementioned anchovies, and this was my first endeavor with that delicacy. Needless to say, I was not impressed with this new dish, known as pizza. In my later years, I have come to like them on my pizza, as well as taking a like to many other foods I did not care for in my youth.
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    Here's a recent photo at Wikipedia
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    Compare the left side of this picture of Hermann with the part of the building shown in the Life photo. The Lovett Hall structure is not like that in the Life photo. Lovett would be further to the right and out of the Life picture.
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    I think you are correct about the building in the photo being the original Hermann Hospital. At first, I thought it was Lovett Hall, but, looking closer, the architecture doesn't match. Bellaire was not the southern border of the Rice campus. The southern border was where University Blvd is now located. In this 1921 photo, you can see in the upper right corner what was referred to as the "Toonerville Trolley", a one-car shuttle that connected with the streetcar line at Eagle Street. The large white structure in the center is the Autry House across Main St. from the Rice campus.
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    1912 pictures...
  12. 57Tbird
    Here is a drawing of the Rice campus in 1922 that shows the rr...
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    That car on the far left, in picture #2, sure looks like a '62 Chevy. TJones... help!
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    I've tried cropping, lightening, and blowing up that part without too much distortion to try and see the tracks a little better. I see the horizontal part and I think I see some of the approaching tracks. I may be influenced somewhat by the map.
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    Here's a 1921 photo that I posted in another topic earlier this year. It shows the power plant at the far right, but I can't make out any railroad tracks.
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    Gold and Brown
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    Don't have an address, but it was at Hutchins and McGowen.
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    The End o' Main was near the northwest corner of where 610 crosses Main. I think Sonny Look's was eventually at the same location.
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    I didn't remember that building, so I contacted an old classmate of mine from the mid-50's, who was a physics major, and asked him. His reply... "I'm not sure. There was a small Van de Graaff accelerator in that vicinity that was used by Prof. Jack Risser and a few students when I was a grad student, but I think that it was located in the long building to the right of your mystery building. Somewhat later, Prof. Charlie Squire got a cryogenic system on a truck-trailer from the Air Force for condensing liquid nitrogen or oxygen from air (while burning lots of diesel fuel and making lots of noise), and it was put in about that location you show, but that was later, about 1958. At a guess, the building might have been a shack housing the predecessor system for producing cryogenic liquids. Another possibility: you will also recall the the Physics Building used to also house the Biology Department, and that they moved out to thir own building in about 1957. The mystery building could have been theirs, perhaps for housing small animals without having the smell permeate the main building."
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    Possibly. I'm sure that's the date that was on my source. I believe that photo came from one of my old Rice publications. I'll check and get back, if I can find it.
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    Here's an old one from 1921. About all that was there at the time was Lovett Hall, physics building, mechanical building with the campanile tower, and a dorm. Here's one from 1953, the year I started there.
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    I have an aerial shot of the Med Center-Rice U. area taken in 1958 that I have cropped to show the old fire station area. I must have traveled by that place hundreds of times on my way to work in that time-frame, and I don't recall it. I know that Braeswood stopped at Main, so it does not appear in the photo. I think that part of Fannin was called Old Main or Knight Road back then.
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    I went there many Saturdays, as a youngster in the early 40's, to see cowboy movies. Did take a date there in the early 50's. It was at McGowen and Chenevert. Built around 1940, if I remember correctly, by Albert Farb, father of Houston apartment developer, Harold Farb.
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    Here's a picture of my house in the snow of 1949. The picture had 1947 written on the back, but I guess that was wrong because I can't find a record of any significant snowfall for that year in Houston.
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    I had forgotten about that. I was there. After being a frequent visitor to the races at Playland and Meyer, I remember how tame it was and how careful the drivers were in avoiding any collisions in their sports cars.
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