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found these addresses out of an old phone book 1226 W. Gray Todd Decorationg street/houses. 3400 Montrose Southern Insurance co. House/insurance company

you are probably right about being too primitive for w.gray after looking at THIS picture..i think it Buffalo drive/Allen Pkwy...maybe that part just past the Sabine bridge in the background

I think its West Gray instead of Allen Parkway - comparing it to where City Hall is. BTW someone may be interested in this shot of pecan park (musicman? danax? oops) Southmayd Elementary is center right with the circle drive. Redwood st. in foreground http://tbn0.google.com/hosted/images/c?q=8...c48b65e3d_large

interesting... http://www.hammanfoundation.org/GenInfo.htm George Hamman, born in Calvert, Texas in 1874, was the son of Ella Lawdermilk Hamman and Confederate General William H. Hamman, lawyer, a candidate for Governor of the State and a pioneer in the development of Texas. Mr. Hamman graduated from the University of the South, in Sewanee, Tennessee. He moved to Houston in 1898 to work for Planters and Mechanics National Bank, where he rose from clerk to cashier. After Planters and Mechanics' merger with the Union Bank and Trust, he was appointed Vice-President and on August 23, 1943 became President of Union National Bank. In addition to banking, he devoted much of his energy to the real estate, oil, gas and sulfur industries. In 1906, Mary Josephine Milby married George Hamman. Their union produced no children. They were active in the Episcopal Church and were prominent in Texas civic circles. notice the board of trustees...Charles D. Milby Jr

3300 Fannin

for those unfamiliar with the building: courtesy: Houston Deco http://www.houstondeco.org/1940s/yeshurun.html

I periodically have this problem and have come up with a workaround. just reply to the post that has the image in it and within the quote it will show you the web address of the file you want to see. cut and paste it into a new browser window. Hope this helps.

the former Plaza is still extant... see my previous posting about the Plaza in the Alrey theater thread: http://www.houstonarchitecture.info/haif/i...st&p=104433 Another theater that showed art films for a short time (in the late-forties), was the Plaza/Vogue Theater. It's the old theater near the circle at Broadway and 45 (which is currently a Pawn Shop) and opened in about 1941 as the Plaza Theater. When the Santa Rosa opened nearby in 1947 (on Telephone Road), The Plaza, faced with the new competition from the Interstate-owned competitor, struggled and was eventually sold. The new owner renamed it the Vogue and started showing art films. The experiment did not last long and it soon reverted back to The Plaza. It only remained a theater until about 1951. the current address of the pawn shop is 3818.

i may be getting this mixed up.... but i thought South Main was a JUNIOR high and it eventually became San Jacinto HIGH school in the 20's....at the current HCC bldg...1300 Holman

did you forget about Mary Lee donuts almost on that very corner?

My realtor friend says there are no present or past listings for 3235 reba in the mls.

it's Luna Park...search Haif...there have been several threads on it. ad below borrowed from isuredid in the old amusement park thread:

according to Houston Freeways, that section of freeway opened in Feb of 1951. The section north of Telephone Rd. opened in 1948.

does the julia ideson/texas room have the heights map for sale? i know they used to sell several historic map reprint posters of houston.

s.e.r.a. i thought there was a golf course too? there is a retirement community and a gated subdivision there now...the name escapes me. sorry i never went there, so i can't really tell any memories..

from reading some of the posts, i think some people may not be clear on this: the City Auditorium was a separate facility from the Coliseum/Music Hall. The City Auditorium was demolished in 1963 to make way for Jones Hall.

nope..it's cute though

it's under 288 now EDIT: the address was 2314 mac gregor

i dont have any friends boo hoo. nah...the whole fam damily is going and the wife will pack enough stuff for a month and then we have all the assorted kid paraphanalia and car seats. so for this case it is easier just to drive our own vehicle up there. plus we are coming from friendswood. thanks for bumping my thread though

i usually fly out of hobby, so i am very familiar with all the lot choices there. it has been several years since i have flown out of IAH and then i parked at the city lot (parking cents). I am about to go out of town for a week. where should i park? i have a coupon for the parking spot that makes their rate cheaper than parking cents. and i have seen other lots online that are cheaper than that (speedpark is one). uncovered is fine. cheap is fine, but when i return i dont want to be waiting for their shuttle to pick me up for 2 hours. thanks in advance.

Mr. Truxillo would be familiar with the old Magnolia Brewery downtown (since he owns it) I don't think he has been involved with any structures in Magnolia Park (the east side addition)

The map cemeterywolf has on his webpage is also in Houghton's book Houston's Forgotten Heritage. Her citation lists it as from the Palmer Hutcheson Jr. Papers. (Junior League Component, Houston Metropolitan Research Center, & HPL) Her book also has a small copy of a 1909 promotion ad for Magnolia park. In the text of the book, she doesn't mention the municipality or its city hall. She only discusses Brady and the eventual development of the addition

http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/...es/MM/hvm6.html Magnolia Park, near the Houston Ship Channelqv in eastern Harris County, is one of Houston's oldest Hispanic neighborhoods. It was laid out in 1890 on a 1,374-acre site belonging to Thomas M. Brady, on Harrisburg Road across Bray's Bayou from Harrisburg and seven miles downstream from Houston. It was named for the 3,750 magnolias that developers planted there. The community became an independent municipality in 1909. Though whites first inhabited the town, Mexican Americansqv from South Texas began arriving by 1911, first settling in the area filled by sand dredged from the turning basin and known as El Arenal or the Sands.

Do you need to go back to 7th grade and repeat Texas history?? Manuel Lorenzo Justiniano de Zavala y S

what i remember most about tg&y - as a kid - was the large wireframe bin stacked full of those thick balloons with the rubber bands on the end to bounce against your fist. those and it seems like they had a lot of hippety-hoppies too (the balls with the handle on top that you sit on)