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The small office building in Bellaire is home to the decades-old McGovern Allergy & Asthma Clinic. https://mcgovernallergy.com/ Here are some photos that I took today. Street signage says: 4710 Bellaire Blvd McGovern Allergy & Asthma Clinic, P.A. Texas Children's Pediatric Cohan & Masharani Methodist Primary Care Group

I was wondering what the new CenterPoint Energy Texas Medical Center Substation will look like. I thought I would stop at the CenterPoint property off Westpark Drive that's located on Newcastle Drive in Bellaire. I believe there are different uses for both sides of the street? On one side you have the actual power plant, and the other is used for communication/power towers? What are these weird objects?

The third Bellaire School was designed by Jones & Tabor Architects and built in 1914. I found a few pictures of the now demolished old school building.

This week I studied more about the 1900s railroad to Bellaire. Westmoreland Railroad Company July 22, 1909. A charter for the street railway which is to be operated between the town site to be established on the Rice ranch property and the city of Houston was granted yesterday by the secretary of state to the Westmoreland Railroad Company. The company is capitalized at $40,000, and among the incorporators are the following: W.W. Baldwin, Max Eggert, A.J. Condit and R.B. Henderson. The terms of the charter permit the company to construct and operate an electric, gas, gasoline motor railway from Houston to the proposed town of Bellaire, to be established about seven miles west of Houston. The line will make a connection with the lines of the Houston Electric Company a a point south of the city. The roadways will be paved with shell from point on the Main Street Road between the Rice Institute site and Brays Bayou to the west boundary of the land upon which the Westmoreland Farm site and town of Bellaire are located. The street railway line will run down the center of a fifty-foot open way to be located between the two shell roadways. Also known as the Toonerville Trolley and the Bellaire Street Car Line. Map showing the railway from Houston to Bellaire. End of line at the Bellaire pavilion station. Rail car number 124. Edit: A point of view panorama of the train tracks. Very cool history here! Look at those Bellaire mansions!

Earlier this week I came across a wild photograph and wanted to share. Bayland Orphans Home (later, Bayland Boys Home) was destroyed by a fire on January 25, 1951. I then went researching more about the home and came across a wild map that I've never seen before. Apparently, the land was owned by Frank Meyer and was donated to Bayland Orphans Home. Included on the map are some parcels owned by MD Anderson. Talk about a cool map! I'd like to know more about those Anderson parcels. There are also more F.K. Meyer parcels just below the Bayland Orphans Home. Wild stuff! I assume it was just farm/ranch land back in the 1940s? Going onto Google Earth to view the campus in its heyday was a wild site to see. Apparently, the 100+ acre parcel only contained a single building. That was a lot of land! Could have made into into a campus, like the development down the block, Burnett Bayland Home located at 5500 Clarewood Dr. The road and single building: Here's the Bayland Boys Home on October 8, 1922.

Some of these convalescent homes are confusing, but I believe the Price Convalescent Home for The Aged is actually the original structure of the Bayland Orphanage Home for Boys? Confusing because why would a single building occupy 60 acres? Cool finding! This is some rare Houston history! Edit: I couldn't find an address but I haven't finished by research. 100 years later, the City of Houston park called Bayland Park has an address of 6400 Bissonnet Street. I would assume the address was 6400 Old Richmond Road but that's probably wrong? Any help would be appreciated! From the newspaper Southwestern Times dated December 5, 1946. Permit To Operate Convalescent Home Refused (an editorial) Some Solution Must Be Found To Care For Aged Residents Of Home. Permit to continue operation of the Price Convalescent Home on Old Richmond Road was refused last week by Dr. C.A. Dwyer, acting director of the Harris County Health Unit, on the grounds that the operators were not complying with state health standards. The Southwestern Times, in publishing a story two weeks ago revealing the deplorable conditions exiting at the home, had no intention of seeking its closing. The editors had in mind that that publishing the story would arouse public opinion and force a clean-up and an improvement of living conditions for the old people. Many of the persons in the house are eligible to enter the Harris County Home for the Aged but are unwilling to renounce their state pensions and sign the paupers' oath, which are requirements for entrance. Many of the old people seem to prefer, and understandable, to be in a home where conditions are not up to the high standards which are maintained in the county home as long as they can retain their Independence and feel that they are paying their own way. It is to be hoped that some happy solution can be found for these aged persons. Perhaps a more hard boiled attitude with the operations and a “clean-up-or-get-out” ultimatum would do the trick. Possibly the operators just do not “know how” to run the place and a committee of the citizens could be appointed to guide them-- The Price Convalescent Home for the Aged on Old Richmond Road is rambling, frame building which houses some 70 persons. Renewal of a permit to continue operation was refused last week by Dr. C.A. Dwyer, acting director of the Harris County Health Unit, because investigators reported failure to comply with state health standards. At the extreme left can be seen a slide-type fire escape which is doubtless a relic of the days when the building house the Bayland Boy's Home and its occupants were agile enough to have made use of the chute if fire should have struck the home.

https://www.chron.com/culture/article/houston-jeweler-closing-iw-marks-18465727.php "To carry out the liquidation sale, Marks collaborated with Tony Bradfield of Tenenbaum Jewelers, which is presenting the event. The sale started Wednesday and doesn’t yet have an end date. Tenenbaum told Chron that they are assessing the sale weekly to determine how long it will run." Never shopped there myself, but their advertising was fairly ubiquitous for many years, especially among wrestling fans of a certain era...

Trying to find more information about a very old powder company that was down the street from the Main & Holcombe intersection. Does anyone have an address? Or photos of the buildings? I did a little research, and Dupont Powder Company was a national brand. The company was founded in Pennsylvania? A long with Charles Weber, and August Warnecke, they effectively blocked Rice Institute from grabbing the whole parcel. On one historical map, the area of the Dupont Powder area is grayed out. I'm confused. This is August Warnecke's property? Map 1; 1920. Map 2; 1909-

Love this cool, old, simple building! Does anyone remember the Richmond Grill restaurant? Looking on Google Maps, that Bellaire intersection is a busy corner! Anyone know where exactly this was? Found in the newspaper Southwestern Times dated April 25, 1946. Work is haled on an expansion program for the Richmond Grill a 4811 Old Richmond Road as its owners, Gordon Edge and W.D. Ball, and the City of Bellaire engage in suits and counter-suits.

Weirdly enough, I've never seen the (2nd) original The Post Oak School talked about on HAIF. Thought I would create a thread. Did anyone ever go to this school? That block has a historical location! The school campus next door, Episcopal High School, is one of the most expensive schools in Houston! I know of 3 different The Post Oak Schools 1 - The original on Westheimer & Post Oak in the early 1900s. 2 - 4600 Bissonnet Street in Bellaire. 3 - Their new high school, located at 1010 Autrey Street in Montrose. https://www.postoakschool.org/

Interesting! Not only did The Green Parrot have a second location, now we discover they had even a third location?! Awesome finding here. Wast this their last restaurant location perhaps? I wonder all 3 store operational dates. Did they have nick names, or store numbers? The Green Parrot 668-6039 4009 Bellaire at Stella Link Houston, Texas Continuing a Dining Tradition True Southern Family Style Wednesday - Saturday 5:00 P.M. - 9:30 P.M. Sunday 11:30 A.M. - 8:30 P.M. Now located 4009 Bellaire at Stella Link Houston, Texas When in Uptown Houston East at The Buttery Fannin Bank Bldg. across from The Shamrock

I got a physical copy of the small book called Truths, Myths, and Rumors about the City of Bellaire by J. Michael McCorkle. My book, Life and Times Around Bellaire, Texas 1909 - 2013. www.bellairebook.com Vanished Cemetery Although there is no official record of a cemetery ever located within the city limits, it is difficult to image that local burials never happened in the past. Rumor has it that there was a grave stone observed in the large open field on Pine Street prior to 1980. When Bellaire lot prices began to rise dramatically, the grave stone mysteriously disappeared. Subsequently, the property was--

I got a physical copy of the small book called Truths, Myths, and Rumors about the City of Bellaire by J. Michael McCorkle. My book, Life and Times Around Bellaire, Texas 1909 - 2013. www.bellairebook.com Spruce Street Runway Spruce Street is wider than other streets in Bellaire because that is where airplanes landed. One resident relates being almost run over by an airplane while riding her bicycle down Spruce Street in the 1920s.

I got a physical copy of the small book called Truths, Myths, and Rumors about the City of Bellaire by J. Michael McCorkle. My book, Life and Times Around Bellaire, Texas 1909 - 2013. www.bellairebook.com Rice Avenue Drag Strip During the mid-1950s, Rice Avenue served as the drag strip for Bellaire youth. At the time Rice Avenue was a two lane paved street running along the big drainage ditch. This “strip” was dangerous because of the ditch and would never have qualified for NHRA use. Races started at Jessamine and ended at Evergreen, about a quarter mile to the south. The down side of racing on Rice Avenue was the police station just down Jessamine from the start. It is rumored that even the cops sometimes races squad cars. Races were run at midnight, then everyone high-tailed it for home before the cops could catch them.

I was browsing the newspaper The Bellaire Texan dated February 22, 1956 and came across a cool business advertisement. The ad was for The Dairy Bar Restaurant located at 5200 Bellaire Blvd. Present-day this is located at the jewelry building near the H-E-B. Belliare at Fifth. I doubt the original building is still standing. The red brick building could have just been a facade remodel? If the original building is still standing, it can't survive much longer. Especially with that forthcoming Houston Methodist mixed-use development across the street. Love it!! Old Fashioned Ice Cream Sodas The Best You Ever Tasted! 17 ¢ Bring the family & friends The Dairy Bar Restaurant 5200 Bellaire Blvd. MO 5-281 *Steaks *Chops *Seafood *Hamburgers

I was browsing the newspaper The Bellaire Texan dated February 22, 1956 and came across an article that discussed this hospital. The Almeda Medical and Surgical Clinic located on South Post Oak Road. Very cool!! I've never even heard of this. South Post Oak and Almeda? Where exactly was this located? The owner/doctor of Almeda Medical and Surgical Clinic was Dr. Schiflett. Police Investigating “The baby's accident kept my husband from going to the bank with the money,” explained Mrs. Schiflett, “hence we had so much money in the house.” Dr. Schiflett operates the Almeda Medical and Surgical Clinic on South Post Oak Extension. Mrs. Schiflett said someone evidently had a key that fits the front door. Bellaire Police are investigating. Chief Jack O'Brien reported no forced signs of entry or fingerprints.

I never paid attention to the name of this place a long Bellaire in Southside Place. Does HAIF know of an architect for their campus consisting of a church and school? I wonder how many acres the site sits on? I'd imagine that's a high dollar parcel! Did anyone attend the St. Mark's Episcopal School or Church?

I was browsing the 1950 Sanborn map when I saw a manufacturing company next door to the Pin Oak Stables located near the present day Westpark & 610/59. Anyone remember this plant? Would love to see some photos. I could have sworn me and a fellow HAIF member was talking about this last year. I was under the assumption the plant was located on South Post Oak and West Bellfort where Meyer Park Shopping Center would eventually be built. Searched and couldn't find it. Wright Manufacturing Co. made rubber tile, and I think plastics. Looks like the plant and associated buildings was built in 1949. It's possible their plastic facility was located further down South Post Oak Road. Or maybe I'm just confused.

This park in Bellaire. I never knew about it, and it looks like the Zindler family was a major donor. https://www.bellairetx.gov/1711/Bellaire-Zindler-Park

I was reading the newspaper The Bellaire Texan dated December 23, 1954 and came across the address of the infamous historic mansion of Abe Zindler that was demolished for the 610 freeway. The address is 4706 Bellaire Blvd. Does anybody have pictures of the home before it was demolished? Mr. Z. Snores While Refrigerator Fumes Bellaire Fire and Police Departments converged on the Abe Zindler home at 4706 Bellaire Boulevard Thursday around 7:30 a.m. in answer to a call for help when Mrs. Abe Zindler Sr. was overcome by ammonia fumes from a faulty refrigerator.

I was browsing the newspaper Southwestern Times dated March 31, 1949 and came across Marvin Zindler's old home that was demolished to make way for the 610 freeway. Anyone have any pictures of the old mansion? Five File In Bellaire If it fails to pass, however, the Tuesday election will be held, with Marvin Zindler of 4701 Cedar and Raymond H. Wilson of 4416 Jonathon as candidates for Mayor--

I was browsing the newspaper The Bellaire Texan dated September 21, 1960 and came across a classified listing that mentioned the business Bellaire Turnpike Go-Kart Race Track At 5433 Richmond Road, now Bissonnet Street. Does anyone have any memories here? Any pictures of the place? I tried looking on old images but I cannot locate the go-kart place. Maybe it was a smaller indoor track? This would have been at the intersection of Bissonnet and Chimney Rock. Plan a Go Kart party, Bellaire Turnpike, 5433 Richmond Road, Special Rates, church, school, social clubs, birthday parties, after the game. Exclusive Clipper Karts, safety first. For reservations. MA 3-0219 - MO 5-5954 - JA 6-1737.

I was browsing the newspaper The Bellaire Texan dated June 1, 1960 and came across an advertisement for Lazy Links Miniature Golf Links. Anyone remember this place? We have have some members who are old enough to have visited and played here. Announcing The Opening of Lazy Links Miniature Golf Links Corner Bellaire Blvd. & Hillcroft. Rates: Days-35c 1st game, 25c 2nd. Nights- 40c 1st game, 25c 2nd. Open Monday thru Friday-- 3 P.M. Saturday all day. Sunday after Church.

Found this advertisement in the newspaper The Bellaire Texan dated April 8, 1948. So wild! There used to be a golf range located at the modern day intersection of Bissonnet and New Castle? wow!! Bissonnet Golf Range Practice Driving Open Daily 5 to 10 P.M. 4560 Old Richmond Road Between Post Oak Road and Ave. A in Bellaire.

I came across this Weber's Root Beer Drive-In advertisement. Would this have been in the 1960s? Featuring: Weber's Root Beer, Hamburgers, Hot Dogs, French Fries, Fried Onion Rings, Steak Sandwiches, Cold Drinks, Bar-B-Que Sandwiches The owner of this particular Weber's was H.T. Brandon. 1 block east of Hillcroft.