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  1. I remember going to Playland Park in Houston in the 1950s as a kid,fond memories!. My step-dad operated the motor boats,my brother and I would operate all of the lock levers to let boats out and in,that wouldn't have happened these days!. Please share your memories. We lived on the old Chocolate Bayou Road,and now I've heard it is "Cullen Blvd." We were close to Pearland,8 miles south of Holmes Rd.,near the Brazoria/Harris county line. What is out there now??. I remember there were cemeteries around us and not much else!. Thanks, Ron Hoover Denver Co.
  2. Jacob Chesterfield Baldwin and Horace Baldwin Rice went into partnership to form J.C. Baldwin & Company's Houston Transfer Stables. The stables served as the baggage, bus, and transfer line to all the train depots in 1890. Pretty cool depiction I found.
  3. I just discovered this today. Can anyone date this business advertisement? By the way, S. would stand for Sidney, or Sid. From the book Pioneer Jewish Texans: their impact on Texas and American history for four hundred years, 1590-1990. Published in 1989. S. Westheimer & Bro. Livery Stable 102, 104, 106, 108 San Jacinto, St., cor. Commerce Ave. Houston, Texas Carriages with careful drivers furnished any hour, day or night. First-class rigs at reasonable prices.
  4. This week I studied and learned about the old Harry Wiess estate that eventually developed into the neighborhood Stablewood. Located across from Memorial Park, near North Post Oak Lane, these homes are very, very nice. Rivaling the mansions in River Oaks. I had help during my research from a coworker who knows the family and a fellow HAIF member. Thanks guys. Here is present-day neighborhood called Stablewood. Stablewood, then called the Wiess Estate, in 1944: The home up close and zoomed in. It appears there was a horse oval riding ring behind/in front of the home? Imagine having your own riding ring? Just so much wealth! On the right side of the estate, there are also two other oval rings. Mr. Wiess either owned multiple riding rings or they were apart of another family, possibly Will Hogg's Tall Timber Stables? Harry Wiess' home and stables was built in 1930 and designed by the famous socialite architect John F. Staub. Today, the 3-acre parcel still exists and is owned by the Elkin's family, who have the property ownership listed under a corporation. H.C. Wiess's daughter married into the Elkins family. It appears that Harry Wiess left the property to his daughter, Margaret Wiess-Elkins. Margaret Wiess-Elkins was born October 26, 1922. She was the daughter of Olga and Harry Wiess, a founder of Humble Oil. I was told that the Wiess Stables, or "The Stables", or "Stable Set" became a party house. The property contains a pool and tennis court. Researching into the party house idea, it could be a different mansion all together? The book from Stephen Fox revealed all sorts of information about the Wiess Stables. Fantastic reading if you haven't read it yet. The following images are credited to Mr. Fox's great work. The country houses of John F. Staub by Stephen Fox. Wiess Stables, entrance (southeast) front with swimming pool and bath house to the left. Wiess stables, view from living room to swimming pool and bath house. Wiess stables, Houston, 1930, John F. Staub, architect. Cupola and Weathervane. First-floor plan, Wiess Stables, Houston, 1930, John F. Staub, architect. Olga Wiess (right) and friends at the Stables, 1931. Photograph by R.M. Luster, Houston Gargoyle 4 (Mar. 22, 1931): 17.
  5. This week I came across William Hogg's personal stables! A little confusing, was this instance of San Felipe actually Dallas Street? Or maybe West Dallas? Will Hogg developed the neighborhood Tall Timber in River Oaks, just outside of Memorial Park. I assume the Tall Tmber Stables was apart of the neighborhood development. Tall Timber Stables San Felipe Road / Phone Hadley 2951 Saddle Horses - Boarding Renting Exercising - Show & Pleasure Horses Schooled - 130 acres in the pines, adjacent to River Oaks and the 1500-acre Memorial Park and its miles of bridle paths.
  6. Found the second location of the Westheimer Stables. This stables is located at 12601 Westheimer Rd. The first location was active years earlier in 1973. Avis owns and manages Westheimer Stables. This is not a Westheimer-family ran business. From the newspaper Jewish Herald-Voice dated November 17, 1977. Singles Activity Calendar Jewish Community Center FRI., 8 p.m. - (20's and 30's) - Temple Beth Israel for services and then Joe Victory's house at 5114 Stillbrook for Oneg Shabat-- Terrific Twenties (Strictly ages 19-26) SAT. 7:15 p.m. - Hayride! Meet at Wesheimer Stables, 12601 Westheimer. (Note: Guests are welcome at all of the above events, except where indicaed otherwise.)
  7. Very cool find! I found this while browsing The Age. magazine dated February 25, 1876. I did not know Mitchell Louis Westheimer had stables.
  8. I'm still looking for George Hermann's saw mill/lumber company that was based on Fannin Street/South Main Street where present day Hermann Park is located. While researching I found a glimpse of his stables located on some avenue. I cannot read it. Maybe someone could look in old City of Houston directories and find the correct address? It's probably located in the city core given the ancient date. Very cool history here! Just imagine meeting Mr. Hermann and buying livery. From the newspaper The Houston Daily Post dated November 23, 1897. G.H. Hermann, stable, ? avenue; $15.
  9. Main Riding Academy located at 6805 Old Main Street Road. Edit: Main Riding Academy Phone: Hadley 5288
  10. Does anyone re member when the POS opened and closed (years)? They were located @ the SEC of today's 610 and 59, just north of Bellaire. When they were demolished, I retrieved a metal post from a railing surrounding the horse ring. Also, in the late 1970's, Ranch 74 Beef had an outlet there (the stables were already gone). Thanks for responding!
  11. Hello all, I'm looking for information regarding a 1950s restaurant that was located in the Texas Medical Center. The restaurant is called Peter Pan Dude Ranch located at 6504 South Main St. Does anyone have any photographs of the restaurant? Perhaps there is some postcards, or matchbooks of this place? Is anyone old enough to have ate here that can share some stories and memories? Thanks in advance.
  12. I was reading the newspaper The Texas Jewish Herald dated June 12, 1930 and came across a business advertisement for Palace Riding Stables located at 5708 Almeda Road. Palace Riding Stables. P.B. Borden, Owner. Riding and Training Stables. Horses Rented by the Hour. 5708 Almeda Road - Lehigh 9303.
  13. While reading The Thresher dated November 14, 1952 I noticed an article with the term Post Oak Stables. I did some research and found out there used to be both a Polo Association and a stables in a Post Oak Field. I'd love to hear more about this. I know the HPD has their (old) stables on North Post Oak Road. Would that general area be the old Post Oak Stables (and fields)? I believe Jim Abercrombie and Leopold Meyer's Pin Oak Stables was originally located on Post Oak Road? I'll have to find that article again. This might be the original location of Pin Oak Stables. A decade later and the Pin Oak Stables was listed as being on 610/Westpark in Bellaire where the current Pin Oak Middle School, Houston Community College, and Home Depot are.. 5601 W Loop S, Houston, TX 77081. The book "Houston, a history and guide" published in 1942 has this blurb about the fields in Uptown: Polo: Houston Riding and Polo Club, 8M. SW. On Westheimer Rd., Adm. 50c. Post Oak Road Field, across Post Oak Rd. From Memorial Park, Adm. Free. Rice Thresher ad:
  14. Thanks to Ross, I found some cool old stables! The stables are listed in the 1944 city directory. Main Street Road (Old)- From 6800 Main extends to se 1 mile thence southwesterly to Main Bellaire blvd intersects 6805 Main Riding Sables Brays Bayou intersects Wyndale begins (es) 1st begins (es) 2nd begins (es) 3rd begins (es) 4th begins (es) 7331 Dominguez Fred O 7401 Oak View Stables 5th Begins (es) 6th Begins (es) 7th Begins (es) I looked on Google Earth from 1944 and couldn't find anything. I do see a faint, white outline. Could this have been a riding ring that was grown over?
  15. Very cool find! There was another stables down the road called Palace Riding Stables, commonly referred to Hermann Park Stables. Never heard of this one! Thought I would share information with HAIF. Found this in Rice University's yearbook dated in 1945. Parish Boarding and Riding Stables Good Gentle Saddle Horses for Hire 2022 Ewing Ave. / Phone H. 0324
  16. Found this classified advertisement this week. Cool piece of history! from the newspaper The Houston Post dated September 20, 1905. For Sale- Cheap, Carload good mules, horses and mares; can be seen at my stable, foot of Main street and bayou. E.N. Drougel / tf
  17. I don't know if anyone still reads this, but I will give it a shot. I am not old enough to remember playland park, or most of these places, but I do know about the kiddie park with the "tired old ponies" that was over by Braeswood. Kiddie Wonderland was off S. Main and Kirby. I think the actual location was 7800 S. Main, if my memory is correct. In the 80's and early 90's there was a carousel, a train that went around the park, a boat ride, airplane ride, car ride (had all the bases covered), a petting zoo, and the ring on the side for the ponies, who were actually more ornery than tired. There was also one donkey named Jack who pulled a wagon. My favorite horse was Tippy, a brown and white shetland pony who always refused to trot. In about 1989, the carousel got smaller. This is because they sold the one they had to the Texas Renaissance Festival. TRF still uses this carousel, though the horses have been replaced. Kiddie Wonderland had this cute multicolored wooden fence around the front and a little shack where you bought tickets for the rides. Often, 2 adorable little girls could be seen "working" the ticket booth. That place held great memories for me. If anyone is looking for pictures of the place, I have some. I would have to scan them in because they are in a photo album right now, but I can do so easily. Just send me a note and let me know.
  18. Noticed this on a 1950 Sanborn map. Directly across the street from Pershing Middle School. Anyone remember this? The stables would have been active in the 1940s and 1950s. Edit: Looks like, according the Sanborn map, 7004 Stella Link was also stables. Might have been the same Jim McKnight campus? Newspaper article from July 8, 1948: New Owner Opens Stables South Of Bellaire Blvd. Improvements will be made on the stables at 7002 Stella Link Road, recently leased by Jim McKnight. The entire premises will be refurbished, according to Mr. McKnight, and a training ring will be constructed. One of the stable's features, in addition to the boarding and training hoses, is a five-acre riding area.
  19. I was reading the magazine The Cattleman dated September 1950 and came across a full-page business ad for Joe D. Hughes Race Horses and Brahman Cattle located at 7224 Old Main Street Road. Looks like the present-day location is that of Scrubs & Beyond At 7205 Fannin Street. Across from the Lanesborough Apartments. These winners are representative of 20 horses that I have for sale. They are all top performers on the track, where they combine the getaway speed of their Quarter Horse blood with the stamina of their Thoroughbred ancestors. Come by the stables and see these outstanding horses at 7224 Old Main Street Road and see them run at near-by Arrowhead Park Track on any Sunday afternoon.
  20. I was a student at Rice University in the mid eighties, and lived near Westheimer Stables. I would be there every weekend, and most weekday evenings helping out...giving riding lessons, and taking out groups of riders. It was a fantastic place, run by a feisty old redhead named Miss Avis, and her crusty old cowboy husband, John Willoughby. The latter introduced me to team penning, and we went on to win prize money at rodeos all over the state. It was a really happy time in my life...simple and carefree. Needless to say, property developers were always sniffing around the large and perfectly situated site, and it was only a matter of time before Miss Avis was forced to move on. My fondest memory is riding down Westheimer Boulevard to the local Circle K with John W, to pick up his beer...and him insisting that as a rancher, he didn't have to pay tax on the purchase! There would often be a black and white police car parked on a obscured edge of the property, waiting to pounce on any speedsters...and John took great delight in running the cops off his land!
  21. I was reading the newspaper The Texas Jewish Herald dated October 9, 1930 and came across a business advertisement for Houston Riding Academy located at 6503 Almeda Road. Houston Riding Academy Gaited Horses for Rent by the Hour Gaited Saddle Horses For Sale Horses Boarded by The Month Expert Instructions for Beginners Hadley 7757 6503 Almeda Road C.D. Erwin
  22. I was reading the newspaper The Bellaire & Southwestern Texan dated August 10, 1966 and came across an awesome classified regarding Party Hay Rides. Party Hay Rides- Horses stabled, bought, sold, commercial moving. Loma Linda Stables, off 1400 Block South Post Oak. PA 9-9347. A classified ad dated June 30, 1971 featured, what looks like, the owner of the stables. Jo Hargrove. Riding Lessons, $40 per week, or $5 per lesson. 8 a.m. to 12 noon. Loma Linda Stables. Did anyone ever ride here? Or know about the place? I wonder if anyone knows Jo Hargrove? Looks like this was located on South Post Oak Road at Loma Linda Street, close to West Orem Drive. The motel Post Oak Inn is located on the corner of SPOR and LL, with an address of 14702 South Post Oak Road. Might have been around there.
  23. I was browsing the newspaper Jewish Herald-Voice dated 1948 and noticed a business ad for Main Riding Stables located at 7034 Old Main Rd. Hadley 5288 Riding Lessons, Hay Ride Wagon. Rentals. Main Riding Academy Under New Management Mr. Ira L. Nix wishes to announce that he has recently purchased the Main Riding Academy and is now ready to supply Houston's horseback riders with give gaited horses and an hour's ride through Houston's beautiful Hermann Park. Mr. Nix also has the Gulf Coast Stables and has supplied Houston rent horses for the past thee years and found it necessary to expand his business. At the Main Riding Stables special attention is paid to both pleasure and show horses, each stall has tail rails and are completely wires so that all tomes the horses cannot get their heads into the hall to bite the other horses as they are being led by the barn staff as screened to lessen the flies in the summer. Eddie Nix has charge of the training and riding instructions.
  24. I was browsing the newspaper The South Belt Press dated June 28, 1978 and came across a business ad for Kings Hall Stables located at 9655 Hall Road (behind Kirkmont.) Instruction under Capt. Harry E. Whittaker. The current site looks to be a vacant field for water retention? There is also a Private Mini Storage near the area. Are there several types of horse riding? As I am researching the numerous Houston stables I am seeing "English Riding" and "Western Riding." Does anyone remember this place? Share your memories!!
  25. I was browsing the newspaper The Bellaire Texan dated May 13, 1959 and came across this business ad for Parish Stables located at 9825 Old Richmond Road (now Bissonnet Street.) Bellaire had two stables? That's incredible. I guess it really was vacant land back then.
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