JLWM8609 Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 I've been in Riverside all my life, and my parents have lived in the neighborhood since 1979. My mom is a native Houstonian (from Studewood), but I've never heard her, or anyone for that matter refer to any part of the area as "Sugar Hill". I came across that while reading a portion of the Winter 1981 edition of a journal published about the desegregation of the Riverside/Riverside Terrace/Washington Terrace areas. So, where exactly is "Sugar Hill" in Riverside? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahiki Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 I've been in Riverside all my life, and my parents have lived in the neighborhood since 1979. My mom is a native Houstonian (from Studewood), but I've never heard her, or anyone for that matter refer to any part of the area as "Sugar Hill". I came across that while reading a portion of the Winter 1981 edition of a journal published about the desegregation of the Riverside/Riverside Terrace/Washington Terrace areas. So, where exactly is "Sugar Hill" in Riverside?I was told that my neighborhood used to be called "Sugar Hill." I'm at Live Oak and Calumet, right near Riverside Park. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
millennica Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 I've been in Riverside all my life, and my parents have lived in the neighborhood since 1979. My mom is a native Houstonian (from Studewood), but I've never heard her, or anyone for that matter refer to any part of the area as "Sugar Hill". I came across that while reading a portion of the Winter 1981 edition of a journal published about the desegregation of the Riverside/Riverside Terrace/Washington Terrace areas. So, where exactly is "Sugar Hill" in Riverside?Not living in Houston, I can't speak to whether the Riverside/Riverside Terrace/Washington Terrace area has an area called "Sugar Hill", but if it does/did, it wouldn't surprise me as there are many US cities that had Black middle class sections of neighborhoods that carried the moniker "Sugar Hill". Some of these include a section of Harlem around St. Nicholas Avenue, a section of Roxbury (a predominantly Black neighborhood in Boston), near the Franklin Park Zoo, where I owned a house, the Druid Hills area of Baltimore, MD, and the West Adams neighborhood of Los Angeles which in early 1940s as successful African-American entertainers moved into West Adams Heights was dubbed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marmer Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 FWIW, Sugar Hill Recording Studio is just south of OST near the Wayside intersection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicman Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 So, where exactly is "Sugar Hill" in Riverside?i think the term is a generic one where blacks tended to congregate to live the good life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crunchtastic Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 i think the term is a generic one where blacks tended to congregate to live the good life.Makes sense. Like 'working for Uncle Sugar' . All through the south it refers to getting a taste of the good life because you got a safe job with the government, the military, or a contractor. I've heard it used by white and black people, but mostly black. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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