Houston Jewelry Company

[Rex]

This is a link to http://houstonjewelry.com/movieshome.phpwhere Houston Jewelry has posted links to 'home" video which were shot in the stores in the mid 1980's at both the Milam and Rusk location and the 9633 Westheimer location.  These videos were taken by employees in the electronics department.  Later videos include those taken since 1993 at the current location of 9521 Westheimer. 

 

This is a link to the company's history page http://houstonjewelry.com/our-history.php

[Subdude]

Cool videos.  Thanks for posting!  I really don't remember the Milam/Rusk location, although I do remember them being in the First City building.  

[Rex]

We sold the Milam & Rusk building [which was the original Star Furniture location] in mid 1983....the building remained vacant until about four years ago when a Subway was put in... We left the First City [Fannin & Clay] in 1990. 

 

There are a few hundred images of the old stores starting in 1953,  on our facebook page under phot albums https://www.facebook.com/HoustonJewelry/

 

[Shamrock1949]

We have recently scanned and posted to https://www.houstonjewelry.com/catalogs.php all of the complete catalogs from 1954 to 1991.  These catalogs feature exterior images of the old store locations at Main & Rusk [1953-1955], The Houston Club Building [1955-1966], 802 Milam & Rusk [1966-1984 , Fannin & Clay [1984-1990], and 9633 Westheimer [1973-1992].  These files are all searchable, and feature thousands of jewelry and household consumer items over a forty year period.