jbird Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 my parents moved into new house across from Feld Park in 1947....Gordan Elementary was still a rice field...when it opened u had to walk along a board walk to keep dry after a rain. Mom could look out kitchen window..toward Bellaire Blvd and see the buses...for us boys, riding bikes to Teas Nursery was an adventure...like going out to the country. This was baby boom time so on our one block street there must have been at least 75 kids....easy to get up several baseball or football teams to play at Feld Park or to organize "gangs" for building Christmas tree forts.....lots of good memories of old Bellaire.....lucky enough to raise a couple of kids later on in what was "The City of Homes"............ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle C Posted October 9, 2016 Share Posted October 9, 2016 I have some pictures of old Bellaire from the 50's. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UtterlyUrban Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 Thanks for posting those two images. I love looking at old images like those. It seems to me that one of those Images (the first) is older than the second, just from the loom of the cars? I'm sure that the folks that know all about vintage cars will pipe in.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mollusk Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 The newest cars in the top one are '47 or '48 (kinda hard to tell on either of them) - a Dodge or DeSoto at the front left, and a Buick Sedanette on the right. The bottom picture is likely from late '57 or very early '58 - there are a couple '57 Chevies and a '57 Ford, and the monster with the strange black roof profile is a '58 Lincoln. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 Those are great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fringe Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 Great pics. My wife picked up a copy of this book at the Bellaire (McHugh?) Tea Room a few months ago. Has some really great pictures of old Bellaire and Southwest Houston if anyone's interested. http://www.bellairebook.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nate4l1f3 Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 I'm the first pic is that by the Starbucks on S Rice? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle C Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 The first picture in on Cedar street looking east toward Rice. the building on the far left across the street from the Conoco sign is still standing today. The second picture if the Bellaire circle Shopping Center at 5300-5317Bissonnet 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle C Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 Some more Bellaire pictures. The first picture is the A&P on Bissonnet between Rice and Cedar About where the HEB is now located. The second is Madding's Drug store at the Bellaire Triangle. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
august948 Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 On 10/9/2016 at 4:43 PM, Michelle C said: I have some pictures of old Bellaire from the 50's. I believe you could fit a Prius in the trunks of some of those cars in the second picture. Ahh... the good old days. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiderroller Posted October 31, 2016 Share Posted October 31, 2016 Wow. I had no idea there was any other Valians location beyond the one on Main. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue92 Posted November 15, 2016 Share Posted November 15, 2016 On 10/30/2016 at 8:22 PM, spiderroller said: Wow. I had no idea there was any other Valians location beyond the one on Main. There was also on on Shepard Dr. just south of I believe Alabama. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kajunteddy Posted November 25, 2016 Share Posted November 25, 2016 Looking for someone to refresh my memory. Im trying to remember a cafeteria that was in the Bellaire Shopping Center on Bellaire Blvd. It was a family name, not Luby's Wyatt's or Piccadilly..........I want to say it started with an 'S'....or possibly an 'A'.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkultra25 Posted November 25, 2016 Share Posted November 25, 2016 1 hour ago, kajunteddy said: Looking for someone to refresh my memory. Im trying to remember a cafeteria that was in the Bellaire Shopping Center on Bellaire Blvd. It was a family name, not Luby's Wyatt's or Piccadilly..........I want to say it started with an 'S'....or possibly an 'A'.... Allbritton's. They were a local, family-owned cafeteria that had several locations in Houston, including the one you remember at 3835 Bellaire Blvd. The last remaining one was on Waugh and closed in 1996. More info from a Chron article at the top of this page: https://www.flickr.com/photos/30502755@N06/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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