Wallingford

It was originally a Henke & Pillot Supermarket built in the 1950's (Store 18)

There was a large frame house that was near the location of the convenience store on Maxwell Lane. During the 1960's it was owned by an engineering / construction company that kept miscellaneous materials stored there. It was torn down when they cleared the whole tract for the construction of the apartments in 1971. There were several other small homes on Maxwell toward the Freeway, but they were torn down earlier.

The only cemetery near that location was further toward the bayou that appeared to have been abandoned. (would have been behind the homes at the bend of Sylvan / McGregor) The old gravestones were there, but it appeared that the remains had been dug up and relocated. It was pretty creepy because there were large holes at the grave sites that were never filled in.

^{Sounds like the Old Simm's Estate. There's some threads about it. Always looking for some good pictures of it in it's prime. I know they exist, but haven't seen them.}

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Don't know why my picture link went bad... Here's the old picture again.

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A Realtor has to disclose anything they know "without even being asked about it" that would influence someone's decision to purchase real estate. This

is covered in the Texas Deceptive Trade Practice Laws. Although there are several other things that should have tipped someone off 1) Signed seller's disclosure statement that the owner is required to provide, that discloses seller's awareness of any previous flooding problems. 2.) Survey that is required by most mortgages, that would indicate the flood zone and and FEMA flood zone designations. 3.) Property insurance policy would not be issued if proper flood zone binder is not included. History of any previous insurance claims would also come out on a new policy quote. 4.) Any normal home inspection should have been able to uncover any previous flooding damage. Don't know what happened with Krebbs house, but is certainly a shame than anyone has to go through that.

Kreb's house, 1954 N. Macgregor, during IKE.

The original Weingartens was built almost to the corner of Lawndale and 75th. Parking was in the rear. The new strip center

with Weingartens, Eckherts, TG&Y etc was built in the late 60's pushed back from Lawndale to allow the big parking area.

As I recall they didn't tear down the old Weingarten's building until the new one was almost complete behind it.

There are always tradeoffs, but the old vacant Oshman's warehouse and dilapidated buildings on Wayside have hardly been an asset to the area. It’s much better than 28 acres of lower rent apartment buildings.

The location of the original convenience store/ bar is/was very close to that apartment 4 plex bldg. that faced the other road Sylvan. Wallingford or others, do you remember the apartments on Maxwell Lane when they were actually nice ones, probably 1960's?

Yes, the apartments were built in the early 50's and were always very nice until the mid 70's. I knew a girl that lived there and the interiors had nice finsh out. We always visited the apartments at Halloween, because you could visit more doors in a shorter amount of time. Originally there were 4 buildings and one disappeared (maybe a fire?) They had large carports in back and professional landscaping. It's a shame someone didn't maintain them properly.

The large apartment complex off Maxwell Lane to the Gulf Fwy was built in the early 70's and were cheaply built and never maintained properly. We used to have apartment tenants jump our back fence and steal things from our backyard and garage. Never had crime in our area before we were blessed with those cheap apartments.

I heard from a resident who moved there in the 60s that there was a bar on Wayside at Sylvan where the convenience store is now.

There was a convenience type store close to that location with a bar in the back room! It was located behind a gas station that faced Wayside.

Had a pass thru serving bar behind the cashier area. There would be old beer drinkers parked on their bar stools looking over the cashier’s area at the kids buying candy at the counter. It was even creepy then, probably illegal now.

Yes, growing up on Sylvan, it seems like I knew most of the families and every sq/ft of the neighborhood as we explored and played outdoors most of the time. The Anderson's house at 1955 North MacGregor Way, was a most unique home. It overlooked a small lake surrounded by Cypress trees. We spent time on homemade boats and caught many bass and perch. The house was modern style with wrap around overhanging balconies. It was either 3 or 4 stories! (each floor took up less sq/ft). One unique feature was a living Pine tree that was in the Kitchen area, and went up through the roof. Jack and Betty Anderson were the owners, son's John and Justin. Jack was the Architect of the home and Betty operated a beauty parlor that was incorporated into the back side of the home (accessible by a walkway and gate from the main road.

It was located in the original development of Sylvan Dell and not a part of Idlywood.

As I recall there was a bar located on the property at one point, maybe before the home was built. The original lake had been there for many years and was quite scenic. Looking at the property now, you could never tell anything about its unique history.

I understand that the home was featured in a Houston Home or Architectural Magazine in the late 1940’s or early 1950’s when it was new. I haven’t seen pictures of the home, but would like to see any information that anyone would have.

Great picture. I grew up in the house two the right, from 1950's to early 1970's. At that time, there was nothing behind these homes all the way to the Gulf Fwy, except woods and natural grass fields. Behind this home (The Gaskils) there were some large Grapefruit, Pear and Orange Trees. You could get lost in the heavy pine tree areas. In the mid 60's NASA occupied many of the original one story office buildings that were constructed fronting the Freeway. You might also remember the large yellow oil derick that marked the office park. Great area to have grown up, it was like being in the country.

Here's some old pictures of a home under construction 1930's on Sylvan Road in Idlywood.

Would love to see old pictures of this classic neighborhood. (please post)

Regarding the Simms Estate on Wayside drive. I know in the early 1970's it was used as a haunted house for a church group. Large structure with out buildings. The house had an elevator, basement and I think 3 stories. Does anyone have pictures or links to more detail on the home in it's prime? I know at one point it was featured in the Houston Country Club Newsletter, but the links to old issues are no longer active.

I remember the house at the intersection of Wheeler and Telephone Road. In the early 1960's it was open as a Museum that had Oil Industry

releated items. We toured it several times as a Cub Scout outing.