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I finished in 96 but got to know Aldine folks in college....I can't speak for the 70s but Aldine High was a monster in the 80s and 90s and I know for a fact that had alot to do with Acres Homes even though I thought it was closer to Booker T. still....

Ike began to benefit more from folks moving into apartments on Antoine and the demographic change off 249 as folks I knew lived right across the street from an Aldine hood' on Ella and Gulf Bank were sent there...Ike began to be a force in the 90s and it also helped that Scarborough High sucked and the better talent just went down the street

MacArthur was up-and-down during my time as all I remember was Odell James....but I had a good friend who lived in Pine Trails off 59 who to this day is upset they weren't zoned to North Forest

Klein Forest began to make its run also thanks to the back side of Acres Home at that time....I used to date someone off of Alabonson and she lived 2 blocks from Ike in Inwood West but 3 miles from Klein Forest...

its a shame that area was split like that.....wish folks would've fought it then as imagine a Carver High that had community support...

help me out...why was Acres Home zoned to Aldine ISD and then had kids bused to 3 different high schools within the district? Then you have part zoned to HISD and then the part to Klein for desegregation purposes

Why wasn't Carver kept as a functional high school as it made sense to keep kids there than to transport them all across the district as I remember kids who lived right across the street going to Ike and some to Aldine...

Outside of athletic purposes, which benefited Aldine High instantly, why wasn't Acres Home left alone instead of splitting it up?

When I was at BB they resigned their lease for at least another year....

as for Wal-mart....why close? That's a highly trafficked place and there's no other Wal-Mart until you get to Pearland to the east, west airport and 59 to the west, missouri city to the south and dunlavy to the north or now Silber and I-10.....its always packed so I doubt it closes unless they plan to move to vacant land nearby

Why did Chilis close?

Olive Garden would be safest choice as the closest one is OST and Main or 59 South...Carinos doesn't have much name value and Chedars would be choice #2

they can't come near my area as they said we don't have enough services for them to survive....lol....the one I actually jumped up for joy for not having a grocery store...

those developments will get the green light if a bus line is nearby, roads, adequate retail and little community backlash....they're not coming into the Loop and areas with old apartments don;t want them so these ripe suburban areas with no zoning are the perfect area

From what an employee told me at Lubys........new concept restaurant in front, parking lot in back

part of it was black also....near the park as I remember a bbq stand being there on Pickett Street

white flight is why Houston is the way it is now....

They run, build, only to run again leaving behind massive empty tracts of real estate from South Park to Pearland

HISD built schools to accomodate white flight but those schools sit empty now and the reason why the district is what it is...

Fort Bend, Aldine, Spring branch, etc. is/ha gone thru the same...

it never was bad to begin with....the movie theatre never was updated when the next wave of stadium seating came in while the rest of the businesses depended on the traffic from the theatre

that Wal Mart does record business so I'm not surprised it's coming...

I grew up in a minority setting as the original folks I assumed felt threatened when my parents and peers moved there in the 70s as they had college degrees and sought the American dream...we had a great thing going until the other half of the district felt threatened...regardless

All I'm saying, urban, suburban, etc..unless you live in Santa Fe, Texas, diversity is the norm now as people of all races will move anywhere

The bottom line is 1960 is an area that's easily desirable

I agree totally....try doing business with them..lol

What has happened to Love 94? 98.5? Help me!!!

102 is generic or corporate R&B......they play the same damn songs over and over and over and over....on Friday's, they used to bring in a live DJ who would spin stuff they refuse to play but I think he's gone also...how many times can someone play Maxwell, Jenifer Hudson, etc. in a day?

Before 97.9, 102.1 was the station to listen to as they played all types before shifting rap to 97.9...102.1 still played a great variety of music before the corporate takeover and bland hosts

97.9? Don't even listen to it...

KCOH 1430 plays the best variety as they'll spin some tunes but it's an AM signal and won't play music until 2 to 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 5 a.m....but KCOH has been for sale forever so it could go any day..

nope...it won't....We went from having no wal-marts until you get to either Meyer Park or Tidwell and 290 to 3 within 10 miles in the loop...lol

I-10 & Silber

I-10 & Yale

I-45 & Crosstimers/Fulton

Thanks!!

Didn't Aldine ISD just recently receive a big national award for being the best urban school district in the country? It would appear possible that white flight somehow yielded educational opportunities for poor brown-colored children.

Come on...Aldine and Klein ISDs carved into african american neighborhoods more than a Thanksgiving turkey...just look at the attendance maps and you'll see that one area split into three districts....then you got kids on one street going to schools further than they need to, etc...no one banked on blacks getting out and moving north while hispanic population soared..

urban whatever....1960 is what it is because people took advantage of direct access via roads and buses...if you got to blame someone for changing things....blame the real estate developers (mostly white)...throwing up tons of apartments and building small homes that were extra affordable (Lincoln Green, etc.)

anyone with a brain realizes those areas will turn quickly

I saw the ad also....but it's supposed to be pairied with some ice cream place also

I remember the Highway 6 one...lol....yes, it would take forever..

I used to live behind Willowbrook Mall in the apartments there for some years.....quiet, enjoyable but I alwasy wondered how fast the 249 development south of the beltway would penetrate the area as I drove out there recently and that's a perfect example of no zoning going wild....

Now that I moved..I see Greens Road going all the way through which will kill whatever privacy that was back there...

all the major streets from I-45 and Acres run straight thru to 1960 so development was forthcoming years ago...however, no zoning killed any uniformity...

but lets be real also....the residents who started these neighborhoods off I-45, etc. only to run north aren't manking things any better by running away....

just look at how they left Aldine ISD

if Morton Ranch is considered ghetto...I must have grew up in Iraq then

We get the Whole Foods but is a steep price attached?

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/6865596.html

Some developers are still moving forward with projects. The Finger Cos. has applied for a building permit and hopes to start construction later this year on a complex at the corner of Waugh and West Dallas. Finger expects the project to be financed through a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development program.

not many.....most came from my mom's hometown of Opelousas, Louisiana and moved further down the freeway to Pleasantville off I-10 and market....5th ward is ripe for development

the kids of those folks now live everywhere else towards the beltway in humble, mo. city, etc.

same type mall that was at west airport and Highway 59 with a federated, movie theatre etc. that closed down

just imagine if you ever had to live in South Park if Eaglewood is considered rough

anything close that's affordable will have its problem in that area of Sugarland as it's the alief spillover...

ugh.....the blonde girl traffic type wins again.....laura reynolds does nothing for me on 610...glad I work against traffic

how many times do I need to repeat this....if a major street from a majority african american /hispanic neighboorhood runs into an affluent neighborhood and there's bus lines, affordable housing along the way.....the affluent area will change...

Veterans Memorial is the sole reason 1960 is what it is..you start in Acres Home and work your way north...but as you drive past the beltway towards 1960 (especially behind that shipley's), someone built some cheap developments years ago that eventually caused people who grew up there to move north when they got older

if anything, the greedy developers who may not live near these areas cause half the problems

not a surprise...please watch out

mass transit plus cheap apartments = decline....not hard to figure out..

also, I've said this many times...run a major street from a predominately african american/hispanic area to a suburban area that has affordable housing, the area will change easily...

veterans memorial goes straight thru to 1960

humble borders a huge hispanic area and african american area of of 59 and you see how that area has changed

fondren area has a bunch of homes that people will never get money back for, but it's accessible to everywhere on the south side

Pearland, mock my words, will be the biggest bust for people who own expensive homes....you see the crime reports and Pearland borders South Park, Sunnyside, etc. with Cullen and Telephone running straight through

I always thought backroom deals were cut between reps from the towns on 290 past Hempstead/Brenham that prevented any type of freeway system...

they've upgraded the roads in giddings, etc. but they don't go on and just create a legitimate system?

used to live in Tomball...right in front of the hospital....what will be interesting is will the new high school take on an "elitist" mentality considering where it is at and it's proximity to Cy-Fair ISD and Klein ISD...

Fort Bend ISD is a perfect example how they quickly label high schools by where they are at

Growth has helped Katy....your only as good as what moves in....