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On 3/5/2006 at 3:12 PM, sevfiv said:

Instead of dredging up old topics, i thought i'd share these photos here...I found these while browsing through some older volumes of the Houston review:

IAH sky taxi:


the trailblazer (tested at arrowhead park):





a downtown rendering:




The Houston review of history and culture
University of Houston. Center for Public History
Published by the Houston Public Library Board, 1979-97

This snapshot of a film/video clip is of the monorail being installed at Hobby Airport, then called Houston International Airport

Here's a clip from Channel 13 story about a "night in Houston" in 1980, lower Westheimer and Athens bar and grill are shown.

On 5/28/2018 at 10:40 AM, IronTiger said:

Recently, I visited the archives downtown, and I wanted to see what Lower Westheimer was like at its "peak", so I got 1981. I've copied and cleaned up the listings, and I'll be posting up to the 1600 block. Feel free to elaborate on any of them....

 

128 - Houlihans (possibly "Houlahans" as in the directory) [demolished]

202 - Baby Giant Food Store [now Hollywood Food Store]

204 - U-All Wash [demolished?]

209 - Hungry International Sandwich [demolished?]

219 - Damores Restaurant [currently vacant]

220 - Adairs & Doras Flowers (seems like this went under a number of names, all at the same time, including "Jungle Flower Shop", "Flowers by Adair", "Bruces for Flowers", etc.)

223 - L. Bartells Inter(national?) and Dennys Dance Studio

224 - Jade Dragon Restaurant and Ultra Pure (different phone #)

227 - Club L Amour

231 - House of Fun

235 - Dec Art Show Room and Tex Miller (same phone #)

239 - D&L Interior Accents

240 - Diners News

243 - "Continental Villar" and "Serafin Restaurant"

300 - Q-1 Leather Inc.

303 - Tropic Tan

307 - Michelangelo's Restaurant

311 - Sports Locker [demolished?]

322 - Godfather Restaurant [now El Tiempo Cantina]

327 - Burger Bar [later Sacred Heart Studio, now closed]

 

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I saw those articles on the trailblazer monorail. Did a search of the library images and found photo of the Trailblazer monorail and it refers to it as the Goodell Monorail company so I guess they are the same, but the image of what appears to be an old monorail car in the weeds does not look like the ones in photos of the Trailblazer.

Can someone help me on this? Not everything is on google. Trying to get info on the Goodell monorail system that may have been in Houston. I have found info on the Trailblazer by Monorail Inc. Are they the same? I work for Channel 13. I have found a clip from 10-9-64. There is a shot of an old piece of equipment with "Goodell Monorail" stamped on it. There is also a shot of what appears to be an old monorail and monorail car. The story was about a car race near Fondren and Main, but there are these shots of monorail parts that has stumped me.