The Buffalo Town house made a big impression me when I was a kid back in the nineteen forties and early fifties, because It had a round building in front that i assume was the restaurant. This was the first time I saw modern architecture in Houston and it was the beginning of a life-long love affair I've had with the modern architecture from that period. More impressive than the building was a futuristic three-wheeled car that I often saw parked in front of the Buffalo Town House. The car was streamlined like a rocket ship and it looked like something out of a science fiction movie. In those days, there was no other car in Houston that was anything like it. I never forgot the Town House, or that car, and fifty years later I was able to find the car on the Internet. It is called a Davis Divan and it was only produced for a few years after WWII until the Davis company went bankrupt. Davis Motors was one of those post war start-up car companies that didn't survive, much like the Tucker Motor Company. The Tucker car's engineering was years ahead of it's time, but the Tucker car's styling didn't hold a candle to the modernistic space-age looks of the Davis Divan. With advanced features like disappearing headlights, this car will still turn heads on the road today, so you can imagine how incredible it looked to a kid seventy years ago. If anyone knows who owned that car and how it came to Houston, or what became of it, then please post the story on this site for all of us to read.
Town House Motel/Buffalo Motel At 3011 Allen Pkwy.
in Historic Houston
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The Buffalo Town house made a big impression me when I was a kid back in the nineteen forties and early fifties, because It had a round building in front that i assume was the restaurant. This was the first time I saw modern architecture in Houston and it was the beginning of a life-long love affair I've had with the modern architecture from that period. More impressive than the building was a futuristic three-wheeled car that I often saw parked in front of the Buffalo Town House. The car was streamlined like a rocket ship and it looked like something out of a science fiction movie. In those days, there was no other car in Houston that was anything like it. I never forgot the Town House, or that car, and fifty years later I was able to find the car on the Internet. It is called a Davis Divan and it was only produced for a few years after WWII until the Davis company went bankrupt. Davis Motors was one of those post war start-up car companies that didn't survive, much like the Tucker Motor Company. The Tucker car's engineering was years ahead of it's time, but the Tucker car's styling didn't hold a candle to the modernistic space-age looks of the Davis Divan. With advanced features like disappearing headlights, this car will still turn heads on the road today, so you can imagine how incredible it looked to a kid seventy years ago. If anyone knows who owned that car and how it came to Houston, or what became of it, then please post the story on this site for all of us to read.