jupitercrisis

Wow. How I LOVE this forum!

Amazing stuff. Thanks for all the great info...there are some very

valuable and resourceful people on this site.

Jupiter, can you tell where you are presently residing vs. the old maps??

How cool is that?!

Well, yes. I know where I am (was..sigh)located based on the map. Harty is now Service. Elizabeth, I guess, is now Tabor.

I live in Meyerland now.

The John Austin map show volume 32 page 97. This would be the plat map of the subdivision. You can look at that map at Harris County Deed Records at 102a San Jacinto. That plat map may contain the deed record and the original owner's name. Is that directly behind the Farmer's Market?

John Austin Block Book with Sapp Gardens

man, you *are* the master of old school. thank you SO much.

oh, and yes, just behind it. the area is SO strange. busted houses on one end, gorgeous ones on the other.

there's a farmers' market and a jewish cemetary. the bayou, 2 freeways, a pony farm...

I just moved to the area between airline and North Freeway and just a hair south of 610.

We're not in the heights, and the only mention of a 'neighboorhood' I can find is just on MLS listings as "Sapp Gardens" but no where else! Can anyone maybe shed a little light on where I live, and lend some identity to my area?

I'm wondering if anyone has a resource on how freeways were constructed in their inceptions. I don't mean the physical construction, but how decisions were made where to build, what would get torn down, early expansions, etc.

hey

dont take it so damn personally you guys.... :?

i guess there isnt much for a person like myself to do in the city, except for the museums we have.

anyways, each city has something that defines itself, something unique. i just thought Houston, for being the "4th biggest city" in the USA would have a distinct personality/culture from other cities.

More or less, its just a commercial city.

dont freak and take it so personally.

btw - is this board mostly filled with architects or engineers?

Got into this argument before. Houston's culture is that we don't have a definable culture.

I've met dudes in other cities that were all "Oh, have you been down Harwin near Hilcroft? Man, their Indian food is like my family's" of course, I tell them, typically, their food is cooked by someone of Mexican/Hispanic Decent, and they say "Only in Houston!" or "Only in such a big city so close to the border! It's still so good!"

There's nothing to do in many cities. I went to Boston for 5 days and, yeah, walking around's pretty bad ass, and it was nice that I could get around on foot. But by the fifth night, I was like "yeah, just like any other place" - cept I flew to Boston from A&M, where A&M has a stature of a confederate soldier and the Commons has a monument to Union Soliders..

Oh, yeah, and that whole "tallest tower surrounded by grass" thing is pretty awesome.

and if one really wants to pull themselves up by the bootstraps, Bryan, TX always worked for me.

yep, this map shows bissonet turning into richmond road:

http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/arc/maps/images/map0436.jpg

what a neat map! I'm living out in "tom ball" right now..kinda wish it was still two words.

makes me want to study planning and development. but I don't want to do it in any other city.

I lived in Larchmont for a while during the summer and the roommate I had lived there most of her life. I had a bicycle and rode to work at westpark and buffalo. I think it would be a good starter area, and that roommate graduated Lee. Said it didn't used to be so bad.

Does anyone know the history of Bissonnet and how it came to be? EVERYTHING else around there pretty much is all N-S, E-W oriented and then BOOM, there's Bissonnet.