tmariar

Does anyone know if the Resurrection Life Fellowship building at 730 E. 11th - not too far west of the instersection of 11th and Studewood - was once a movie theater? And, if so, what it was called?

I'll post this in the Heights subforum for now, but if a moderator wants to move it to Historic Houston, that's fine by me.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3134/3087129975_5dc65e5c09_b.jpg

The Google Images/Life magazine collection also has some color photos of the monorail available for viewing.

Oh yeah! Found them with a "source:life houston monorail" Google Images search.

I didn't realize that there were old Houston photos in the Life Magazine collection that were undated. I probably missed some good ones in that other thread because I just did search after search of "source:life houston 19xx".

Neat article...

There are a few discussions here about it in various threads, and some pictures:

http://www.houstonarchitecture.info/haif/i...?showtopic=5333

Great that J.R. was able to share those Chron photos with us!

You should also check out the monorail photos I linked to here (about 7 lines down in the second list).

Beth Israel synagogue. It was at Crawford and Lamar.

Thanks for the ID, Subdude and Sevfiv. Found the below on Houston History:

I am so curious to know who designed that Bus Center?

I think the 1904 City Hall was designed by George Dickey.

found these addresses out of an old phone book

Cool!

One subdivision pic, tmariar, was Pecan Park, gnu identified it, already.

Thanks! Sorry gnu - just missed that.

Here's another 1946 aerial of downtown to complement the one above.

And another.

Another.

A photo of the intersection of Main and McKinney. The empty lot is where the First Presbyterian church (in the background in this Carnegie Library postcard) had stood - it was destroyed by fire in 1932.

A shot looking over the Foley Bros. construction site, and up the 1100 block toward the bayou.

Area around Sam Houston statue.

Area around the (then) new Navy Hospital.

Another 1946 aerial, of a subdivision I can't identify.

Ditto.

Unidentified street/houses.

House/insurance company.

Stretch of ship channel with some residential.

There are a bunch more than what I've posted here, so y'all should look for yourselves. There are so many different random shots - like Jesse Jones and Glenn McCarthy playing cards - the scope is nearly as broad as the Bob Bailey collection.

i think it's playland park shown here

Thanks. That was my guess, but others know way more about Playland Park than I do.

where and when was there a monorail in houston? i have lived here almost all my life and i don't recall seeing one.

Here is a short piece about Arrowhead Park (on Old Spanish Trail) and the monorail prototype.

Anyone know what the roller coaster is in the background of this monorail shot?

October 17, 1946, Houston Press, p. 5 noted the October 21 issue of Life would feature Houston. I remember I wanted to see if I could find a copy of the mag to see what it said but I never got around to it. I wonder how many of these pics made it into the mag and what the text said.

In the years for which I saw photos of Houston, they were generally on a particular subject. The article in 1946 must have been just a general article about Houston, though, as there were many 1946 photos taken by the same photographer, but of different things around town.

just added a link. think it's to a st called sleepy hollow ct.

Yep - that's got to be it.

What's the squatty building with the dome in the upper left corner of this (1946) picture?

Don't have an answer, but am I right in saying that building is on Crawford, between McKinney and Lamar? I was trying to judge based on where the Texas State Hotel is in the photo.

The photo is dated October 1946; HCAD shows a Sears building listed at 3404 N Shepherd Dr being constructed 1950 (of course, they're notoriously sloppy about dates.)

Could that be the one?

I hadn't thought about that one - I only thought of the Buffalo Drive Sears and midtown (Main St.?) Sears, and had ruled those out. The Garden Oaks Sears is a good guess! Still there, as far as I know.

river oaks....chevy chase at mockingbird....i think.

So is that the driveway to something at the bottom of the photo? It's not as dirty as the street, whatever it is.

I'm guessing the "River Oaks Housing Project" shots (1, 2, 3) might be of the back of the River Oaks shopping center, and then those apartment buildings that were just south of there on Shepherd. But that's just a guess. [Edit: This undated aerial shot makes me more certain that's correct.]

I think you're probably right about the "Street with Traffic" (1946) photo, dbigtex - what was then called Buffalo Drive. Maybe the lanes headed into town are right there but blocked from view by the traffic? Here's a 1956 photo of Buffalo Drive for comparison.

Still don't have a guess on the "neighborhood" photo. Here's an old shot of River Oaks Blvd. for comparison.

south main??

I bet you're right.

Saw this on Swamplot: Google is apparently in the process of adding about 10 million photos from the Life Magazine archives to its images search.

Just looking quickly (using the Google Images search "houston 1946 source:life"), I've already seen some great large 1946 Houston shots I'd never seen before, including:

The old city hall/bus station, and surrounding area.

Christie's Seafood

A view inside the Cotton Exchange

San Felipe Courts/Allen Parkway Village

A Sears store being built

A "McCarthy Center" sign

A sign showing the site for the Ford plant

A sign showing the site for the Medical Center

The Bayou Club

A great aerial

From other years (>1946):

Inside an H&P store

The Goodyear blimp advertising the Shamrock

The Houston Press welcoming MacArthur

Police officer photographing Eisenhower

Houston family during atomic war drill

The family's list of things to do in case of atomic war

The monorail: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

UofH cougar

KILT tower in front, I think, of Joske's

Funeral of last confederate soldier

Soldier when still alive, at age 116 (color)

Survivor of Poe Elementary bombing

Construction of JSC

JFK, Jackie, LBJ at LULAC convention, Nov 63

JFK and Jackie Nov 63

JFK at Houston airport Nov 63

Sammy Davis Jr. at civil rights rally in Houston

1965 crowd at trail ride opening Houston Livestock Show (color)

Mrs. Neil Armstrong at home, after Gemini 8 mission cut short

Room in Astrodome or Astrodome hotel?

Room in Astrodome or Astrodome hotel?

Room in Astrodome or Astrodome hotel?

Hoffeinz office, I think - same

Hoffeinz watching game

Room in Astrodome

Astrodome bowling alley?

Astrodome shooting game?

Astrodome hair stylist?

Mrs. Jim Lovell and friend (color)

Neil Armstrong, 1969, lighting a cigar (color)

Mrs. Buzz Aldrin watching coverage of splashdown (color)

Buzz Aldrin at Astroworld (color)

<1946:

Army convoy passes Houston

"A view of the River Oaks Housing Project" - same title - same - can't tell what these are

I'm sure others will find or be able to identify things I missed or got wrong. I really hope there are more old Houston photos added as the rest of the Life photos come online.

Can anyone tell what's/where's shown in these photos?:

Neighborhood

Boulevard

Street with traffic

Update: I found the above photos using "Houston 19xx source:life" Google Images searches. But it looks as though there are at least some old Houston photos in the collection that don't have a date listed, which wouldn't have come up in my search.

I don't know how long ago they were in there, but some urban explorers have interior photos of the Ben Milam.

If the gambling office area mentioned previously was still there, I guess these guys missed it.

Wonder if there's some urban explorer code along the lines of "take only photos"... hope so.

That definitely fills in some blanks - thanks for posting!

It's hard to tell whether the postcard shows the building after it was supposedly moved back on the lot. But, yeah, clearly the same building.

I'm guessing the crescent-shaped hotel with 100+ rooms and an office finished up in Mexican onyx was never built.

I got a hard copy of Sister Agatha's book for Christmas last year - it's nice to have the hard copy, but I always end up looking things up in it online instead...

So here is a jumble of notes about the Houston Heights Hotel taken mainly from the Galveston Daily News (the source if not otherwise identified) and Sister Agatha's book - if anyone else is ever looking into the topic online, maybe it will save them some time. To summarize, the hotel seems to have been in operation at 345 19th by August 1893, but then closed sometime in 1899. It appears to have served again as a hotel for a few more years in the early 1900's, but was otherwise used for medical services and/or a nursing school until it burned down in 1915. It sounds like photos of the sanatarium should give a pretty fair picture of how the hotel looked.

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An early manager of the hotel was Marshall W. Kennedy (whose house still stands - I hope - at 1122 Harvard).

08-11-1893 - The daughter of Mr. Miller, the new proprietor of the Houston Heights Hotel, was buried this afternoon. The funeral was largely attended.

About 1895 - Rev. B.A. Rogers begins holding non-denominational services in the hotel.

02-05-1895 - Report of a visitor staying at the Houston Heights Hotel.

06-11-1898 - Report of paving of "Houston Heights road" between the Cooley residence and Houston Heights hotel. Crew was also going to extend the road 2

The hotel is long gone. It was at the site of the Senior high-rise on 19th.

I knew the hotel was gone, but I have wondered about its history. The TSHA says that the hotel was converted into the Texas Christian Sanitarium, and I've seen that elsewhere. The sanitarium doesn't really look crescent-shaped - but then, maybe the hotel didn't turn out to be cresent-shaped in the end.

Also, I've seen in a number of places that the hotel was on the NE corner of 19th and Ashland - Carter & Cooley, for example, say that they are located on the former site of the Houston Heights Hotel. Sister Agatha also references the NE corner of 19th and Ashland.

Sister Agatha also mentions, though, that she hasn't found any record of the hotel. I think I might research it a little and see if I can find out more about it and the sanitarium. Seems like I remember reading about a fire at one of the two.

[udpate: More information from Sister Agatha regarding the hotel/sanitarium here. I'm combining that information with some newspaper searches and will post a timeline soon.]

The following is an excerpt from an 1892 newspaper article, in the Galveston Daily News, regarding the construction of Houston Heights. It probably could have gone in the History section as well, but I thought it might be of more general interest here.

MODERN TOWN BUILDERS

A MILLION DOLLARS BEING EXPENDED AT HOUSTON HEIGHTS

Paved Streets, Electric Lights, Waterworks, Sewerage System, Electric and Steam Railways - A Gigantic Enterprise

Wednesday a party of nine ladies and gentlemen went to Houston on the invitation of W.H. Green, general manager, and D.D. Cooley, treasurer of the Omaha and South Texas land company. The party consisted Mr. and Mrs. H.C. Cook, Miss Ada Cook, Mr. and Mrs. D.H. Beatty, Mr. E.H. Porter, Miss M.L. Porter, Mr. J.F. Nadeau and a News reporter. This party was invited on this occasion so that they might see how a modern town is built.

. . . .

The land on which Houston Heights is situated is 1696 acres in area. It is heavily timbered with pine, sweet gum and oak. The land is high and dry, and here it is that money and brains are working together under able generalship to build a town. The following statements are the facts, pure and simple:

Six weeks ago Monday last workmen were started in on this tract to cut out certain lines which had been marked out. Since that time there have been, on an average, 200 men each day employed on the work of town building. Today there are opened and being graded 28

Saw this on Swamplot today - presumably the same project despite the reference to it being on the northeast corner.

Anyone know the location or have a picture of where the Camp Logan Drugstore was located at???

You might ask the member who posted here if he found a photo. Sounds like it was a block west of Wabash Antiques.

The Chronicle is reporting that one of the three bodies found in the storage unit that weren't identified has been identified.

Some additional info, just based on a quick google search:

"Located in West Houston on South Wynden Drive in the West Oaks II Sub. Aka McFee cemetery. The 11/3 acres was decicated as a cemetery in 1874, with one acre called the Morse Cemetery. No markers showing, one base is the only sign that there was a graveyard there at one time. No recorded names or dates at site. May be moved or destroyed. (Houston Chronicle, Dec. 8,1994, Stefanie Asin.)

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From AT REST by Trevia W. Beverly.

Est. by Grace Morse, by 1992 there was only two markers. Lovett Taft, Died Oct. 25,1864; Mary Bragg, Died July 12,1873. Other names that are buried here are Grant, McFee, Morse." [source]

I think some of that information was posted by George E. Wolf, Jr., who I think posts on HAIF as Cemeterywolf. If you PM him, he might have more information.

Also, I hope this isn't a silly question. Would it be okay if I could get some people here in Fort Worth to sign the peteition?

Sorry I haven't been checking this thread - still don't have power.

Would be great if folks outside Houston wanted to sign. Thanks!

Thanks, guys...but I have a 20'er, and I don't even think it will reach. Sort of a weird angle, unless you are at ease climbing on the roof somewhere else. I'm not going to worry about it unless Ike gets > Cat 2. I'm just going to hope that a small opening there isn't enough to get my dormer sucked off the roof houstonhidefromthewind.org (or whatever it is) is only calling for 69 mph winds at present - and I have complete confidence in that

I don't think my ladder is bigger than 20' - I got it home from Home Depot in my convertible with only minor havoc on Yale. I'll check with my Montrose friends tomorrow, but I doubt they have anything bigger. I'm not boarding my windows (inept and lazy), so I can at least offer you moral support.