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  1. TexasFreeway.com
    When you sell your house you are required to disclose if anyone died in the residence. You are also required to disclose if a ghost resides in the house. I doubt if most people admit to a death in the house. I'm pretty sure I would admit to the ghost part.
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    I remember when Sakowitz closed the downtown store and consolidated to the Galleria location. I was a kid and worked to help move the phone system. We got to rumage through what was left downtown. My parents still have a set of silver flatware used in the restaurant. One of my chores was to crawl through the 30 foot ceiling and drop telephone lines to the cashier stations below.
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    I made some phone calls. You are right Eldridge Parkway was built on top of the old Addicks-Fairbanks Road. The area to the east was a temporary re-alignment used during construction. As a side note...historicaerials.com has some nice aerials of Addicks-Fairbanks Road back to 1957.
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    Actually the old alignment of Addicks-Fairbanks Road is only a few yards to the east of Eldridge Parkway. Check out my page on the subject http://www.texasfreeway.com/Houston/historic/abandoned/Addicks-Fairbanks/images/Houston-Addicks-Fairbanks-Abandoned.html Ron
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    TX-6 from I-10 to US-290 was FM-1960. For the most part FM-359 from US-90A to Hempstead was TX-6. (Info verified by TxDOT highway designation database)
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    I found a photo in the Life photos in Google images which appears to show the turn of the spur to Rice. U. http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f?q=HOUSTON+source:life&prev=/images%3Fq%3DHOUSTON%2Bsource:life%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Dactive&imgurl=7636d355e3c3a176
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    I came across a couple of photos title "Hermann Park Reservior" while on a photo hunt. Has anyone heard of it and have any more info? Here is a link to the page. http://www.houstonarchitecture.com/Building/2779/Hermann_Park_Reservoir.php
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    German Church in Addicks I read in the Chronicle a while back that this church will be torn down by developers. What a shame.
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    Here are some photos of the old home place taken back in January of 2004. http://www.texasfreeway.com/stock/MeyerHomePlace/
  10. TexasFreeway.com
    We have plenty of other places to build on. How about tear down Meyerpark and put up a complex.
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    We don't all share that opinion. I enjoyed walking around the old property. I would to see it become a natural park.
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    You are close. It is across Braes Bayou from the old Fluor building (now Aramco/condos). It's bordered by Braes Bayou on the north, IH-610 on the west and south, and Willow Bayou on the east. The garage was still standing until the early '80's. If you want to visit the original two gates face the west bound frontage road of IH-610.
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    I have explorer and photographed the property. The foundation of the house and garage are still there. the house was roughly the same shape as the old Astrohall. The was(is) a fish pond out side the front door (south side of the old house). The old pond mainly grows weeds, but is still full of water. The driveway still circles around through the property. The shower of the main bath had the old baby poop yellow tile on the foundation. I plan to add a small section on TF on the property, because of its relation to IH-610. I will pull some of the photos from storage disk and post them.
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    If you check out Google Earth or Maps you can still see the oval at the southeast corner of S. Main and Hillcroft.
  15. TexasFreeway.com
    Not all of the City of Houston falls within Harris County.
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