FilioScotia

Generally speaking, your chances of winning a prize are inversely proportional to the value of the prize. If the prize is a pair of concert or baseball game tickets, they're easy. The cheaper the prize, the better the odds. They'll give away dozens of tickets in the weeks leading up to the event. If they're giving away a big prize like a Jeep Cherokee or a Love Boat cruise to the Caribbean, all entries go into a hopper for a single drawing with only one winner.

It's true. The Kellum-Noble house has been there since 1847. The other old houses in Sam Houston Park were moved from their original sites.

Here's a link to more information about the Kellum-Noble House. It's owned by the Houston Heritage Society, and it's open for public tours.

http://www.heritagesociety.org/knoble.html

My wife's family bought groceries at the L&C on Memorial several blocks west of Gessner.

I fear you are at least 20 years too late. There were plenty of examples of what you're seeking back in the 80s, but things are a lot different now. Houston is now riding the crest of the biggest building boom in its history. People are pouring into Texas and Houston by the thousands every month. 

Homebuilders can't build new homes fast enough and I've heard reports of used houses selling so fast that dueling house-hunters are submitting competing bids for the house they want. It is definitely a seller's market.

I could be wrong, but I don't believe you will find any abandoned neighborhoods or townhouse complexes anywhere in the Greater Houston area. Here's what the City of Houston says about all this:

CITY OF HOUSTON BUILDING PERMITS

The City of Houston issued building permits totaling $5.88 billion in the 12 months ending November ’13, a 21.7 percent increase over the $4.83 billion issued during the 12 months ending November ’12. Residential permits increased by 18.9 percent, non-residential permits 23.3 percent.

Hope you have a great holiday too.

Lockmat:  Apparently he said it to David Barron for publication in the Chron. One of the cardinal rules in any business, but ESPECIALLY the broadcasting business, is that YOU DO NOT BURN THE BRIDGE. Personality radio is a shaky and uncertain business, and it's possible that you might want to come back. You just can't predict what twists and turns your career will make, so you always want to leave on good terms with the people in position to hire you back. You might need them some day.

I speak from experience because I went through that early in my own radio career. I left KPRC Radio in 1973 to work at the Texas State Network in Fort Worth, and less than a year later I was regretting it. It just didn't work out the way I hoped it would and I wanted out. Lucky for me my old boss at KPRC had an opening and rehired me.

Innes can only hope he never finds himself wishing he could return to KILT because it ain't gonna happen.

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Wow. What a guy. What a classy way to make your exit. He just couldn't resist a parting shot. He says he's leaving because he can't stand working with Rich Lord anymore. Well, I'm betting Rich feels the same way about him and he's not shedding any tears over it. 

Innes is so eaten up with himself that he apparently doesn't care that he's burning the bridge. Rich is one of the best sports call-in guys in the country, and he'll miss Innes about as much as he'd miss a hemorrhoid.

Innes is the reason I stopped hated listening to KILT when he was on the air. I think he will fit right in up in Philly because the fans there are as obnoxious and outspoken as he is. They won't take his crap for a minute. He's in for a shock.

Actually, it was two streets, both in the area known as Freedmen's Town, a community founded and built by former slaves just west of downtown Houston. 

Here's a link to the newspaper article you mention.

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/New-plan-would-leave-brick-streets-undisturbed-1530969.php

As someone who grew up in east Harris County, who thought he knew everything worth knowing about the San Jacinto Battleground, I am embarrassed to admit I did not know there is an "active" family cemetery right there in the big middle of it. By "active", I mean people are still being buried there. 

I learned this in an obituary I saw in the Pasadena Citizen online edition this week. It says Mrs Frances Shuttlesworth of Pasadena was buried alongside her husband the Rev. Bill Shuttlesworth in the Habermehl Cemetery on the San Jacinto Battleground.

I Google searched that cemetery name, and learned, to my surprise, that it is right alongside the reflecting pool about halfway between the monument and the Battleship Texas. And it has been there since the late 1800s, some years before the Battleground State Historic Site was created around it in the early 1900s. I went to Google Earth, homed in on the Battleground, and there it is, a small cemetery, plain as day, a long par four from the monument.

On the Habermehl Cemetery website we learn that the "I.W. Brashear family sold the land to Conrad Habermehl in 1860. This tract of land includes the central portion of the park and several rows of graves nearby. The Habermehls built a two-story home on their property. And near the graves there was once a stable and dairy shed. The vegetables and dairy products produced by the Habermehl's were often traded to the sailors of the ships which came up Buffalo Bayou, as well as sold in Lynchburg." 

The website also includes a listing of the people buried there. It shows the first person to be buried there was Caroline Habermehl, who died in 1890. The most recent burial, before Mrs Shuttlesworth, was in 1978.

I had a bad experience with the "new and improved" Radio Info too, but nowhere near as bad as what happened to Bruce. I'm delighted to see HAIF create a Houston Radio message board, and I hope it proves to be as informative and as much fun as the "old" Radio Info boards were. I also hope the word will spread around town so Radio Info refugees will learn of it.

So why not Houston radio?  hmmm?

I'll miss checking it every day, but OMG!! How will I keep up with the Lubbock radio market in the Texas Radio message board? There are (were?) times when Lubbock radio was the only topic on that board for weeks on end. Seriously, I'll miss some of the regular Houston posters, but not all of them.

Master of the obvious that I am, it seems clear to me that the recent makeover drove a lot of regular contributors away.

Hey Brucie -- Maybe we can keep the Houston Radio discussions going here on the HAIF, at least until somebody starts a new local radio board.   Hint hint.

Judging from the old 1950s photo and the latest as seen on the Tommie Vaughn Ford website, the old dealership building has either been torn down and replaced, or it has had a complete makeover. I lean toward makeover.

Thanks for that late 1950s photo of Tommie Vaughn Ford on N. Shepherd.  It was probably taken a year or two after Vaughn moved his dealership from a location on North Main to North Shepherd. 

I love the story of Tommie Vaughn. He was a college football hero at A&M, flew bombers in WWII, got into the car business after the war and opened a Houston dealership that's still family owned and doing business nearly 60 years later. He was also active in all kinds of civic stuff, and when he died he was one of Houston's best-loved citizens. Sadly, they don't make men like Tommie Vaughn anymore. Check out his story on their website.

http://tommievaughnford.com/Heritage-History/

I could be wrong, but I think Tommie Vaughn is the oldest car dealer in Houston, and maybe the last one that's been family owned since the beginning.

For Vertigo58

At the time it was just the Rice Hotel. The name Rittenhouse was added in the 70s. That name went away when the hotel closed in 1977.

My father and I were at that historic meeting of Houston ministers to see JFK defend his beliefs and, if elected, promise they would never affect his decisions as President. It didn't seem "historic" at the time, but it was. That didn't become apparent until much later.

The event was held for the benefit of ministers, and the room was filled with them, but the general public was also allowed in, so Dad and I got there early and got good seats up close.

I have an American Political History book that has a photo of JFK taken that night. The photog was standing off on the side of the rostrum looking over JFK's shoulder out at the audience, and my dad and I are clearly visible several rows out. I was 17 and had just started my senior year at Pasadena HS.  

It's just a TV show, and fictitious at that. Who cares?  Besides, this show's people never came anywhere near Houston. I didn't see this episode, but I know they can do things with computers and green screens you wouldn't believe. They can make their actors appear to be anywhere in the world without ever leaving the studio.

It's called The Virtual Backlot. Here's a video that shows how it's done. You really can't believe anything you see on TV anymore.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clnozSXyF4k

I'm going to assume that you deliberately misspelled that as a joke, and I'm assuming you know the title was "The Andromeda Strain." 

Since you say you were there with your date, maybe you and she didn't pay much attention to the movie.
 

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Have you considered pursuing a M of UP from one of the online universities?  Any number of major schools offer the degree you want online.  Here are the top ten.

http://www.thebestcolleges.org/the-10-best-graduate-programs-in-urban-and-regional-planning/

It's a sad commentary, but a degree from TSU won't open very many doors for you, whereas, a degree from any of those top ten universities will open the world up for you. The only advantage TSU might offer is the cost. You'll pay less to attend TSU than practically anyplace else.

Across El Camino Real from the Clear Lake Shopping Center.

http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/29309

If you can't find them on YouTube you won't find them anywhere. As a general rule, TV stations don't make tapes of their newscasts available to the general public. The only exceptions are in the cases of tapes subpoened by lawyers for use in a case they're handling.

You will also find that most TV stations don't archive their newscasts back that far because those big tape reels and video tape boxes take up a lot of space. Every now and then someone at one station or another will put some newscasts on the Internet, but that's rare.

Ah yes. The "old" 290.  Thanks.

I don't know who you are oldpaint, but your posting says all that needs to be said about PJ Proby.

I'm convinced that Proby himself is the one who keeps logging in here under different names praising himself to high heaven, in second person of course. Nobody else would do it, so he has to do it himself.

I expect him to respond to oldpaint any time now with one of those laments about getting no respect in his home state.

Houston had discos, but nothing like Studio 54. Houston was, and still is, somewhat "tame" compared to NYC.

And yes there were and still are "singles" bars.  It will come as a shock to our friends back east but Houston has had paved streets since the 19th century.

I think the place you mention did become Teen Hall in the late 50s, because I distinctly remember the DJ's would always give the address on Grand Blvd when they were promoting their upcoming appearances there.

Yes Paul Berlin from KNUZ was one of the DJ's who frequently spun his stacks of wax there. I also remember Arch Yancey from KNUZ,  and Russ "Weird Beard" Knight from KILT.