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I enjoyed the photo. I could see my house in Meyerland, near the mall. I was attending Johnston Jr High at the time of the crash. My parents and other friends parents forbid us to go to the crash site the next day, even though it was close to the bike trail we frequently used along the Chimney Rock ditch. It was 3 or 4 days before I actually made it to the site. By then all the debris was gone and I just remember a large burn area. For months I heard other kids boasting they recovered some small part of the plane as a souvenir, although I can't say I actually ever saw any.

I've still got a piece of the canopy. my best guess is the impact was about where Pontiac St is now and just north of the tree line, which would put it quite a few yards north of N Braeswood St. the whole area had been cleared and would soon be the Meyerland West/Maplewood area. the last paved street east of Chimney Rock is Jason, my buddy lived in house 4 from the corner, I lived in Bellaire. the Chimney Rock ditch was the path to the bayou and wilderness for us. while the channelizing was under construction (already complete in the picture) we would go to the bayou bends cut off by the straightening, but still holding water and fish, and gig frogs, gar, etc and try to sell them to the construction crews.

heard talk of Sand Mountain, but never went.. and am told it was probably near its end by the time I moved to the 'Trose. Am interested in hearing about Sand Mountain if anyone went.

Sand Mountain was a coffeeshop in a house on Richmond Ave. with music on the weekends. Among the regulars there in the late 60s were Guy Clark, John Vandiver, Townes Van Zandt, and Jerry Jeff Walker. performing stage was in the front room, but musicians were hanging around there all the time. if you dropped by on a weeknight with your guitar you might find yourself sitting on the floor in what was once probably the dining room of the house in a guitar pull with one or more of the above musicians.

when Sand Mountain closed Anderson Fair opened and kinda picked up the Sand Mountain vibe, but when Sand Mountain closed it was the end of a scene I still miss 40 years later..

to get this comment back on subject and suburban sprawl type shopping center is not adding value to the neighborhood and only reverves all the good things developers have done in the area.

I hope cinema users flood the parking lots.

actually, as reported in both the SW News and Examiner, but probably not the Chron, the developers made their plans for the Costco known early last fall when they came out publicly against rail on Richmond b/c it will interfere with left turns into the bigass parking lot they plan. it will be hideous, but if you can build a Target on chi-chi San Felipe...

ah well, maybe the tallass lights in the bigass parking lot will shine in the windows of Aftonag's AO palace

well that explains why METRO opted to turn the LRT at Cummins rather than continuing to the UP track