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Does anyone know what became of the movie theater that was once in Baybrook mall? I think there was a restaurant close to the theater, away from the food court. What became of that? Thanks for any info.

Southmore Hospital was located on a street named Southmore. The hospital closed in 1999, it was sold to HCA who bought it and immediately closed it (they didn't want the competition). Pasadena General Hospital was located on Pasadena Blvd. I believe that street was once named Tatar. Pasadena General was renamed once or twice. I don't know if it has closed or not.  Red Bluff Hospital was located near the intersection of Red Bluff and Pasadena Blvd. I don't remember when it closed. 

If memory serves me correctly, there was a Chi Chi's on 45 South in front of Baybrook mall. An Olive Garden later occupied the building when Chi Chi's closed. The Olive Garden is now on the opposite side of the street.

Were there residential houses directly in front of MD Anderson hospital during the 70's? I remember a parking lot being in front of the hospital and the area I'm curious about would have been directly across the street from the parking lot.

Thanks, FilioScotia,

Do you happen to know if the new name caught on or was it still referred to by locals as Red Bluff hospital? I'm from Pasadena,but I cannot remember. I'm old enough to remember that Burkhalter was a controversial figure, but I was not aware of all of the details. Thanks again.

Does anyone remember the name of the old hospital that used to sit close to the corner of Red Bluff and Pasadena Blvd.? People in Pasadena used to refer to it as the "horse hospital." Also, a Dr. Burkhalter used to practice there.

The Fast and Cool Club in Rice Village was a fun place from the 1990s.

On the Gulf Freeway feeder, near Fuqua, there is a Mexican restaurant called Las Haciendas. Directly in back, is or was a Fuddruckers.

I sure I wish knew what was the Mexican restaurant I ate at in the late 1990s. All I remember is that it had a rather high ceiling and was next to a Fuddruckers. I'm pretty sure it was next to a highway.

I remember going to the Parkview Twin Theatre on Spencer Hwy. (at Burke) in Pasadena as a kid. It was a "Dollar Movie" up until (at least) the late 1990's, and I always remember it being as such. It was kind of gross and dirty with mildly greasy floors. It's now a Hancock Fabric store. Sadly, they gutted the place out and leveled the floor; all remnants of it ever being a theatre are gone. I also remember an old bank being on the opposite corner, as well as an old Wyatt's Cafeteria. They were both torn down in the mid 90's to make way for a Walgreen's and Eckard's (now a PetCo).

Anyways, does anyone ever remember going there? Did they ever show first run movies, or was it always a dollar movie theatre? Does anyone have any pictures of the theatre, Wyatt's, or the Bank?

My brother and I were talking about that theater just the other day. We went to see Planet of the Apes at Parkview when it was first released. They had someone dressed in a gorilla suit standing in front of the door greeting customers. It scared the daylights out of my brother who was only 5 at the time. We still laugh at that, well maybe just me, I don't think he thinks it's funny. If memory serves me correctly, it was not a Twin cinema when it first opened. I don't think we went there much, it was cheaper to load up all the kids into the car and go to the drive-in. I think we used to go when it was $1 a carload. Now that was value!

Well, its sort of funny

but the Kashmere Gardens I was referring to is on Lockwood Drive near 1-10 a bit further north from Englewood and it is an Elementary School. Your friend might be thinking of McReynold's Jr High. Thats a whole other hot potatoe! Yikes!

I only attended Kashmere Grdns briefly as a Kindergartener and at that time the school was a mix of all races. It was very clean and well kept up and I remember the teachers were so pretty and nice. This was when you had recess and everyone had a little bath towel with their names embroidered (mine was by mom) on them. All the kids would rest on them at a certain time. Sounds really camp but it was 1966 after all. Dr Seuss Books were everywhere it seemed.

I think the part of the area the other person is trying to refer to is Frenchtown? There is another short conversation about Frenchtown under Historic Houston. It could be very possible, since my brother knew an older man that owned a junk yard near N Wayside & Liberty Road that spoke French. He also had another junk yard in the neighborhood across the other side of Lockwood called "El Crisol" that was the nickname for the neighborhood. There is a Catholic church called Our Lady of Sorrows in there. Just off of Cavalcade. Now that is another forgotten nabe of Houston. We will say it's "frozen in time". Boy if someone here could speak of El Crisol, I would do a backwards flip!

When we used to go visit my aunt and uncle in Denver Harbor we would pass through an area that my family called "El Crisol". I also had family that lived off of Liberty road, so it is possible we were going to visit them, I just can't say for sure. I remember the area had a funny smell, someone said it was creosote. I remember passing by some railroad tracks. I wish I could be more specific, but I was only 5 or 6. Could this be the "El Crisol" you are remembering? If so, start doing a backwards flip!

I'm coming in late on this too ... but it rang a bell due to a coversation I was having with my aunt recently after my mother's death. The estate where that big house sat was the Schaff (or maybe Shaff?) estate. My grandfather was the caretaker on the property back during the Depression era. My mother's family lived in one of the smaller houses that stood on the property at that time. Back in the late '60s or early '70s, my mother made friends with the caretaker of the property at that time. By then the mansion on the property (I remember it being referred to as the Milby Mansion, although my aunt says that it was just the Schaff Estate and the Milby Mansion was located elsewhere) was vacant. The current owners told my mother's friend to take anything they wanted out of the house, and they let my parents (who were in the antiques business) have some of the items. For many years, a mirror that was actually one of the doors from the mansion hung in my mom's den. Milk glass from the large walk-in refrigerator was savaged and used to make several tables by my father. I still have one of them. I couldn't have been more than 6 or 8 at the time, but I remember going into that house with them and thinking it was remarkable. It was torn down when I was a teenager. I used to drive by it every day on the way to Milby High School.

Thanks for the information about the house. I got curious about it when I realized it was torn down. I wish I could have seen the inside of it. I would notice the house when my father would drive down Old Galveston Road. I was a young child then. I even recall a dream I had once, about going in the house. I was probably 6 or 7 yrs old when I had that dream. I guess I was curious about it even then.

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Are there any campus kids {now adults} that lved @ and remember the wonderfull life a kid had while living there during the late 40's to mid 50's @ the Sandman {12 acre} campus. It was located along Shepherd Dr. back when it was a 2 way str. and across the street was Geo. Washing Jr, HS which I thank now has some connection w/HPD and also St. Thomas School for boys.

Across the str. from Sandman admin Bldg. was the Florence Crittenten Home for what in those days were termed unwed mothers. Faith Home had a 25 bed Hosp./clinic for the new borns to be adopted. BTW the Home is 112 years old. Yep been around a very long time. The Shepherd campus was build during the '39-'41 time period I believe.

Also Pine Tree Camp was a really kool place they would take kids for 3 weeks during the summer. Itz history I heard was that it once was a farm. Anyway over the intervening years the Harris Cnty YMCA took possesion of it. It is still there {709 Riley Fuzzell} in Spring just as I remembered it sum 50+ years ago.

Respectfully

Danny Mac

I lived there in the 70's, but life was much the same as you described it from the 40's and 50's. I even went to Pine Tree Camp. We spent 3 weeks there just like you did. I worked there as a Jr. Counselor for 2 summers. How long did you live at Faith Home?

Milby House and Glendale Cemetery.

How do you get to Glendale Cemetary?

I knew John's Sea Foods as Captain John's Oyster Resort. I sat in there in 1980 and watched the "Miracle on Ice" game between the Soviet Union and the U.S. It had a fire some time after that and didn't reopen. It was where the Pier 1 is now on West Gray. Across the street from Captain John's, on the same side of Gray, was the Mrs. Baird's Bakery, another cool building that I wish was still there. It was replaced by a Walgreens, Blockbuster, strip center,etc.I would like to have a photo of the Mrs. Baird's building.

Across the street from Captain John's was Weingartens/Safeway/Appletree and now Kroger. In the early 70s there was a small three screen cinema in that old strip center called the Park I, II and III. The Park III was like a repertory theatre before the River Oaks became one.

As a teenager, I went to that cinema when it first opened. Is it still standing?

What did this big house look like? Can you describe it a little. I spend a great deal of time in the area and if it is still there I will try for a picture of it.

The house isn't there anymore, it was torn down to make room for the plant that sits on the land now. Thanks anyway for offering to take a picture.

I grew up in Pasadena and on Houston's east end in the 50s and I've never heard of the Bluebonnet Theater. It must have been a very long time ago, well before my time.

However, I DO remember the old Broadway Theater, which was on the east side of Broadway, exactly one block south of where La Porte Road dead-ended at Broadway. That would also put it about three blocks north of Milby High School. The old La Porte Road is still there, and it now runs east from Broadway and merges with Lawndale about eight blocks to the east. That little eight block stretch is all that's left of a road that once ran from Broadway all the way to La Porte.

That's the one! I was beginning to think I was remembering the wrong location. The last time I went to the movies there was around 1968 or so. I left the area and did not return until 10 yrs. or so later. I was shocked to see that the theater was gone and instead, a highway was there or maybe just in the process of being built. Thanks for the info.

I'm pretty sure that it's 225 that ends at Broadway. If you continue straight on 225 instead of getting onto 610, the highway ends at Broadway.

Milby is definately buried in glendale, but they don't even mention him on the historical marker. (he needs to get another agent!)

here is the text of the historical marker at the glendale cemetery (at the east end of E.Magnolia):

evidently that was also the spot of the original harrisburg townsite.

there is also an african-american cemetery in harrisburg (sort of at the end of phil st.)

here is the text of that historical marker

not sure which Milby lived at "Milby Mansion" but according to Houston's Forgotten Heritage the Charles H. Milby house was on the sw corner of Elm at 614 Broadway. It was built in 1885 and demolished in 1959.

here are two excerpts from the citation:

I'm not sure which Milby lived at that house either. I've never found any mention of the house that sat on Old Galveston Rd. I've just heard it called Milby Mansion.

Was there ever a theater that sat on the spot where Hwy. 225 ends at Broadway? If memory serves my correctly, I used to go to that theater as a young kid. I used to have a razor sharp memory, but time has dulled that razor!

Does anyone remember a big house that used to sit on Old Galveston Rd by the name of Milby Mansion? It was about a mile from Broadway. It was torn down some time back and an industrial plant was built on that site. The trees that lined the front of the street are still there. Would appreciate any info.