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    I dated a girl in high school that worked there during summers performing in the water ski show.
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    My grandparents were married at that church, in that particular building, in December of 1919. My father was born, a respectable 10 months later, at a house on 66th St. and Texas Ave. His birth certifiate indicates Harrisburg, Texas as the place of birth.
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    The Roy Rogers restaurant at 610 and Westheimer was built on the site of one of the last hold out Italian families that remained in their house while Joske's purchased and built their store at their back doorstep. The family continued to live there for several years, trying to ignore the development going on all around them. Sometime during construction of the Galleria the family finally succumbed to the inevitable and sold out. By then Joske's was not interested in purchasing the property, so the Roy Rogers franchise picked it up.
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    The old Marriott site is now owned by Methodist Hospital. It had been planned as a site for their ourpatient facility, however, after the internal divorce with BCofM a few years ago, the board decided it would be easier to attract new physicians, and patients to a facility closer to it's Main campus.
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    I haven't forgotten about you PBAYS, but I just haven't seen Sister Mary Ann lately. My son says she is still around but I haven't crossed paths with her.
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    My father and grandfather both told me that the union building trades picketed the stadium when it was built and boycotted functions after it was completed. Brown & Root used (out of town) non-union subcontractors and that triggered a backlash among local contractors. This boycott apparently didn't have much effect on the elites that attended games there. My father and grandfather never stepped foot in the place although I have attended a few games and concerts there through the years. It's occupying some valuable real estate now and I'm sure the surrounding neighborhoods wouldn't cry too much if it was torn down.
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    I would love to be involved in this somehow. My father's was born in Harrisburg in 1920. His parents lived in a house on 66th Street and Texas Ave. My grandparents were married at Blessed Sacrement church in 1919. This part of Houston has always been intriguing to me, even without the roots.
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    I remember taking a school field trip around 1962 to Weatherford's Nursery on Murphy Rd. It was a large commercial nursery that grew and delivered plants all over the state. Does anyone know the history of the Bum Phillips house on Highway 6? I looks to be housing some kind of insurance agency office now (State Farm I think).
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    There used to be a small community south of Quail Valley on Highway 6 called Dewalt, which had a Post Office. I wonder if the grandson's name is connected with this community.
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    The Weingartens in Galveston was on 25th St. It is now operating as an Arlans, but basically unchanged fom it's mid 60's appearance.
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    I remember when Russel & Smith Ford openned in 1969. It was literally within throwing distance of Joe Meyer's house in Braeswood. The Meyers lived on Latma street, near the South Loop east of Stella Link. I always thought it unusual because the Smith's lived in Tanglewood, near Joe Meyers Ford (kinduv) and the Meyer's lived in Braeswood near Russel & Smith Ford. These two gentlemen could have just switched franchises and made life easier on themselves.
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    Cornerstone School occupies part of the old high school campus too.
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    I posted earlier in a differnt thread about Sheperd Park Plaza. This is the location of the old Heights Golf Course. Golf Dr. is still a current street in Garden Oaks. My Key Map still notes "Sims Bayou Country Club" at Bellfort and Telephone Rd. I think the VFW Hall may be one of old club buildings?
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    Proffessional still action photos were taken by the demolition company during the sequence from count down until after the dust cleared. These photos were viewed by HPD and clearly shows no figures, ghostly or otherwise. I've seen these photos. They are quite clear and precise. You can zoom in at any location and the definition is still good. No ghosts. I'll see if I can download a few of these and post them.
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    y'all two stop, you're worse than my two children.
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    News Flash Jackson! the SLEH and the TCH cafeteria are the same place, or should I have said "is" the same place. Luke's operates the place (Bertner St. Cafe or something like that) but TCH employees use it and get the same discount. It's like a joint venture thing. All those other places in the CCC and West Tower are just concession stands.
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    You're right Ricco. Methodsit Hospital Dunn Tower, for example, was designed to be 20 floors, even though they only built 10 floors in 1988. The columns, elevator shafts and plumbing risers are all oversized for future vertical expansion, however, I don't see it happening to that particular building any time soon.
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    The whole site will be excavated from property line to property line with 4 floors of below grade parking and 5 levels of mixed use medical above. Circular crosswalks on levels 3 and 4 will connect to the TCH campus across Fannin. The maternity tower (16 levels) will be built on the north end of the base with future plans for a pediatric tower on the south. Both towers are designed to be extended 28 floors each. It's colossal.
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    The Research Center is being built on the JJ lot, between the Commons and the dental school on Moursund. This peice of property was first promised to Baylor by TMC, but Baylor gave it up when they decided to build a over next to the veteran's hospital on OST.
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    Homeless people had been camping out in the building and garage weeks before, releiving themselves in every corner of the building. If I were a dog, I'd been sniffin' up the place too.
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    I'm not familiar with either Sister Agustine or Sister Camillus, but Sister Mary Anne Holoman at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Hitchcock was at Incarnate Word Convent for a long time. She is of the age that may remember these two. Her current role is visiting the elderly around Galveston County. She may know the status of these two individuals. If I see her tomorrow at church I'll ask her.
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    It's possible that one of my cousins has photos of this house. She had several brothers and sisters, and almost all of the decendants are still in the Houston area. I'll put out an inquiry.
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    My grandmother was born in 1898 in a house just north of White Oak Bayou from this property. Her family's house was near the location were Quitman crosses 1-45. The house were cleared in the 1950's for the freeway.
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    My dad talked about the "End of Main Ice House". I posted on an earlier thread that it was just south of present day Holcombe Blvd., probably were the Metro Transit Center and Shriners Hospital is located. My dad told the story of installing site work for the APC building and the back hoe equipment operator complaining about getting flat tires daily. He confided with the operator that this was the site of the above referenced ice house and that before the war everbody would sit in their cars at the back of the parking lot and throw empty bottles over the fence. There was a huge pile of broken glass accumulated through the years. If every body remembers, South Main jogged east and followed present day Fannin St. south to Knight Rd back then. "End of Main Dance Hall", liquor store, or ice house as may dad refered to it as, could have actually been on present day Fannin.
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    I remember a stoner friend of mine taking me to Pasadena in the early 70's to get a pair of Tiddy's. This place wasn't a factory but more like a garage. I picked out the material, either thick or thin, kind of like Piazza Hut. The guy made them on the spot for me. Maybe this was before he had a factory, or it was just some guy who was selling knock-offs. All I know is that they were genuine Tiddy's with the authentic logo. They were a hit when I went to go visit some friends in California. Some girlfriend finally talked me out of them. I didn't really care because I was a "deck shoe" kind of guy back then anyway. Perry "Top Sider" moccasins from the "Ships Store" at Seabrook Shipyard was my footwear of choice back then.
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