Ross

Both. Eureka Heights is to the NE of Timbergrove. You can see the wells in the area below

Cities cannot take railroad property. That's prevented by Federal law. And that's ignoring the huge negative impact that blocking freight rail would have. If Houston should be building rail, then someone will have to pony up the billions required to take people's houses and businesses.

There's no way that UP will let anyone use the lines outside the Loop. So, new rail lines would have to be built - where do you put them?

That's far better than when they smoked in their offices, though. I haven't noticed many outside of MD Anderson at all.

It was apparently a real banner. Someone invested some money in this troll.

Not a real banner, but an awesome troll of the people who keep begging for a Trader Joes in that location. I'm not sure why we would need another crappy grocery there, but there's no accounting for taste.

UT owned the land before it was Timbergrove, probably given as a gift by an alumnus. Here's a site with a short description of the development of Timbergrove and Merchant's Park https://txarchives.org/hcarch/finding_aids/00098.xml "Brace then built homes in four sections of Oak Forest. He purchased 450 acres of land from the University of Texas and developed Timbergrove Manor (1951) and Merchants Park Shopping Mall (1955)" The online property records don't go back that far, unfortunately. This site https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbergrove_Manor,_Houston mentions that the Hogg Foundation gave property to UT, so that may be the origin. More here https://west11thstreetpark.org/history

It's not enforceable.

Closed in 2002 Lamar Elementary School (2209 Gentry Street, Houston, 77009-8196) (Closed spring 2002, School replaced by Ketelsen ES ) The old location is now playing fields for girls' sports for Northside HS. Obituary for James Ketelsen, who the new school was named for https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Former-CEO-James-Ketelsen-who-made-helping-11110836.php

It all depends on which part of Timbergrove. If the house was built in the 1960's that would be West of TC Jester, which I believe was just vacant University of Texas land. That no sale after death is not enforceable. The older houses get demolished because they don't work well for current lifestyle. We live in a 2BR 1 bath house built in 1950, and it is sometimes a struggle. No room for an office, for one thing, which makes working from home interesting. The houses West of TC Jester and South of 11th flooded, which led to many of them being demolished. Same thing on Wynnwood street.

1970's is more likely. The cars on the top look like Mavericks, which came out in 1970. The Thunderbird in the used car lot is from the 60's

A few details here https://www.harriscountyarchives.com/Portals/1/Documents/Manuscript/FA-Houston Cotton Exchange MC005.pdf https://texashistoricalmarkers.weebly.com/anderson-clayton--co.html

No. We do not need another crappy burger place, and In-N-Out is worse than just about any of them.

Can we get a couple of those on 11th? I want to see some more heads explode😂

I drove past that site every day, and since the studs are now exposed, that building looks really rough. I would be shocked if it doesn't get torn down,

Address is 4742 Banning Drive. Named owner appears to be pretty old.

I have zero sympathy for the complainers that are mad about destroying a wheel on one of the curbs or islands. They need to pay more attention to their driving. Traffic still flows, but there's almost zero craziness, since the ragers can't fly around other drivers at 20 over the speed limit.

Metro Airlines flew Twin Otters from Sugar Land to IAH in the 80's

Looks like it's partly owned by the President of Tommie Vaughan Ford and by an entity named V&G Realty that has an address of 1201 N Shepherd, which is the Tommie Vaughan showroom.

The HL&P plant was off of Hiram Clark. There are two different areas on the map above. Here's the key map showing the location. It's image 3 of the 1950 map book

No. Here's what it looked like in 2004, with traffic signals

Here's some instructional videos

Well, that denial seems pretty chicken poopy of the Planning Commission. Running the fake street through the development cuts off a piece and makes it useless. I also like the comment that Janisch is 2400 feet wide. No, it's 2400 feet long, there's a difference.

That was Pine Forest Country Club, which is now at Barker Cypress and Clay. A former colleague grew up in Garden Oaks a couple of blocks West of Shepherd, and as a teen would go over to Pine Forest behind Sears and chip and putt with friends until they saw a course marshal, at which point they ran off. The course moved because the land area in Garden Oaks wasn't really large enough, and the fairways were pretty narrow.

Haha, I just realized the title says "hosing", evoking an image of a place to go to get yourself washed. @Urbannizer can the title be fixed?