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The hospital closed in 1985 or so, and it looks like the whole thing moved to West Houston Medical Center on Richmond near Dairy Ashford
New owner convicted of exposing workers to asbestos https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Houston-man-sentenced-in-asbestos-case-2011159.php
Mentioned here https://www.chron.com/news/article/Area-medical-lab-to-honor-employees-1836171.php
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McIlvain died in 2015 in Los Angeles. He was an investigative reporter here in Houston for nearly 20 years, working for Channel 11
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Live ammunition is not a hazard during a fire unless it is confined. Ammunition that goes off during a fire has very little energy.
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3 hours ago, Purdueenginerd said:
Wasnt there an oil-field in the area? Eureka Heights Oil Field?
Or was that farther north?
Both. Eureka Heights is to the NE of Timbergrove. You can see the wells in the area below
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2 hours ago, tigereye said:
This city should be building commuter rail lines along most of these corridors, up Hardy, along Hempstead (for 290 commuters), along US 90 to Ft Bend. This city cannot be handcuffed by by rail companies like UP. Solutions need to be found for betterment of everyone in this city. Doing nothing is simply unacceptable.
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.
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1 hour ago, Triton said:
I've said this before and I'll say it again in this thread.
The good slick link should be commuter rail from IAH into Post HTX. The rail line already exists and you would have to just build the connecting line west of IAH and then have it go underground approaching the runways and taxiways. It's what Denver does. It's something that we can do too.
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?
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3 hours ago, editor said:
I guess you've never walked down a sidewalk in the Medical Center and noticed all the doctors and nurses smoking outside.
That's far better than when they smoked in their offices, though. I haven't noticed many outside of MD Anderson at all.
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1 hour ago, TacoDog said:
Pretty good photoshop, looks real.
It was apparently a real banner. Someone invested some money in this troll.
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17 hours ago, TacoDog said:
Was it a real banner? That's kinda funny.
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.
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2 hours ago, mattyt36 said:
That's fascinating--why did UT own land in Timbergrove?
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
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2 hours ago, Fortune said:
How does this work? How is this enforceable?
It's not enforceable.
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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
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12 hours ago, ShipPunk said:
My grandparents bought their house here in timbergrove new in the 60s from the builder. They had a stipulation that upon their death it will never be sold. So here I am. My kids keep asking what this area / land was before the houses. It’s sad how our original houses are being demolished for oversized houses. Does anyone have any photos of the pre developed area ? I told them
i assumed it was all farms back in the old days .
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.
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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
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37 minutes ago, jhjones74 said:
Yeah this was a major bummer, love to see Harris county spending taxpayer money to replace a surface lot.. with another surface lot.
In all seriousness though, the pictures you sent got me interested in that building Harris County occupies, the Anderson Clayton Building. I couldn't find any real info on here, but I'm curious of what the details of this building are. It's clear it was the headquarters of Anderson Clayton and Co., who were at one time the largest cotton traders in the world. Though the building has two entirely different facades when looking from Caroline St or Austin St. Does anybody know if this is how it was originally built? Or is there some separate reason the building is this way?
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
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3 hours ago, TX3G4R said:
Taco Cabana needs to go next.. Maybe they can add an In-N-Out
No. We do not need another crappy burger place, and In-N-Out is worse than just about any of them.
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16 hours ago, samagon said:
this would be a great space to follow a Dutch design, basically, build a road hump that is as wide and long as the crossing area, paint it a special color. basically at that point it sends a message that the car is entering a walking space, rather than the pedestrian is crossing a street.
there's an example in Houston already:
here's a video with a good explanation:
Can we get a couple of those on 11th? I want to see some more heads explode😂
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1 hour ago, hindesky said:
It must have been a broken pipe that the city fixed because there isn't any water in the streets anymore.
Construction worker at the Happy Go Lucky next door said that a concrete wall was installed around the perimeter of the building. He's not doing the work but said he will be at some point. He seems to think the building might be replaced because it's in such bad shape but isn't sure.
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,
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Address is 4742 Banning Drive. Named owner appears to be pretty old.
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6 hours ago, j_cuevas713 said:
Here is my opinion on the bike lane issue and drivers complaining. The REAL issue isn't about traffic. It's about drivers not having the ability to drive as fast as they want and fly through a 4 lane street through the middle of the neighborhood. For so long people have been able to drive in this city with no conscious thought about people and now that they have to do that, they're all up in arms. I love the fact that some Heights residents who were so against this bike lane have now confessed how much they like it. Why? BECAUSE IT MAKES THE STREET SAFER.
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.
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Metro Airlines flew Twin Otters from Sugar Land to IAH in the 80's
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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.
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13 hours ago, Highrise Tower said:
I'm confused. Looking at a 1950 Sanborn map and I see a Houston Lighting & Power Co. West Junction Power Plant located on Holcombe Blvd. I believe this is the same parcel of land that had the two Holcombe & Meyer mansions.
The mansions predate the power plant? I lined it up, I see Cambridge, Staffordshire, and Holcombe.
Cool find!!
When was this demolished? They rebuilt on the opposite side near Fannin and Brays Bayou? There's a CenterPoint Energy Plant At 6955 Fannin Street.
Current area, presumably.
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
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49 minutes ago, mattyt36 said:
Has it always been a roundabout?
No. Here's what it looked like in 2004, with traffic signals
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That's a great song, along with My Wife Thinks You're Dead.