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  1. Ross
    From the 1907 directory, that would be 2016 Travis
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    I think the outlined area with Bellaire in the middle was the entire 10,000 acres. There is a more detailed map in this Rice History blog https://ricehistorycorner.com/2013/01/07/the-intersection-of-reynolds-avenue-and-westmoreland-boulevard-1912/ Additional maps at this link https://ricehistorycorner.com/2012/12/14/maps/
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    DuPont was the largest gunpowder company in the US for some time. It was founded in 1802 in Delaware. It later expanded into explosives and a wide range of chemicals. Making gunpowder is inherently dangerous, and the buildings are spread out so that an explosion in one doesn't destroy the others. DuPont exited the black powder business in the 1970's and sold the smokeless powder business in 2003.
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    When that picture was taken, Rice was the only game in town for football. Which is why the new stadium had 70,000 seats and sold out for many games. At the time, Texas A&M was a male only school with mandatory participation in the Corps of Cadets. UT-Austin was the main State university for most students. The stadium in the picture is now the Rice Track and Field stadium. If you look closely at the track on the right side, you can see it extends all the way to Main Street. Rice was one of the few places that could run the 220 yard dash in a straight line.
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    That was a major driver for the flooding of the Rice campus in 1979. There's a page in this link https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/47726874/rice-flood-protection-strategy-rice-university showing the extent of the 1979 flood. I was living off campus then, but had parked in a faculty space at the gym after being cut off from a legal space by someone else. I got lucky, and had a water mark about 6 inches up a rear tire. The other guy's car was underwater. The old topo maps on the UT Library site show the feature running through the Rice campus and what is now TMC.
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    That building wasn't there in 1953. From HCAD, I think it's more like 1970. The current building goes almost to the next street to the West, Allegheny Street.
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    There is a huge(sort of) network of tunnels under Rice University. In the 70's they were called steam tunnels, as they distributed steam and, later, chilled water from the central plant to the various buildings. Students would explore them, but if you got caught you could be punished. These days they would probably be called utility tunnels. Hmm, they have tours https://facilities.rice.edu/resources/tour-information I wish this one had pictures https://sustainability.rice.edu/exploring-rices-steam-tunnels Do a search for rice university steam tunnels Video of the tunnels
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    Rural Free Delivery was set up by the Postal Service to deliver mail directly to people living in rural areas instead of requiring them to go to town to the post office or have a private service bring the mail. The RFD 3 Box 98 in the address above means Rural Route 3 Mailbox 98. The route determined which mailman to use, and the box was the specific customer mailbox, typically the traditional box you see all over. The RFD route and box system disappeared when the laws requiring every residence have a street address for 911 purposes were passed. A friend who lived in a rural area was annoyed by that because it meant people could find his house when his address changed from Route X box y to 1234 Some Road. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_Free_Delivery
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    Those were solidly built buildings, and were built to hold a large amount of telephone switching equipment. That one is the JAckson exchange, the 52x-xxxx numbers back in the days when all phones were connected to an exchange.
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    I couldn't find any pictures, but the property is now owned by Charles Duncan. Traipsing through the property records for folks like the Blaffers is interesting. They owned a lot of stuff in Houston.
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    That address would be North of Spring-Cypress Road on the US 75, now I-45, feeder. That's all been changed by the various I-45 expansions.
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    More info that implies the store was in Spring https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/m/c/t/Doyle-Mctigrit-TOMBALL/GENE19-0017.html
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    That was the result I got when I did a search.
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    Dr. Denton Cooley was the grandson of the Cooley that built the Cooley house on Heights and 18th https://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/history/article/In-the-Heights-the-past-is-not-that-far-off-7723357.php#photo-10105660 Dr. Cooley lived on Del Monte from 1962 until his death https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/real-estate/article/Cooley-house-on-market-for-cool-4-5-million-11143380.php
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    House at 1037 Lawrence is gone. Those 6000 sq ft lots look much larger when they are empty.
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    Following the old "keeping employees happy is overrated" mantra that has brought many companies to their knees.
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    Looks like it might still be there https://www.google.com/maps/@29.7384116,-95.3780727,3a,75y,60.79h,86.36t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1spvODVLBCRN1KZq0PHbDdsw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu
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    If Trump had not committed crimes, he would not be indicted. It's really that simple. I would hope that any politician that did what he did would be indicted and tried.
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    It stopped when the owners' daughter died in July 2002 at age 17.
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    Turnverein is a German athletic club. Here's a article on the one mentioned above https://www.heritagesociety.org/turnverein
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    Yep. I used that when I was in a van pool.
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    Seamist is NOT on the Western edge of the Heights. It's not really that close to the Heights.
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    Companies do not reimburse gas only. They use the IRS mileage rate for use of personal vehicles for business. For a round trip to Dallas with some in Dallas miles, let's say the total is 540 miles. At the current rate of 65 cents per mile, that's $351. Using a personal vehicle for business also opens up the company to more liability than using a rental car. That's some of the reasons my employer makes us fly to Dallas and take Ubers. There is no way I would use my car for company business without getting the full IRS rate. Why should I have to eat the non-fuel costs like tires, depreciation, etc?
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    I used South Main Bank from the late 70's to the mid-80's. It was one of the cheapest banks in town at the time(all banks had service charges then) at 50 cents per month and 10 cents per check. That was before Texas allowed the big national banks to operate here, and before branch banking was allowed.
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    That's part of what is now Hobby Airport. At the time it was the Houston Municipal Airport. 1943 aerial. Runways are only 4,000 feet long.
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