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Move it anywhere else. Why waste perfect bayou property on a jail? Not saying that it will eliminate the homeless problem, but it will decrease it.

What makes you think that moving the jail will have any effect on homeless populations? Why would you want to increase the difficulty of moving prisoners to and from the court house?

Influential African American conservative pastors endorsing Hall for Houston Mayor:

 

http://www.myfoxhouston.com/story/29827626/black-conservative-ministers-give-ben-hall-full-backing-in-mayoral-race

 

Reaction from anyone of y'all on this endorsement & will it play a factor into Hall possibly pushing into the runoff ?

 

My reaction is that a bunch of churches need to lose their tax exemptions for being involved in politics. I still don't think Hall has a chance.

Amazing, folks think Love is awful because of its demographics and won't send their kids there, then delicate flower about crappy neighborhood schools. Look in the mirror, the fault lies with you.

 

As for Middle Schools, the bulk of the people we know in the Greater Heights area are sending their kids to Hogg, Black, Lanier, or Hamilton. Check out the Learn Local folks for information on improving your local schools by sending your kids to them, especially Hogg.

Of course, everyone forgets that Harvard was much like Love just a few years ago. I cannot believe the racism/classism I am seeing here on this topic. If you gave a crap about your neighborhood, you would send your kids to an HISD school and get involved.

I don't understand the disdain for Love Elementary. It's a decent school with a good principal. Lots of non-zoned students fight to go there.

The only remnants of Choate Rd are the  stretch of Old Choate Rd that runs SW from Hwy 3 with a new piece that loops over to Dixie Farm Rd, and a stretch from Dixie Farm Rd to Ryewater, West of 45.

 

Back in the 30's through some time in the 50's, there was a large Humble Camp on Choate that served the Friendswood Field (now the Webster Unit) that was operated by Humble. One of my Uncles worked that field for some time, and lived with his family in that Humble Camp.

 

This is all very clear on the 1944 and 1953 Google Earth imagery, as is the huge number of barracks and other buildings at Ellington, along with a large number of airplanes.

Only location for Price's I can find is at 501 San Jacinto in the 1954 city directory. The directories for the years prior are truncated on Ancestry. I may be able to get over to the Clayton Library tomorrow. If so, I'll see what I can find.

 

In the 1944 and 1953 Google Earth images, there is an amusement park at what is now Main and Murworth, with a very large roller coaster. It's on the East side of Main

The stretch between Elgin and Katz's or so used to be Hathaway Street. That may have something to do with it.

There's not a lot on the County Clerk's site. The Shurgard property has been replatted, and there are properties sold by OFD entities to Shurgard, but I can't find where Oak Farms became the owner. I think Oak Farms bought out some neighboring properties to make a larger piece of land.

 

Camellia did sell the property at Telephone and Dumble to Jack in the Box in 1966

On the 1953 Google Earth images, there's no sign of any pools, etc at 8301 Main.

Yes, now that I think about it, I believe Al Parker moved to a site on the Katy Freeway but I couldn't say exactly where. There was a lot of moving of car dealerships, and some renaming, in the 1960s and 70s from near downtown to the suburbs.

 

I'll quit with the car dealership thing now and let the thread get back to its proper topic.

 

11666 Katy Freeway at Kirkwood. I saw an ad from the 80's when I was looking for information.

 

This probably deserves a different thread but could there have been a relationship (by marriage perhaps) between Earle North and R Allison Parker ('Al' Parker). There was once a Buick dealership in midtown called Al Parker Buick. I think it moved to Kirby Drive before it became Hub Buick. Hub Fossier (discussed elsewhere in this forum) was the one-time general manager of Al Parker Buick.

 

I once heard someone refer to 'Al Parker,' titular owner of the Buick dealership, as being one of the "nutty Norths." Apparently, there was some interesting history with the North family as with the Nils Sefeldt family, another Houston automobile dealership owener (Volvo in the latter case).

 

The address for Al Parker Suzuki on the State Franchise tax site is the same as for Earle North Buick. Unfortunately, the city directories for the 50's on Ancestry aren't complete, which makes things hard to look up.

 

How about "I like them better than whatever else is on at the time". They are OK, and generally entertaining.

It looks like Earle North Buick was gone by 1955, as there was a Packard dealer there per http://www.arklatexpackards.com/WHawkins.html. In the 1958 directory, Earle North is no longer listed, and R Allison Parker is shown running an insurance agency from 6 Longfellow Lane, which is a pretty high end address in Shadyside. It looks like R Allison Parker died in 1985, and is buried in Forest Park on Lawndale.

The 1944 image on Google Earth shows this as a vacant lot. The 1948 city directory lists Camellia Creameries at 2006 Westheimer, and the building appears on the 1953 aerials on Google Earth. Camellia is listed at that location in 1959, which is the last of the city directories on Ancestry.com. The address is listed to John R. Rich in earlier years.

 

Officers listed in the 1948 directory:

Earle North - President (Wife Floy, home at 7310 Main, Also ran Earle North Buick on Milam at Hadley. Home address is Main between Greenbriar and Glen Haven) ( all info on addresses from 1952 directory)

E J Spears - VP (Wife Elizabeth, home at 10 Wynden)

R Allison Parker - Sec-Treas (Wife Hilma, home 6647 Buffalo Speedway. Also involved in the Buick dealership)

FL Douglas - Gen'l Mgr (Wife Maxine, lived at 2632 Pittsburg)

 

 

 

It's possible that the derrick was at one point a working well at Bowens (or just a sign saying hi we do oil wells) and was taken down and dumped on the lot where Target was built, and the developers thought it would look cool to put up in its present location.

 

Or there were two oil wells in the heights right there.

 

No oil wells there, according to the RRC. The closest well location was near Waverly and 6th. The next closest was where the Hidden Lakes townhomes are in Timbergrove. There were a number of wells in Timbergrove West of the bayou, running Northeast into  Sunset Heights between Beall and Bevis, North of 15th. I believe that was known as the Eureka Heights field.

 

The Bowen derrick was likely just an advertising device for Bowen Oil Tools when it was an independent company.

 

Nate, I'm going to respond to your post tomorrow when im not on mobile, but I audibly lol'd at this post.

How is "it's not economically/technologically feasible now so it's not worth it to pursue" even an argument?

 

Did I say "not worth it to pursue"? I don't think I did. I still believe those who expect climate to remain as is are dreaming, even without any man made impacts. Climate is always changing. 20,000 years ago, much of the world was covered with ice, and sea levels were upwards of 300 feet lower. We are just fortunate to be living in one of the benign phases.

 

I don't think it's worth spending a ton of tax money on subsidies to politically connected fraudsters who don't have a clue as to how to research and develop new technologies. As research proceeds in its own plodding fashion, there will be discoveries that move alternate energy technology forward.

As someone with Asthma, I appreciate clean air since it.. well... let's me live better. I think everyone benefits from being able to breathe... so to me the science debate detracts from the simple fact that we need clean air to live. People against reducing air pollution levels (who can't get beyond their political beliefs) are just plain moronic and annoying. Here's a tip for you non-Asthma people... try breathing through a straw for a couple hours and tell me how you feel. That's how it feels on days when smog engulfs our city. People in China are experiencing these issues now (who don't even have Asthma) because they allowed business to trump health.

 

There's a difference between CO2 levels and the particulates, ozone, and reactive gases like sulfur dioxide that exacerbate asthma. CO2 isn't really a pollutant in the standard sense of the word. You can reduce particulate pollution without affecting CO2 levels at all.

 

This isn't a matter of allowing business to triumph over health. We cannot currently reduce CO2 emissions to the levels the climate change folks think is necessary without completely destroying our economy. Non-carbon based energy sources,other than nuclear, are not anywhere close to being economically viable at the scale necessary to replace hydrocarbons.

 

I don't think that potentially destroying our economies to try and achieve some nebulous CO2 reduction goal that may or may not work is wise. We have no idea as to what the impacts are, in either direction. We also come across as trying to keep the third world from achieving the same high standard of living as us, based on science that is not always on firm ground.

 

A few things to think about:

 

We keep hearing about fractions of a degree changes in global temperatures. Is it even possible to measure the temperature of the Earth that accurately?

Have temperatures been adjusted to account for heat island effects on recording stations that were originally located in rural areas, but are now in urban areas full of concrete and other heat trapping materials

How much faith can we put on sea water temperature measurements from 100 years ago that were made by dropping a bucket overboard, then putting a thermometer in ht bucket when it was pulled up to the deck? How accurate were those thermometers

How accurate are the measurements made at the cooling water intakes of US Navy ships in more recent times?

Is there a model that accounts for the Medieval Warm period, when crops were grown in Greenland?

 

 

I"ll apologize up front for being snarky and critical. If it were up to me, HPD would never respond to an alarm of any type. The vast majority, over 99+% are false alarms, which waste police resources, and my tax dollars. I recommend dropping the alarm, but keep the sign. If you want an immediate response from HPD, call 911.

Just reading upon it a bit, I found stuff saying that the rate of sea level rise is both historically slow and really fast, so I don't know who to believe on that.

 

A difference of a few inches is going to make billions of dollars of difference as to what the best approach would be, but we'll only know that in hindsight and we may not be able to execute it anyway. For the net benefit, even in the best of outcomes, it feels like throwing good money after bad. At worst, the water will creep up very slowly, I think we can deal with whatever changes occur a lot better than we can prevent or even minimize them.

 

That's been my opinion for a long time. I believe all of the efforts to "stop" the rise of CO2 are a waste of time, and that learning how to adapt will work far better. My other belief is that we can adapt to hotter temperatures and rising sea levels. We can't really adapt to a kilometer thick sheet of ice over 2 thirds of the planet. If global warming prevents an ice age, that's a win.

 

Most likely diesel, motor oil, and maybe cleaning chemicals. Lots of trucks in and out of that facility.

What would incorporation provide that a county doesn't? That's what residents of unincorporated areas ask. With widespread contract deputy programs, and the ubiquitous MUDS for utilities, police and services aren't an issue.

IAH isn't bad. LAX is awful. We came back from New Zealand, and after Customs were dumped onto a sidewalk with not one shred of signage, and no clue as to where to go. IAH may get crowded, but you can at least tell where to go.

Riding against traffic is not exactly smart. Ask the cyclist I almost hit a few years back who was riding North bound on Fannin as I prepared to turn left onto Tuam. He seemed to be offended that I was proceeding in a legal direction in a legal lane, and should have turned left from the second lane.