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    Southwest Airlines

    JLWM8609 replied to editor's topic in Planes

    I never said that "I" was delivering "accurate info". What I'm saying is news sources like to oversensationalize news stories and not give the whole report. When it comes to aviation, you can't really trust the news to get it right all the time. Too many times I've heard something like "The aircraft involved was an Airbus L-1011 Super 80 Series". You tell some average person there's a crack in the fuselage of a plane and they'll go crazy. The latest articles state that the FAA allows a crack to be up to 6 in in length before action should be taken to repair it on the Classic 737s. There were cracks found, but no report of the length of the cracks were given. So in that case, this should be reported as a case of "potentially unsafe" aircraft instead of the "deathtrap" picture the media is painting without all the facts being known. For all we know, the cracks may have been well within the threshold. Here's one of the latest articles on the matter. Caution though, as it was written by a former NTSB Investigator on behalf of SWA, so don't be surprised if it's biased. http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/prnewswi...08/03/07/LAF070
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    Southwest Airlines

    JLWM8609 replied to editor's topic in Planes

    I encourage you to read this thread at Airliners.net to get a more accurate picture of what's going on. The media likes to oversensationalize things, especially when it comes to aviation and can't really be trusted to deliver accurate info. Aviation industry insiders and workers post there, so you're getting it straight. http://www.airliners.net/discussions/gener...d.main/3875631/
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    LOL. Kind of ironic too, since "Majic 102.1" here in Houston used to be referred to as "102 Jamz" or "Majic 102 Jamz" before 97.9 came along.
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    Another recent name change is the change of an old portion of W. Fuqua at S. Post Oak. The new segment that runs down to past the BW is W. Fuqua, but the old segment that terminated at S. Post Oak has been renamed Fuqua Gardens Rd. or something like that.
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    Yeah, everyone knows all those backwards Georgia Socialists like Martin Luther King and Andrew Young were shoving equal rights and freedom for all Americans down God Fearin', and pure from all wrong Republicans' throats! Funny how King is now a hero in their eyes 40 years later.
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    How about HOU? Should we have kept it Houston International Airport and renamed it Houston Municipal Airport when Intercontinental opened?
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    Numerous road names is a way of life in Houston, it's how we keep ourselves entertained. We like to take tourists and confuse them with things such as Clay Rd/ W. 43rd/Crosstimbers/E.Crosstimers/Ley Rd, and Westheimer/FM 1093.
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    Anyone else remember this vintage fire truck? It was probably from the 30s or 40s. It was situated at Fire Station No. 25 on Scott near Wheeler in the early-mid 90s. I remember one Sunday me and my dad were walking to church at Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church, I was about 4 or 5 at the time. We parked on Rosewood and we were about to walk across Scott when the fire truck caught my eye. Some fire fighters were out there, so my dad took me over, and they showed me the truck, let me sit in it and ring the bell. That was SO cool. I remember hearing a few years later that the truck was being transferred to another station in another state, but I don't remember where. I can't find anything in The Chronicle archives about it, but maybe someone with a better memory can recollect it. I don't know if I should put this in historic Houston or not, seeing as it was fairly recent. Does this jog anyone's memory?
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    It was closed and torn down in the mid/late 90s.
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    Plans eventually call for the highway to be called "SH122" and run all the way to Bay City. It's been on the books since 1961, killed by the planners at the highway department in 1979, and resurrected a few years ago. I wonder how they plan to take it down S. Post Oak before it jogs over to S.Main and Chimney Rock to join the current section? Maybe cantilever it over S. Post Oak? The ROW is kind of tight there, and I know the residents of Westbury aren't gonna be too happy about a new freeway for a neighbor.
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    S. Post Oak itself is not going to become a toll road, only parts of it will. The current freeway section south of 610 that was built in 1986 is going to be extended to the current Fort Bend Tollroad by snaking through the surrounding neighborhood. The plans for US 90A are for it to be a semi-freeway from 610 to Stafford (it's not a full freeway because it has no shoulders and driveway access). It will have an at-grade intersection at Present Rd though. Through Stafford, there will be overpasses at S. Gessner, Kirkwood, Murphy Rd., and an overpass will be built to connect Staffordshire Rd. to Stafford Rd. The overpasses at Gessner and Kirkwood should be open in a few months. With the exception of the overpasses between Promenade Blvd. and Present St. (Murphy Rd. and Staffordshire/Stafford overpasses), the widening project to Hwy 6 should be complete by March.
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    I was told that the Chevy dealer on OST was "Chuck Davis" Chevrolet, before they moved to their present location on Kirby.
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    Prob all visiting this guy...
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    I like that overview of the original campus on the 61-62 directory. An addition to the 2 story wing on the north side of the campus was added around 1966-67, correct? That's what I was told by one of my teachers who was a student around that time.
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    Someone told me that current day Stewart Cadillac was at one point a Rolls Royce dealership. There was also a Chevrolet dealership at the NE corner of OST and Tierwester. I don't know when it closed, but it was finally torn down around 1993-1994. Some of those cheapo apartments sit where it was now.
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    Try doing it yourself if you've got the room and time. A lot of the car wash soaps are harsh and deteriorate your paint, the rags they use to dry the cars off leave swirlmarks and webbing on the clearcoat, and other things. If you have a few hours one saturday morning and the right materials, you can do a job that will beat the automatic car wash.
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    A gate? Phbbt! That's nothing. This is a place where we make our own onramps and offramps on the freeways (evidenced by little dirt paths across the esplanade leading from the freeway to the feeder road). But seriously, I've never known a hike and bike trail on a bayou to have a gate, is that to keep folks off after dark?
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    A car you say? Well, Project Brays is under construction all the way over in Riverside Terrace now, looks like I'll have a new short cut when South MacGregor is backed up with traffic!
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    Is the hike/bike trail concrete, asphalt, or is it a dirt trail?
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    Jetero was a misspelling of Jet Era, which is what the airport was called before it actually opened. Could you imagine coming into Houston on "Jet Era Rd."? Maybe it's a good thing they changed it to "Will Clayton". I also know of a little chunk of the old two lane 1930s alignment Telephone Road still in existence. It's now on Hobby Airport's property, but it's still visible.
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    A 1913 map shows Delano St. near TSU was called Shepherd St., Winbern St. used to be MacGregor Ave. Bastrop St. used to be Broadway St., MLK/South Park used to be Chocolate Bayou Rd. near the present day UH, Stuart St. used to be Felix Ave., and Francis St. used to be Clarence St., and much more. Now, Elgin turns into Westheimer once you get west of Brazos, but at one point, it was called Hathaway St at that portion, I guess a "buffer" name between the two names of the major throughofare. And here's a pretty recent name change. A small portion of Fellows Rd. used to run from just south of Almeda-Genoa Rd. to BW8. They changed it from Fellows to Scott St. But south of the Beltway, Scott turns back into Fellows. And another interesting note, back in the 30s and 40s, Scott was referred to as "Scott Street Road", a little redundant dontcha think? Current day South Main from the OST split to Stafford is designated on some 1950s era maps as OST all the way out to Stafford. Fannin south of Holcombe was Knight Rd I think, until they turned it into a boulevard in the 60s. 1913 Houston Street Map: http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/arc/maps/images/map0435.jpg
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    Cullen through UH used to be St. Bernard Dr. I think there was a MacGregor St. located near Rosedale and Wichita Streets before the current day N and S MacGregor Ways were built in the late 20s/early 30s. Fulton St. used to be E. Montgomery Rd. (which explains today's W. Montgomery Rd. in absence of the E. variant)
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    LOL, thanks. I don't know about you, but when that dust cloud was starting to advance my way, this asthmatic and a few other spectators took off running (which explains the rather abrupt end of the video). Some came armed with masks, I probably should've donned one with some goggles and I would've gotten some of the aftermath. I was standing at Fannin and Holcombe when I made the video. I did a brisk jog to my car which was parked at S. Main and Holcombe and managed to avoid the avalanche of asbestos.
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    And videos! http://s42.photobucket.com/albums/e339/joe...nt=100_2997.flv
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    I went to Johnston from 1998 to 2001. It just shows you how much has changed. There was most likely a male gym teacher in those late 50's/early 60's swimming sessions, we had a woman swimming instructor when I was there. I just can't imagine such a thing occuring in this time and day. If it did, I could see many a modern male student objecting to skinny dipping and happily accepting an "F" for fears that they may become effeminate as a result. Then again, the male student body at Johnston during my time there had a few who would probably welcome the nude swimming classes with open arms! And some of the girls would too. The exaggerated sense of modesty among young girls was LONG gone by the time I got to Johnston. I caught sight of some girls peeking thru a door from the girls locker room into the pool facility while some of us guys were drying off at the side of the pool. If it was a nude swimming class, they probably would've busted that door down! (yeah, right!)
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