SpaceCity

The inner loop does have character. I'm not a fan of suburbs.

Frost Tower

Looks like a great project. Why is it taking so long to complete?

Perhaps a more appropriate title is, "Who are the people in your gayborhood?"

TMC is already huge. I couldn't imagine it being twice that size. I thought doctors and hospitals were losing their shirts because of the evil trial lawyers.

I'm going to post pictures of hot chicks.

I don't want this to turn into a shouting match, so I'll close the reply box. But you can still vote in the poll!

Oak Lawn Pictures

Houston Dallas / Ft. Worth Austin San Antonio

That's a beautiful old hotel I knew nothing about.

Galveston is dumpy. It doesn't even have a movie theater. I'd look somewhere else. No wait, I'd look ANYWHERE else.

It is too bad that folks roughed it up. Did you "hear" or see anything wierd while you were there?

This area is getting more dense by the day. There are many projects going up. It's already a great place to walk around.

Galveston is great ... until you walk barefoot on the beach.

No.

I really like the new format.

It is surprising how poorly Post properties are built. But they still get away with charging astronomical rent!

The Seawall The famous Galveston seawall can be seen in this undivided back postcard from around 1903. In an earlier version of this page, I reported that this card may be an artist's conception of the Seawall since I was not familiar with the curve shown in this picture. Other postcard collectors have told me that they think they've seen the same image used for postcards of other places. More recently, however, I have been told that indeed an early version of the Seawall featured this curve. The Seawall curved off the beach down Sixth Street, and left to Eighth Street. Although later this portion was filled in by the Army Corps of Engineers, you can reportedly still see the remains of this structure on Sixth Street. The other card pictured here is a "real photo" card from the 1940s. Notice how the sandy beach is missing in the photo. Although the photograph of this scene might have been taken during a storm with an extremely high tide, beach erosion has long been a problem on the Texas gulf coast. Galveston Hotels Indicative of the influence of tourism on Galveston's urban landscape, rows of glamorous hotels have been built along the beach. Among these, is the Hotel Buccaneer, built in 1928 at the corner of 23rd and Seawall by Shearn Moody. The hotel was populated by news reporters in 1961 during Hurricane Carla. Hurricane Carla packed winds of up to 117 miles per hour in Galveston. It struck the coast near the site of Indianola, which had already been wiped off the map by an earlier storm in 1886. It is estimated that Carla produced winds of nearly 175 mph near its center. The storm is largely responsible for the launch of KHOU news director, Dan Rather, to national recognition. The structure weathered the storm well, but was considered "dowdy" by some when it was donated to the Methodist Church a few months after Carla. The Church turned it into a residence for the elderly called "Moody House". It has since been renamed the "Edgewater Methodist Retirement Center." [Note: Since this page was posted, the Buccaneer has been demolished. It now only lives in our memories and in postcards and photographs.] If there is a single hotel that has continuously been symbolic of the luxurious tourist industry of Galveston is the Hotel Galvez. Costing $1 million at the time of its construction, the hotel was re-vitalized and renovated in the 1980s, at a cost several times that.

Houston Ship Channel

The Gulf Building, constructed in 1929, remained Houston's tallest building until well after World War II. Although its builder, Jesse Jones, was not in favor of sky scrapers--he favored a height limit of ten stories--he seemed determined for his building to be the tallest in the city. It remained so until after his death.

The Neils Esperson Building was constructed in 1927. It was the tallest building in Houston for two years until the Gulf Building was constructed. .

Houston's First Shamrock

Looking down Montrose from Hermann Park