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The location of the original convenience store/ bar is/was very close to that apartment 4 plex bldg. that faced the other road Sylvan. Wallingford or others, do you remember the apartments on Maxwell Lane when they were actually nice ones, probably 1960's?

Wasn't Shepard's Dam named after the guy who owned the actual property around the bayou, at that location?

Yeah, and so much history along with it. Was the only Houston freeway battle fought and won to stop construction of a freeway. Harrisburg itself has so much history, it's ironic that Houston's lack of attention has been what's preserved it, somewhat, IMO.

These posts are why I love HAIF so much! Great photos and stories. I grew up admiring Idylwood's beauty & uniqueness. Many trips with my grandmother to Dinner Bell ended with a drive through the neighborhood, to idylize it, pun intended. I realized while reading these posts that I owe my architectural appreciation to my grandmother, as well as my mom. I am a fortunate one.

Pic 1 (left pic) - Left gate entrance pillar Pic 2 (rt pic) - Right gate entrance pillar Pic 3 (bottom) - Both pillars at very wide entrance to Pineview Place on Harrisburg Blvd. Taken w/ GoogleEarth

Look at the detail in that window. wow. When I was little, we would pass this neighborhood going to my great-grandmother's house. The entrance gates are still there, on Harrisburg Blvd.

Look what's sitting at the end of Glendale St. in Pineview Place. @196 Glendale. My brother took these for us, he's an engineer, has a different viewpoint than we do. He said it was spooky-looking. Reminds me of the one in Forest Hill, and ones in Meadowbrook. Thanks Brett! Notice the stairs leading down, outside, it slopes.

Supposedly, there was once a landing field around Old Galveston Rd. and Meadowbrook, Glenbrook Country Club. They had tents set up, too. Circa 1920's or before, military, I believe it said. I just ran across the story on the Park Place Facebook site, older posts. I had heard of a Park Place landing field before, but had never found any other mention of it or map reference 'til just now. Must have been soft field. http://www.archives....groups/018.html reference no. 18.9.1...date of PP location, 1918-19...just lists the name and date.

Thank you, small chance for it's survival, if the location is the middle of "newer" Downtown. There is one old bldg. that faces Fannin at Clay, faces corner, wrong way. It's nice, though.

http://www.cah.utexas.edu/db/dmr/image_lg.php?variable=e_bb_1404 ...where was this located? San Antonio & Clay. Only location for San Antonio st, that I can find is in Harrisburg, East End of Houston. Thinking this hotel would have sat Downtown somewhere near one of the train stations, or in Midtown.

http://houstorian.wo...d-houston-maps/ ...a HAIF member's site, tmariar. http://www.lib.utexa...aps/historical/ ...two great locations for maps, the topo. maps are lised by names, in some cases, such as Park Place (one map will have a listing for the next section, on each edge) when they are dividied up, in blocks. I refer to these two map lists all the time. I recently noticed a Buffalo st. name in one of the old maps, was very close to Downtown. Houstonians were fond of the name. It was my High School mascot, as well, school dates back to the late 1920's.

Seems from your story that you truly love what you do, you must, 'cause that's a lot of work, stripping. Interesting, about the blond in the redwood. Good for you, salvaged some wood from another dead mod. I love real wood, stained or unstained, despise white paint, but know it has it's reasons for being. haha...When sold, I hope the purchaser is a mod lover, and not a style destroyer.

Thanks Travelguy, nice to know it's still there, with elevated sloping lot, love that neighborhood!

http://idylwood.org/...ylwood/history/ ...this was posted earlier in another Idylwood topic. Thanks for the pics, wow, you can tell the age of the neighborhood from viewing Wallingford's photos. Love those auto models and time period. Is that house still there? I tried to look for it on GoogleEarth, but the site doesn't work as good as it used to, IMO, garbles the street view most of the time

The vintage carrousel sign is now inside the bldg, per the reply on facebook. The city requested the move, he said. Ow well, better for the sign, less deterioration.

http://digital.lib.u...ny&CISOOP4=none ,,,believe it would be the pictures at this link labeled Central Fire Station". Seems there were many locations for the first one. http://www.houstontx.gov/fire/firestations/station1.html..... 5 different locations mentioned here. Address for the Aquarium Restaurant is Preston & Bagby.

Welcome to HAIF, Wallingford! and thanks for the personal stories. Wish I could have walked through those gems. I just wrote to the Houston Country Club Place Association, yesterday, to ask why the archives aren't available. Was referred to a second source. I asked if they were making a handbook, I would love to get ahold of those papers again. The historian get great work, not only on the neighborhood, but the whole surrounding area. I'll let everyone know if or when I hear something. I had no idea that Simms Estate was there, I grew up in the 1960's, passed the location many times.Dinner Bell was a frequently visited restaurant, even when I was grown. No one in my family ever mentioned it (4 generations- East End) or the huge house that still stands, in Forest Hill subdivision, on Pasadena St.

Recent view of the estate property (GoogleEarth) & huge palms at one of the entrance roads.

"Are you sure this was not at Telephone and Wheeler instead of Telephone and Winkler? I know about the house at Telephone and Wheeler with the circular drive and Palm trees. It is next to the Houston Parks and Recreation building" ...isuredid's post, a while ago. post #8, above. isuredid was right about the location, Telephone and Wheeler, here's an aerial shot. I'm wondering if that wasn't Mr. MacGregors estate. Does anyone know? His wife donated the land nearby for a park.Griggs Rd. is in the top left corner, above the estate. This is very close to Riverside Terrace. Says at the time of MacGregor's death, he was thinking of developing the area, believe it was in the 1920's he died. It's ironic that a trailer park community sits next to the property now, the palm trees are huge, beautiful. The estate had two roads leading to the actual mansion, you can follow them in the aerial shot to the house, sits to the right. You can still see the foundations of the house on GoogleEarth, there is a business that sits behind the location of the actual mansion.

I think the new font lacks energy. Like the colors of those flowery things though. Are they suppposed to symbolize firecrackers, per the picture?

http://dawsonlunnon.webs.com/ ...good documentation on the site, nice photos.

Thanks Gnu. Couldn't find the info. Nice to know someone respected the graves. There are so many I've read about, on his list and another, that are lost. Noticed that either the ravine changed course, or was originally recorded incorrectly.

http://books.tax.hct..._23-24_0066.jpg ...posted this for Cemetery Wolf and others who may be interested. I was looking for the property for "Delmonico", a name for a treed area in the East End, on the old ward maps. I mistakenly thought it was in this block book location. It was actually north of this area, closer to Harrisburg Rd. But I did run across a church and two references to two very small cemeteries, by Slaughter Pen bayou, think it was later called Country Club bayou. Anyway, notice now there is nothing at the end of Kemp St. Womder what happened to the grave sites, moved maybe? This land sits in the area of the Howard Hughes operations, close to Polk Ave. Imagine it changed quite a bit during the war effort, in the 1940's. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_wards_of_Houston two early ward maps

I just asked my friend, at lunch, if they have a distinct accent. Don't believe I've ever recognized one. She just returned from there, says they definitely do. She took the architectural tour, said it was awesome.

Banff Springs Hotel, Canadian Rocky Mountains, ...never been there, they say it's a very old hotel. Beautiful pics...I've been to Jasper, not far away.