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My high school (Milby) had a football game way out there, only once, in their schedule, I believe.

I looked in the block books, never found anything on Ora st., so that's why. Interesting name for a neighborhood, Zonana.

Speaking of map or land document word mispellings, the street Mangum was mispelled as Magnum , on some old NW Houston maps.

I see it all the time.

By the way, is mispelled mis-spelled? haha...

I love Glenbrook Valley, Idylwood & Houston Country Club, but I think Forest Hill is a special space, as well. Some of the lots are very large. Beautiful trees, nicely laid out. Garden Villas is unique, as well.

Yes - the Hempstead Drive In Theater (10600 Hempstead) - there is a picture of the fire on these pages:

http://cinematreasur.../theaters/30583

http://www.cinemahou.../driveins.shtml

Another interesting thing on the aerial maps - a little residential area on Ora St. that is a wooded area now - looks like it lasted in to the 1980s and Ora isn't a street anymore..

Yeah, the Fairway Park Dr. goes rt. through the middle of the drive-in theater parking lot.

One interesting thing I remember about the drive-ins (I was young) is that the shell/ gravel parking lots had little hills, so when you pulled up to the speaker (that hung on your car window), the car sat at a slight angle, upwards, to get a good view of the screen (for those who were actually watching the movie) haha.

The small neighborhood of about 9 homes (Ora St.) is an interesting study. Looks like they were reduced to slabs in the later yrs. as you point out. One home seemed to last longer than the others. Those homes sat very close to the railroad tracks & road, where the road curves, or forks in two directions.

Thanks a million-Let's see if this jives with my colleague's remembrances. Where in the sam hill did you find this info??

Haha...sevfiv's good at that! Was probably an old directory.

I also learned from the picture collage of the Park Place Facebook page, that there was an equestrian center in the 1940's at Glenbrook, by the golf course.

There are pics of a girl in riding gear, in B/W pictures.

Never heard that, before!

I just saw on Facebook, on the Park Place page, that Glenbrook Pool was torn up, diving towers to come down, to be remodeled. There were changes in the layout of the bayou, making the pool sit too close to the bayou. The new layout puts the pool much closer to the road.

I'm sad to see the old pools and 1960's pavilion come down. Lots of summer memories there.

Check out the pics, glad to see someone documented this. Facebook page is from a month ago.

Very neat - do you happen to know the address?

Yeah, 902 Frostwood Dr. Pro 1 (Memorial Herman, Memorial City)

The bldg. exterior looks like a 1970's creation to me, but the inside atriums remind me of the 1960's.

The Memorial City atriums remind me of the style of the Southeast Memorial Hospital, located on Bellfort, that utilized them in the overall design.

They had much smaller atriums at SEM. I don't think you could enter them. I could be wrong, I was very small.

I walked out on the bridges at MC, neat.

They probably had drainage upkeep problems with the fountains.

Here's what one of the two courtyards looks like. Thought it was cool. I don't really like the red paint, though.

Here's a pic of the house (that I talked about in post #24) that I'm intrigued by. I took this picture a while back. The house looks very old. The land around it slopes considerably, ravine near it runs into the bayou to the north of the land. Sad to see it in such a state of decay. Is it still there?<BR><BR>

Cool 1960's remnants of a fountain (blue tile) in the atrium of the professional bldg. I love those round stair steps. http://i278.photobuc...os/DSCN0757.jpg

There is a walkway bridge in the middle of the courtyard, where you can walk across on two levels, 1st and 2nd stories.

There are two courtyards in this bldg. Hope they don't get lost with remodeling, that is happening next door in the hospital, connected to this bldg.

Was so surprised to see this hidden gem.

I don't know much about Lake Conroe, but during this drought it probably is.

That was one characteristic of Lake Sam Rayburn that supposedly made the fishing better.

Maybe someone else knows.

I grew up going to Lake Livingston & Lake Sam Rayburn. My father always talked about both being man-made lakes. On a map of Lake Livingston, I once saw a reference to a cemetery. I believe the bodies were moved, I once heard there was also a town, now lost to the lake construction.

I read somewhere recently that Lake Houston was created as an alternative to ground water extraction, and the reserviors on the west/ northwest side of Houston were made to control flood water after several devastating floods destroyed parts of downtown in the1930's.

Seems water manipulation is one skill Texans & especially Houstonians have always tried to improve upon.

Oops...I have to correct myself, on the Magnolia Park map, Belgium St. is German St. in parentheses. Ave. E. is a different street.

I agree, they're not very easy to work with, have to magnify to 100%, then move the box around. Oh well, better than nothing.

http://digital.lib.uh.edu/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=/p15195coll35

along with the great Foley's display that Sevfiv pointed out (thanks for that), UH also has updated their map collection. It's great...

so far, I have found on map 5, the exact location of Luna Park, etc.

and on map 10, Magnolia Park annd Central Park locations, with a street listed as Belgium, never heard of that before, I think it may have been renamed Ave. E. (where my great-grandmother's house was).

I know German St. became Canal.

Interesting.

Looking for pictures of the Super Slide that was located on Telophone Rd. and Almeda Genoa Rd.

Went there as a kid. Slid down on burlap sacks. It was a ruin for many years and I wished I had taken pictures of it.

Thanks for any help!!!!!!!!!?????????????

I remember the one that sat on Telephone, east side of road, close to an old 1950's style burger place. Part of of Almeda-Genoa ran to the west of the super slide.

(By the way, I saw some Astroworld Ferris Wheel baskets on that road, they were sitting in a yard, was years ago).

I remember it becoming a scrap/ junk yard, with the slide slowly deteriorating around it. Sorry, I don;t have any pictures.

I was kinda scared of it, it was sooo big.

I'm sad...saw it from the freeway.

But it lasted in it's original state longer than most bldgs. here.

Hopefully, the owner realized those signs & letters are worth something, and saved or sold them, instead of trashing them.

http://www.texastribune.org/texas-education/higher-education/univ-of-houston-victoria-looks-to-texas-am-system/

The community surrounding UH-Victoria wants to be part of Texas A&M, not UH.

The pharmacy buidling looks awesome. Reminds me of a 50's diner.

The Park Place pharmacy doesn't look like that photo, anymore. From the freeway, I could see that the letters have been removed, and it has a For Lease sign in one top corner. Has anyone else noticed that? And what did they do with those letters?

Did the child have a name?

What direction would your uncle have been coming from - west, north, east, etc.

I second this statement, what direction into Houston?

Old maps show many cemetery locations. The topography maps especially seem to mark them well.

Hunter's tip soulds like a good possibility to check out.

http://books.google....epage&q&f=false

here's an article on the first kiddie park, called "Kiddieland", sounds like it was located inside Gulfgate Shopping Center, in the courtyard, open area; sounds like it was the precurser to Peppermint Park which was not connected to, but across the bridge, and a little bit southeast from the actual shopping center. Maybe this explains why so many people who went to Gulfgate when it first opened, called it by that name, not Peppermint Park, which came later.

The article talks about adding portable rides later, at other malls. I remember the only time I was in Northline Mall, as a kid in the 1960's, I saw the West entrance with lines on both sides of the walkway filled with coin operated horses, etc.

Maybe someone can recall where these rides sat, exactly, in the Gulfgate courtyard.

I am fascinated with how the original Gulgate was created, with the dirt, hills, rerouting of the water, and all.

And the Carrousel wasn't always an hourly motel. Too bad it was linked to shady characters & fell into decay. It was a nice design.

Maybe that's one reason Peppermint Park relocated to the Southwest Frwy, following suburbian expansion. It sat so close to the motor hotel.

and 1970

I think that old house is just one of the many random old houses along Hempstead Rd. in the old days that managed to survive (if you can call it that) to today. The house is obviously a genuinely aged home, and not a forced job by the haunted house attraction. It looks ready to collapse on itself.

On another note, I was reading about another abandoned road called Addicks Clodine, which was abandoned around the time the barker reservoir was built. I think I can find an overgrown path within the dam, but am not sure if it's Addicks Clodine Road or not. Are there any remnants of the road left today? And how would one go about accessing it for photos?

I hate to see that old house decay.

regarding the other road...have you referenced these, for early road names?

see the Addicks 1955, 1970 map, from the

parent list from the Perry-Cast...link...below.

I like these, you can see where the actual towns were located, before being swallowed up by Houston development.

http://www.lib.utexa...aps/topo/texas/

see all Addicks maps, may look under Clodine, as well, or other town names, for specific roads & their early names.

I use these sources, as well as Historic aerials, GoogeEarth, all open at the same time, to compare. The "compare" years feature on HistAerials is priceless.

I vaguely remember a town and road within the (south of I-10) dam area, on one of those old maps I've directed you to.

Oh! I like this conversation.

I hope that my love for architecture (or buildings - there's a fine distinction) doesn't make me a misanthrope. I've noticed that there are those who can appreciate a building as one might a piece of music, or a work of art. Others see buildings as a formula, where the only criteria for value are square footage, an arbitrary measure of desirability, and land value.

For those who take the latter point of view - I get it. There are certain practical and economic considerations which cannot be ignored. Please consider that those who take the former point of view are responsible for some of the great (and profitable) neighborhoods. Greenwich Village, the French Quarter, Nob Hill, et. al. would not exist if the typical Houston style of development had been allowed.

So far as someone calling me a tree or building 'hugger', fine. Yes, I like them. And I'll ask, do you like your mom? Because that would make you a motherhugger - right?

I'm sorry. but I just now saw this conversation with Lotus and dbigtex56, and I had to laugh at the last line.Thanks, needed that.

I have to agree, I was born with a natural curiosity for architecture. Guess that makes me one, I don't care what I'm called. Just wish more developers, investors, etc. would listen more to architectural historians like Stephen Fox or organizations, such as the Houston Preservation Society.

Lotus, you definitely have a way with words.

Yes, the historicaerials compare function is quite handy, I use it often. The info. you share is interesting.

Do you have any info. on the small one story Victorian trimmed house that sits near Jersey Village, right on the railroad? Sits on the south side of the rail, maybe near Jones Rd. I'm curious about it, thought it might have something to do with a train stop in earlier years, maybe a rail station, mail drop for a small town. It is always associated with a Halloween spook house in the month of October. I can't see why it would sit so close to the railway, without having such a purpose. The is also an old animal pen sitting close to the house. The condition is not so good, looks like it's used for hay storage.

I was always amazed that The Rutledge (as well as the other apts. around it) stood so unchanged, for so long. I always admired the design, brickwork and all...what's your guess as to the lava rock facing, was it a fountain or a planter, originally?

The home designs in that area are unbelievable, my favs sit just north of the bayou.

Nice b/w shots.

I'm not familiar with that second one, at all, reminds me of the YMCA bldg. on Hwy 225, near Gulfgate (I-45).