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The earlier flood photo has Henke & Pillot - Largest Grocer's (poss. address - 302 Milam in 1925) and Ship Channel Drug Co. I have viewed some photos of both floods. Second one got the city's attention, in a big way. It prompted Sears to build the S. Main St. store. Thanks for sharing the photos.

HPMatt ~ Very interesting information about JP Morgan and Indianola. My grandmother's relatives landed in Indianola, from Germany. She attended Milby HS, knew the Milby daughter. Welcome to HAIF.

I was shocked at Memorial Park's appearance. Maybe more than some people due to the fact that I hardly ever pass by the Galleria. I couldn't believe it. My heart sunk. A drought after the last hurricane took it's toll. I feel the same way when traveling down the Gulf Freeway. Winter time makes everything look desolate, as well. Hopefully, we wll see a lot of rain this Spring.

We have talked about this rink before, on HAIF. I'll look for the link.

That train ride is a favorite memory...with my grandmother. it's one I later shared with my son.

That should read WWI, of course (not WWII), first line I had a great- grandfather who was at Camp Logan.

See post #9 ~ That would explain why it was named Rice "MILITARY" before the WWII training camp was there. I was looking for an explanation, since I read that the neighborhood was called RM before the WWI occupation of the area. William M. Rice & brother owned land there, at one time. And I assumed it had a military link that predated WWI. The property close by, between Detering and Reinerman, Washington and Buffalo Bayou was at one time referred to as Smokeytown or Smokeville (census)? The name is on an early Houston Topo. map, probably linked to coal/ railroad workers of causasian and African American heritage, who lived in the area. I have read two different accounts of a black cemetery at the Memorial Park Condo location (demolished now?), Swamplot reference. Did they build over the graves? Felix Croom and family are supposed to be buried at that location. Mr. Crooms died around 1917. The West End Research page also goes into much detail about a black cemetery at that location, started by a man named Edward Rosco (year 1881, bought .92 acre for a graveyard). The researcher describes the cemetery with the gully located on it, now where the condos are located...what happened to the cemetery? Bad karma. http://swamplot.com/tag/park-memorial-condominiums/ https://sites.google.com/site/cemeteriesofharriscotexas/crooms-family-cemetery http://www.ricemilitary.org/documents/history.htm The last link has great detailed research by H. Neal Parker...see specifically the Caffey Tract under 1.) Heli Hurd...several paragraphs about the cemetery land. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/houston_nw22.jpg ... the map

My experience with Weingartens in the 1960's ~ 1970's was always a good one. Huge store, but very clean, nothing out of the ordinary with employees. The Gulfgate and Lawndale stores are the ones I recall. It seemed to me, as a kid, that the Gulgate store (connected to the mall) was much larger than the other one.

Yes, that was the name, TimmyChan...I think there is an HISD school in that location. I forgot about the one at Lawndale, Sevfiv. Guess we didn't exactly stick to locations asked for, but it's fun to remember them. I went to Gulfgate, Meadowcreek and the Bellfort one, once.

There WAS a bowling alley on the SE side of town, on a street close to the Gulf Freeway, west side, I'm guessing, in between College Rd. & Almeda Genoa Rd. and of course, the one at Gulfgate was cool, demolished. Think there was one near Gessner and I-10, side st. North of I-10 & Memorial City. Became a gun range.

Fascinating! Yeah, if it's a slightly hilly spot of land in Houston, it's usually associated with the water flow. The Harris County block books also show areas that had the natural direction of water flow, before man's manipulation. The Riverside area is an interesting study. I don't know if it's totally advantageous to propel the water at faster speeds, in every case, through concrete chutes. Heard that water always tries to return to it's natural path, if redirected. Or, water takes the shorter route, as in oxbows, that get naturally eliminated, over one. I love the slide/ compare feature. This iPad is still very limiting, laptop GoogleEarth Has more features, suh as the earlier aerial map function.

Will do, billf..I'm always looking.

There are nice photos of the houses, etc...included, as well.

Thanks Little Frau, for looking that up. I will look for the photo, soon.

What will happen to all those bricks, other materials? What a waste.

http://anthropology.tamu.edu/papers/Stahman-MA2004.pdf I really think this research deserves to have it's own topic page. The information on the Addicks and Barker Reservoirs (previous farms) is quite an interesting read for historians, etc.

http://www.westhoustonarchives.org/sh6addickssatsumard.htm See the topic at the bottom of the page for information on the house at West Little York & Hwy. 6. Two photo links accompany it, under "mansion".

I wonder where the house was moved to.

That hospital has been closed/ fenced for quite a while. I noticed that the smaller Pasadena Hospital has changed quite a bit. Is it closed, as well? I can't remember. I just drove by there. Professional bldg. was boarded up. Tatar St.?

I don't know when his happened. Yeah, it was kind of a real mess, some business.

http://www.interowestave.com/homes/TX/HOUSTON/77087/2916_GOLFCREST_BL/13145327516/index.html Well, it's a sad evening for me, our oldest, Houston family home has been removed. It sat across from TeleWink Grill. There is a story that my family donated the property access for a road to the new Golfcrest Country Club. Block books show the family name. I have inherited antiques from that house. It was huge. As a kid, I only saw the living room and kitchen. It was sold to a new owner many years ago. Dated to late 1800's. My aunt has photos of it. Old letters talk of the coming of the Interurban railway http://books.tax.hctx.net/v058/AE1997_58_0220.jpg

I passed by it recently. It's deteriorating, very sad.

http://citemag.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/ByTheWayside1_Koush_Cite69.pdf ...page 3/ 26 on article talks about Simms.

What was the store that was located at the northern tip of Gulfgate layout? The building was painted white, with green, striped cloth covered windows, on black rod fixtures? It sat closest to the church? Joske's just south-east of it, had multi-levels with flood control doors, for basement entrance level. and had granite boulders outside that entrance, by the hill. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulfgate_Mall It was Sakowitz. I have a picture of it somewhere.