I bought in early '98 and there was an old guy who lived across the street. His son was a Houston Cop and we talked often about the neighborhood. He said the lots where my townhouse is located used to be a old metal scrap yard and extended from Lacy to Detering and back towards Memorial. There was one HUGE Pin Oak tree on our lot that unfortunately died a year into my residence (they obviously did not protect the roots). The older gentleman said they used to have a big scale on that tree to measure the scrap metal - similar to the one at C&D's Scrap Metal. I don't have any pictures of the neighborhood, but I also heard there used to be a lot of Pecan trees, too, and they used to have a Pecan company off Detering that supplied a lot of nuts to the food supply, until they started producing larger Pecan groves in the Hill Country. That's my old story about Rice Military. The older gentleman died back in 2002 or 2003 and after a few years, his son finally sold the place that was falling apart and there are now two brand new three-story town homes on the lot that sold for mid-$400s.
