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Thanks to Ross for finding the exact location last year. The gun club is located where the present day Highland Village Shopping Center is, located a long Westheimer Road. I mapped the HV Apple Store with an address of 4012 Westheimer Road.

I've noticed gun clubs have a cool formation in aerial photography. Found a historic Uptown gun club so I thought I would share my findings. From the newspaper The Houston Post. dated June 15, 1924: Views Snapped On Post Party Jaunt Along The Westheimer and Bellaire Roads. Upper Left: The gun club out on the Westheimer Road with a front view of the Jordan Blue Boy in the foreground. The Houston Post. dated June 8, 1924: An Airplane View of Houston Gun Club John Winters and Ed Bond recently took the accompanying picture of the Houston Gun Club's up-to-date house and trap field.

Does anyone know about this? I believe I found a small church on the corner of Post Oak at Westheimer! I went onto their website and their "about us" page mentions: Founded in 1939, The Church of St. John the Divine is a vibrant congregation dedicated to Changing Lives for God in Christ. Was this the original location before they moved to 2450 River Oaks Blvd? Cool find!! From the newspaper Southwestern Times dated July 5, 1951 : Wright Graduates from Baylor Med With High Honors Graduating from Baylor Medical College with high honors, Bob Wright of 4321 Cynthia will intern at the Jeff Davis Hospital, after which he plans to go to Japan as a medical missionary. Dr. Wright, who has lived in Bellaire for the past three years, has a wife and two children. He was lay pastor at the Baptist mission on Westheimer and Post Oak Road until his studies and hospital duty during his senior year forced him to resign. The Alvin Sun dated April 29, 1954: Grace Church to Attend Presentation On Sunday afternoon (May 2) members of Grace Episcopal Church School will attend the Annual Mite-box Presentation Service which this year will be held in Saint John the Divine Episcopal Church, Westheimer and Post Oak Road, Houston. The service will begin at 4:00 p.m. Members of Grace School are asked to be at the Parish House, ready to leave at 2:45 p.m. Parents of the children will provide transportation. Aerial photograph of the building located at Post Oak and Westheimer in 1957:

Found this newspaper article and saved it. Sadly, I cannot remember which newspaper publication is was from. I do know a date! April 4, 1973. Article: Houston landmark demolished Monday. The old Winchester Club on South Post Oak between Richmond and West Alabama was demolished by the Olshan Demolishing Company Monday, April 2. The mark the passing of the Winchester Club. Olshan hosted the last dance at the Winchester at 11 a.m. Monday. Instead of sadness the air was festive at the passing of this old building. Music provided b the J.R. Brodi band featuring Leon “Papper” Selph on the fiddle. There was also a caller and eight square dancers. The climax the last number, Brodie laid his guitar and picked up the levers of the wrecking crane to start the death of a land mark. Houstonians have waitzed polka-ed and Cotton-eye Joe-ed in the sounds of the country music's finest at the Winchester. A few of the entertainers who have been featured there are Conway Twitty, Loretta Lyn, Johnny Paycheck, Jerry Lee Lewis, Willie Nelson, Jeannie C. Riley, Waylon Jennings, and Al Dean. And, for the last time the Winchester Club really jumped at the Wrecking Ball. Olshan wrecked the building for the Gerald D. Hines Interests. No immediate plans have been made for the location. Photo of a band inside The Winchester Club.

Splitting this 17-year old thread to bring further information. I believe this building/parcel has been through a lot of changes! In the 1900s - 1910s the HISD school was called Post Oak School (or Post Oak School House.) In the 1920s the building was renamed to Grady School. There might have been a building demolition and rebuild a long with the school name change? Or the financial institution that came decades later had rebuilt? If I did my research right, we can see the building in Google Maps in a aerial photo dated in 1944. It's the only building situation on the corner of Post Oak Road at Westheimer Road that resembles an old school house. From the book publication; Raising The Bar - The Life and Work of Gerald D. Hines. Parallel Tracks By the time he receive the letter from Shell, Hines was already plotting the future Houston's southwest suburbs. In 1964, having built the Joske's store on Westheimer Road and Post Oak Boulevard, he started to envision the beginnings of yet another urban center – an office complex connected to a shopping center- even though he had never built a shopping center before. Directly across the street from Sakowitz, a suburban branch of what was then Houston's premier hometown specialty store, stood thirteen acres of mostly empty land. The site was located on a prime corner of Westheimer Road and Post Oak Boulevard, but the vast acreage held only a single small building known as “the little red schoolhouse.” The 1929 red-roofed building had housed the Grady School until 1950. When Hines first became aware of the property, it has been serving as a branch of Houston First Savings Association for the past seven years. But it wasn't the building that transfixed the builder: it was the land. “I just knew the location was great,” said Hines of the freeway-adjacent site,”Eddie Dyche, president of Houston First Savings, owned the land. They wanted to sell it, but they wanted to get their own facility at that location. They had bought the land for the location. So we worked it out where Eddie Dyche could have a lease for his bank and a savings and loan, and we could buy the land for a multi-use center in the same location.” The first public announcement of Hines' purchase of what would become the home of his shopping center and office complex came in the Houston Chronicle on September 15, 1964, in a story headlined, “13 Acres on South Post Oak Purchased”: Hines said his group plans to develop the property with construction of a store and office buildings at an estimated expenditure of from $5 million to $20 million over the next ten years. He said he hopes construction on the first of the buildings will-- Google Earth aerial photograph of Post Oak at Westheimer Road in 1944: It appears the smaller building to the immediate left of the school house could be a second building for the Post Oak School.

Amazing find here! Uptown sure had lots of physical activity going back in the day. I wonder if there are any photographs? The baseball field was also named Post Oak Park. From the newspaper The Houston Post. dated July 21, 1923: Game Notice. The Post Oak team will play the George L. Glass No. 1 team Saturday afternoon at Post Oak Diamond. Sunday afternoon Texas Sporting Goods team will play at Post Oak. Post Oak has one of the best diamonds around Houston on a good five miles out on Westheimer Road. Seating capacity is grandstand about 400 people and accommodations for about 50 cares back of a 200-foot backstop 10 feet high. The Houston Post. dated February 17, 1924: Post Oak Notice. All Post Oak players are asked to meet at Post Oak Diamond Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m. All players that do not have cars will please rig Hadley 7024 or Hadley 3867. All last year's players and others that wish to try out are asked to come out. Post Oak will have as good a diamond as any in the city, and a dressing room with shower, bath, and grandstand to seat about 30 people and a back stop about 150 feet long, from 10 to 20 feet high. Located five miles out on Westheimer Road at Post Oak.

wow!! I never knew about this cool Uptown dance hall and grocery store until this week. Incredible history here! This is Uptown's version of the infamous End-O-Main Dance Hall on South Main. From the newspaper The Houston Post. dated December 2, 1923. Upper Left: Post Oak Dance Hall and Grocery Store located at the intersection of the Post Oak and Wetheimer roads. 12 miles from Houston. In the foreground, a side view of the new 1924 seven-passenger WillysKnight touring car. The Houston Post. dated December 31, 1923: Dance at Post Oak New Year's Eve Westheimer Road Under New Management Good Music

I was invited to a dinner party tonight. The person hosting is a manager at Anderson. I brought up the pink stone that MD Anderson likes to use on their buildings. She said Anderson used to teach, in orientation, the story about Monroe Anderson's trip to the Arizona mountains. Monroe Anderson's discovered some pink rock during his trip to Arizona, and that's the beginning of the story about the pinkish stone used throughout their TMC medical campus. I've also been told, again, that Pisters is a real down-to-earth guy. He's the President, but likes to act and walk around, like a normal guy.

This has been sold. From my research, it looks like a car wash will be built here. A buddy of mine says the owner is pushing for multifamily.

Found the hospital campus on Google Earth. The old aerials match the 1950s Sanborn map. A little hard to tell the buildings apart, but you can clearly see the mass/shape of the buildings. The buildings are spaced out evenly with the Sanborn map. I believe we found it!! Map: 1944 aerial: 1953 aerial. Edit: I circled the buildings. The hospital complex has 7 buildings. I wonder all the building names?

I can''t find the documentation right now, but wasn't there a third TMC Grant-Fay parcel? I thought the family donated/sold land that's bordered between Fannin, Pressler, and South Main? Today, 3 buildings are built on the slender parcel. * In the future, there will be another high-rise building on the surface lot to the right. I give it 5 to 10 years!

Just wow. Every time I visit TMC Helix Park I get even more impressed. I really, really, like the street layout and design. The overall area is bright and "pops" at you. Can't wait to see it when the streets and sidewalks are power washed! The area behind One Dynamic Way: Collaborative Building, getting chairs! Two Dynamic Way, something is being built. What is that? Parcel A: Parcel B: Helix Gardens, Section 3: Helix Gardens, Section 4: Parcel H is being fenced!! Either this parcel is being fenced for protection, or overall aesthetics related. I don't see a 30-story hotel breaking ground this month. The old TMC3 vinyl wrap on the exterior fence is being removed. What's this all about? Possibly replacing the graphics of TMC3 to Helix Park? This might be bad news. What are people's thoughts on the removal of the signage? Mixed-Use Garage, love this building!! Really hope retail comes soon!

There are now two Bio Technology Manufacturing developments proposed elsewhere. I don't know how I feel about that. If there was just one, centrally located, maybe there would be more traction for leasing. Now, potential clients will have to choose from 3 different Houston-area campuses. The City of Pasadena recently discussed a TMC BioPort "Spinoff" in their Strategic Plan Five-Year Update June 2023 meeting. As well already know, now McCord Development is proposed their own Bio Technology Manufacturing campus in Generation Park. City of Pasadena: Generation Park:

My favorite skyscraper going up right now. It's just massive!

wow!! Going fast!

Here's the Texas Medical Center logo back in the 1970s. This was when the governing body was called Texas Medical Center, Inc.

Thought I would share some information I found regarding Monterey House Restaurants Here's an advertisement dated September 28, 1966 for the location at 6539 Bissonnet Street. Monterey House Famous For Take-Out Mexican Food Now Dining Room Service 11:00 AM - 8:00 PM (Closed Mondays) 6549 Bissonnet Across from Kyle Chapman Field / PR 4-7244

Another advertisement dated November 20, 1942 Make Mading's Drug Store Your Headquarters In your neighborhood Store No. 14 6602 So. Main St.

I believe the Grant-Fay family had several parcels in the Texas Medical Center. Another parcel was where the current-day Modera Flats multifamily complex is, at 1755 Wyndale Street. Looks like the University of Houston System was in control of the land back in Aug 15, 2012. Carolyn Grant-Faye Tract – Proposed Land Sale History: The tract of land was gifted to the endowment by Carolyn Grant-Fay in 1996. At that tine, the Carolyn Grant-Fay endowment was established and considered fully funded at the fair market value of the real estate, which was $1.26 million. Over $1.1 million of income has been distributed from the endowment since inception and supports certain psychology program and activities in the Honors College. The System mad the decision to fold the land for future appreciation which benefits all endowments with the endowment fund. Current Valuation: The property was re-appraised in 2012 with a valuation of $11 million, due in large part to increasing market values in the area spurred by increased development activity. The property's location along with the lack of developable sites in the immediate area have further influenced the property's positive growth in the market value.

wow!! James Johnson Sweeney's mansion was epic! This home is just "boss" as you might say. The home was built in the 1900s or 1910s. I assume this was in the downtown neighborhood called Quality Hill. Residence of J.J. Sweeney Edit: This was an Olle Lorehn design!

Forgot where I saw this, but this is dated 1907. I love the buildings and background. Such camp like. The Crystal Creamery Company's Plant, 400 Main Street Sellers of Pure, Unadulterated, Pasteurized Milk

I loved that early Equinox rendering. If only!! Here's a recap from 6 years ago.

Recently I've been enjoying Uniball's Signo Grip .0.7 mm. Smooth writing, but it does have a cap attached. I find retractables to be quicker. Uniball cannot do wrong. Most of their offers are top notch. I do also like Pilot's gel pens and of course the infamous Pentel EnerGel series.

Found a postcard that contains the infamous rail cars. Cool!! Railhead 6400 Richmond Ave., Houston, Texas 77027 784-5400 A unique dining experience, specializing in Prime Rib, Steak, and Seafood.

Aerial photograph of the old Windsor Plaza Shopping Center On Richmond Ave. Date is said to be 1960. A few race tracks were located across the street somewhere? Was that a multifamily complex in the bottom right corner?