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Is it just me or was there soil testing going on? Did I also see a Capital Retail Properties sign? Where would the water works move to? I would need to go drive by to verify what I saw. Something could be brewing here.

Looking for information about this cool old motel. I believe it changed hands at some point. I'm trying to research the original owner of the motel. I assume this place opened in the 1960s? Anyone recall this place? “Fountain Nocturnal” Holiday Inn Motel 10319 So. Main – U.S. 59 and 90A Coffee Shop – Swimming Pool Open Year Around Near the Texas Medical Center, Shamrock Hotel and **** ***** Restaurant. For this who appreciates the nicer ***** and ***** MO 403481. Houston's Holiday Inn Conveniently near Colt and Rice University Stadiums, Medical Center, City's Best Restaurants, Park, and Zoo. Beautiful Swimming Pool and Coffee Shop. Large Family Playground and Ample Car-By-Door Parking. Owner-Managed. 10319 Main Street (South) Phone: Mohawk 4-3481. See listing above

I was researching Lovitt Commercial's new development and I came across this. I never knew there used to be a Howard Johnson Express Inn Astrodome/Medical Center here. wow!! The address was 9604 South Main Street. Cool history here!! Did anyone ever happen to stay here?

I was browsing a newspaper dated August 5, 1967 and came across a cool vintage advertisement. The advertisement was for an old motel called Mitchell Inn Motel located at 10015 South Main Street. Cool stuff!! You'll See More of Houston, Texas When You Stay at the new Mitchell Inn Nearest to the Astrodome Minutes to Downtown Everything is provided for your mos pleasant stay in Houston- Luxurious and Spaces Rooms, Swimming pool, Marvelous Food, Entire Inn Centrally Air Conditioned and Heated, Many Other New Innovations and Conveniences. Write for Descriptive Folder. For Reservations Phone 713-667-9173 Low Daily Rates from $6.50 single

@Luminare ohhh yeah buddy!! When you get to Houston let me know and we can link up at a Hines building.. Congrats on your magnificent achievement!!

wow!! Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Capital Expenditure Plan Report Fiscal Years 2023-2027 September 2022 The University of Texas Health Scicnes Center at Houston A few things that caught my eye for the TMC campus: Digital Innovation Tower - $84,000,000 Medical Hospital - $244,000,000 (!!!!) MSB Research Expansion Phase II - $200,000,000 Public Health Education and Research Building - $315,000,000 UTHealth Housing Phase 4 - $94,000,000 Some more on the UTHealth Digital Innovation Tower for the Research Park Complex. Texas House of Representatives Committee on Higher Education Interim Charge Two, Request for Information The University of Texas System September 1, 2020 The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston The UTHealth Houston two proposals for a research building connected to the new TMC3 project that would be the new hoe to the UTHealth School of Public Health and a Digital Innovation Tower on the south research campus for the UTHealth School of Biomedical Informatics. These to schools have set an explosion in enrollment due to the pandemic and student wanting to enter into the public health field or the informatics/artificial intelligence fields. * SBMI Summer 2020: +26.6% over last summer * SPH Summer 2020: +21.1% over last summer And both schools are seeing large increases in Fall enrollment as well. These two workforces that are facing shortages in Texas highlight bu the pandemic. It is estimated that more than 4/5 of all public health workforce are not formally trained in public health. Informatics and see of artificial intelligence are the ways future epidemics can be contact traced successfully without may of the privacy concerns. These demands for expended public health and informatics workforce stress the needs for funding for this infrastructure.

wow!! Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Capital Expenditure Plan Report Fiscal Years 2023-2027 September 2022 The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center A few things that caught my eye for the TMC campus: Land Acquisition No. 4 - $75,000,000 Ambulatory Clinical Building Three - $1,547,000,000 Ambulatory Clinical Building Two - $993,000,000 Biosciences Research Facility - $441,000,000 Inpatient Bed Tower (IBT Phase 2) - $1,800,000,000 Research Building Number Two - $375,000,000 Research Data Building - $125,000,000 South Campus Education Building - $325,000,000 South Campus Research Building 5 - $494,000,000 Support Services Building (IBT Phase 1) - $1,285,000,000 The new Inpatient Bed Tower is supposed to be a game changer. Looks very expensive with lots of modifying to achieve the new land to build. I believe they are also shifting operations to the forthcoming campus called “South of Holcombe” which is on Fannin and Pressler.

Is there an address to this airport? Any of the surrounding airport buildings have addresses? I believe it was located on South Main Street, across from HISD's Butler Stadium. Hillcroft and South Main. So, in the area of 13755 South Main Street. I found a newspaper article about the closing of the airport dated July 6, 1957. Sam Houston Airport Will Close July 15. Sam Houston airport will be no more than a memory after July 15. Already the 70 planes based at the field have been moved to other locations. Cliff Hyde, operator of Sam Houston, has shifted to the La Porte airport when he has a 30-year lease on a 5/12 acres. He has built new facilities where he will hangar and maintain 25 aircraft from Sam Houston... The deactivated airport, opened in 1940, whs one of the better smaller fields in the Houston Area...

Here are the two possible MD Anderson builds for the site. 500,000 square feet is a lot, so I don't think it's the surgical center. Sugar Land Cancer Network Site Replacement - $392,200,000 Ambulatory Surgery Center Sugar Land/West Houston - $85,000,000

Confirmed this was apart of the Kiddie Wonderland amusement park. The key determining factor was the train number. I found the South Main Narrow Gauge Ry. tickets as described in the original posting. I will transcribe the tickets and also include photos below. I actually have @Mr.rpmto thank for linking us with that last YouTube video of KW. I found the matching train number 97 on the video. Front: South Main Narrow Gauge Ry. In Houston, Texas 1934-1936 Pass Account Good until December 31, 1936, unless otherwise limited. Valid when countersigned by J.L. Hardin __________? Executive Vice President Back: South Main Narrow Gauge Ry. In Houston, Texas Conditions. Not transferable and the person accepting and using this pass thereby assumes all risk of accident of inquiry to person or loss or damage to property and expressly agrees not to hold above named company nor its owner, liable for same. If presented by any other than the person named on the front therefor the Conductor will take up this pass and culled full fare. This pass is void of any alterations or ensures are may be revoked at any time and must be signed in ink by the holder. I accept the above conditions hereby certify and declare that I am not prohibited by and law (either State or Federal) from accepting or using this pass, and I further agree that I will not make use of all any time when or where such use would be violation of law. Good on “97” Train "97" as seen here.

Around the internet, there is some confusion about the opening and operating years of this amusement park. Some articles say Kiddie Wonderland started to operate in the 1930s. However, according to libraries and the website opencorporates, the company was founded in 1946. As a matter of fact, the Texas history library that I read does not have any newspaper/publication articles until the 1950s. I don't see this as being in the 1930s. However, there could have been an unofficial version of Kiddie Wonderland. Maybe a smaller operation, just for the neighborhood? I believe KW was also sold once or twice. There are several incorporation registrations on opencorporates. Most definitely different owners at some point. The internet articles also like to say it was founded by O.D. Drane and his wife Elizabeth Drane. I figured out O.D. stands for Oliver Drane. On opencorporates, there is a listing for Drane Development Company. Kiddie Wonderland Inc Incorporation Date: April 19, 1947 (around 76 years ago) Dissolution Date: December 27, 1950 Company Type: Domestic For-Profit Corporation Jurisdiction: Texas (US)

Does anyone recall the hamburger place in the Texas Medical Center called Cliff's Grill? Sometimes written as Cliff's Hamburgers. I believe it (in broad terms) just recently went out of business after 15 years. I think Cliff's Grill was a Houston business that had 2 or 3 stores? I searched HAIF and there was at least one other store. The store in the TMC opened in 1990, but the business was established in 1978. I love burgers. Somehow, I never went to this place! How did it stack up, to let's say, Prince's or Annie's? Or how about Jax Grill or Skeeter's Mesquite Grill? Tell me about this place! Cliff's Grill After almost 15 years of service, we will be closing our doors at the end of this week. Our final day of operation will be on Saturday, October 23, 2021. We are so grateful to have had the chance to serve the community here in the medical center. Thanks to each and every one of you for your patronge, kindness, friendship, and support. We couldn't have done done any of this without y'all. There is one remaining location of Cliff's in Houston and it is located at 1822 Fountain View Dr. across from the HEB on San Felipe. IF you ever get a craving for our food-- You can visit them! Thank you again, we wish you all the best! Kindly,

Here's a bank money bag with a rendering of the Fannin State Bank located at 1020 Holcombe Blvd. Interesting. I must have forgot there was a single-story building as well. I thought the high-rise tower was apart of the Fannin State Bank? Did the tower get built afterwards for another bank? I believe 1020 Holcombe was also another bank as well. I'm confused.

wow!! I found the first located of the WCC! Cool history here. I wonder if anyone on HAIF knows about this place? Who was the architect? From the newspaper The Bellaire Texan dated December 5, 1956: Here's How New Country Club Will Look. Groundbreaking For Willowisp Country Club. The first step in realization of the dream of two men from the Southwest area will take place Friday, December 7, at 2 p.m. On vacant acreage on South Willow Drive, in Willowbend. “We break ground for the Willowisp Country Club Friday”, Sam Dobyanski and his partner G.G. Simoneaux announced. The duo's plans for a $175,000 family type country club to serve the area of Willowbend, Westbury, Meyerland, Southern Oaks, Braes Oaks and Ayreshre, come of the drawing board and into construction immediately. The country club will include a seine dining room with a view of the terrace and swimming pool that will serve a night club on the weekends. The partners said there will be a cocktail bar, a magnificent swimming pool and a teen age recreation center with soda fountain, a snack bar and a jute box dances for afternoon and evening. Wading Pool. There will also be a kiddie wadding pool and play-ground area. Mr. Dobyanski, a resident of Willowbemd is a member of the the Bellaire Lions, and owns his own business, the Atlas Brace Co., 513 Richmond Avenue, where he has been located since 1950.

Found it! An article and rendering from the 1970s. Joint Projects. The following are major examples of joint operation in which the Texas Medical Center, Inc. participates: Central Laundry. Following a Feasibility and Planning Study, conducted by laundry consultants from New York City, it was determined that a central laundry in the Medical Center was feasible and **** substantial savings both in new equipment and **** hospital space. Thus, the Texas Medical Center Laundry Cooperative Association **** The University of Texas **** Texas Medical Center, Inc. **** Services will also be available to other institutions. Rendering caption. An artist's rendering of the Central Laundry Building being constructed under the Texas Medical Center Laundry Cooperative Association. Construction began in the Fall of 1972.

I was reading the newspaper The Bellaire Texan and found some old pharmacy advertisements. Willowbend Pharmacy located at 10707 South Post Oak Road / MA 3-2200. Does anyone recall this place? This was when they had "druggists" that actually mixed the medicines together? Looking on Google Maps, this is where the current O'Reilly Auto Parts store is? April 25, 1956: August 10, 1960: "The Pill Wagon" December 5, 1956: Looks like the drug store also had a toy department with trains! Just how big was this place? Seems like it was the size of a current Walgreens or CVS?

Anyone recall the massive cattle sign on Old Spanish Trail? Apparently the cow was on top of a globe, that was perched on a long pole. Very weird for the medical center!! When Googling the address 1610 Old Spanish Trail it places me at the old Shell Technology building, that was demolished a few years ago. Was this in related to the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo? Advertisement from the 1970s. So this came before the brutalist Shell building?

I was looking around for old Houston hospitals (and related businesses) and found a postcard from the 1950s. The postcard is from Texas Christian Nursing Home located at 703 McGowen Street in Midtown. Does anyone know about this old place? Any family or relatives go here by any chance? Looking on Google Maps, it appears the multifamily development called Camden McGowen has taken its place. Very cool history nonetheless! I love seeing "what was before". Before Camden's large project, there was a nursing home.

Found it! No address, but I found the company incorporation name and date. According to the website opencorporate, the company was called South Main Go-Kart Speedway Co., Inc. The business was incorporated on April 29, 1960. The business owner, or agent, was Jim Teflos. Would love to see some advertisements in newspapers and the media! Why wasn't this place popular? The only place I've heard it mentioned is HAIF.

I'm looking for more information about the local restaurant called Kay's Drive-In Restaurant located at 7909 South Main Street. Apparently the restaurant was active in the 1960s and in 1970 the building was vacant and abandoned. I can't find anything about it so I thought I would ask HAIF. There is a neon sign that includes a woman in a dress holding a purse. I noticed the Stuart's Club Grill Drive-In Restaurant located at 8001 South Main St. also had a woman in a dress in their business designs but I (sadly) believe they are different. There is also a clock on their signage pole with a caption underneath. According to opencorporates, there was a Kay's Drive-Inn Restaurant that was incorporated in Florida in 1963. I'm not sure if that's related. Timeframe kind of matches at least.

I saw a very rare skating roller rink this week! Never seen this before so I thought I would share. Love the 1950s character graphics. This is good history here! Rainbow Roller Rink 2510 Berry Road Houston, Texas "Skate For Fun" "Skate For Health" Instructor - On - Floor At All Times

I didn't see this posted so I thought I would contribute. Gulf Gate Roller Rink Houston's Largest Air-Conditioned Rink 6839 Holmes Road - Houston, Texas

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Did anyone ever go to to the Recreation Bowling Center located at 7035 Harrisburg Blvd in the 1950s? I saw this floating around and I wondered if anyone had any memories to share. What about pictures? On this collectable item the business name is written as Center Bowling Lanes.

Does anyone recall this local food market on Willowbend by the train tracks? Looking on opencorporates, the company incorporation date is March 30, 1982. The owner (or agent) was Jeffery A Mosshart. So this was just a small food-based convenience store? It was then replaced by a U'Tote'm Convenience Store?