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5th Gen,

Forget the roosters, the real noisemakers in Garden Villas are the peacocks, there must be at least 100 of them and they can really make the noise. The sound exactly like a woman crying.

More Garden Villas photos, and a little history. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.451193691372.242257.71454851372&type=1

I find Park Place a very interesting street, and I have always loved that law office's brick work. It looks like a sixties-style bldg., but those houses on that section of Pk Place are some of the first built; the forties seams right , to me, year built. It must have been remodeled. I recall a second one, nearby, with similar brickwork.

I was studying the Park Place aerials recently. I am curious as to the street name Reveille, what is it's significance?

Too bad the apt. bldg and police station (sitting next to it) near Telephone and Pk Place are to be, or have been demolished.

NenaE, both are now gone.

should we go to city council with this?

I hate to use an overbearing and obtrusive ordinance to protect something that is truly historic, but according to the historic preservation ordinance....

anyone have email addresses handy?

City Council Home Page

http://www.houstontx...ncil/index.html

This one was on Broadway, gone now.

The Plaza Theater

3818 Broadway

1945 to 1955

Oh, I forgot I made a Google map of theaters, too (extant and demolished):

http://maps.google.c...77&ll=29.758417,-95.313263&spn=0.89652,1.234589&t=h&z=10

Great pictures and map, two more you might add to your map.

Bluebonnet Theater

1015 Broadway

1930 to 1950

Broadway Theater

1325 Broadway

1950 to 1969

I didn't even notice Kitirik was hot at the time, it was watching the kids grabbing all the pennies they could hold that entranced me.

In 2nd grade in 1963 or 1964 Kitrick visited my class at Rummel Creek Elementary in spring branch.

She was a very petite woman, but to this 2nd, grader she had the longest legs I have ever seen.

To this day I can still see those legs.

This was the same class that I saw my first teacher cry, she was called out of the class by the principal

who was also in tears, then they both came in to tell us JFK had been shot.

Hi there. I dont seem to remember a Newberry's.

From http://mall-hall-of-fame.blogspot.com/

What is this?

Kitrick was a children's television character portrayed by Bunny Orsak.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitirik

Big on channel 13.

Anyone know where the Southern Pacific Hospital mentioned in article was located?

Edit: Never mind I did a little research and apparently it was also called the Sunset Hospital and is now the Thomas Street Health Center on Thomas St. just North of downtown. It was the first I had heard of a Southern Pacific Hospital in Houston.

Thomas Street Health Center now.

A good article and video on Hobby.

http://www.houstons55.com/postcards-from-texas/stories/2009-06-14-first-airport.jsp

Some pictures today, September 20th. 2009

A few more pictures.

I guess the laws changed, cause the George Bush Sr. is still living?

Or do we not get any federal funding for IAH?

I thought the same thing, but maybe it is different for presidents?

Very interesting. Why is named Hobby? Shouldn't the county have named it Hughes after his death?

In 1967, the airport was renamed after former Texas governor William P. Hobby.

Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976)

When I tell are friends I live in Park Place, they know where I am by the traffic circle at Park Place and Broadway or by how close we are to Hobby Airport. Below is some history about one of Houston’s first airports.

Check out http://www.1940airterminal.org/

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hobby Airport began service in 1927 as a private landing field in a 600 acre pasture known as W.T. Carter Field. The airfield was served by Braniff and Eastern Airlines. The site was acquired by the City of Houston and was named Houston Municipal Airport in 1937. The airport was renamed Howard R. Hughes Airport in 1938. Howard Hughes was responsible for several improvements to the airport, including its first control tower, built in 1938.The airport's name was changed back to Houston Municipal because Hughes was living at the time and regulations did not allow federal improvement funds foran airport named after a living person.

The City of Houston opened and dedicated a new air terminal and hangar in 1940.

I like the comments.

(43) RoyHarris wrote: Whew!! That was close! That where I get my medicine!!!

SLS looks nice, Gull Wing doors, great front, but that rear?

volvo C30 much?

flipper

The VW and volvo C30 look like my 10 year old designed Honda Civic.

My mother in law lives right behind the Glenbrook pool and I remember those houses. I think some of them are still there. The only way to get to them is from Highway 3. One of the houses over there actually had a dock on the bayou and kept and old cabin cruiser type boat there. I always thought that was pretty neat that you could live in Houston and still have a dock with a boat. It was a long haul to the ship channel and anywhere else but I still thought it was pretty cool.

Also along those lines there is a piece of property at the end of Neal street behind the pool that a doctor has purchased and is building a huge house on. As neal bends and becomes another street there is a driveway that serves the house on Neal but continues up a little hill and goes back near the bayou. My wife and mother in law walked up there one day and looked around. It's a huge house with a concrete domed entry way and looks like it will be 5,000 sq ft plus house. Years ago a man by the name of mr. Boyd owned the house on Neal, and the house that used to sit on the hill. The house on the hill burned years ago and Mr Boyd and his wife moved to the house actually on Neal. After his death the property was pieced out and sold. Now someone is actually building a mansion where the old house stood.

We had many boats over the years , the oldest dock goes back to the 1940s. That belonged to Mr. Miles, his house he built in 1938 close to Old Galveston Road. He always had boats and his boat house even had a ramp for launching and retrieving boats. When he passed away in the 80s his cabin cruiser was moved to my neighbors dock close to the main channel on the same street. Since then most of the people that where into boats have move on, and the storms have done a lot of damage to the docks that where left. That and since 9/11 the Coast Guard really doesn't want pleasure traffic in the ship channel. Here are a few pictures of some of the boats we had.

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