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    I was looking at the fantastic pictures of those old homes in the link posted by marmer. I was hoping to find one of my grandparents' houses, either on Main or on Elgin. I didn't find either, but there was one of a magnificent house at 3112 Main, which must have been on the NW corner of Main and Elgin, right across the street from my grandparents' house at 3111 Main. I have posted the only picture I could find that shows some of their house. My aunt is the "flapper" on the left. This photo was taken in 1925. My grandfather had a business that made molded concrete pots such as those shown in the picture. I never saw this house, since it was torn down a few years later. A Magnolia gas station replaced it. They moved to a house which was directly behind it, on Elgin. That is where I lived as a very young boy from 1941-1946. I remember the gas station very well and the big homes that were still in the area, some of which were in the process of going downhill. There were three within a block or so that had become room-and-board houses. One at the NE corner of Main and Rosalie even had a small trailer park with about 4-5 trailers occupying the space behind it and over to Fannin. There was a big house on the other side of us on Fannin and Elgin that had a big porch around the front and side and two huge magnolia trees in the front yard. The houses are gone, but I still have some wonderful memories from that time and place.
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    This is a cropped, reduced in size portion from a larger photo previously posted in other threads. North is toward the bottom. I think it shows the area you refer to. That's Cliffwood running north-south just to the left (east) of Waterhole Bayou, which runs into Bray's Bayou at the bottom. W. Bellfort is at the top right and dead-ended at Post Oak at the time this picture was taken about 1960.
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    This picture appears to have been taken before the previous one, which shows the old Majestic with some added upper structure. The Chronicle building has also had some exterior enhancements. Anyone know what that building just south of the Chronicle is?
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    I had forgotten about this, and I shouldn't have. I had a brief, after school delivery job in my mid-teens for Dugan's Drugstore on Bissonnet.
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    The milk man. Fuller Brush man. And waaaaay back, when I was about 5... at my grandmother's... the ice man. We also used the diaper service you mentioned... in the early 60's. That was before Pampers, I think.
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    I saw Jaws there (Shamrock) when it first came out, whenever that was. I don't know if the two theater complex in Meyerland Plaza was the first in Houston, but I saw Dr. No and From Russia with Love when they both played there at the same time in the mid-60's.
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    Oh! So Fuermann actually said Howard was north of the cemetery instead of south, as you mentioned here. I had wondered about that.
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    I sent her another e-mail and asked her. This is her reply, as written... "In 1914 there is a monument by one of our historic trees that document that the Jewish community did indeed begin a school at that time. HISD officially took if over in 1925. Tresa A. Moore" If anyone is in the CLC area (1906 Cleburne) with a camera, see if you can locate the monument and take a shot of it. I would like to see what it says.
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    San Jacinto High School isuredid... Thanks for the map. I wonder where Ms. Moore got her information?
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    I had looked for something on the history of this building on the CLC website to verify my thought that it was originally the Johnston Jr High. Since I didn't find anything, I sent an e-mail to the principal, Tresa Moore. This is her reply to my inquiry about the history of the building. Interesting! "The building was actually built in 1914 - it first served children in the neighborhood from the Jewish Community. Since then it has evolved from Johnson and Miller MS to what is now the Contemporary Learning Center (Middle & High School) and Houston Night High (which was old Milby Night High Program)." Wonder why it has 1925 on it, if built in 1914? Maybe it was originally a much smaller structure and was added onto. isuredid... Can you verify this?
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    Now the Contemporary Learning Center in the HISD, I think it may be the old Albert Sidney Johnston Junior High School. That's the area it was in, if I remember correctly. My wife went there in the late 40's-early50's after MacGregor Elementary, which is in the same vicinity.
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    The map from isuredid sure did help in locating a couple of old pictures that show some of the old Grant's that was sandwiched in between Woolworth's and Burt's/Penney's on Main St. These are from the Bailey collection. They are dated 1939, so changes had probably been made from then to others' more recent memories of it. The soda fountain at Grant's
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    I think you're correct. I remember the novelty of the new escalators at Sears, when I was a little kid. I would ride it continuously, like an amusement park ride, whenever my mom took me with her to shop there. I also remember the warning posted where you got on. No tennis shoes (or whatever they were called then) allowed. I guess on the chance that the long shoe strings might get caught between the steps. My mom would not let me wear my Keds (the only brand then) whenever we went there.
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    What do you mean? Did it not come in for you?
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    That would be this post. NASA Map
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    I went to school with Leo Holder, who owned Holder's at one time. Is Dale his son? ----------- Edit: I just confirmed that Dale is one of Leo's four children.
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    Here is a 1960 aerial photo posted on another thread by nm5k, quite awhile ago, that shows parts of Meyerland, Westbury, and Marilyn Estates. http://rootmedia.net/images/westbury60.jpg You're looking south in this picture. In the bottom right corner is the future crossing of Chimney Rock over Brays Bayou, where only a drainage ditch was at that time. Hillcroft is off the photo here, but, from your description of the location, the crash must have been just to the right, off the picture, in that area. Marilyn Estates is just across the bayou to the south from here. I have a good friend who lives on Valkeith in Marilyn Estates. His house had not been built when this picture was taken.
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    You can see that cemetery/park on this Google Map Some of the 1913 street names are still the same, but some have changed. San Felipe Road on the 1913 map became West Dallas. I think you're right about Mr. Fuermann being confused on his directions.
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    This cropped portion of a 1913 map shows a little more detail of that area. What was a little confusing on the older map above was that Howard was north of the only cemetery noted just below it, and Valentine Street was not named. Maybe Fuermann was referring to the Glenwood Cemetery shown here. However, it is not on Valentine. ???
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    Photo (undated) of the Beaconsfield with accompanying description. The Beaconsfield Apartments at 1700 Main Street is the city's oldest apartment building still in use. When it was first built in 1910, it was said to be the "Beacon that attracts many prominent tenants to plush, elegant decor". It was one of the city's first 'sky-scrapers.' One of their most prominent tenants was Wm. B. Chew, president of several major businesses including the South Texas National Bank. Others were Isaac Myer, Northside Homesteads president; Cleveland Sewall, Wm. A. Vinson, and Robert E. Goree, all attorneys; Lorenzo Boykin, Chicago Land & Coal vice president; and John Flynn, Houston Belt & Terminal, vice president. In the early years, young artists, poets, dancers and singers had social gatherings in the basement level on Sunday afternoons. In 1977, the old landmark was restored when it was converted into a condominium.
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    Some old friends and I were discussing some of our memories of Christmases past, and where we would go to see the decorated homes. When I was very young, in the early 40's, the place of choice was River Oaks... hands down. Nothing else in Houston was on the same level. Since the new Foley's downtown had not been constructed yet, the best place to see Santa and window displays was Sears on South Main. No trip out to see decorations would have been complete for me without traveling west on Bissonnet, where it curves just west of Montrose, to see a lifelike, lighted-up Santa on the roof next to the chimney on a big two-story house that sat right on the curve in the road. When we had kids, the downtown Foley's was fantastic for their window displays and, inside, the most realistic looking Santa you could hope to see was taking orders for Christmas from a long line of kids. We still have pictures of ours in the lap of that Santa. While visiting one of our kids in Pearland a number of years ago, he took us to a neighborhood in the area that had an endless stream of cars going through it to see their very elaborate displays. It was very much on a par with my memories of River Oaks. What are some of your memories of your youth? Where did you go? Where do you take your kids now?
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    TJ... Don't know if you're implying that the street was named after Chevy, but I knew some kids that lived on Chevy Chase back in the 50's. So it was there well before Cornelius Chase became a comedian/actor. Del Monte was also in the neighborhood back then.
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    No
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    This looks like the same building that appears down the street, to the right, on Prairie, in the horse and buggy photo of your previous post of the old Stegeman building.
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    Interesting to compare with this 1939 photo from the Bailey collection.
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