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    Here is a Trader Vic's post from another forum topic.
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    Ouch! Don't know if it's still around, but I still have a sofa, love seat, and table lamps I bought at Suniland. It was on Tuam, between Main and Fannin, if I remember correctly. Evidently, it had the Main St. address.
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    Wine

    57Tbird replied to bachanon's topic in Off Topic

    Chateau Souverain Sonoma County. A Chardonnay for about $15.
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    Here's another view and description of the monorail at Arrowhead Park http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y256/57Tbird/HoustonMonorail-1956.jpg 1956- Skyway Monorail Monorail, Incorporated, built a short test track of their suspended system at Arrowhead Park in Houston, Texas. Each bogie was powered by a 310-horsepower Packard automobile engine. The driver was seated high above the passenger carriage on one of the two bogies. After eight months of testing, the track was dismantled and rebuilt at the Texas State fairgrounds where it ran for many years. Its promoters claimed it could reach speeds of 160 km/hr, but no Skyway transit installations were ever built.
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    Looks like you saved your moon-landing newspapers like I did. Sure is interesting to go back and look at the articles and ads from that era.
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    Just curious... What does 1950 smell like?
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    Is this what you're referring to? http://www.westdale.com/properties/humble_tower/ After reading the description and history of the original buildings at this site, I guess I was wrong about the part of the structure on Dallas being built in 1921. It appears that, if it's what's referred to as "The Humble Tower", then it was added in 1936, and the section on Polk was the first building in 1921.
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    The First Methodist Church was, and still is, at the corner of Main and Clay and not visible in this photo. That's the old First Presbyterian Church, as noted in the upper right hand corner of the photo, which was at the corner of Main and McKinney. The original Humble Building structure, at the corner of Main and Dallas, was built in 1921. Not sure when the addition that extended it to Polk was added. I don't think it was part of the original. Edit: Filio, I read and quoted your post before you edited.
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    I know it's looking north from between Main and Travis. I was wondering from what building it might have been taken. I would guess maybe the old Humble building at Main and Dallas.
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    Here is the centerfold from George Fuerman's 1962 book, Houston - The Feast Years. Please excuse the difference in shade and slight merging mismatch of the left and right sides. It was so large, I had to scan in two sections and put them together. Click here for larger view. Any ideas on where the photographer was when he took this picture?
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    I remember what I guess qualifies as a high rise that was a few blocks from an apartment where I lived in the late 50's. It was 1400 Hermann Drive.
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    Since I used to go to the Metropolitan quite often, this thread piqued my interest. While trying to find out more about the history of the theater, I stumbled onto this on the Cinema Treasures website. I think the two cars in the Met photo are 1941 Plymouths, so it appears your photo date is correct and the Library of Congress 1939 date on the C.T. photo needs to be corrected. BTW.. Thanks for presenting those photos as small files with reference to the larger resolution files. The high resolution showed a lot of detail and the smaller photos in the post saves time for dial-up users.
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    Looks like the same photo in this post by editor that says it's a 1944 photo. Where did this picture come from? Looks like the 1941 date here might be correct, since it's written on the photo.
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    I had forgotten about Howard's. Like some of the previous posters, I also rode the bus downtown to Howard's. Wonder how many early-teens would be allowed to do that today? This was in the late 40's. Howard's was somewhere near the tailor shops of the period (Rex, Real, Polmar's, Duke's) in the Travis/Milam area between Prairie and Congress. Some of the "neat" stuff of the time was sneeze powder, itch powder, popping cigarette loads, hand-shake buzzers, wax teeth, wax harmonicas, and one of my "favorites"... a small ceramic squatting dog that came with a little plug you could insert you know where; light with a match, and a brown, foamy mess would ooze out. Really high tech stuff for that era. I almost forgot another item that got me into trouble more than once... fake dog poop placed in unusual places at family reunions and Thanksgiving/Christmas dinners.
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    I think it was the End o' Main Ballroom. Eating Bill Williams' fried chicken with your hands was "Fried Chicken - Savage Style". I never knew that you could eat it any other way.
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    I see a lot of historical references as Brays Bayou and not Bray's Bayou. So possibly, it is not named after someone named Bray. Could be just a different spelling of brae as mentioned above by apollopride and as noted in the following reference: Bray, n. [OE. braye, brey, brew, eyebrow, brow of a hill, hill, bank, Scot. bra, brae, bray, fr. AS. br?w eyebrow, influenced by the allied Icel. br? eyebrow, bank, also akin to AS. br? yebrow. See Brow.] A bank; the slope of a hill; a hill. See Brae, which is now the usual spelling. [North of Eng. & Scot.] --Fairfax.
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    If I had to hazard a guess, it would be Erastus Smith.... better known as "Deaf" Smith. I think he was of the same generation as Ben Milam and William Travis, who have streets in the same area named after them. On the other hand, maybe it's named after Obedience Smith, a woman who received a large grant of land in what would eventually become the beginnings of southwest Houston, when she came to Texas in the mid-1800's.
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    Toro St.

    57Tbird replied to Subdude's topic in Historic Houston

    I know him. He recently celebrated his 72nd birthday. Can't wait to tell him somebody thinks he's 90 something.
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    Didn't see Mystery Theater listed, but there are some other pretty good ones here, including the ones I mentioned above in a previous post.
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    From the Forum Guidelines and Rules: What is Prohibited: Vulgarity. Profanity. Vulgarities are not permitted. Using symbols to evade the banned words filter will result in warnings. Repeated violations may result in suspension or termination of your account. Any comments here Editor, or am I off base?
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    Filio... If there's ever a Houston history trivia quiz competition, I want to be on your team. I had forgotten about that bit of Percy Foreman lore. You're exactly right in what he accepted for his legal sevices.
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    There was an article in the October issue of Texas Highways on the origin of drive-in's in Texas. It noted that Pig Stands were the first when they came on the scene in Dallas in 1921. They soon spread to several locations around Texas, including Houston. It mentioned that the first "good food" drive-in was opened in Houston by J.D. Sivil in 1938. It went on to discuss the further evolution of other drive-in's in Texas. I thought it unusual that Prince's or Stuart's was not mentioned in the article. There was a picture of a matchbook that caught my attention. I noted the address and thought it looked familiar. I went back and found this picture that was posted last year by Subdude. Note the address here and on the matchbook below. Interesting!
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    In addition to "Lights Out", there was also "Inner Sanctum", "I Love a Mystery", and "The Mysterious Traveler". I listened to these in their prime... before "reruns". Mark is right about the sound effects. It's amazing what you could do with your imagination before TV.
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    A 1950-51 ad for Roulande's. The Delman's address was 4412 Main.
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    Appears this photo is about 1950 vintage, as Sakowitz is under construction across from Foley's.
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