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it's Pupuseria La Unica (i think), Corner of broadway and hartford. it was formerly the Chuck Wagon Drive-In in the 70's-80's - hence the covered wagon look. Also nearby: Pupuseria Emanuel on Telephone Rd just south of Long/Park Place. It's also in a cool old Drive-in. My favorite "hispanic" food (not sure it is exactly mexican but definately south of our border) is at El Pueblito Place on Richmond (near Mandell). A great place to have Sunday Brunch esp. sitting out on their patio.

i am not a vegetarian but the Hobbit Cafe on Richmond has some good vegetarian dishes. Plus its a great place to sit out on the patio and drink their homemade lemonade.

Deepwater had a train station - according to this entry in the online Handbook of Texas http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online...s/DD/hrdwr.html I think the tracks used to run along 225 in that section of the highway (like they do east of Deer Park) but were realligned at some point to go up closer to the ship channel. So, since the station was at the townsite, then it should have been right there somewhere.

I didn't grow up in Pasadena but I always assumed that it was right around SH225, Preston, and the Beltway. That is where Deepwater Junior High is and the HL&P Deepwater plant is on the ship channel roughly north of there. Maybe the joint transmitter plant was where where the KXYZ tower was(is?). I think its right there just west of Preston at 225. This may be it on the left of this google map i pulled up (between burke and preston). Note deepwater park on the right side of the map. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=pa...49,0.021629&t=h

Brooke Smith is north of N.main, east of Airline, south of Cavalcade, and W. of I-45. The Target location would probably be considered 1st Ward. I think the dividing line between Sixth and First was Washington Ave. According to HCAD, the remaining house plats around the Target are in Oak Terrace. but i am sure no one would call it that all the stuff south of the RR tracks to Washington and to the east is in Shearn which is definately 1st Ward. Maybe it could be called Heights Freeway i agree

to elaborate on midtown coog's reply.... http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive....id=2005_3897554

from the chron: http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive....id=2005_4028880

It was not exactly a convent but a couple of friars and a charitable foundation. This is an excerpt from the Press article I posted earlier: http://www.houstonpress.com/Issues/1997-08...ature_full.html Two Franciscan friars live in a yellow Victorian house that backs up to the Kolbe Project, a gray Victorian with a rainbow banner hanging from an upstairs porch. Here the friars operate a ministry for gays and lesbians and a home base for hospital visits to AIDS patients. In four other houses -- a red brick, a bungalow and the houses behind them -- two nuns run Wellsprings, a shelter for homeless and abused women. The next house on the cul-de-sac, a duplex, was until recently occupied by another group of Dominican sisters. The Hyde Park enclave exists today by virtue of the Ryans, an Irish-Catholic family that for three decades lived in the yellow Victorian that now houses the friars. Over the past 20 years, the Burkitt Foundation, a private foundation run by the Ryans, bought up the Hyde Park homes and paid thousands of dollars to refurbish and maintain them. At the beginning of June, the Burkitt Foundation owned 11 properties in the Montrose area assessed at $2.6 million, all of them devoted free of charge to charitable use. In addition to the six on Hyde Park, the foundation owns two nearby houses on Commonwealth, which are occupied by the International Center for the Solution of Environmental Problems and the Houston Recovery Center, a residence for female former drug addicts. The Houston Area Women's Center recently vacated another Burkitt-owned house on Castle Court. Still another Burkitt property on Westheimer, the city's last bungalow-style firehouse, is used by neighborhood groups such as a nonprofit art gallery and the Neartown Association.

Found an article on it in the Press archives. Man I really don't know how I missed that story way back then. Pretty sad. Especially seeing what they replaced the old houses with. http://www.houstonpress.com/Issues/1997-08...ature_full.html

that's what i was afraid of... seems like it would have been tough for them to pull all the lots together for it but i guess they succeeded.

What was in the Hyde Park Crescent before the townhomes were"built". For some reason I don't think I ever went down there before then. Were there single family houses down there, or old apartments, or what? Just curious.

Sevfiv, you mentioned in the Wm Penn thread that you emailed Ramona Davis about its demolition. Do you think they know about the impending doom for the Ben Milam. Maybe they could get more advance publicity out on the demo before the deed is done and somehow someone might save it..or at least delay it. Not that its worked on many other structures in Houston..but its better to try and fail than waking up one morning and finding a wrecking ball in the side of a landmark without any warning.

EXCELLENT WORK! Thank you! I swear there used to be more of it when I saw it. So do you know why it was posted there? Was that the location of an old bus depot?

tanks!

On the backside of the hotel, there used to be an old sign painted on the side of the building, probably from the 50's, that showed bus destinations to certain cities and the cost and mileage. Did anyone ever get a picture of that? i always wanted to but i forgot everytime i went to an astros game.

I saw one of those Houston, Remember When episodes a long time ago on Channel 8 and they mentioned it. It was called the Mountain Speedway. Seems like there was a weird story about someone living in a house under the coaster.

So how long does it take? i have had it running for 15 minutes and i seem to be in an endless train loop with no pedestrians.

yep...bleh...now you can buy homes over there (or near it) again since it has been "remediated"! and closer to the Astroworld area...Kennedy Heights http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive....id=1994_1183630 http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive....id=2000_3208113

Sure...along with snap the whip. It's where you would get in a long chain of skaters and the first person would grab the support pole in the middle of the rink and slingslot everyone around the end throwing off a few skaters each time. i dont know if anyone "won" that game...but we would do it.

check this story in the Chron about the Starlite: http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive....id=2005_4011112

here is another old postcard of the prudential building with a different view show the "piece of the rock" sign on top.

Cool...at least it will be saved. Does anyone know the status of the old mansion in the far southeastern corner of Sienna? It is off of 521 just north of Sienna Point. I have always assumed that it is the Scanlan Mansion but I have never confirmed it. It looked somewhat maintained but not in pristine condition the last time I was down there (several years ago). The Scanlans were a prominent Houston family that aquired the plantation in the early 1900's. They supposedly disassembled their house they lived in on Main St. in Houston and used its parts to build the mansion.

Great pics! The interior does look cool. I'll bet it was pretty nice in its day. At least it didn't get gutted...yet.

i know everyone appreciates your contributions! rain or shine keep up the good work! thanks!!!

Sevfiv, When you went out to the Epson Drive-In...Did you happen to snap some shots of the Granada theatre, near there on Jensen? I think it has the same facade as the Capitan but it says Granada where it says pasadena on the capitan. I keep saying I am gonna go up there and take a pic but I haven't made it yet. Gnu