gnu

Yeah, that Burger King was one of the only fast food joints for miles around back in the early 70s. It was the place I discovered that connecting two of those paper crowns together would produce a snazzy belt.

I loved the trampoline place. It was just a giant metal shed with open ends and wall-to-wall trampolines.

wasn't there a slot car racetrack too - over by monterey house?

The "Street with traffic" picture appears to be Allen Parkway, coming into downtown.

I think its West Gray instead of Allen Parkway - comparing it to where City Hall is.

BTW someone may be interested in this shot of pecan park (musicman? danax? oops)

Southmayd Elementary is center right with the circle drive. Redwood st. in foreground

http://tbn0.google.com/hosted/images/c?q=8...c48b65e3d_large

Looks like you are correct about the Hamman name, block books show the position of the house and yards on Old Galveston Road, and the name George Hamman Estate. The position is verified by the Central Road (to the North, leads to Milby Park) & Pine Gully that runs to the South of the property, before Park Place Blvd. There is also a reference to Schaff St. to the north of this property, a name mentioned somewhere on this thread as possible owner.

http://books.tax.hctx.net/v040/AE1997_40-2_0062.jpg

Detail of House & Property: http://books.tax.hctx.net/v040/AE1997_40-2_0063.jpg

Be sure to zoom in for the details.

interesting...

http://www.hammanfoundation.org/GenInfo.htm

George Hamman, born in Calvert, Texas in 1874, was the son of Ella Lawdermilk Hamman and Confederate General William H. Hamman, lawyer, a candidate for Governor of the State and a pioneer in the development of Texas. Mr. Hamman graduated from the University of the South, in Sewanee, Tennessee. He moved to Houston in 1898 to work for Planters and Mechanics National Bank, where he rose from clerk to cashier. After Planters and Mechanics' merger with the Union Bank and Trust, he was appointed Vice-President and on August 23, 1943 became President of Union National Bank. In addition to banking, he devoted much of his energy to the real estate, oil, gas and sulfur industries. In 1906, Mary Josephine Milby married George Hamman. Their union produced no children. They were active in the Episcopal Church and were prominent in Texas civic circles.

notice the board of trustees...Charles D. Milby Jr

Unfortunately they went out of business 6 or 7 months ago. Another model train store, called the Houston Roundhouse (used to be the Bellaire Roundhouse) at Main and the South Loop also went out of business around the same time. As far as I know, the only model train stores left inside beltway 8 are Papa Ben's near Rice Village and a small store in Rice Village that I forget the name of. Does anyone know of any others in the area?

G&G Model Shop is on Times in the Village

sorry to hear about the Houston Roundhouse...I used to go there when it was in Bellaire and I was a lot younger

Are they going make precinct level totals available this year (i.e. precinct 100 voted 82 for obama and 83 for mc cain etc)?

I can't find them online

I remember them usually being in chronicle maybe a week after previous elections.

concur with gnu's description....

i like the downtown mia bella myself. good food, vintage building, usually pretty good atmosphere.

I vote for Mia Bella too. Great place and seems to always have lots of activity.

I also like the tapas at Mi Luna in the Village.

my rule is anyplace where there are things happening around you to keep the conversation moving and where you could easily walk somewhere before or after.

True...

A friend told me about some nice restaurant next to the ship channel that's good for watching the ships come in and out. Anyone know the name? I'm sure there might be more than just a few. I bet Niche or musicman knows.

i would imagine you are talking about Brady's Landing

http://www.bradyslandingrestaurant.com/

the food isn't top notch but it is definately and interesting place to dine

That's really interesting, bred, I didn't know about that. Any idea as to when that realignment took place? Was Kansas once a part of Old Galveston Road?

Bred, Any idea when the remains of the Kansas St bridge were removed? I swear i remember seeing it there in the 90's

Here's a pic that looks like it was taken on the 646 overpass looking north at I-45 in League City in the 50's. Anybody know what that building was on the right?

Hmmm..i always thought that was a picture at 528 looking south because of the curve in the highway

but i see there is a slight curve north of 646 too. Anyone know for certain?

whichever direction the picture is looking, there are power lines in the background.

they could be the ones that run parallel to Sh96/Link rd today which would make the overpass 646 or maybe there is a set just north of Clear Creek that i cant remember right now.

I remember seeing a store on that corner on one of the maps, can't seem to verify right now, it won't let me access the map I need. I may have assumed (uuu...guess I better not do that) that the shopping center name was the same as a road name I found close by, called Lawndale Plaza. Sorry guys, changed my notes to reflect it. And no, the Sanborn maps did not list Weingartens...I just know it from going there, years ago. Somewhere on HAIF there is a list of all the Weingartens stores, with addresses, as well. I can't find that either. There is a list of shopping centers under the Sanborns - 1955 catagory that includes Gulfgate with original stores. It does not mention Lawndale Plaza.

Here is part of the page from Sanborn you probably saw..note the 1948 copyright.

There is definately a store there but it doesn't specify what and it isnt the same building that is there today (built in the early 60's) I have a 1958 phone book and it doesnt list a Weingarten's at that location but my 1975 phone book shows Weingartens No. 55 at 7061.

Guess someone is just gonna have to look at some City Directories to figure out what is at 7061 (or 7055) Lawndale in '48

I think the Weingarten's - Lawndale Plaza wasn't built until the early sixties.

Did it really show the Weingarten there on the Sanborn maps Nena? (latest Sanborn map is early 50's, right?)

That's in Midtown?

3300 Fannin

does comcast offer Ovation here?

i can't seem to find it

for those unfamiliar with the building:

courtesy: Houston Deco

http://www.houstondeco.org/1940s/yeshurun.html

1957 Houston locations of Leonard's Department Stores (courtesy Ma Bell):

1) 9119 Humble Rd

2) 3016 Little York

3) 2820 Fulton

4) 809 Congress

5) 8111 La Porte Rd

6) 13415 North Shore Rd

7) 7103 Lawndale

8) 8525 E. Houston Rd

9) 802 Telephone Rd

1975 Houston locations (courtesy City Directory)

2) 3016 Little York

3) 2918 Fulton

5) 4530 Holmes Rd

6) 13415 East Freeway

7) 7103 Lawndale

8) 8525 E. Houston

9) 802 Telephone

not numbered

3143 Southmore

129 Little York

1238 Uvalde

(edit: added 1975 locations)

Just for reference, here is a list of Meyer Bros/White House stores from 1957:

#01: 311 W 19th

#02: 2539 University

#03: 1996 W Gray

#04: 5002 Bellaire

#05: 211 E Shaw (Pasadena)

#06: 2912 Fulton

#07: 8902 Humble Rd.

#08: 4037 Westheimer

(no store #9 listed)

#10: 1035 Meyerland Plaza

General offices listed at Meyerland Plaza Location

Advtg Dept and Shoe Dept listed at 1511 Preston

Beauty Salon office listed at 1417 Chenevert

That reminds me, I have a cocoon of some sort growing on my bedroom ceiling and I'm scared of it. It has something inside of it. I'm getting chills just thinking about it. I think it's there because the windows had been open almost constantly for over a week.

Maybe it's a bagworm...we have these all over outside.

Bagworms (Thyridopteryx ephemeraeformis) can be serious pests, especially in landscapes. Beginning in late May through mid-June, larvae of this native moth feed on arborvitae, junipers, pines, spruces, and many deciduous trees. Larvae build loose silken bags which cover their entire bodies. Bags are camouflaged with pieces of plant material, and may be mistaken for natural parts of the tree. Females do not look like moths (no wings, legs, antennae, eyes, or mouthparts) and remain in silken bags throughout their entire lives. When larvae are fully grown, their protective bag is 1.0 to 1.5 inch long. In late summer, male moths (black, with nearly clear wings approximately 1 inch across), emerge from their bags after pupation. One generation occurs per year.

Hi Sub! I think I've PM'd you about this very subject, not being able to see your wonderful photos. ... I can see other people's images but not yours for some unknown reason. I am on Firefox (latest and greatest) and Safari. If you think of any solution, let me know. Thanks!

I periodically have this problem and have come up with a workaround.

just reply to the post that has the image in it and within the quote it will show you the web address of the file you want to see.

cut and paste it into a new browser window.

Hope this helps.

Remember how stores would give you the first book free, to try to entice you to buy the whole set? We had several different freebie encyclopedias. I knew everything about stuff that started with "A".

We had the New Book of Knowledge from Grolier (looked like the ones pictured below). Seems like one or two volumes would arrive every month in the mail and then you received a book each year with updates with stuff that happened or changed during the previous year. They were geared for about a junior high level. And some of my school papers were almost identical to the articles in the book...hmmmm. freak coincidence i guess

Google maps and others still show a shopping center on Shaver called Pasadena Plaza, but its not there. What was it and why did it disappear?

it was a small mall. i remember a porte cache for dropping off people and then when you went in you were in a "plaza" like area and you had to go up a short set of stairs to go to the rest of the mall. my memory isnt too good..so that may be wrong.

I seem to remember a Penneys and a Palais Royal as the main anchors. I Definately remember the Panchos. It had curved colorful booths and arched windows that opened into one of the mall hallways. the hallway had a barbershop in it.

i think Mi Tienda is there now and something else...maybe apartments. Seems like it was torn down in the mid-90s

The Plaza is listed on the above ad as *3816? Broadway, near intersection of Broadway & Gulf Frwy. (I-45S) (in Park Place). It is listed under Independent Suburban Theaters, possibly why it did not survive very long with the competition. (Heard also, as mentioned in an above post, that it competed with the Broadway & Santa Rosa.) *Can anyone verify the Plaza address for me? it's blury in the ad.

the former Plaza is still extant...

see my previous posting about the Plaza in the Alrey theater thread:

http://www.houstonarchitecture.info/haif/i...st&p=104433

Another theater that showed art films for a short time (in the late-forties), was the Plaza/Vogue Theater. It's the old theater near the circle at Broadway and 45 (which is currently a Pawn Shop) and opened in about 1941 as the Plaza Theater.

When the Santa Rosa opened nearby in 1947 (on Telephone Road), The Plaza, faced with the new competition from the Interstate-owned competitor, struggled and was eventually sold. The new owner renamed it the Vogue and started showing art films. The experiment did not last long and it soon reverted back to The Plaza. It only remained a theater until about 1951.

the current address of the pawn shop is 3818.

I wish they ate fire ants though.

i will let you have some of my crazy ants. not many fireants around my house since these guys showed up...but of course now i have ants running around everywhere instead of just hanging out in their mound like a good ant should.

The Brown Anole, Anolis sagrei (or Norops sagrei) also called the Bahaman Anole is a lizard native to Cuba and the Bahamas. It has been widely introduced elsewhere, and is now found in Florida and as far north as Southern Georgia, Texas, Taiwan, Hawaii, and other Caribbean islands. Its introduction in the USA has altered the behavior and triggered a negative effect on populations of the native Green Anole, Anolis carolinensis, also called the Carolina Anole. [The Brown Anole] is highly invasive. In its introduced range it reaches exceptionally high population densities, is capable of expanding its range at an exponential rate, and both out competes and consumes many species of native lizards.

Interesting. but I don't think I have ever seen a brown anole. I used to see a lot more of the green anoles than i do now. I see geckos more than any other lizard type creature. Growing up there seemed to be green anoles everywhere and I don't even remember seeing geckos until the mid-90's. Are they invasive too?

I wish you could have told me that BEFORE I went and planted 3 Tallows in my front yard yesterday...

WOW! My tallows plant themselves...before long my whole lawn will be full of tallows!!

ahhhh.beautiful berry mess all over everything! but at least i will have a nice place for my spanish moss to hang

Thanks, but again we're back to the previously mentioned trademark issue.

just photoshop out the logo...it's not there anymore anyhoo.