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pic for east end from this thread: http://www.houstonarchitecture.info/haif/i...mp;#entry223489 or the lost maxwell house sign (pic from HAIF member JR Gonzales/Bayou city history blog)

yeah..in my front yard.

all you gotta do is use the haif search function - top right Avenue F and 73rd from this thread http://www.houstonarchitecture.info/haif/i...?showtopic=3009

I gotta stick up for Friendswood here. The KinderCare you refer to is on Bay Area Blvd near Heritage Park and is NOT in the City of Friendswood. It is NOT in the city limits and it is NOT in Friendswood ISD. It is in unincorporated HARRIS county. Also, the city of Friendswood HAS zoning.

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there are several streets like that in friendswood neighborhoods along clear creek and cowards creek where some of the homes were bought out and removed. then you have the 1994 sims bayou project that removed lots of houses along one side of reed rd in bayou oaks and some houses in garden villas and park place.

so true. i am going through this right now. they are only able to do the bare minimum to run their household and take care of themselves. they forget everything and are very immobile. they need someone to check in on them everyday and make sure they are taking their meds, taking care of their hygiene, not burning up pots and pans, not worrying about something unnecessary, etc. my parents are dead set against a nursing home (and i probably am too). they might consider an assisted living community but right now i think they would be okay with just an in-home service. unfortunately they live off social security and have no savings. oops. does anyone know the cost and quality of in-home caregivers like these: http://www.comfortkeepers.com/HOME.html http://www.visitingangelshouston.com/ http://www.cameocaregivers.com/ http://www.homeinstead.com/435/services/default.aspx anyone have any other suggestions?

i may be getting this mixed up.... but i thought South Main was a JUNIOR high and it eventually became San Jacinto HIGH school in the 20's....at the current HCC bldg...1300 Holman

see this thread: http://www.houstonarchitecture.info/haif/i...st&p=112438 from post 16 Montrose Elementary was built in 1913, in the block bounded by Stanford, W. Main, Sulross, and Greeley. Don't know when it closed, but the High School for the Visual and Performing Arts was built on its former site in 1971.

is there an old picture in burton chapman's Telephone road book? i can't remember

did you forget about Mary Lee donuts almost on that very corner?

My realtor friend says there are no present or past listings for 3235 reba in the mls.

yep...but on rps' older map...the orbiter (future runaway rickshaws) hasn't been enclosed yet to make the building for the soon-to-be horizon theater. anyone know if the rumors from back in the day were true? that the orbiter was moved to oriental village because someone got hit by it after they enclosed it barrel of fun...now that was a ride! <barf on>

here is park place baptist aka southwest seminary on broadway at sims bayou http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&...1&encType=1

it's Luna Park...search Haif...there have been several threads on it. ad below borrowed from isuredid in the old amusement park thread:

sorry to pass along this news... The current Pupuseria and former Chuck Wagon on the corner of Broadway and Hartford (i think) has been demolished. Also the car lot next door - which is a former drive-in burger joint - is also gone. A new "boring" strip center will be replacing these two structures. (borrowed photo from chuck wagon thread)

i think my wifey has it: Twin W motel

sorry...they were razed maybe 3 years ago. doesn't look like anyone has purchased the land though. the name escapes me for some reason...a "W" comes to mind. edit: they were just north of almeda-genoa.

i think that is a "new" Royal Oaks. The old one is spring branch-ish... west of gessner, north of long point, south of hammerly, east of the belt...but i dont think it is all considered Royal Oaks. http://www.royaloakscivic.com/index.htm Royal Oaks Civic Association represents a community of 351 residences in the Spring Branch area of Houston. We are comprised of homes built in the 1960's with a compelling canopy of mature trees north of I-10 and inside Beltway 8.

the one of the right is from houston st. in san antonio http://www.wittemuseum.org/Educators/Historic%20Images.html the one of the left is the original rr bridge at frost town. http://www.hal-pc.org/~lfa/BB43.html but yes...there is a houston st. in houston..just not that one

The western boundary of Park Place is roughly De Leon from Sim Bayou to Joplin...and then it wraps around Greenway addition to the freeway and up to the northern boundary of Pine Gully (just north of Detroit). The south and east boundary is pretty much Sims Bayou.

if your grandma was like mine then maybe your spinning sensation was a result of an overwhelming quantity of mothballs in every closet and drawer.

according to Houston Freeways, that section of freeway opened in Feb of 1951. The section north of Telephone Rd. opened in 1948.

i don't think the City was jerking him around at all. i think he expected to get a free pass since he had so much money. he thought he was above the rules and figured he didn't have to follow them like everyone else. Anyway it seems they have played it off as a lack of communication between the parties and are trying to mend the fences. a fwood poser

someone should go take a picture of the classic Farb signage (with the architect holding plans) before it is removed!