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That makes me kind of depressed for you if that is one of your first picks.

Really, a colored freeway underpass.

There has to be something nicer to represent the east end.

notice that i followed it with a smiling emoticon. i was kidding.

i do like the max.house sign though.

East End has the same problem as The Woodlands and Katy. No picture available.

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)

Anyone else ever seen Spanish moss on a tallow tree?

yeah..in my front yard.

Where exactly was it located? I saw it on one of these boards but have not been able to find it.

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

Wow, you've gotten some seriously unhelpful responses here! I can tell you that my husband and I chose Sugar Land even though he works closer to Pearland and Friendswood. We appreciate the zoning in Sugar Land...you won't find a tattoo parlor next to a Kindercare like I saw in Friendswood.

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.

Closer to me was Glenbrook Valley Pool. Someone also built a huge pool with a retractable roof not far from Santa Rosa theater, but I don't recall its name.

tropicana

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.

Tell me I'm not alone.

It's difficult to decide where an elderly parent will be best cared for.

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?

Where was South Main High School located or rather where on South Main?

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

I was at a wedding and met a woman who lived in Montrose when she was girl in the 1930s. She lived where the parking garage behind the Black Lab is today. She told me that she went to Montrose Elementary. She didn't remember exactly where it was and I know it doesn't exist today. Anybody know where it was and when it closed?

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

A donut place would be perfect for those driving into downtown in the mornings to have fresh and ready for coworkers when they get to their destinations.

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

One more realtor plea, i promise - any way to get pictures (if they exist) from the February 2001 sale (may be a late 2000 listing) of 3235 Reba?

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

I think the Horizon theater was part of Modville also. That stupid movie made me sick EVERYTIME !!!

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

On the cover, middle of the top half, there is what appears to be a roller-coaster. From what I can tell, it would be on the south bank of White Oak Bayou. Anyone know anything about this?

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

Until about five years ago, there was an old Motor Court along the east side of the Gulf Freeway near Fuqua (I think...) They were rows of tiny cabins/houses. The Motor Court was still open until sometime in the 90ies, then it was still standing while the property was up for sale for years. I thought about calling the realtor so I could really look at them, but that never happened. They've been razed or moved. Does anyone know what they were called & what happened to them?

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.

Love the house - and isn't Royal Oaks along Westheimer-ish just out of the beltway (maybe Kirkwood/Dairy Ashford)?

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.

I may need to double check those pics above. They were listed under Houston but I have my doubts. I am not aware if there ever was a Houston street per say. Apologies everyone! I'll delete if I am correct, just the pics above that is. The rest is the real McCoy!

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.

Anyhow, I would step into her house and immediately have this spinning sensation. It was like I was standing still and the house was moving around me really fast. It would eventually stop spinning and I'd get my balance back.

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.

Did all of you notice at bottom left of this cart it states NEW GULF FREEWAY?! That frwy opened in 1957 right? So this card and Court were in operation at that moment.

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

A project being financed by a local trial lawyer was canceled after a year of endless hassle by the City of Friendswood staffers. Local lawyer and developer of the project, Tony Buzbee, wrote a scathing letter to the mayor and council telling them why he pulled the plug. After a year of purchasing $20 million dollars worth of properties along Main St. (FM 518) for his development, the city staff kept jerking him around, causing him to change his plans several times and make major concessions to various department planners. He finnally gave up and removed all of his signs and equipment. It seems the last straw was the city's denial to let his sales staff use a temporary job trailer for offices while work progressed.

It must be nice to be wealthy enough to make a decision like that.

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