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    Park Place Real Estate

    in EaDo, the East End, and East Houston

    Posted · Edited by gnu

    That area must be a very old section of the city. I do not recall anyone ever bringing it up on Haif? Check out the craftsman homes one pleasant evening. They must date to the 1910-20's? I bet Isuredid can find some good maps and stories on this nabe.

    park place was platted in 1911

    it incorporated in 1912 and was an independent municipality until it was annexed by houston in 1929.

    the old city hall and fire station used to be where park place methodist church sits today.

    charlton park is named after the only mayor of park place.

    Park Place Real Estate

    in EaDo, the East End, and East Houston

    Posted

    Since we are nearby in proximity of the DPS facility/station on Dover street, what is that nabe called? Is it considered part of Park Place?

    There are numerous rare craftsman style homes in that old hood can even see them from 45 as you enter 610 interchange.

    yeah it is park place too.

    btw..the drivers license office moved to winkler (the part that turns east to galveston rd) last year.

    Memories Of The Heights

    in Historic Houston

    Posted · Edited by gnu

    Cool, thanks for both tips. I hope to find a print size to put on the wall. If all else fails I'll take it electronically and bring it over to my uncle's plotter to make it happen.

    does the julia ideson/texas room have the heights map for sale? i know they used to sell several historic map reprint posters of houston.

    East End Neighborhoods Old Ads

    in EaDo, the East End, and East Houston

    Posted · Edited by gnu

    If that is correct I will flip backwards right now! We lived at 1400 Munger at Dumble. So if it was the 1300 block of Munger, a person lived in "Suburban Gardens". I'm seeing the planets. :wacko: So where we lived a block over it was Broadmoor and my old best friend a block over lived in Suburban Gardens. Wow!

    well actually i said i did not know where "suburban gardens" was but i knew this subdivision was called "suburban"

    there is also a subdivision called "suburban park" and its off of lockwood and navigation. some of the streets are suburban, blanche, schroeder, et al.

    EDIT: I think i just found "suburban gardens" by looking through the Harris County Block Books.

    There is a subdivision called "houston suburban gardens" and it is east of hardy road at little york.

    http://books.tax.hctx.net/v058/AE1997_58_0219.jpg

    East End Neighborhoods Old Ads

    in EaDo, the East End, and East Houston

    Posted

    You dont think he means that tiny row of streets just NORTH of Stephen F Austin HS? It doesnt make sense why the city would call such a minuscule area Suburban whatever? That is very peculiar. Oh well so it is I suppose. Guess we better stick to topic? ja ja :D

    it is this miniscule area bounded by hicksfield, dumble, lombary, & munger. 2.5 blocks of houses...maybe a few more at one time before the freeway?

    The city hasn't much to do with the name and its size, it is the amount of land the original developer had and what they wanted to call it.

    http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&...&iwloc=addr

    East End Neighborhoods Old Ads

    in EaDo, the East End, and East Houston

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    post-5666-1205689307_thumb.jpgI found some old neighborhood development ads for the East End & Park Place. Does anyone know where the "Suburban Gardens" would have been? These came out of the "1913 Post Office Annual for Houston".

    (Out of the old Golfcrest St. house).

    Thanks for sharing!

    I am not sure where Suburban Gardens was/is but there is a small neighborhood that is covered by the Eastwood Home Owners Association that is called Suburban. It is the few blocks on the west side of dumble from broadmoor sort of behind the eastwood transit center.

    Meadowbrook Arches

    in EaDo, the East End, and East Houston

    Posted · Edited by gnu

    Thanks to all of you. I moved to Meadowbrook in 1944. Lived on Barkley untill 1954.

    The arches were across Howard Drive. They didn't cross Old Galveston Rd. They were covered in a Spanish style stucco. I can show you were they stood. In those days they were at each end of Howard Drive. They were the favorite places for the kids to sneak off to and smoke those cigaretts. LOL. You could get all the way up in the arches if you knew how to open the door. One was located about where the end of Nothern Tools lot stops. That put it right at the Interurban Stop. Everthing from there to Telephone Rd was Mr. Dubose's pasture.

    In the 30's and 40's there was a Glenbrook Country Club building. It was on the NE corner of the gold course. It was a Spanish style two story building. My parents took me inside one time. Beautiful big ball room on the second floor. It burned down in the 40's I think. The arches were of the same style and may have been erected by the country club. Meadow Brook Building Company may have built them.

    I am going to take a drive around the golf course and refresh my memory of the street names and etc.

    thank you for sharing too!

    i remember seeing a map (going from memory here) that shows the west entry to meadowbrook on howard at the interurban having two curved roads...does that make sense?...so the Howard looked like a Y as it went down to northern tool...west of winkler. sort of wrapping around the station... any recollection of anything like that?

    Meadowbrook Arches

    in EaDo, the East End, and East Houston

    Posted · Edited by gnu

    Glenbrook valley (50's) came after Glenbrook Country Club and Meadowbrook (both from the 20's/30's).

    I figure glenbrook valley borrowed the name from the country club.

    now i dunno why they named the country club glenbrook since it was between park place and meadowbrook.

    maybe the houses were built in the meadow and the golf course was built in a glen!

    My Landline Called 911 By Itself?

    in Off Topic

    Posted

    we used to have this very thing happen. and we didn't have an alarm.

    periodically police would show up and check if everything was okay or want to walk through the house.

    it would happen maybe two times during a week and then six months would pass and then, out of the blue, we'd have another.

    i think the caller id from the 911 was always listed as payphone.

    We used to have horrible problems with the phone line too. lots of static - particularly after rain. the phone would go out a lot. the phone company replaced cables and everything they could think of but they could not resolve the issues.

    finally when they upgraded the lines in the whole neighborhood, the problem seemed to go away...it certainly happened less frequently.

    i always figured the phantom 911 calls were a result of this problem.

    Meadowbrook Arches

    in EaDo, the East End, and East Houston

    Posted

    As a kid I lived in Meadowbrook during the forties and fiftys. At each end of Howard Drive were two big arches. I am trying to find some photos of them. If you can give me a push in the right direction I would sure appreciate it.

    i talked to an old timer a few years back and she told me there was an arch in meadowbook but it went over galveston road. now i could have misunderstood or she might be misremembering (like andy petitte? :P ). but supposedly it was a large structure that went over the roadway and cars drove through/under it.

    Shell Employees Recreation Area/Shellwood Park On FM 518

    in Historic Houston

    Posted

    Does anybody (besides me) have any recollection of Shellwood? It was on the corner of 518 and 528 in Friendswood, and was bascially a park for Shell employees. They always had their company picnics there. It was very wooded and had a pool, tennis and basketball courts, picnic tables, etc.... I always knew where it was, but my Mom's friend told me there was a subdivision where it once was (I never knew that it was bounded by 528). The "lake" is still there, and is located right off of the creek (Clear Creek perhaps?). I was wondering if anybody could share some memories of it.

    s.e.r.a.

    i thought there was a golf course too?

    there is a retirement community and a gated subdivision there now...the name escapes me.

    sorry i never went there, so i can't really tell any memories..

    Elder Street Artist Lofts At 1101 Elder St.

    in Downtown

    Posted

    Does anyone have any pictures from the 70's of this hospital? I was born there in 74 and then moved very young to PA. I went to try and find it in 1994 and was told it had changed names and we were sent in a wild goose chase all over Houston. I would really love to find some pictures and more info abotu that time period.

    this is a photo of the 2nd jeff davis hospital..the one (as nativehou stated) you would have been born in. It was demolished in 1999 (photo courtesy of mr. gonzales' bayou city history blog).

    POSTJeffDavisHosp.jpg

    and then 2 more pics (courtesy of Houston Deco).

    jeffdavis1.jpg

    jeffdavis2.jpg

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