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almost certainly for texas commerce tower. looks to me like the store fronts face the 800 block of Texas with Pennzoil in the background.

NenaE, Yep it does look confusing but Airport/College used to be South Houston - Garden Villas Road. You can make out the hyphen just over the top of Easthaven Rd. Edit: And I just noticed it is written very tiny just above the words Municipal Airport. In the airport cross-hatching.

Believe me, my memory is VERY selective. Mostly it looks like this:---> I just saw West Court on the demo list and thought...hmmmm #8...i wonder....and it was. Anyway, how could you not remember some of those exchanges with Ashikaga back then. They were pretty interesting to say the least!

Sorry to tell you Ashikaga/Chet (if you may be lurking about) but it looks like your childhood home will be gone after the weekend. http://swamplot.com/daily-demolition-report-demolition-day-parade/2011-05-20/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+swamplot+%28Swamplot%3A+Houston%27s+Real+Estate+Landscape%29 It seems like #8 West Court Drive is now deemed a dangerous building by Neighborhood Protection. Darn it, I really liked that house. Very cute mission/spanish bungalow.

Did the new funding structure, created in the Gilmer-Aiken laws, result in the districts voluntarily consolidating with neighboring districts in order to increase their funding? Or was the consolidation specifics mandated by the state - with the state deciding which districts would stay or merge into others etc?

I agree. Good find by NeneE. http://www.hctx.net/archives/Img.aspx?Img=4 It sure is hard for me to tell which lines are boundaries on that map! Anyway, I have a question for you. Do you know what event or legislation happened in 1947 or 1948 that caused LOTS of new school districts in Texas to be created and/or consolidated into new school districts? [edit: added link to map]

It is the "Y building" I think it dates on campus from about 1949. I never understood it to be an "aiplane" hangar at UH. I imagine it was a surplus WW2 army structure that was repurposed and moved there. When I was at UH in the early the 90s, it housed a wind tunnel, engineering student organization offices, a machine shop etc. I believe there are plans to replace it with another building.

I don't think it was moved. I think it was demolished.

I think you mean KTRU

You are right. I just looked at the 64 aerial and there is Sears sitting out there all by itself...just like the Pasadena Foley's. Too bad Walmart couldn't have incorporated the old Pasadena Sears building.

According to Wikipedia - Memorial City was built in 1966 and Sears was one of the original tenants. I believe the Baytown Sears was built in 1950.

The flagpole is still there and the awnings (but with the streamline detailing removed). I think the Salvation Army is moving out of the old Galveston Sears building...so it might be up for demo if the right folks don't come along. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Baytown,+TX&aq=&sll=29.732036,-94.976678&sspn=0.022248,0.045447&gl=us&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Baytown,+Harris,+Texas&t=h&layer=c&cbll=29.73482,-94.975951&panoid=gqhV0lazWR5Rax0-jyRofw&cbp=12,205.12,,0,-6.57&ll=29.734665,-94.975774&spn=0.00139,0.00284&z=19

They probably mean the Memorial City Sears. The Baytown store is still there. Annexed by Lee College. The structure on the left side is a new addition. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Baytown,+TX&aq=&sll=29.732036,-94.976678&sspn=0.022248,0.045447&gl=us&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Baytown,+Harris,+Texas&ll=29.734696,-94.976678&spn=0.00139,0.00284&t=h&z=19

Cool. i will have to visit the next time i am in california The H.Salt was somewhere in there and I know the Popeye's came later so I just assumed it was in that spot. This was about 1972-ish. I know the Jack in the box was there (although it was the old style 2-story box). I believe the KFC (now defunct) was also there. That leaves a big gap between it and Shakey's. Also the grocery store in the Bay Plaza strip was originally an A&P. It later became an O'Brien's (a local baytown grocer with several stores).

Here is the former Alfie's in Galveston. My parents and I went there several times when i was little. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=2117+broadway,+galveston,+tx&sll=29.300513,-94.789844&sspn=0.010853,0.02238&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=2117+Broadway+Avenue+J,+Galveston,+Texas+77550&ll=29.300416,-94.790275&spn=0.010853,0.02238&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=29.300396,-94.790378&panoid=OhMmRoDy1wohFDUUQVPecQ&cbp=12,171.65,,0,5 And there was an H.Salt in Baytown in front of Bay Plaza. I think it is where the Popeye's is now. Not sure if it is the same building. BTW. The building to the right used to be a Shakey's Pizza. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=baytown,+tx&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=40.27343,91.669922&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Baytown,+Harris,+Texas&ll=29.744407,-94.950135&spn=0.00068,0.001399&t=h&z=20&layer=c&cbll=29.744407,-94.950135&panoid=wakmLyU_zaMmoze2_LiiIA&cbp=12,140.33,,0,5

Harris county block books main page: http://www.tax.co.harris.tx.us/Property/blockbooks/default.aspx There is a Garfield street over off McCarty and Clinton. And I know i remember seeing an old map with more "presidential" streets over there. (There is still Fillmore and Buchanan) Maybe it was a compromise when the two areas were annexed? We keep these Presidents...y'all keep those....you get a poisonous tree....

Underpass! Ha ha! Here is a 1905 plat of Hyde Park from the block books. http://books.tax.hctx.net/v018/AE1997_17-18_0261.jpg looks like Upas was originally Garfield. a later block book page (no date) shows it as Upas http://books.tax.hctx.net/v018/AE1997_17-18_0262.jpg and the detail page has it mislabeled as California and then crossed out. http://books.tax.hctx.net/v018/AE1997_17-18_0276.jpg

Here is the "original" plat from the county block books. And it does incorporate the land that will become the cemetery. http://books.tax.hctx.net/v014/003493.JPG Notice that the original lot sizes are huge when compared to the 1928 re-plat. Looks like each original lot was split into about 3 new lots. Example below: http://books.tax.hctx.net/v014/003499.JPG

Hmmmm... maybe they will fail the traffic study àla Ashby Highrise?

I think the original vision was to connect the two mac gregror's together running along braes bayou.

Technically, she no longer has agents. She sold her company to Bill Baldwin and he renamed it Boulevard Realty. She is now an agent for Boulevard and he is the owner.

it is true...if you were looking 10 years ago.

I don't think Fertitta (i.e. Landry's) owns Joe's Crab Shacks any more.

from 1969: - sorry no pasadena directory Price's Hamburgers 1: 3908 Bellaire (currently Jack-in-the-Box) 2: 8505 Jensen 4: 1728 Wirt 6: 8020 South Park (currently Tailor Cleaners - looks like it could be the original bldg) 8: 3425 Ella (currently Jack-in-the-Box)

my 1957 phonebook shows the Mc Donalds drive inns at 2302 wayside (right by the 69th st bridge) and at 6339 South Park which would be almost next door to the later Golden Arches above that opened in '72