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Historically, the area is pretty old. I am not sure of the exact history but there are some old bungalows and houses in there from the 10's and 20's. Also, Easthaven Road was one of the early roads in the area, connecting South Houston to Hall Road and/or Choate Road (if memory serves).

Interesting... from the street names (Tuskegee, Booker, Prairie-View, etc) it seems it might have been platted as an African-American community. block book page with liberty park:

Sims Bayou Estates is sandwiched between Santa Rosa subdiv and Park Place subdiv. It's bounded by Poplar, Park Place Blvd, Sims Bayou, and a line behind the homes on the east side of DeLeon. The homes west of Poplar are in Santa Rosa and Reveille bisects the Santa Rosa subdiv. Santa Rosa runs from Telephone to DeLeon and south from Park Place Blvd to the bayou. Just sayin...as a former Park Place resident.

i think their were a number of night clubs (some might have been considered dance halls) on galveston road back then...i know there was one near the park place blvd. intersection. they might not have been listed in sevfiv's directory since it probably wasn't in the city limits then.

i guess you just hit it at a bad time. I never had any kind of serious problems like the current situation and i am through there at least twice or more a day. Regardless...the striping is still screwed up and causes the majority of the problem. Musicman.. you are lucky...i wish i still had MY unimpeded direct connector instead of a traffic light Maybe someday they will extend the bypass into 528.

The article recently posted by Subdude on roundabouts compelled me to comment on the redesigned intersection of FM528/Nasa Pkwy & I45. It has been "finished" for a few months now, but it is hardly an improvement. Now i know the old configuration wasn't a roundabout, it was more of a cloverleaf, but it sure was more efficient than the current stoplight arrangement. I used to never have a problem there and now i sit through several light cycles everyday. Contributing to the problem is the westbound NASA Pkwy striping arrangement that puts the left lane coming out of Webster as left-turn only and leaves the right lane to split off into THREE lanes! (two through-lanes and the right-turn lane). It is always a mess there with everyone in the left lane trying to move right, while the other people just hold their places instead of feeding to the right to fill up the other lanes. The simple sollution would be to restripe the road so the left-lane feeds into the left through-lane, thus creating an actual fixed-length left-turn lane off of it. Then restripe the right lane so that it feeds into the right through-lane (and the right-turn lane) only. Anyone want to do some midnight painting?? Thanks for the new bypass TxDot!

Yeah..it might have been an alliance like IGA or (I think) Minimax My memory is that the pharmacies there were a big deal. Maybe they were the first pharmacies in grocery stores? Or maybe they started out as a pharmacy and expanded to groceries? or it may just be my imagination

There used to be Big Chiefs in Baytown and Highlands (and maybe Crosby) in the 70's. I wonder if the one in Santa Fe is/was related.

Well..technically..the one on Central at Galveston Road (just outside the loop) is probably closer to you by 3 or 4 miles. Just Sayin'

Not sure about the owners but i do know the Almeda location used to be on Telephone Road just south of Bellfort (in front of Garden Villas). This would have been early 70's

great photos..thanks for the link i think the owner posted these photos several months ago on haif...there is a thread around here somewhere.

that IS crazy. is the new separate lot even big enough for another house??

i am not sure which house this was/is (link seems dead) - but if it backs up to sims bayou then the lot sqft numbers on the tax rolls are not the "useable" sq. footage. This is a result of the very large flood control easements that were put in when they re-did the bayou in the 90's (i believe the easement is on the HCAD maps with a dashed line) . They probably got tired of telling prospective buyers that you can't really use the back half of your property.

On the southeast side, there is one at galveston road and central - across from the water treatment plant.

they showed all 4 segments of Volume 1. There are 3 other Volumes of HRW

I am not familiar with the church but my old phone book says it was at 2102 broadway (broadway at brumblay). Today that address is the Compean Funeral Home and it is in a building built in 1983 (per hcad). Looks like by the setback of that building (from google) that the church could have been where the funeral home parking lot is today.

Don't go to Froberg's expecting an old-time East Texas Farmer's Market. Don't get me wrong - I like Froberg's but they usually only have a few items that are local. The most local being the strawberries that they grow on-site. The majority of the rest of the produce is typical stuff from california, chile, mexico etc. that you would find at a normal grocery store. That said, it is still worth the trip and (as coolbuddy said) the little bbq place next door is pretty good.

You may have a problem finding someone willing to lease a space for only 2 months.

Never went to the theater but I went to Warren's Hobbies. It was in the shopping center across the street (where Kroger is). Where was the Kip's Big Boy? Seems like it was on the corner near the theater.

I have an old VHS tape (somewhere) that my parents transferred some old home movies to. One portion has my mom and my sister walking in front of the downtown Foley*s christmas window displays around 1957. Very elaborate window displays! Boy I need to find that tape.

I think the golf course has always been Glenbrook (even before Glenbrook Valley was built - They took the name of the course for the subdivision) The Bayou was straightened in '94ish. That is when they bypassed the part up by Charleton Park (note the topo map has a spelling error) and lopped off wyne st. The neighborhood wanted that part of the bayou to stay connected though, but it can get sort of stagnant now.

yeah...but the herald is a tabloid - similar to the nypost. the globe is owned by the nytimes and is considered a "serious" newspaper. just what i have heard.

We shopped at the Pasadena Foley*s and the Almeda Foley*s. At the Pasadena store, I remember a bookstore area and some sort of kids play area but i forget the theme - maybe a ship. Seems like there was also a restaurant. It was all in sort of a middle cut through area between the men's dept and the women's dept. Technically, the San Jacinto Mall Foley's opened in 1981.

nope..same howard. oh yeah..i know there are businesses everywhere. This was back in '99 when values starting increasing in Meadowbrook, with new homeowners moving in, and people wanted to clean it up..but the businesses obviously didn't. Check out this article from the chronicle archives: http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive....id=1999_3132904

Houston still doesn't have zoning but I think Howard is still "protected" from commercial with deed restrictions. In '99, The city tried to enforce them after the hoa complained... but then the businesses banded together and put out propaganda out about how deed restrictions limit your property rights and got a pro business slate elected to the home-owners association. I think the city just didn't have the resources to make the businesses shut down if the new hoa didn't want it enforced. They may have even got the deed restrictions changed or eliminated but i can't really remember. There was some guy involved that makes it his job to get deed restrictions eliminated in neighborhoods by playing up the property rights angle. Seems like the "helped" Pine Valley or some other SE neighborhood do the same thing.