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so what style of house is it? MCM? georgian? hmmm. do you think the listing of an older owner is intentional? Like in case someone gets upset they won't seek out retribution of the new owner?

interesting...doesn't look like it is a Staub house. If the hcad year is correct (50's), maybe some of the MCM guys know if it is significant. Btw...hcad already shows a new owner after merrett (as shown on the permit above)

Musicman's tree name poll made me think of this question to poll. This year we have a real tree. We own an artificial tree and have used it for the past several years but this year I wanted a real one. Well actually I want a real one every year but the wife likes the artificial since we already own it and it has a perfect shape etc. I made us get a real one this year. Something about the smell i guess i like and then growing up we had real one's (except for when i was a baby when we had the aluminum tree with the rotating light thing)

it used to be the Houston Natural Gas building. dunno anything about a new bldg.

Wow. Did not hear about that. Sounds like good news. Now if they would actually get the hike/bike paths in there. Did they buy the old VFW hall too?

and don't forget that Plum Creek was also burried under Gulfgate too.

Hmmm...maybe they turned some of the old course into a driving range after the Country Club closed? BTW..somewhat related..i think that tract of land between Bellfort and Sims Bayou is still owned by the Allen Ranch or rather an Allen family member or its heirs.

That Buccee's is great but the new TxDOT rest areas on I-10 are pretty nice now, too. They have been clean everytime we have been there. We like the playground for the kiddos. The new building is pretty cool too, feels like a lodge. The Surfside Buccee's can get pretty scungy in the summer.

The driving range was in a field where the current Kroger is located. The golf course (Sims Bayou Country Club) was across from Hartman JH, as Glenbrook mentioned. I think it preexisted Bellfort.

hey c'mon - they saved the fridge and the washer and dryer

Yep...always liked this place. Backs up to Pine Gully on the corner of Dover and Detroit

i imagine you could find a lot of subdivisions around town from the oil bust that never got filled out until recently. i know eastpoint near san jac mall in baytown got its streets paved but nothing was ever built. I think the school district may be putting a school there now. can't remember. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&...p;z=16&om=1

It looks like you might be right - the bldg might still be there (probably doesn't look the same though). From my old directory, Spell's was at 4938 fulton which would put it on the SE corner of Fulton and Gale (i know you said NE but do you think it could have been se ?). From Google, a building of similar footprint is still there. HCAD shows it as built 1950...but we know how accurate that can be...not very. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&...002704&z=19 Btw the NE corner was wiped clean for an Uber Mansion (see it on the google link too)

I have an old map somewhere that shows it. if i remember correctly it was on the westside of the neighborhood. i think the later sections of lindale park were built over it. So where was/is the lindale park shopping center shown in the brochure? is it still extant?

Yesterday i noticed they had also listed three or four parcels in the Southmore/Almeda Rd area. Do you think they are predicting hard times? or just casting a net to see if anyone bites?

you could ask the owner: http://www.houstonarchitecture.info/haif/i...ost&p=83458 or here is a piece from the chron archives 5/6/2000: UrbanRealtors.com, a Houston-based Internet-reliant real estate brokerage, opened for business on the Web this week - extending a fast-growing trend in the home-selling business. The firm is giving its customers Internet access to the Multiple Listing Service, the list of the 30,000 homes for sale through the Houston Association of Realtors. In years past, consumers wanting to buy a home could not get much help from their home computers. But the window is opening for more realty information to reach the public via the Internet. "We have all 30,000 listings accessible online," said Vinod Ramani, president of UrbanRealtors.com. Unlike some online Realtors, Ramani's company is not completely confined to cyberspace. UrbanRealtors just purchased an old Studebaker dealership building on Washington Avenue near Shepherd that will be remodeled for its offices and showroom. The facility, which will be named UrbaniCenter, will include a title company and a fancy coffee bar. Other marketing momentum will come from the brightly painted Volkswagen Beetles emblazoned with the firm's logo - copying a marketing ploy used by zipRealty.com, a Berkeley, Calif.-based Internet real estate firm. ...................... "It's very comprehensive and we'll see if people want that much information," he said. UrbanRealtors.com also offers apartment renting services. The company has been growing fast in its start-up stage, Ramani said. After beginning the year with Ramani alone, UrbanRealtors.com, currently has 14 employees, four of whom are realty agents. It will focus a lot of its efforts in the Inner Loop area, but it will also handle realty transactions in other parts of the city. Ramani hopes to export UrbanRealtors to other cities.

I like how the HUD foreclosures usually have the "mandatory" photo of the taped down toilet lid.

He obviously expedited the demolition after the chron article was published...probably fearing a ground-swell of support. He took a page from the Ashland tea room house...or from the old adage...its easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission...or something like that. y'all know what i mean.

yep - in between skeeters and supercuts

C The Potter's Liguor is actually within Friendswood City limits (but outside the original dry part of F'wood)

The Golden Seafood location on Airline always seems to be better in food and service. I usually just go to Airline even though the other one is closer.

the deep setback of the house on the lot compared to its neighbors (1924) might be evidence that the house existed before the rest of the neighborhood.

back in the 90's - usually when it was foggy - i could pick up c101 fm out of corpus christi on my home stereo (while trying to tune in KLOL). Sometimes i could get a san antonio tv station (can't remember which one) when i had rabbit ears on my tv. Back in the 70's, on clear nights, my little transistor radio could get WWL in new orleans, KMOX in st louis, and sometimes KWKH out of shreveport. Might still be able to do that but i don't goof around with radio much anymore.

I have heard it called Second Ward and also Settegast. I haven't been over there in a year or two. Didn't they upgrade the park there recently?

RICH club. http://www.richclub.org/index.cfm they usually meet on saturday mornings at the UH-Hilton It is a good place to network, too.