Sugar Hill Section Of Riverside

[JLWM8609]

I've been in Riverside all my life, and my parents have lived in the neighborhood since 1979. My mom is a native Houstonian (from Studewood), but I've never heard her, or anyone for that matter refer to any part of the area as "Sugar Hill". I came across that while reading a portion of the Winter 1981 edition of a journal published about the desegregation of the Riverside/Riverside Terrace/Washington Terrace areas. So, where exactly is "Sugar Hill" in Riverside?

[sarahiki]

I've been in Riverside all my life, and my parents have lived in the neighborhood since 1979. My mom is a native Houstonian (from Studewood), but I've never heard her, or anyone for that matter refer to any part of the area as "Sugar Hill". I came across that while reading a portion of the Winter 1981 edition of a journal published about the desegregation of the Riverside/Riverside Terrace/Washington Terrace areas. So, where exactly is "Sugar Hill" in Riverside?

I was told that my neighborhood used to be called "Sugar Hill." I'm at Live Oak and Calumet, right near Riverside Park.

[millennica]

I've been in Riverside all my life, and my parents have lived in the neighborhood since 1979. My mom is a native Houstonian (from Studewood), but I've never heard her, or anyone for that matter refer to any part of the area as "Sugar Hill". I came across that while reading a portion of the Winter 1981 edition of a journal published about the desegregation of the Riverside/Riverside Terrace/Washington Terrace areas. So, where exactly is "Sugar Hill" in Riverside?

Not living in Houston, I can't speak to whether the Riverside/Riverside Terrace/Washington Terrace area has an area called "Sugar Hill", but if it does/did, it wouldn't surprise me as there are many US cities that had Black middle class sections of neighborhoods that carried the moniker "Sugar Hill". Some of these include a section of Harlem around St. Nicholas Avenue, a section of Roxbury (a predominantly Black neighborhood in Boston), near the Franklin Park Zoo, where I owned a house, the Druid Hills area of Baltimore, MD, and the West Adams neighborhood of Los Angeles which in early 1940s as successful African-American entertainers moved into West Adams Heights was dubbed

[marmer]

FWIW, Sugar Hill Recording Studio is just south of OST near the Wayside intersection.

[musicman]

So, where exactly is "Sugar Hill" in Riverside?

i think the term is a generic one where blacks tended to congregate to live the good life.

[crunchtastic]

i think the term is a generic one where blacks tended to congregate to live the good life.

Makes sense. Like 'working for Uncle Sugar' . All through the south it refers to getting a taste of the good life because you got a safe job with the government, the military, or a contractor. I've heard it used by white and black people, but mostly black.