Memories Of Memorial

[ggold]

I grew up in Bunker Hill Village in the 70s and 80s and have many vivid and some fuzzy memories of interesting houses, huge empty lots (where there are now streets filled with giant houses), horses, cows, buffalo, and even haunted houses. But, there is one memory I just can't seem to place on a map or even confirm that it is more than a dream. Maybe someone here can help.

I seem to remember riding my bike somewhere between Knipp and Piney Point (probably off of Blaylocl, Flintdale, or Bunker Hill) just south of Taylorcrest definitely north of Memorial. I found one of those very dark wooded dead end streets as I was looking for a shortcut home. At the end of the deadend was a house that looked like it was floating. It was in the middle of a small lake, or maybe a moat.

Does anyone have any memory of or information on a floating house somewhere around that area?

If not, maybe you have memories of other interseting houses or pieces of land you want to share.

[Golyadkin]

Just looking at Google Maps, the something that could match what you're saying is at the end of Shady Grove Ln. (here). Doesn't look like there's a house on it now, but it is a lake at the end of a small wooded dead end street right in that area.

[sevfiv]

Interesting - there were/are houses around that water. Maybe they appeared to float from a distance? It might be worth checking out Google Earth's historical imagery for the area, too..

http://www.historicaerials.com/aerials.php?scale=4E-06&lat=29.7656603510788&lon=-95.5205679999996&year=1964

[Golyadkin]

Found it. From the 12/1978 picture in historical imagery on Google Earth:

There does appear to be a house right in the middle of the pond.

[ggold]

I never knew that lake was there, I'll have to go check it out, but that lake is a lot bigger than my memory. Definitly no house in the middle of that lake.

[ggold]

Found it. From the 12/1978 picture in historical imagery on Google Earth:

There does appear to be a house right in the middle of the pond.

I guess it wasn't a dream. Where is that? Are the streets listed somewhere?

[Golyadkin]

Here's the location: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Blalock&hl=en&ll=29.765434,-95.520684&spn=0.001634,0.00327&sll=29.765036,-95.520394&sspn=0.001623,0.00327&t=h&radius=0.12&z=19

[strickn]

So strange NETR's historic aerials have no time at which even an island existed.

Not even the island survives.

[strickn]

If info's rightly labeled and it existed neither in '73 or '81, but in '78, there must be more stories than we thought. Charles Peterman, 10 Shady Grove; Earl Alexander, at 8; and James and Joyce Weaver at 6 are the longest lived neighbors of that street or Bending Oaks. Though it's kind of a shame since I would like to call and hear the people, I think that one of you would know far more of *other* things to ask, architectural and cultural, while you're talking that I don't have the background to bring up.