editor Posted November 20, 2011 Share Posted November 20, 2011 If you're looking to blow a rainy day exploring Houston's past, check out this web site: http://www.tanasreminisce.comit's run by new HAIFer Tana, and is full of great old photographs and information about Houston. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NenaE Posted November 20, 2011 Share Posted November 20, 2011 Great compilation...thanks for sharing!I loved those fountains at Gulfgate.Nice car section. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted November 20, 2011 Share Posted November 20, 2011 Nice site. I didn't know there was an "Atomic Dinner Club" downtown! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brucesw Posted November 20, 2011 Share Posted November 20, 2011 Welcome to HAIF, Tana. Loved your site. You've pulled together a lot of stuff from many sources and tied it all together with a nice narrative. I particularly appreciated that you documented your sources; so many people just take what they want from the work of others and ignore giving credit where it's due.I've added a link to your site to my History Links section.Here's a little more on that flagpole sitting stunt at Gulfgate in 1957. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fringe Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 I'm glad Tanya is now a member and that she posted her new website. She had previously had her stuff on an old Westbury High School website. I've been meaning to compliment her on her new site ever since she sent me an email about it a few weeks ago. It really is one of the best Houston historical sites. Way to go Tanya. You found the right audience here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tana Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 WOW! Thank you so much for the encouraging comments. And I am very glad that many of you are seeing the site. I really love doing it and love even more hearing from people who have seen it.It is ongoing. My life's work some days!!!!!Tana Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tana Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 Welcome to HAIF, Tana. Loved your site. You've pulled together a lot of stuff from many sources and tied it all together with a nice narrative. I particularly appreciated that you documented your sources; so many people just take what they want from the work of others and ignore giving credit where it's due.I've added a link to your site to my History Links section.Here's a little more on that flagpole sitting stunt at Gulfgate in 1957.Thank you very much for the additional info on the flagpole stunt in '57. I already loved your blog, but missed that part I guess.Tana Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zephyr Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 Great job, Tana. Great to revisit memories of my old hometown. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NenaE Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 I'm so pleased to see the new members, welcome! I've been away a bit, school papers kept me busy. Such great information on HAIF. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FilioScotia Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 (edited) As a longtime, but now former, Houston resident, I also want to thank Tana for putting up such a great website about Houston's history. Her photos really take me back to a time when Houston was a great and fun place to live and work.Tana: Your website looks very professional, and I think you could create websites for a living, if you're not already doing that.Those old shots of the Gulf Freeway reminded me of a wonderful E-Book a Houston writer did a few years ago on the history of Houston's Freeways. It's a well written and very informative story with a multitude of fascinating photos of the city before, during and after the freeway system was constructed. If for no other reason, it's worth checking out just for the photos, because most of us have probably never seen them before. They show what different areas of the city looked like in those days, from the ground and in aerial shots.Here's a link to that E-book. http://www.houstonfr....com/ebook.aspxSomewhere down in the chapter on The Loops, you will find a dramatic and terrifying photo of a cloud of ammonia gas rising over the SW Fwy-West Loop interchange, taken only moments after that ammonia truck crashed there back in the 1970s.Correction: I shouldn't have said "after". There will never be an "after" for Houston freeway construction. Edited December 15, 2011 by FilioScotia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zephyr Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 Just as tree rings are used to estimate the age of a tree, you can use the number of freeway lanes to estimate the age of the nearest neighborhoods. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zephyr Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 Thanks for sharing, FiloScotia! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TikiOwl Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 Let me add my thanks to you Tana as well. I too had seen your previous site and very happy to see the new and improved one!BTW I am also a Westbury grad....1968 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle C Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 WOW! Thank you so much for the encouraging comments. And I am very glad that many of you are seeing the site. I really love doing it and love even more hearing from people who have seen it.It is ongoing. My life's work some days!!!!!Tana I remember well the Flag pole stunt at Gulfgate. I was but a teen at the time. I heard about it on KILT and my mom and I loaded up and drove out to Gulfgate to see what it was all about. When we got there they were getting ready to send up a bucket with some food in it to Don Keys. He was to stay atop of the flag pole until KILT was number one in Houston. I believe as mentioned KNUZ was at the time. We lived on Sul Ross in the Montrose area and both KILT and KNUZ was very close to where we lived. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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