nm5k Posted April 25, 2006 Share Posted April 25, 2006 The book w/itz complete text/photos iz available online @ the link as noted above.Pretty good book as far as older Houston history...I read about 90 pages last night.Will read the rest eventually... MK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted August 14, 2006 Share Posted August 14, 2006 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunchbox Posted August 14, 2006 Share Posted August 14, 2006 Freaking awesome! Where did you get this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firebird65 Posted August 14, 2006 Share Posted August 14, 2006 Wow! Thanks for posting this.I wonder what was on fire in the far right background of the photo? If you look closely, you can see a plume of smoke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brijonmang Posted August 14, 2006 Share Posted August 14, 2006 Amazing how many of those buildings are still around. Great find Editor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark F. Barnes Posted August 14, 2006 Share Posted August 14, 2006 Down in the Bottom left hand corner it looks to me that it says "Corp6/18/49Cecil Thomas"Hard to tell. Might pull up a fire database somewhere for that day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 Freaking awesome! Where did you get this?Library of Congress. These are your tax dollars at work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 1943. Downtown. The mock battleship on the street is a recruiting station. May, 1943. Is that Metro's old headquarters on the right side? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 kress/st. germain lofts in the background ---------- edit - right side of first picture Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MexAmerican_Moose Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 wow....no parking lots!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
57Tbird Posted August 15, 2006 Author Share Posted August 15, 2006 May, 1943. Is that Metro's old headquarters on the right side? Building on the far right was the Gulf Building at that time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enviromain Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 Building on the far right was the Gulf Building at that time.Looks like Woolsworth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
57Tbird Posted August 16, 2006 Author Share Posted August 16, 2006 Looks like Woolsworth.In the picture that editor made reference to about Metro's old headquarters, the Gulf Building is on the right, and that is Kress's on the left.... the one that has "store" on it.Woolworth is on the left side in his first (upper) picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestUNative Posted August 17, 2006 Share Posted August 17, 2006 This panorama is fabulous! I was 6 years old at the time and this is definitely my childhood Houston. My uncle was an accountant at Gulf and his daughter and I used to be so proud to visit the tallest building in town.Whoever you are, Editor, kudos to you for sharing these incredible images. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nm5k Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 Yep, those are all at the library of congress. I've had all thosefor quite a while. I've got many other cities too. Like Dallas, Austin, OK city, and a bunch of small Kansas, OK, etc, etc towns.Check the one for Chickasaw OK... It's pretty cool to look at. heck, most all are pretty good. Austin has a good view of the capital in the background. There is a good one of Waco..Check the one for Rome... Pretty cool..I've d/led 100's and 100's of pictures off of library of congress over the past few years. Most all the Brady Civil war pix, most of the early pix, etc. Even the very first picture taken in 1839..It was a self portrait.. I know of some other good sites for pixtoo.. Some are state historical societies, universities, etc..There are some good sites around for "old west" pictures. Many are amazing quality photo's for the times they were taken. Ditto for many of Bradys old civil wart pix. Most aresharp as a tack.. I collect old pictures on my drives. I checkedjust one folder, and it has nearly 2000 pix in it. I find them fascinating... They are about the closest thing to a "window"to the past there is. It's weird looking at a picture whereeveryone in it has been dead for decades, or even over a century in many cases. Many of the pix I have are about 150+ years old. I've got an old camera lense that was madein about the 1850's as far as I can tell. It's a old big brassVoightlander lense. It used plates that slid in the side. I'm missing the big wood part that went to it. I only have the brass lense part. I've tried dating it, and the design matchesones made in the 1850's. It's pretty wild to look at and imagine the people that made it years and years ago..I think it was mainly a portrait lense. I then wonder about all the people that had their pix taken with it, and wherethe pictures are.. Would be cool to find one taken with that lense, but it would be very hard to ID without direct knowledgeof it's use, or by noting a lense flaw. But I'd have to take pictures myself to see if any visible flaws actually existed.. :/I doubt I'll be finding 19th century photo plates at wally world..LOL..MK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 Are there any little old ladies in the neighborhood that you can grill? So did you move into one of those duplexes? moved in...and out, pretty quickly unfortunately, there was no one that knew/cared about the homes' histories, much less their futures... alas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnu Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 moved in...and out, pretty quickly unfortunately, there was no one that knew/cared about the homes' histories, much less their futures... alas did you see that shot from the roof of the santa rosa theater in the bailey archives??? no duplexes built yet. the 'hood looked a lot different back then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 okay, i am having a hard time directionally orienting myself - which way is it facing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnu Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 okay, i am having a hard time directionally orienting myself - which way is it facing? you are looking almost due east. edna st. runs straight from the horizon and into the parking lot moline curving from right to center the y in the center would be juniper branching off from moline all the lots on the north side of moline are vacant...awaiting the duplexes in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 you are looking almost due east.edna st. runs straight from the horizon and into the parking lot moline curving from right to center the y in the center would be juniper branching off from moline all the lots on the north side of moline are vacant...awaiting the duplexes in the future. okay, i get it now - the striped thing in the picture is the walkway: wow - it (the neighborhood) looked so empty...and more clean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbigtex56 Posted November 3, 2006 Share Posted November 3, 2006 Any idea what that tricycle thingie (in front of the car) was used for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FilioScotia Posted May 10, 2007 Share Posted May 10, 2007 As a near lifelong resident of the Houston area, who knows a little bit about Houston history, I was knocked for a loop this week when I found out about a hurricane that made a direct hit on Houston in 1943. Nobody knew the storm was coming because the government was censoring all information coming in and out of Houston, including weather alerts. It was the middle of the war, and the War Department didn't want anybody -- especially the Nazis -- to know the storm did considerable damage to shipyards, munitions plants and oil refineries in the Houston area. Here's a link to the whole story, on, of all places, the City of Houston website. http://www.houstontx.gov/oem/1943.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gonzo1976 Posted May 10, 2007 Share Posted May 10, 2007 Wow, *19* people died in that storm. I wonder if anyone pursued a claim against the government for that.Again, war era regulations did not permit release of records kept at these offices and we were informed anecdotally that in all likelihood any records taken would have been classified and shipped to Washington.Sounds like a FOIA request is in order! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FilioScotia Posted May 10, 2007 Share Posted May 10, 2007 Wow, *19* people died in that storm. I wonder if anyone pursued a claim against the government for that. Sounds like a FOIA request is in order!I'm going to assume you're kidding, but just in case you're not, people of that generation weren't as "lawsuit happy" as people are today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vertigo58 Posted May 10, 2007 Share Posted May 10, 2007 I remember asking my mom (whom is now 85) if she could recall this event. She said she couldn't remember exactly as it was soooo long ago. Not doubting of course but she said the war situation is what everyone was fixated on, just like now but WWII was much more intense for my family since several of my teenage uncles were sent overseas. I sure wish we could have a topic on the day WWII ended and what people remember how Houston celebrated. That would be fantastico! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Marty Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 This was a secret, I found out about this a while back on PBS Ch. 8 or the History channel , but it was a good strategy, there was no satellite loop images back then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Htowngirl Posted May 15, 2007 Share Posted May 15, 2007 I think I remember there being stuff about it in Isaac's Storm, too. If I'm not remembering correctly - it's still a fascinating read on the goverment's role in the 1900 Galveston hurricane... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vertigo58 Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 As a near lifelong resident of the Houston area, who knows a little bit about Houston history, I was knocked for a loop this week when I found out about a hurricane that made a direct hit on Houston in 1943. Nobody knew the storm was coming because the government was censoring all information coming in and out of Houston, including weather alerts. It was the middle of the war, and the War Department didn't want anybody -- especially the Nazis -- to know the storm did considerable damage to shipyards, munitions plants and oil refineries in the Houston area. Here's a link to the whole story, on, of all places, the City of Houston website. http://www.houstontx.gov/oem/1943.htmlThis story was brought up again on KUHF about a week ago. They were interviewing 2 men about why it was hushed up at the time. Very interesting.http://www.kuhf.org/site/News2?page=NewsAr...ws_iv_ctrl=2502 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 From the Library of Congress (your tax dollars at work): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icepickphil Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 Great color photo. Looks likes 1843 than 1943. I wonder where this was taken. From the Library of Congress (your tax dollars at work): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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