heightslurker Posted May 11, 2012 Share Posted May 11, 2012 Yes, I spelled that right. Hou-storic. Get it?! Anyway, forgive me if this is already posted somewhere...I couldn't find it... Edit: Benjamin A. Shepherd founded one of the first independent banks in Texas in 1854- Houston Savings Bank. In 1886; F.A. Rice - President; B.A. Botts, Vice-President. A website I just discovered: http://houstoricproject.com/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue92 Posted May 11, 2012 Share Posted May 11, 2012 Cool pics. Though I would take them into Photoshop and and color correct them to match just a little better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earlydays Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 Yes, I spelled that right. Hou-storic. Get it?! Anyway, forgive me if this is already posted somewhere...I couldn't find it...A website I just discovered:http://houstoricproject.com/That's an effective technique...I found a site once that did that with European cities with super imposed photos of WWII damage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tana Posted May 16, 2012 Share Posted May 16, 2012 (edited) Just went to this website and I really like it just as it is. The superimposed photos make it very clear as to where things were once located.Tana Edited May 16, 2012 by Tana Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abrahang Posted May 28, 2012 Share Posted May 28, 2012 Thank you for the mention on HAIF.I was recently featured on Great Day Houston on KHOU talking about the project:http://www.khou.com/great-day/videos/community/gdh_5-23-12_s1-153116795.html 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted May 29, 2012 Share Posted May 29, 2012 Neat! Let me know if there are any places you've been wanting to shoot but don't have a "before" picture - I have a few postcards that could help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acamarillo Posted May 29, 2012 Share Posted May 29, 2012 Neat site, but I think there is one error. The Pink Pussycat was in a building at Congress at Main which was demolished after a battle to preserve it. IIRC the owner brought in bulldozers in the middle of the night to start the demolition. The club had lost its lease and moved to Richmond west of Shepherd long before that. Not that I ever went to either location. Or parked on Congress next to the club...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
little frau Posted May 29, 2012 Share Posted May 29, 2012 The Pink Pussycat definitely was not on Franklin between Main and Travis.Southern Pacific RR office building was at 913 Franklin. What is now the Islamic Center at the corner of Main and Franklin took up the majority of the block across the street. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tumbleweed_Tx Posted May 30, 2012 Share Posted May 30, 2012 wasn't the Pink Pussycat on Louisiana, where the Longhorn Steakhouse used to be?(not that I ever went there- I was too young at the time!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted May 30, 2012 Share Posted May 30, 2012 Yep, the Pink Pussycat was at 219 Main St. where three buildings were demolished in 1983 (the Sheppard Building, the Dumble Building, and South Texas National Bank building).Just a few years later the Bethje-Lang building was demolished in the middle of the night - it was where the old Warren's used to be on the opposite side of where it is now in Market Square.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acamarillo Posted May 30, 2012 Share Posted May 30, 2012 http://citemag.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/MonumentsOfMainStreet_Cite2.pdfThought I'd add a link to pictures of the demolished buildings. Thanks sevfiv for the names. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abrahang Posted May 30, 2012 Share Posted May 30, 2012 http://citemag.org/w...treet_Cite2.pdfThought I'd add a link to pictures of the demolished buildings. Thanks sevfiv for the names.many thnx for that pdf link and info. I had heard differing comments when I first scouted for the Pink Pusscat Club. One mentioned that it was on Main, really close to the courthouse and that it had moved. I personally do not know too much about it and the internet makes it seem as if it never existed. I just found the location of where the sign was in the photo.Perhaps it had 2 signs? One on the Main side and one on the back end of the building? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acamarillo Posted May 31, 2012 Share Posted May 31, 2012 From at least the late 60s til it moved out of downtown in the 70s that club was in the building at main and congress, on the east side of main across from the hotel icon building, one block from the old courthouse. However, on a closer look at the picture on houstoric it looks like me that the rooflines of the cars in the foreground are all mid-60s, and the garage and fire escape indicate that that is the back of the hotel building. Maybe in the mid-60s it was located on franklin, which could make sense as that was the time of the first Market Square revival. During that period, which I was too young to enjoy, there were a lot of clubs, bars, and restaurants on the square and right off it, including the Cellar (is that right?) which was apparently a psychedelic rock kind of club, the Moulin Rouge, on of several strip clubs downtown in that era, with a neon windmill in front iirc, La bastille on franklin, and some restaurant that had a replica viking ship in it. I think that location in the 80s became a mexican restaurant, but I'm not sure. I've always wondered what happened to that boat because it got a huge write up in the paper when it went in, and then disappeared. Anyway, so maybe it was on Franklin about three blocks from the courthouse and then moved even closer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 many thnx for that pdf link and info. I had heard differing comments when I first scouted for the Pink Pusscat Club. One mentioned that it was on Main, really close to the courthouse and that it had moved. I personally do not know too much about it and the internet makes it seem as if it never existed. I just found the location of where the sign was in the photo.Perhaps it had 2 signs? One on the Main side and one on the back end of the building?The book "Last of the Past" shows the Pink Pussycat sign as angling out over the corner of Main and Congress. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
little frau Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 Correct, it was on Main and Congress across Main Street from the old bank building. I do not believe it was ever on Franklin unless it was before 1967 when I started working in that area.The caption on the Houstoric Project for the PP should be corrected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abrahang Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 Correct, it was on Main and Congress across Main Street from the old bank building. I do not believe it was ever on Franklin unless it was before 1967 when I started working in that area.The caption on the Houstoric Project for the PP should be corrected.the caption has been corrected, i thought it had been corrected months ago. perhaps the update hadn't taken. thnx. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OjazosNegros Posted August 24, 2017 Share Posted August 24, 2017 (edited) On 5/30/2012 at 11:47 AM, abrahang said: many thnx for that pdf link and info. I had heard differing comments when I first scouted for the Pink Pusscat Club. One mentioned that it was on Main, really close to the courthouse and that it had moved. I personally do not know too much about it and the internet makes it seem as if it never existed. I just found the location of where the sign was in the photo. Perhaps it had 2 signs? One on the Main side and one on the back end of the building? Hi Abrahan-I thought I remembered Pink Pussycat being closer to the edge of downtown. Maybe Congress and Crawford? Or maybe I am dreaming? It might have been another hootchie cootchie kind of place? I remember there were pictures (or paintings) of women in circle (not square) frames in various stages of undress. And around the corner on the left side next to this place was an adult movie theater? I am going to pass by there sometime soon and take another look and see if anything looks familiar. Will get back to you on it. Edited August 24, 2017 by OjazosNegros omitted a word Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EspersonBuildings Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 (edited) In the early 70's (I was about 9) my dad used to drive us through downtown and pass by it for kicks. I remember the big pink cat being on Main @ Congress . Great thread (and the links especially), thanks! Edited February 13, 2018 by EspersonBuildings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary McPherson Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 What was Michael last name who was the owner in 1973 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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