Subdude Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 This house used in 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' is for sale for $1.65m: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fringe Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 This house used in 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' is for sale for $1.65:Cool. Where is that located? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenH Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 Chicago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 Here's a thread on it: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 I stumbled across the video on Youtube. Not sure if it has been posted before so here it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devonhart Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 Came across this youtube video on the history of Houston high rise apartments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devonhart Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 Found a silent 15 minute youtube video, I edited it down for the Remember When in Houston Facebook page.Larry Kane Movie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artistpro Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 That sounds great.Okay...I'm on it...just had a batch of film digitized; Please Stand by for several short subjects. The drag racing films I shot are already posted here at HAIF at the Dickinson Drag strip section... aka Houston International Speedway. More to come, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devonhart Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 Texas DPS footage I edited and added news reports audio to the silent film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle C Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 I remember Carla well. I was still in high school. We rode it out in our house at 1525 Sul Ross. We survived with little or no damage to our house. We had lots of limbs and twigs strewn all over the yard. My cousin's dad decided to load up his family and head for Smithville where It would be a little safer. They left Houston for Smithville and Carla went straight through Houston and straight to Smithville spawning several tornados in the Smithville area. When It was all over Smithville had more damage per capita than Houston. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devonhart Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 I grew up with the story of the loss of the USS Houston during World War II and the men who volunteered to replace the lost sailors. Somehow seeing this short clip in front of the Metropolitan and Loew's makes the event much more real for me than just a story I heard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FilioScotia Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 Thanks for posting that powerful piece of video Devon. What happened to the USS Houston and its crew is one of the most tragic stories of WWII. After sinking in the Battle of Sunda Strait in February 1942, of the original crew of 1,061 men, 368 survived, including 24 of the 74-man USMC detachment, only to be captured by the Japanese and interned in prison camps. Many were put to work building the Burma-Thai railroad and the infamous bridge over the River Kwai. Many of them died there. Houston's fate was not fully known by the world for almost nine months, and the full story of her last fight was not told until after the war and her survivors were liberated from the prison camps. Before then, on 30 May 1942, 1,000 new recruits for the Navy, known as the Houston Volunteers, were sworn in at a dedication ceremony in downtown Houston, to replace those believed lost on USS Houston. On 12 October 1942 the light cruiser Vicksburg, then under construction was renamed Houston in honor of the old ship. President Roosevelt declared: "Our enemies have given us the chance to prove that there will be another USS Houston, and yet another USS Houston if that becomes necessary, and still another USS Houston as long as American ideals are in jeopardy." Incidentally, a piece of the USS Houston is on display in downtown Houston. The ship's bell was recovered some years back and placed on a stone monument in Sam Houston Park. http://www.houstontx.gov/parks/artinparks/USShoustonmonument.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 I can highly recommend the book Ship of Ghosts, which is the story of the USS Houston and its surviving crew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earlydays Posted October 17, 2014 Share Posted October 17, 2014 As a teenager living in Thailand in the early 60's I visited a WWII cemetery near the bridge over the River Kwai and I'm sure I saw the crosses of sailors from the USS Houston without knowing it.My most vivid memory from the cemetery was seeing many graves of soldiers that were only 19 and 20 years old...so close to my age of 16! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hasek Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 The UH library has a nice collection of USS Houston artifacts including the war time ships bell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fringe Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Thanks for the recommendation. Picked up a copy and just finished it. Incredible account of the USS Houston survivors and the Japanese prison camps. The Jap soldiers were ruthless savages. Heck they make ISIS look like saints. Hard to believe any POW survived. I could not have more respect for our soldiers that endured such treatment, some for years. Anyway, great book and I highly recommend it to everyone. Can't believe I wasn't aware of it before Ross mentioned it. Going to try to get over to U of H and see what artifacts they have now that my interest is sparked. I can highly recommend the book Ship of Ghosts, which is the story of the USS Houston and its surviving crew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLWM8609 Posted August 25, 2015 Share Posted August 25, 2015 Josh Burdick has some excellent videos on YouTube showing Houston in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It's wonderful to have such a blast from the recent past. Some of his videos feature things like a TWA DC-9 doing a powerback from the gate at HOU, Northwest Mall in full swing, the Medical Center, and Downtown. His father is Calvin Burdick and his photos of Houston from the 1960s have been featured here before. Here's his channel.https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZCjCRwgHffcCCBLcy8sj8w Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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