IronTiger Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 So today I went to the Apple store in Willowbrook Mall to get an iPhone screen repaired, and my route took me down FM 1960, which I had really never gone on before. A few interesting sights were there but the most interesting, or at least most unexplained, was a thick metal smokestack at Meadow Vista Blvd. and FM 1960. It is rusty and speckled with graffiti, but it has no attached structure...the last building there on the lot appeared to be a private house demolished sometime in the 1980s...but it wasn't attached to it anyway. The only guess I have that there appears to be a gas conduit running along there, but you wouldn't have a SMOKESTACK for that now would you? https://www.google.com/maps/@29.9478046,-95.5621505,3a,69.9y,74.35h,78.1t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1shQjPcjP9lsmvZRngNROM-Q!2e0!5s20160901T000000!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 Looks more like the base for a sign to me, but the pictures are not super clear Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Witch King Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 Sign base. (I work just down the street off Meadow Vista.). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronTiger Posted February 4, 2017 Author Share Posted February 4, 2017 (edited) Google maps images show the post being there even in 2001 with no apparent sign. I guess that if that was the case, it would be one of those close-to-the-ground billboards that populated Houston more plentifully in the past, but if is the diameter so large, large enough that apparently they never bothered removing it, then why are there not more examples? Edited February 4, 2017 by IronTiger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 On Google Earth, there's no evidence that there was sign on it, but the shadows lead me to believe it was once taller. There are no houses on any of the historic aerials on GE. The strip center across 1960 to the West has been there since at least 1978. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cspwal Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 Perhaps it is a smoke stack for an underground fallout shelter for that demolished house Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronTiger Posted February 6, 2017 Author Share Posted February 6, 2017 35 minutes ago, cspwal said: Perhaps it is a smoke stack for an underground fallout shelter for that demolished house That actually seems the most plausible, considering I've been told that the object in question has been there since the 1970s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 I didn't see any structures on that lot in Google Earth going through all the years available. It's too large to be an exhaust structure, unless there are thousands of square feet of buried space Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronTiger Posted February 9, 2017 Author Share Posted February 9, 2017 It looks like the triangular part of the lot is the same plot of land by the area just south of it, which a house does appear in the late 1970s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ew2003 Posted February 9, 2017 Share Posted February 9, 2017 12037 Rockville Dr. CHRISHAN CORP Joseph Pham Call and ask the guy. Lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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