Beth Israel Temple At 3517 Austin St.

[ImTomTerrific]

http://www.hspva.org/policies/ says it is 1971.

HSPVA says it began in 1971. The original housing for HSVPA was the former Jewish synagogue in downtown Houston before the synagogue moved to Beth Israel in Meyerland.

[ImTomTerrific]

The HSPVA program was indeed started in 1971 and the original campus was the old San Jacinto High School campus at 1300 Holman (now HCC) which they shared with Houston Technical Institute where trades such as welding and auto mechanics were taught. HSPVA remained at that campus for many years until the new school was built. The Jewish Synagogue became part of that campus and was used as the theatre and called, I believe, the Holman Theatre. The school was not in a Synagogue downtown, unless you call Midtown downtown. No one called it Midtown back then.

:-) I partially stand corrected. I knew that the synagogue was a part of the program, and I knew is was midtown and loosely referred to it as downtown. I'd forgotten the part about San Jacinto HS. Thanks!

[ImTomTerrific]

Hmmm, guess my initial recollection that the school was originally in Beth Israel downtown was fairly accurate.

[isuredid]

Hmmm, guess my initial recollection that the school was originally in Beth Israel downtown was fairly accurate.

The Beth Israel they are talking about here is the one that is now part of the HCC campus - Heinen Theatre

Heinen Theatre Link

Edited October 12, 2006 by isuredid