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But they're not ripping out all of the golf course, right? Just the piece that's furthest west. Or am I wrong?

I believe that has yet to be decided.

Nice post, Kloomis. And welcome to HAIF!

The most horrible aspect of the ordeal was that there were so many bodies recovered, it was decided just to load them onto barges and dump them at sea. Days later, many of those corpses floated back onto the Galveston shoreline.

The film of the Galveston damage was taken by the Edison film company, and was some of the first documentary footage ever shot.

My great grandmother and a daughter were killed in the 1900 storm. We know that for a fact, yet they are not included in the list of victims. I am sure there are so many more who died but were not accounted for, so we will never know what the death toll really was.

My grandfather went there after the storm to look for them, but he was commandeered into going around picking up bodies. He would have been around 18 at the time.

"Pop" never talked of his experiences in Galveston - not to his wife, not to my father, not to anyone that we know of.

I lived through the trama as I'm sure H2B did as well.

I knew none of those involved other than knowing people who knew them. It wouldn

I don

My mom went to Hamilton, then to Reagan. They moved to Midland for a while, then back to Houston where she graduated in

My mom used to skate there back in the late '30s. One of her good friends there was Josephine Cottle. Mom dated her brother for a time.

Josephine was

Hey...go to this website..the link is at the very top: http://www.inwoodforest.net/

What I don

It seems it is now official that Inwood Forest Golf Club/Course is now sold. The entire thing, from what I read, is going to be used for single family residences. Not sure how I feel about this but it's a lot better then a company building a bunch of crappy apartments.

How did you hear of that, Philliper? What is your source? My GF would love to know the details, as would many of her friends.

My great grandmother used to tell me that if I didnt pluck my eyebrows I would look like Bull Curry, and no little girl should look like Bull Curry. Now how was I ever going to look like Bull Curry. I was a tiny little girl with blonde hair and no eyebrows to speak of. Great grandma Ida was a hoot.

Fever Tree

The best song on the album was the absolute very best version of "Hey, Joe" that I ever heard.

I heard this report today. The point was also made that the data may be flawed because certain investments were not counted as savings, like property, or even 401Ks. Not sure of the validity of the news, but it sounded plausible.

There were two guys I remember in the Men

Butt ugly house! Someone should burn that sucker down!

Yes, there was a Hamburgers by Gourmet on Kirby. I

Plumber, I had forgotten about the restrooms. I don

They let people on the roof while the sign was rotating? Wasn't that dangerous?

From An Echo of Houston's Wilderness Beginnings

Although the financial problems wrecked the plan, the dam became known as Shepherd's Dam and the impounded water became a popular swimming hole. The failure of his plan did not escape local ridicule, either. The 1913 J. M. Kelsen Map of Houston cleverly labeled the road to the dam as "Shepherd's Damn Road."

OK, I actually lied above.

At around the same time Kennedy and Cohen opened, another store called

IF is a 36-hole golf course, so I could see selling off part and still having a nice course.

the elements do fail.

I was talking about cost of heating. As far as I know, gas is still the cheaper method.

If you have to have electric heat, I believe a heat pump is the way to go. However, a heat pump will not heat a house in extreme cold, so an override heat system must be added.

I assume gas is not available. That

You'd think this guy's mug would scare the paint off walls, but he was actually a gentle giant.

"Wild Bull" Curry was a famous "rassler" who I often saw at the Majestic Theater, and he always had kids hanging around him asking for autographs or just cutting up with him. And from the smile on his face, I knew he just ate it up. What a great guy.

Wild Bull Curry