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    I was reading the newspaper The Jewish Herald-Voice dated February 6, 1964 and came across an apartment listing for Greenwillow Apartments located at 10825 Greenwillow Street. Crazy to see a 1 bedroom apartment going for $112.50. In present day, I'm sure it's 7 times as much! For the same apartment, just upgrading plumbing pipes, etc. Greenwillow Apartments 10825 Greenwillow / Apply Apt. 11 New . . . 1 and 2 bedroom apartments 2 full Baths - Spacious Walk-in Closets - All Electric Kitchens - Centrally Air-Conditioned - Individually Controlled Apts. - Drapes - All Utilities Paid $112.50 up / For information phone PA 9-1971
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    I was reading the magazine House & Garden dated July 1940 and came across a business advertisement for Johnson Pottery Gardens located at 6519 South Main Blvd. Can't seem to find it at the moment, but the business also changed hands. This was also called California Pottery Yard. "Visit Houston's Show Place on Highway 90 - 6519 So. Main - Lehigh 4742." For amateur Constance Sprys is this "Flower-Doer", containing every thing the devote of flower arranging will need. There are shears for cutting wire or flowers; tying wire; chicken wire; five pin-cushion holders; plastilene; and a spray for watering. It's $4.50 from Johnson Pottery Gardens, 6519 South Main Blvd., Houston, Texas
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    The school has went through several names. St. Thomas College, Houston's First College Preparatory School for Boys, and finally St. Thomas High School. From the newspaper The Houston Post. dated August 8, 1906. St. Thomas' College Largest Private Day-School For Boys in Houston. Largest building. Largest grounds. Largest Attendance. Largest Staff. Complete courses in Classics, Science, Languages, Commercial and Preparatory. Monthly reports. Satisfaction guaranteed. For terms and other information write, phone, or call on Rev. N. Roche, President. 2039 Austin Street. Corn. Hadley Avenue. From a STHS blog: The St. Thomas College on Austin Street in 1903 (or 1910.) https://www.sths.org/austin-street-c-1910/
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    I was browsing the publication Electrical South dated August 1955 and came across an article detailing a grand opening for a new business along South Main Street. The business was called Wade Electric Company Store No. 2 located at 6706 South Main Street. Does anybody recall this place? I wonder what ever happened to the company? Houston contractor opens second store Grand Opening of Wade Electric Company's Store No. 2 was held recently at 6706 South Main in Houston, Texas. The company's main store is located at 1233 Waugh Drive. At present, the electrical contracting firm specializing in the sale, installation, and wiring of air conditioners.
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    I was browsing the newspaper Jewish Herald-Voice dated May 15, 1980 and came across a business advertisement for Round Up Cafe & Bar located at Loop 610 at South Main next to Sonny Look's. I couldn't find an address, but Look’s Sir-Loin Inn was located at 9810 South Main Street. I'm guessing there was once a slender retail strip center where the current surface lot is that once held a few businesses. Anyone recall going here? Share your stories!! Was it a club as well? Round*Up Cafe & Bar Loop 610 at So. Main 669-0949 (next to Sonny Look's) For Steaks & Burgers Salad Bar & Soups Corn on the Cob Sautéed Mushrooms Casual Atmosphere .. and more Craig Howard invites you to Houston's newest Country Western Restaurant. Open Mon. - Fri. 11 a.m. - 2 a.m., Sat. - Sun. 5 p.m. - 2 a.m. Available for private parties, bar mitzvahs, weddings, etc.
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    I was reading the newspaper The Bellaire Texan dated September 19, 1956 and came across an article about a proposed/forthcoming Southwestern Bell Telephone Company building located on South Rice Avenue near South Willow Drive. Not exactly sure where this is located. South Rice is in Bellaire/Uptown but South Willow is in Westbury. Article mentions down S. Post Oak so maybe it is near Gasmer/South Willow? I'm not sure where "Parkview" is located. Must have been a residential subdivision in Westbury? New Telephone Building Going Up In Area Southwestern Bell Telephone Company has awarded the general contract for the construction of the new Parkview Dial Telephone Building to the W.S. Bellows Construction Company of Houston. Henry H. Mudd, division manager for the telephone company, side the total cost of the Parkview project will be in excess of $2 million. The new dial system will serve about 4,300 customers initially in the fast-growing area South of Bellaire in the South Post Oak Road area. The one-story and basement building will be constructed on property located on South Rice Avenue just south of South Willow Drive in the old Willow Creek Estate addition, the division manager said. “We are happy to announce the work will begins on the Parkview building which will be the biggest single telephone project here in the past few years,” Mudd said. “On completion the new dial system will make possible thousands of new customers in this rapidly expanding section of Houston.” “Construction of the building is expected to be completed by the middle of 1957, and the new dial system will be but into service in the spring of 1958,” Mudd said. “We’ll have groundbreaking ceremonies to mark the start of construction of the modern Parkview dial building,” the division manager said. Architect for the new building is Wyatt C. Hedrick of Houston. Contracts for heating, plumbing, electrical, ventilating and air condition work will be awarded in a few days, Mudd said. The new Parkview project is part of the Southwestern Bell’s $45 million expansion program in Houston for 1956-1957.
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    The Hanging Oak and Hangman’s Grove: Wyatt C Hedrick, a Fort Worth designer, developed plans for a Harris County Criminal Courts and Jail building in 1927 at 624 Bagby Street of eight stories in the Greek classic style for $750,000. The structure rose from a two story red granite course of Grecian fretwork belt to an Indiana limestone cornice. A parapet wall with ornamental stone cresting formed the main entrance of two Doric columns of polished granite supporting an entablature of two-story balustrade portico. The rear façade had a central jutting pavilion extending the full height of the edifice. Granite steps near the immense spreading oak tree (Hanging or Stanley Oak) lead to the main doorway. Prisoners were kept on the fourth floor with the insane and male prisoners on the fifth floor. The eighth floor was reserved for a chapel and exercise room. https://historicalcommission.harriscountytx.gov/Information-Education/Historic-1910-Courthouse
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    Not involved with the future mixed-use but there is about to be a bridge going from a surface lot to the stadium. The bridge will be built at 8400 Kirby Drive.
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    Looks like I found the Grocers Supply Company office building/warehouse in Produce Row. The Ebay photo, is apparently, dated 1935. There was a huge flood and the photos show all the produce row (?) companies surrounded by water.
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    The Houston Fire Alarm Building designed by Mackie and Kamrath. One book, mentions the address was 1012-1016 Bagby Street but I can't find any additional information to support that. I'm not sure of the validity. A decade-old Swamplot article mentions a City of Houston Fire Alarm Building was being demolished and had an address of 333 Preston Street. I also cannot find any supporting articles for that address. Most likely a different building all together. I heard, from the Swamplot comments, the Mackie and Kamrath building was demolished in the 1970s. Postcard I found on Ebay: Located in Houston’s new Civic Center and constructed in 1938, this building has received international acclaim as an outstanding example of modern contemporary architecture. In it culminates the vast network of City Automatic Electric Fire Alarm System. This room located on an intermediate upper level in the building contains the many electric panel boards of the Automatic Fire Alarm System. Sufficient extra space is allowed for the systems expansion to serve population of 1,000,000 people.
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    I was browsing the Harris County Tax Office and discovered a Gables plat called "O.S.T. Apartments" that has since been sold and converted into condominiums called City Plaza Condominiums located at 1330 Old Spanish Trail. Pretty cool find. Looking on HAIF, I do not see Gables has a (current) multifamily property in the Texas Medical Center. Maybe they should build a new one! No date given. I'm assuming the 1980s or 1990s.
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    One Discovery Way: Parcels A & B being cleared of debris. I wonder if they will sit for a while? Both of the parcels being empty with brown dirt still looks good! Two Discovery Way: Helix Park, section 2: Helix Park, section 3: Helix Park, section 4: Collaborative Building: Mixed-Use Garage. wow!! This building is amazing!
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    One of the Holmes Road parcels was recently in violation and flagged by the city for high weeds and debris. The current condition of Buffalo Speedway/Holmes Road is just incredible for such high valued land. Let's do something!! Maybe if the TMC paid an extra $100 million they could secure and buy the land?? Here's the parcel where building 12 is planned to go:
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    Awesome!!
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    Bad news it appears. Levit Green's staging area, including the construction trailers, is being packed up and cleared. I guess the life science slow down affected the schedule. Looks like only the first building will be built for now. Houston's class-a life science sector needs to gain some traction. Let's go!! Phase I AKA building 1, looks great. Hopefully more, even taller, buildings line Levit Green Boulevard soon!
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    I was searching Ebay for historical Houston items and found an unknown photograph of a large mansion located at 2317 Louisiana Street. I searched, briefly, in the libraries and couldn't find anything. I wonder the decade and date? Looks like the 1920s to me, but I could be wrong. Looks like a residential mansion, but could have been used as a hospital/sanitarium at one point. The top and bottom borders say "owl" on them. I wonder if there was any relation to Rice University? HAIF historians, any information on this one?
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    I just discovered another restaurant of the Shamrock Hotel back in the 1960s. Shamrock Hilton Charcoal Terrace Restaurant. Sometimes written as Charcoal Terrace Restaurant & Pavilion. I wonder why this restaurant wasn't as famous as Trader Vic's Restaurant? Maybe Trader Vic's was more of an unusual niche restaurant so it got the fame? Charcoal Terrace sounds like a steak house, which were on ever other street corner. Trader Vic's was Polynesian and was probably more unique than your average steak house. Photo from May 1967, showing The Towers at 2130 W. Holcombe Blvd. with street signage for both of the Shamrock's restaurants. Interesting advertising as that's not exactly Main & Holcombe, where the Shamrock hotel was.
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    Found a cool drawing/map on HAIF and thought I would post it here. The "School House" was located on Old Main Street Road (present day Fannin) and Griggs Road (present day South Braeswood Blvd.) or County Road (present day Wyndale St.) In other words, where present day Sloshburg's vacant property is on Fannin/Braeswood or down the block at Braeswood and Wyndale where the proposed TMC Helix Park Hotel & Residences will be. What's up with the Almeda Road location? I'm confused. There might have been two separate Brays Bayou Schools? Or the writers for HISD were confused with the exact location and listed Almeda instead of Old Main Street Road. Both were very long, prominent, roads. Closer in:
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    Here's a residential community ad for Institute Place dated March 22, 1928. Will You Share in Houston's Future Institute Place Full Size City Lots as low as $275.00 Drive out South Main to Blodgett, east to Almeda and directly south to property. Or you may drive through Hermann Park to Almeda. L. Sacks Sales Organization Exclusive Selling Agents for O.W. Hinds & Company, Realtors 1427 Post-Dispatch Building Preston 2167
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    Does anyone recall this residential? community located on South Main Street near Hillcroft Avenue? The subdivision was built in the 1950s. When typing in South Main Gardens into Google in present day, you get a residential neighborhood in Missouri City, TX. The present day neighborhood is located off Sam Houston Tollway. I believe that is a whole different development. Does anyone recall what school Helen Eisentower was speaking of? Maybe Westbury High School? Westbury is a few miles away from Hillcroft & South Main. HISD Board meeting minutes - January 23, 1956 Letter from Helen Eisentower in South Main Gardens referred to Superintendent for Investigation. Dear Sirs: Do you fold have any jurisdiction over this school in South Main Gardens off 13000 block of South Main Street left? The children and mothers are up in arms about all the conditions out here. I'm very much concerned and would like you to come out and interview some of these people, find out what can be done to improve this unrest. Respectfully, Helen Eisentower Route 3, Box 55B
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    Here's a business ad dated March 8, 1979. Bo Bo's Houston's Finest Chinese Restaurant 7964 Westheimer Rd., Houston, Texas 77042 (Between Hillcroft and Fondren) Serving in True Chinese Tradition Specializing in Family Dinners Take out Orders - Open 7 Days a Week Lang Y. Woo (BoBo) - Proprietor Phone - 785-5733
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    Find a rare Texas Medical Center map, or an obscure master plan? Post it here!! There are 78-years of maps, master plans, models, and drawings. Good idea to put identifiers such as creator and dates attached to the drawings. If there are details of said master plan. I'll start! I found this Baylor College of Medicine physical model the other day. Looks like it was for presenting the first building of the BCM McNair campus. There's a few buildings/parking garage that are shaded in. Don't think they are non-active proposals, I believe those are built. The realistic buildings are towards Memorial Hermann/Houston Methodist campuses. Very cool model!! The scale of the TMC, and it just keeps getting bigger!!
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    Noticed this on Transwestern's website. There are so many Kirby/West Bellfort business parks that it's hard to tell them apart. Don't think I've heard of this one before! There is much Bio Technology/Medical Distribution around this area. Here's the Transwestern property listing: https://transwestern.com/property/kirby-business-center-building-2
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    I've always been confused by the three phases of Three Fountains. Advertisement in The Houston Chronicle in January 1970. Three Fountains Phase I was built by Helmsley-Spear of Texas, Inc. and had an address of 2313 Fountain View Drive. Three Fountains Phase II was built by ? and had an address of 2001 Fountain View Drive. Three Fountains Phase III was built by ? and had an address of 1617 Fountain View Drive. There was also an address of 2100 Fountain View, but I'm not sure what was there. Maybe the leasing/management office?
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    I just learned about this massive apartment complex at Hillcroft Street at South Main Street. Across from Meyer's Speedway! The apartment complex has since changed hands, multiple times, and is now called Heights at Post Oak. Hillcroft Square was originally developed by Wallace E. Johnson Enterprises, Inc. and was built in between 1969 to 1973. Here's an advertisement from the 1970s for Hillcroft Square.
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