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Houston – Back Then

Recently was made aware of this site, which has old maps of Houston. The following maps have been resized in order to be uploaded, so if you can’t see a detail you want, I recommend going to the original site, where the maps are hi-resolution and unreduced.

Here’s a 1954 map:
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And here’s a 1942 map. A neighbor pointed out that Fauna, a street in my ‘hood, used be called “S Houston – Garden Villas Road” as it crossed Telephone Road. Nowadays, Fauna pretty much stops at Telephone Road, and Airport Boulevard is the main artery that crosses in front of Hobby Airport.

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56 responses to “Houston – Back Then”

  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I love old maps, I have one of Alabama printed in the 50’s that shows the Federal Hiway by the old home place on the west side of the property but it’s on the east side. The map was printed just before it became a bypass and the local politicians where still fighting over the route.
    Mornin’ Gang

  2. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I’m putting my car in for service at Skeeters in Cypress.
    Someone needs to come pick me up and entertain me for the next few hours.
    🙂

  3. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Bummer Shannon, I’m already inside the loop. Good luck trying to find a beer joint open this early AND within walking dostance.

  4. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The Ms. used to follow me down here and we’d go mess around. But she’s just not up to it anymore.
    They have a courtesy car that can take me over to Willowbrook. Guess I’ll go over there and spend some money.

  5. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good morning Hamsters. Ground mist aplenty and 73 at 6, becoming partly cloudy later with mist gone. Another hot day, well 95, but then we’ve been spoiled so far.

    Houston and environs looked far different when we moved here in ’69 than now. What a treat it would be to eliminate the bad stuff from then and the bad stuff from now and combine the good stuff from both for right now. One can dream.

  6. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Shannon, hope Fay is better than when she came home from the hospital. She’s in our prayers. You too.

  7. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    6 Adee
    Thanks. She has improved. Came to find out her hospital discharge instructions related to medications was incorrect, which had her blood pressure so low we could have lost her.
    We’ve also decided that the blow to the head she received in last year’s match with the grill is having some permanent repercussions. She is not very steady on her feet and her sense of taste is all screwed up, causing her to lose some of her passion for cooking. Nothing tastes good anymore to her.

  8. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    I’m not sure I understand. At the Greek pm’s urging voters rejected a bailout deal. Now he has agreed to pretty much the same deal.

  9. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #8 CouchMaster: I am reminded of welfare reform, which Slick Willietwice vetoed and shut the gubmint down and then went on to sign and claim credit for “ending welfare as we know it.” This deal with Greece will be just like our deals with Mexico, both will happily repay any and all loans – so long as we give them the additional money to do it.

    The Euroterds are desperate to make a deal, even if it is a bad one, so they can claim the high moral ground of ‘diplomacy.’ This same false god of diplomacy is what is going to enable Iran to get a nuke and the ballistic missile technology to successfully target NYC. Everyone with a brain knows that Greece will default on this loan as well as Iran will develop and deploy nukes – first against Israel then the USA.

  10. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    #8 hamous
    Just goes to show that bait and switch is not solely an American phenomenon.

  11. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #8
    When a pol changes his position 180 degrees, my first thought is always: Follow the money. Someone with money really, really wanted that other outcome.

  12. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #11: Perhaps some holders of Greek debt like mebbe the Rothschild family?

  13. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Just heard a commercial on the radio that drives me nuts. A roofing company complaining about their competitors, saying that the competitors “focus on efficiency and not responsibility,” and describe how they found “28 nails and not one was on the nail line”.

    That’s not efficiency, that’s speed. If the roofers were being efficient, the shingles would have been nailed on properly and quickly. Focusing on speed only, and not accuracy, would result in 28 misplaced nails. Responsibility has nothing to do with nail placement – it would be the willingness to go back and fix problems associated with improperly roofed homes.

    Total disregard for the English language. Makes me crazy every time I hear it. I’m supposing these business owners are the product of public education.

  14. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    There’s a daytime commercial I’ve caught a couple of times that drives me crazy. One of those ambulance chasers. They talk about throat cancer but they pronounce it throw-et. Where in the heck is it pronounced that way?

  15. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Collective insanity!

    The town resident who called 911 said there were helmets with swastikas, images of Hitler and other historical Nazi items.

    “I was shaking and almost vomiting,” he tells the paper. “I had to run. My grandmother had numbers,” referring to the digits the Nazis would tattoo on prisoners.

    The caller complained that the Confederate items were “not authentic” and were replicas of flags and weapons.

    This caller needs to put his big boy pants on and simply move along. What a wimp.

  16. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    11 & 12

    The Greek Prime Minister Tsipras tried to run a huge bluff and lost. He demagogued the financial meltdown with Greeks and dragged the out the old historical refute, Oxi !, which has deep and passionate symbolism for the Greek people. He played this as Nazi/Fascist redux recalling the famous episode of of General Metaxas refusing to allow Italian and Axis troops passage through Greek territory in 1940. The evil Germans were trying to destroy Greece once again.

    The man was left with no choice. He thought the EU would back down or Merkel would cave. That’s the central event. There may be all sorts of questionable side bets and stories involving greedy money people, but those are minor side shows among the monumentally corrupt European Union.

  17. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Hammie

    There’s a daytime commercial I’ve caught a couple of times that drives me crazy. One of those ambulance chasers. They talk about throat cancerbut they pronounce it throw-et. Where in the heck is it pronounced that way?

    Daytime ambulance chaser commercials
    /You can thank me later.

  18. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Male head of theology at Jesuit university marries male partner

    The university released a statement recognizing that Catholic teachings don’t support same-sex marriage, but declared that Hornbeck “is entitled to human dignity.”

  19. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    ‘Offended’ flea market shopper calls 911 over Confederate merchandise

    Really you have to read the whole story. This just got more insane as the story went along. Even the mayor got involved.

  20. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Maybe we should all go get size XXL women’s underwear and send it to these idiots.

    You know, so they can put on their big girl panties and get on with life.

  21. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3159344/There-s-no-jail-big-midget-Mexico-s-billion-dollar-drugs-lord-gloats-Twitter-escaping-prison-shower-block-tunnel.html

    What are the odds that the warden and the next several layers are now suddenly flush with cash? The whole episode simply illustrates Trump’s position.

  22. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Those wacky ISIS people are planning to send members of “feared” all-wimmin “police force” to Yerp to attack Christian sites.

    ISIS is planning to send members of its feared all-female police force to attack religious sites in Europe, a Syrian expert claims.

    The terror group will send at least ten members of the ruthless Al-Khansaa Brigade to target ‘Christian symbols’, possibly in suicide bomb attacks, the president of the Centre for Strategy, Military and Security Studies in Syria told MailOnline.

    Just think how ruthless they’ll be if Aunt Flo is visiting.

  23. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Joel Kotkin on the “smart growth” movement on the Left to challenge the very way Americans choose to live their lives.

    Countering Progressives’ Assault on Suburbia

    The obstacles being erected include incentives for density, urban growth boundaries, attempts to alter the race and class makeup of communities, and mounting environmental efforts to reduce sprawl. The EPA wants to designate even small, seasonal puddles as “wetlands,” creating a barrier to developers of middle-class housing, particularly in fast-growing communities in the Southwest. Denizens of free-market-oriented Texas could soon be experiencing what those in California, Oregon and other progressive bastions have long endured: environmental laws that make suburban development all but impossible, or impossibly expensive. Suburban family favorites like cul-de-sacs are being banned under pressure from planners.

    Some conservatives rightly criticize such intrusive moves, but they generally ignore how Wall Street interests and some developers see forced densification as opportunities for greater profits, often sweetened by public subsidies. Overall, suburban interests are poorly organized, particularly compared to well-connected density lobbies such as the developer-funded Urban Land Institute (ULI), which have opposed suburbanization for nearly 80 years

    .

  24. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #22

    …and they’re all in sync

  25. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Better find an enemy quick, else they be fightin’ each other.

  26. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #23 TP: I saw a headline on Drudge on Friday about billionaires buying up vast tracts of farm land. That story is set in Australia, however, with a few tweeks and twerks of the tax code, the same thing could happen here. If the elites can force everybody into high density housing AND control the means of food production, they win the whole ball of wax – which I think is the goal. What they fail to realize is that if this scheme ever comes to pass, the ball of wax becomes much smaller and will not perform as expected.
    LImbaugh is speaking of the issue in your link now.

  27. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I can handle the Tough Smart Lawyer commercials at lunch but the vaginal cream stuff needs to go. I’m tryin’ to eat here!

  28. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    RE: My #23

    The local Houston branch of the Urban Land Institute is right with the program. Look who is on the advisory board – virtually every name in the industry, from Ed Wulfe to Ric Campo to Bob Eury.

    This is an excerpt from a recent seminar they hosted.

    Hillwood Communities, a builder of master planned communities throughout Texas, considered food a significant factor in fostering connectivity and health. Harvest, a 1,200-acre prototype development north of Dallas, is considered the next generation in master planned communities and is built around a 5-acre working farm. The community features a mix of single family and high density residential but also includes five green houses and a community garden where the head farmer teaches residents how to grow fresh, organic farm-to-table product in gardens in their own backyards.

    Where LEED ratings focus on assessing sustainability of the building, we are now talking about impacting the health and wellness of the people in the space to encourage their well-being, said David Calkins, regional managing principal of Gensler. Calkins, who heads the education practice for the firm, went on to discuss the environmental magnet school James Berry Elementary in Houston which achieves design sustainability and efficiency, but is in fact “…a machine for creating advocates for the environment,” at the earliest ages of our society. The elementary school children are “growing produce in gardens at the school and taking lessons home on healthy choices in terms of food, recycling and influencing their parent’s behavior.”

    Big business is not interested in anyone’s liberty. Not nationally or in your own backyard.

  29. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Have no fear. Trump will save us!

  30. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Here’s an amusing look into why blacks don’t visit national parks as often as whites do. http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/07/liberals_blame_slack_black_national_park_attendance_on_white_racism.html

  31. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #30 M42: Just in case some choose not to read your linkie, this line is priceless:

    Thomas Lifson adds: the environmentalist movement is overwhelmingly white. Odd that the NYT focuses on national parks as opposed to the membership of the Sierra Club.

  32. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    This is cool.

    A potential new area of research into fighting cancer. Blocking its ability to metastasize.

  33. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #32: The one I want to see is the way to “unmask” the malignent cells so that the bodies natural defenses can wipe them out. We all make cancer cells every day, usually they self destruct and if that fails then the next line of defence comes in from the body and other antibodies wipe them out. When the tumors start to grow, this mechanism has been disabled – somehow. The trick is to turn it back on and strengthen the body instead of poisoning it with chemo.

  34. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Every amazing thing you never knew about the song, Unchained Melody.

    Two Jewish Tin Pan Alley songwriters wrote it for a low-budget 1955 prison movie.

    No kidding.

    The song—first released 60 years ago, in 1955—has a history that, like its eponymous tune, ebbs and flows at unpredictable intervals. The song that has served as a backdrop for dances and weddings was born as a soundtrack of a more conventional variety. It’s named “Unchained Melody” not because it concerns itself with the various freedoms and captivations of romantic love, but because it was written, originally, for a movie about life in prison. Unchained, based on the book Prisoners are People, was a low-budget film released to limited acclaim in 1955. It features a scene, though, in which an inmate perches on a bed in his prison dorm and sings a song—accompanied only by a mournful acoustic guitar—for a group of his fellow prisoners: “Time … goes by … so slowly … and time can do … so much…”

  35. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    That’s pretty interesting. The movie also starred Barbara Hale (Perry Mason the show).

  36. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Perry Mason was played by a wimmin?

    Holy cow, she really needed to fix herself up.

  37. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Cancer – I take tumeric extract every day. I listened to this TED talk and it convinced me to start taking it.

  38. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    What about throwet cancer?

  39. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Bonecrusher

    You can discard your Rothschild Zionist banker conspiracy. Here is the Greek woman working for Goldman Sachs (of course) who maneuvered the Greek financing deal and made hundreds of millions for herself and her employer.

    What it most liked about her seems to be the way she could magic away the country’s dismal financial position. The trade she came up with is reported to have made the bank hundreds of millions of dollars, although only Goldman knows the true figure.

    Reports suggest she was paid up to $12m a year by the time she was named co-head of the investment banking group. Not that it wasn’t a stressful job. In an interview in 2005 she told the Wall Street Journal she was “your typical Type A workaholic smoker” with a “stressful schedule”.

  40. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    What about throwet cancer?

    I’m assuming that means cancer of the arm? Because I can’t throw-et things?

  41. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Make sure you take your shoes and socks off when you are sick so you don’t hafta throw-et them up too.

  42. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Hamous says:
    JULY 13, 2015 AT 4:05 PM
    That’s pretty interesting. The movie also starred Barbara Hale (Perry Mason the show).

    Saw her over the weekend as Randolph Scott’s love interest in a cavalry movie.

    Hubba hubba.

  43. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Elderly Couple Texting – Very Romantic?

    An elderly couple, who had just learned how to send text messages on their mobile phones. The wife was a romantic type and the husband was more of a no-nonsense guy.

    One afternoon the wife went out to meet a friend for coffee.

    She decided to send her husband a romantic text message and she wrote:

    “If you are sleeping, send me your dreams. If you are laughing, send me your smile. If you are eating, send me a bite. If you are drinking, send me a sip. If you are crying, send me your tears. I love you.”

    The husband texted back to her:

    “I’m on the toilet. Please advise.”

  44. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #37 – sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo what BRAND are you taking and how much?

  45. fat albert Avatar
    fat albert

    #12 BoneCrusher:

    Seriously? The Rothchilds? Are you sure it wasn’t the Illuminati? or the Trilateralists? mebbe the Queen of England and her family?

    Sheesh. . . .

  46. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #45 FA:

    11: Perhaps some holders of Greek debt like mebbe the Rothschild family?

    I tried to make it clear that I did not know who was behind it, the Rothschilds were just a guess, a suggestion.

    Seriously? The Rothchilds? Are you sure it wasn’t the Illuminati? or the Trilateralists? mebbe the Queen of England and her family?

    Sheesh. . . .

    As far as the rest of that quote, I have now idea what you are talking about. . .

  47. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Bonecrusher – surely you are aware that in every “new world order/evil Jewish banker” rant directed towards the Jews, there’s a Rothchild conspiracy that has been used as evidence as to why they should be exterminated. If you’d like to be in the company of the likes of Alex Jones, Jeff Rense, and Lyndon Larouche have at it.

  48. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Hamous says:
    JULY 13, 2015 AT 4:05 PM
    That’s pretty interesting. The movie also starred Barbara Hale (Perry Mason the show).

    Saw her over the weekend as Randolph Scott’s love interest in a cavalry movie.

    Hubba hubba.

    So she looked like a horse?

    Didn’t she also play The Skipper on Gilligans Island?

  49. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Hamous I am not in the camp of which you suggest. It was a response to #11 and the family was suggested only as a possibility. The question in my mind at the time was: who has the resources and influence to pull off such a stunt? The universe of possibilities is not that big. TexPats #39 answer later about Goldman Sachs seemed to answer the question.

  50. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    It’s drought again, I tell ya! I officially started watering my yard today.

  51. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Interesting.

  52. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    fat albert says:
    JULY 13, 2015 AT 6:59 PM
    #12 BoneCrusher:

    Seriously? The Rothchilds? Are you sure it wasn’t the Illuminati? or the Trilateralists? mebbe the Queen of England and her family?

    Sheesh. . . .

    Can’t be the Queen.

    She’s the one dealing drugs with George Bush senior.

    Try to keep up.

  53. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    #49 I know you’re not in that camp. The thing is, there is no “House of Rothchild” in the banking world and probably hasn’t been since World War I.

  54. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Instant karma’s gonna get you!

  55. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    I remember the good old days when PD put “shotgun squads” in the coolers at convenience stores. They thinned out the gene pool quite a bit before someone decided that it wasn’t fair for the cops to surprise and shoot thugs.

  56. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    That idiot Lee Brown banned HPD officers from the shotgun squads.

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