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Sunday, November 3, 2013

More Images Of Old Sugar Land


Wheeler Dental Office on Oyster Creek Drive (now Bayview) after completion in the late 1960s.

Wheeler Dental Office on Oyster Creek Drive (now Bayview) after completion in the late 1960s.

Wheeler Dental Office on Oyster Creek Drive (now Bayview) after completion in the late 1960s.

Paving 2nd Street (at Wood St. intersection) with asphalt sometime in the 1960s.

Expansion of Sugar Land Telephone Company (now the Windstream building) in the late 1960s.

Old Wash Plant behind the Char House in the late 1960s.  It was the last remaining structure from the Cunningham Sugar Refinery.

Demolition of the Old Wash Plant behind the Char House in the late 1960s. It was the last remaining structure from the Cunningham Sugar Refinery.
 
Construction of Brooks St. Post Office (now vacant) in 1966.

Construction of Brooks St. Post Office (now vacant) in 1966.

Construction of Brooks St. Post Office (now vacant) in 1966.

Construction of Brooks St. Post Office (now vacant) in 1966. (Mrs. Iiams, Post Mistress, next to sign.)

Construction of Brooks St. Post Office (now vacant) in 1966. (Post Mistress, Mrs. Iiams, which Sugar Land dignitaries at ground-breaking ceremony.)

Construction of Brooks St. Post Office (now vacant) in 1966.

Construction of Brooks St. Post Office (now vacant) in 1966.

Construction of Brooks St. Post Office (now vacant) in 1966.

Construction of Brooks St. Post Office (now vacant) in 1966.

Post Office at completion in 1966.

Post Office at completion in 1966.

Post Office at completion in 1966.
Congressman Jack Brooks, Mrs. Iiams, and Ted Harman cutting the ribbon on the front door.

Congressman Jack Brooks with Mrs. Iiams.  Bob Armstrong on the left and Ted Harman on the right.

Crowd attending the opening ceremonies.

Dignitaries at the opening ceremonies in 1966.
 
     

(All photos from the Sugar Land Heritage Foundation's Collection.)
    

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