I know the first two photos show the land where St. Theresa is now located before construction began in the 1960s. I'm not precisely sure if the dirt road in the first one is the precursor to 7th St. or if it's Prairie Farm Road, which has almost completely vanished. (Wood Blvd. represents a small section of the road which extended from the top of Main St. to Eldridge Rd. in a northeasterly direction.) Either way, these photos show the land where Sugar Mill and the City Park are now located.
These next photos show Brookside as it was developed in the 1960s. Note the inset in the first one, showing Belknap Realty's billboard. I'm reasonably sure the undeveloped street is Bluebonnet. I think the second shows the south end of Borden, where it joins Camellia. I less certain about the last two photos. I think they show Camellia, but I'll defer to anyone who can use the houses in the distance to identify the street.
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| Bluebonnet looking east toward Venice St. and Oyster Creek. |
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| The intersection of Borden and Camellia looking north. |
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| Camellia looking northeast toward Venice St. and Oyster Creek. |
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| Camellia looking east toward Venice St. and Oyster Creek. |
The next photo shows Lee Townsend cleaning the goldfish pond in front of the Char House in October 1964. An article in The Crown says he cleaned the pond each morning for the previous 25 years. The pond is still in the same location although the signage is now gone.
I think the following photo is fantastic. It shows Highway-90A sometime around 1900-1908. The highway was a shell road through Sugar Land, but a dirt path outside of town in both directions. Here's a current view.
The next two photos show scenes in Mayfield Park in the summer of 1964. The first is the northeast corner of Ulrich St. and Avenue D. Here's a current view. The second is the northwest corner of Ash St. and Avenue D. Here's a current view of that location.
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| Corner of Ulrich and Avenue D in Mayfield Park. |
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| Corner of Ash St. and Avenue D in Mayfield Park. |
The following article appeared in The Imperial Crown in 1970. I've posted quite a few photos of the interior of The Salvage. (You may recall it was located in the vacant lot across Highway-90A from the Shell station on Bayview.) This short article provides a brief history -- I had no idea Edward H. Cunningham may have built it.
This photo shows the Shopping Center (recently headquarters of Imperial Sugar) in the early 1960s. Click here to see a current view.
I've posted several photos of the old Sugar Land Telephone office, which was built in 1959 and is now the Windstream building after much reconstruction. The next two photos show the land just before construction began.
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| Click here to see a current view. |
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| Click here to see a current view. |
The last photo shows a view of the Char House in 1959 from Highway-90A where the telephone office was constructed.
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| Click here for a current view. |
