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Monday, December 23, 2013

More Images Of Old Sugar Land



Pay Day At Imperial's Personnel Office in the 1950s.

Pay Day at Imperial's Personnel Office in the 1950s.

Construction of a drainage culvert beneath Burney Road & Main Street in the 1950s. (View east toward today's City Park.)

Construction of a drainage culvert beneath Burney Road & Main Street in the 1950s. (View south down Main Street.)

W. H. Louviere (President) & George Andre with visitors in Imperial president's office in the 1950s.

More than a year ago Terrell Smith gave me a DVD filled with photos he'd collected.  After posting a few, I misfiled the disk and couldn't find it.  Well, I've got it now, and it has some terrific photos on it; for example, these aerials from 1983.


A view eastward down Highway-90A.  (Note Sugar Mill development in the upper left.)

A view westward down Highway-90A.  (Note Highway 6 at the top.)

A view of Sugar Land's west side looking north.  (Note the open land were the ball park now sits and new residential construction is now in development.)

A view eastward down Highway 59.  (Note Fluor in the lower middle, the old Kaneb building in the middle right, and Sugar Creek at the top.)

A view of the east end of the Nalco complex.  (Note the Post Office on Matlage Way is under construction in the upper left.)
 

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