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Showing posts with label Houston. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Houston. Show all posts
Saturday, March 31, 2018

More Historical Photos of Houston, the US, and the World

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Click this link to view color photos of Houston in the 1950s and '60s .  These next photos come from a Rice history blog that I ...
Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Video of Snow Storm on February 12, 1960

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We had a surprise snow fall here in Sugar Land on December 8, 2017. Donna Christopher Baker (DHS '63) sent me this link to KTRK archiv...
Sunday, April 9, 2017

A Little More About The Dome

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The rodeo ended last month, so I know I'm a day-late-and-a-dollar-short, but I wanted to post this series of photos which comes from ...
Friday, March 10, 2017

Houston

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I saw the following photo on Facebook and thought it was interesting due to the distant background. I think it shows an aerial view of th...
Sunday, July 31, 2016

1919 African-American Flour Mill in Houston Texas

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While reading issues of the Texas Commercial News (Sugar Land's local newspaper) published in 1919, I ran across this item in a June ...

Miscellaneous

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Here are some odds & ends I found since my last posting.  The first is a video clip from a 1956 episode of the old  I've Got A Sec...
Thursday, May 5, 2016

Miscellany

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My brother Bruce found a reference to the 'weather eye' that sat at atop the Texas National Bank Building in downtown Houston....
Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Miscellany

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This first item is roughly a month late, and the image quality isn't as good as I'd like it to be, but I saw this map on Facebook...
Monday, January 25, 2016

Miscellany

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I found the following image of Curly Fox and Texas Ruby with their band at KPRC's television studio in the 1950s.  It was posted to ...
Monday, August 24, 2015

Miscellany

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Galveston Ferry (Boliver landing) in 1963. (Mark Maniha - Traces of Texas)   Earliest known photo of Houston - 300 block of...
Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Story Sloane Gallery in Houston

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Story Sloane, III owns a gallery devoted to historic images of Houston and the surrounding area.  In fact, he's devoted to preservin...
Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Salt Grass Trail Ride Stops in Sugar Land in 1954

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The Sugar Land Heritage Foundation's photo collection contains these photos of a group of Houston rodeo trail riders in late winter ...
Saturday, April 18, 2015

Houston, Then and Now

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The Astrodome has been in the news lately, at least The Houston Chronicle, so I've seen several historic photos of that well-known s...
Thursday, April 9, 2015

Photos of Rice Institute (University) in 1931 & 1950

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I saw the following aerial photos on Melissa Kean's blog about the history of Rice University .  (Melissa is Rice's resident his...
Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Photos of old Houston

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  I want to thank Jerry Cooper (SLHS '56) for sending me a link to these photos.  Great stuff.  Click on the image below to vi...
Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Odds & Ends

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  Notice the home games were split between Sugar Land & Missouri City during Dulles High's first season. Scotty & Dot H...
Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Story Sloane, III

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I wanted to commend a fellow, who does a lot to preserve Houston photographic history, Story Sloane, III.  I met him a couple of years a...
Saturday, September 27, 2014

Rice whips Santa Clara 27 - 7 in New Rice Stadium on Sept 30, 1950

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Nearly 64 years ago to the day Rice University (then Institute) played its first game in Rice Stadium.  The Owls defeated Santa Clara 27...
Sunday, July 13, 2014

Odds & Ends

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I came across these miscellaneous items as I researched old newspapers.  I thought they were interesting. I've seen several arti...

Houston's West End Park

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Yesterday (Saturday, July 12th) the Harris County Historical Commission unveiled a marker commemorating Houston's old West End Park....