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Houston Equestrian Statue"Vaquero"
Equestrian StatueHouston
Downtown
Downtown - Sam Houston Historical Park, Buffalo Bayou, Memorial Park, Bayou
Bend, Glenwood Cemetery....
South of Downtown - Universities, Museums,
Hermann Park, Medical Center...Podunk,
Texas
AKA Denver Harbor, Houston
The Neighborhood as Small TownThe
San Jacinto MonumentSan
Jacinto Battleground and the Battleship Texas
30 miles east of Houston in La Porte on Texas Highway 124. Space
Center Houston
20 miles SE of downtown Houston, 3 miles east on NASA Road 1. 1-800-972-0369 Mykawa,
Texas
West of Houston's Hobby Airport
Shinpei Mykawa, a Japanese naval officer is
credited with introducing rice culture in this part of Texas
Minnetex,
Texas Bellaire,
Texas Inside
the 610 Loop of HoustonSouth
Side Place, Texas
Inside the 610 Loop of HoustonAddicks,
Texas Brunner
Absorbed into HoustonOlivewood
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People,
Places and Stories The
Great Texas / British TV Hoax of 1953 Mike Cox
On
the afternoon of Sept. 14, 1953, television viewers over a large area of England
supposedly saw on their screens the test pattern and call letters of KLEE – a
TV station located 4,860 miles away in Houston. Hughes
Who in Oil Field
by Wanda Orton
Howard Robard Hughes Sr. & Howard R. Hughes Jr.Remembrance
of Things Fried: Mr. Shipley and Mrs. Hurley by Ken RudineHonoring
Lightnin'
by Bob Bowman
Earlier this year (2010), Lightnin’ Hopkins, the late legendary
blues musician, was awarded a Texas Historical Marker to be placed in Houston...Julia
Ideson Library Ghost Story
Houston's Basement-dwelling, Tree-planting, Violin-playing, Dog-loving, Butter-making
Ghost. There's nothing to not like about "Cra" the building's civilized resident
spirit.
William
Marsh Rice
by Archie P. McDonald
Everyone loves a murder mystery, especially if the murder
happened a long time ago and did not involve someone they know. The story of William
Marsh Rice's demise is such a case... High
Over Houston, Captain A. J. High: A Positive AltitudeHow
Houston's 1940 Airport Helped Me Figure Out How to Keep Our Homes and Attics Cooler
by Ken Rudine
"I received a U S Patent based on the sight I saw the night
I made my first flight from Houston Continental Airport."The
8-F Crowd
by Bob Bowman ("All Things Historical" column)
"... Often referred
to as the "unofficial capital of Texas," [Lamar Hotel] Suite 8-F ... was the meeting
place for Houston's business leaders from the late 1930s to the 1960s...."
William
Penn Hotel ["Rooms
with a Past" "Razed in Texas" series] Pink
Palace of Healing by
Archie P. McDonald ("All Things Historical" column)
University of
Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Kinkaid
School by
Archie P. McDonald ("All Things Historical" column)
Kinkaid School
in Houston and Mrs. Margaret Kinkaid Austin
Will by Mike Cox
("Texas Tales" column)
Austin real estate agent Susanne Lee has
fond memories of the house in Houston she grew up in, but until recently she never
knew it had much of a history.Blewett
& Dabney by
John Troesser
The
Oblivion Twins. "Uvalde Rock Asphalt was used to pave Caroline, Bissonett,
Reisner, Leeland, and McKinney streets in Houston and even what had once been
known as “The Westheimer Road.”The
Saddest Valentine in Houston
by John Troesser
Native
Sons Mickey
Newbury -
Kris Kristofferson
and Mickey Newbury: A Texas Connection by Dorothy Hamm
"[An] important
songwriter in Nashville in the 60s... Signed by Acuff-Rose in 1964, within a few
years Newbury had cut quite an indelible swath in the music world... He called
himself a country artist... but his songs were universal, rising to the top of
country, pop, rhythm & blues and easy listening charts..."
Houston History
"The
city began on August 30, 1836, when Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allenqqv
ran an advertisement in the Telegraph and Texas Register for the "Town of Houston."
The townsite, which featured a mixture of timber and grassland, was on the level
Coastal Plain in the middle of the future Harris County, at 95.4° west longitude
and 30.3° north latitude." - From Handbook of Texas Online
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