HoustoricProject featured on Arts InSight - HoustonPBS Channel 8
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HoustoricProject featured on Arts InSight - HoustonPBS Channel 8
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Main Street between Texas and Prairie, 1967. The Houston Press newsbox is for the defunct daily.
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COURTLANDT PLACE, Houston Texas in the 1950s.
- Courtlandt Place is a gated subdivision between Westheimer and Hawthorne between Bagby and Taft Streets.
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Gillman Pontiac (now Gillman Honda) in 1965 - currently the Houston Press Building at 1621 Milam. Crazy to think that GTOs and Bonnevilles were sold in the lobby.
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Across the street from Union Station stands the Ben Milam Hotel, the first hotel with air conditioning - a big deal for Houston in 1932.
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I’d trade the light rail for the Slow and Fast lanes you see here in the late 1920s anyday. - 1100 Main Street at McKinney.
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Jones Hall, unchanged since the year it won the American Institute of Architects’ Honor Award, 1967.
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Set your DVRs. The segment I filmed for Arts InSight earlier this month - featuring the HoustoricProject - will air next Thursday at 7pm on Houston PBS Channel 8!
1600 Louisiana.
Downtown YMCA. Built in 1941. It had dorms for 270 men, an assembly hall, 19 classrooms, two gyms, six handball courts, indoor pool, youth department and workout areas.
I was featured on Great Day Houston talking about the project on May 23rd, 2012.
8. Gillman Pontiac (now Gillman Honda) in 1965 - currently the Houston Press Building at 1621 Milam. Crazy to think that GTOs and Bonnevilles were sold in the lobby.
(via Old Houston Photos Mashed With Modern Houston, Part 2 - Houston News - Hair Balls)