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When Marvin Stalarow reported to work the morning of November 22, 1951, he had no idea he was opening a colorful chapter in Houston’s history....
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Find out more about Marie: Marie Brannon has been interested in local history since 1961 when hurricane Carla shattered the windows of her house and damaged the high school she was attending. She was educated in the Houston area, married in Houston, employed in the area and has now retired to the suburbs. She can be reached at goodsearch@aol.com. |
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In the spring of 1941, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was President of the U.S. and the attacks on Pearl Harbor were still a few months away. The...
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Andre Trevor Ware was born twenty years before Casey Austin Keenum, stood one inch shorter and weighed ten pounds less. They both had fathers who...
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When Cracker Barrel started scouting the Houston metro area for a place to put one of its Old Country Stores, it wanted a place along Interstate10 for...
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It stood four stories high and was longer than a football field. It had more than a thousand miles of wiring and 50,000 colored lights that blinked on...
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When the South End Land Company started selling property in an area called Westmoreland Farms in 1908, Houston was a thriving city of approximately...
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More than fifty years before the Houston Heights or Montrose areas were developed, the city of Houston got its first suburb. It is recorded in Harris...
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Back when Houston telephone numbers only had seven digits, when Jerry Glanville was coaching the Oilers and when bungie-jumping was all the rage,...
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It sat for at least two decades at the corner of South Main Street and University Boulevard, an out-of-place tropical oasis with its orange and green...
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Dr. Robert Woodrow Wilson, one of Houston's native sons, was honored with the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contribution to the field of...
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