Houston's Galleria & West Rice Areas (Photos)

[westres1]

Originally Posted by texasboi

I love those stone homes..how much does a house like that go for?

700,000 for a fixer upper over a million for most. It looked like he was on Sunset,North or South street. Far from suburbia inside the loop is not the burbs in Houston.
Nice pics

[Mom2Feebs]

RGV, great pics. I hope you'll share with us the kind of camera you have.

[RGV]

Thx,

I used a Canon Rebel Xti there,

I just got a new 40D.

[KerrTown]

Originally Posted by jfre81

There is still a grid of sorts rather than subdivisions in the Cinco Ranch sense.

Sharpstown actually has a semi-grid pattern. In fact some of those street names (such as Carvel, Hazen, etc.) were reused along the same latitude all the way to mid-/east Alief.

Semi-grids seemed to be abandoned in the 90's for the current lassiez-faire pattern. Memorial West and that neighborhood around Provincial Blvd were built in the 80's and had that semi-grid compared to Cinco Ranch. But the most striking example is First Colony. The older sections (along Settlers Way Blvd and 3/4ths of Williams Trace between Austin Pkwy and Highway 6) have that semi-grid while the newer sections have abandoned any sense of logical street planning.

[WillysB]

Sweet pics. I was married to a gal who worked in that NM before Galleria construction was complete. Were no tall buildings at the time. Also used to go to a club on Post Oak @ W Alabama, the Catacombs. That's when the Galleria area was a dirt lot.

Used to live off Greenbriar, a block north of 59. Would jog and bike over to West U. and around Rice U. and the Med Center. Sometimes would take in baseball games at Rice U., the baseball diamond was just across Main from the Med.

[WillysB]

Originally Posted by houstoner

I stumbled across some awesome pictures of historic Houston (circa 1920's judging by the cars and fashions) at a building in the Medical Center the other day. Hordes of people walking around downtown. They were fully clothed, so the lack of urban, pedestrian areas isn't because of the humidity. It really gave you an idea of what Might Have Been...

(Can we ever stay on topic? Apparently not. )

I lived in a quad building in the Montrose in the 70's and early 80's. Drove a VW with no A/C. Window unit for the apartment. Houston was busting its seams, life was good. An old sleepy beer and blues town, making its move.

Early 90's read an article about 'what was back when' there was no A/C, people dressed UP for work and socializing. Women with stockings, men with coat and ties. They go to work with no A/C in their cars, open windows in the office. Odors of who you were, where you'd been. Fans blowing the heat around, just for a breeze.

And Houston just keeps on bursting at the seams.

[Mom2Feebs]

Originally Posted by RGV

Thx,

I used a Canon Rebel Xti there,

I just got a new 40D.

Have you used the Nikon much? I've been debating between that and the Rebel XTi, I'm not nearly as talented as you, LOL, but I'd like a really good point-and-shoot SLR that makes me look close to it.

[relocatetohouston]

Beautiful Pictures. Thanks for sharing

[nature's message]

LOL, that black guy in front of the Abercrombie store looked like a model.


Beautiful picture. Just a charming jewel of Houston.