What do you consider Southwest Houston? (Spring, Katy: mall, tuition, refund)

[blkgiraffe]

Originally Posted by HtownLove

its been the boundary for as long as Crone can remember.
The greater southwest chamber of commerce uses that as their boundary.

I think I trust those two sources the most. did you take a look at the website from the chamber of commerce??

Yes and it appears this may be one of those arguements that will never get resolved. I don't know how the hell Katy Rd is considered southwest though.

I think the only ones that refer to that area as the southwest is chambers of commerce. I've never heard anyone consider that Southwest Houston.

[HtownLove]

Originally Posted by jluke65780

Yes and it appears this may be one of those arguements that will never get resolved. I don't know how the hell Katy Rd is considered southwest though.

the road is not southwest. thinking like that will ********* up. The road divides the northwest and southwest. The two quarters make up the western half.


southwest:
http://www.stlaurence.org/pictures/SouthWestHouston.gif (broken link)

Northwest:

[blkgiraffe]

Originally Posted by HtownLove

the road is not southwest. thinking like that will ********* up. The road divides the northwest and southwest. The two quarters make up the western half.


southwest:


Northwest:

And the west is just a collaboration of both the southwest and Northwest huh??? Interesting.

[Trae713]

Originally Posted by jluke65780

Yes and it appears this may be one of those arguements that will never get resolved. I don't know how the hell Katy Rd is considered southwest though.

I think the only ones that refer to that area as the southwest is chambers of commerce. I've never heard anyone consider that Southwest Houston.

And you'd be right. The "Greater Southwest Houston Chamber of Commerce" claims the area of Katy Road as "Greater Southwest Houston", but the "Houston West Chamber of Commerce" claims the Katy Road areas as simply "West Houston" and also includes some areas that some would consider Southwest.

Houston West Chamber of Commerce

[HtownLove]

Originally Posted by jluke65780

I think the only ones that refer to that area as the southwest is chambers of commerce. I've never heard anyone consider that Southwest Houston.

I dunno, he said they have been calling that area SW for the last 65 years:

Originally Posted by crone

As the oldest person on this forum and probably the longest Houston resident I declare southwest Houston to be south of Katy road and west of Main street. That's the way it was in 1945, by damn. I lived in the Montrose. Neighbors built the first houses on Little John Lane. It was always called Memorial area , but it was in Southwest Houston. Just like River Oaks ways always River Oaks and Tanglewood was always Tanglewood. They are all in Southwest Houston. Nobody ever heard of West Houston. Katy was Katy and anything north of Katy road was Srang Branch.

the katy freeway actually cuts through houston in fairly equal halves:

[Trae713]

Originally Posted by HtownLove

I dunno, he said they have been calling that area SW for the last 65 years:




the katy freeway actually cuts through houston in fairly equal halves:

And now the area is called "West Houston" as the city grew and different business districts and residential areas wanted to start differentiating themselves from other parts of Houston. No one today calls the areas around I-10 Southwest Houston. Maybe 50 years ago, but not today. In fact, the first time I've ever heard anyone say that the I-10 corridor was Southwest Houston was crone's post.

[HtownLove]

Originally Posted by jluke65780

And the west is just a collaboration of both the southwest and Northwest huh??? Interesting.

lol, it may be hard to believe but yes the west is made up of the NW and SW. lol

[HtownLove]

Originally Posted by Scarface713

And now the area is called "West Houston" as the city grew and different business districts and residential areas wanted to start differentiating themselves from other parts of Houston. No one today calls the areas around I-10 Southwest Houston. Maybe 50 years ago, but not today.

it has always been West Houston. tell me how it can't be both????

[blkgiraffe]

Originally Posted by HtownLove

I dunno, he said they have been calling that area SW for the last 65 years:




the katy freeway actually cuts through houston in fairly equal halves:

Yeah it does and the road is located in the west. I'd think anything south of 290 to about Westpark would be called West Houston.

[Trae713]

Originally Posted by HtownLove

it has always been West Houston. tell me how it can't be both????

You said earlier that those areas were "Southwest Houston" and that I should just stop because I was wrong. The "Chamber of Commerce" says it's Southwest Houston, yet I post a different Chamber of Commerce that says it isn't. If you would have said "it has always been West Houston" before, then this thread would have never been created. You insisted the Memorial City area was Southwest Houston, and I was wrong for thinking it isn't. Made a thread/poll about it and no one agrees with you so far.

Originally Posted by jluke65780

Yeah it does and the road is located in the west. I'd think anything south of 290 to about Westpark would be called West Houston.

I'd go a little further South and say FM 529 down to Westheimer as the North and South boundaries for West Houston. North of 529 seems a little more Northwest.