Texas Company Building (aka the Texaco Building), and the building under construction is the Texas State Hotel, which would become one of the finest hotels downtown. By 1930, Houston would become Texas' most populous city, filled by job-seekers hoping to make their fortune in the oil ...
After he came back out, my mother and I carried the luggage to the elevator while he drove the car into the hotel’s parking garage. The plan was to attend Jimmy’s wedding on Saturday morning, then the reception at noon, and by midafternoon be on the road headed to Houston, where...
However, the same year, a black man in nearby Terrell was lynched, and an African-American man in Corsicana was burned at the stake. In addition, numerous Dallas-area white men joined a posse that traveled to Slocum, near Houston, to participate in a race-based battle ...
Your hometown of Houston is known as the melting pot. So is Philadelphia- the melting pot of weather. It has the wind of Chicago, the grey days of Seattle, the cold of New England, the humidity of Florida, and the heat of Houston. During the course of a year, you’ll experience all...
in an 1891 row house right across fashionable Dauphin Street from his home in the heart of downtown. (The drugstore is now part of Wintzell’s Oyster House, and where Williams’s own house stood is now its gravel parking lot.) He had graduated from Meharry Medical School and was a publ...
and opened my car door. The first step is always the hardest. My momentum carried me through the parking lot, up the sidewalk, through a door into an empty room, and through another door where I saw two bellies. There was a graphic of a belly dancer on the wall. “Is this belly da...
cast of characters, its prized ballparks and heroes—is striking. The era serves as a reminder of how much America and baseball has changed in 60 years. Ebbets Field and the Polo Grounds are gone, and the old Yankee Stadium, which housed Ruth, DiMaggio and Mantle, is now a parking lot...
This Small Texas Town Uses A New High Tech Crime Fighting Tool Even though the crime rates are higher than the national average, just a few places are pushing that number up. Making the right choice and staying away from them is easier with this list of dangerous cities in Texas. ...
“He met us at the end of the parking lot where we transferred the petit fours into the vans and took off like a lightning bolt,” recalls Robert Whitcomb. “Fortunately, the mayor was a little late and there was no traffic, so we made it on time, and it went off with none of th...
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