That's crazy. I lived about 6 blocks from there for 4 years in the early '70's. How things have changed. The rent was $110 a month, bills paid, for a cool upstairs apartment in an old two story house that was converted into a fourplex during WWII. It had a large balcony with French doors that was really the roof of the apartment below, with huge trees all around. Everyone knew everyone else and we were good friends with the tenents in 2 of the other 3 apartments, and became friends with the chick in the 3rd place. We even had a one car garage below our pad, with a door and everything. You could walk to the record store at W. Alabama and S. Shepard, and there were a lot of bars, clubs and coffee shops around that often had live music. Good times.
I remember that tree. Sad to see it go. I love our big old live oaks. There was a mature live oak just on the far side of my fence, on the easement of the bayou behind my house. After Harvey, the county came to do some work on the bayou. The tree wasn't in the way, so I wrote to them asking they make sure to protect the tree. My neighbor did to. Then one day some guys came to cut it down. I have to wait until all the work is done, and then go plant another one.
what was the reason given? Was there any communication at all? There is a long list of trees in Houston set for removal (like in the OP story) it seems unlikely one would jump to the head of the line.
I asked the tree guys what the hell they were doing, but they didn't speak English. My letters to the county went unanswered. They were doing work to clear possible obstructions of the flow of water down the bayou, so they may have figured it was a risk (though similar trees down the way were kept). At the end of the day, it was on county property, not mine, so it's their choice. It's just too bad for me because that tree was giving my yard some good shade and bird habitat without taking up any square footage on the ground.
one actually provides a service to the community by converting carbon dioxide to oxygen. The other does nothing.
Much older than 100 years. Rule of thumb to estimate age is: calculate the diameter about 3 feet off the ground. The first 10 inches=75 years. Each inch after that add 6.5 years up to 150 years. After that, each inch adds six years. Shame they didn't do some sort of chainsaw sculpture like they did with all the dead oaks in Galveston. I'm sure they looked into it though and had a reason not to.
