A-Train just described a bunch of "generica" - the miles and miles of just-the-same architecture and chain stores that are common in certain suburbs of Houston. (Missouri City - same thing.) I don't mind a certain amount of suburbia, but it's depressing when it all looks just alike. Agreed that the Alvin part is better - at least there's still some open space (supposedly what the whole thing looked like at one time). And don't use this highway if you're trying to save time.
that food lion building..is now a houston community college campus... yeah..i live right down the street from there..
Hey I lived on Clay and 6 for eighteen years. and I agree one hundred percent. It actually gets worse as the years past. Gotta Drive out on Richmond if you want any excitment. Boring neighborhood, dangerous streets, lots of traffic, but i wouldnt trade it for anything
I grew up in Townewest, I'm sure you know where that is...I'll be down there Thanksgiving, you should come get some turkey... And that guy you and Kim have seen with the walkie-talkie, I've seen 400,000 times too. My mom knows the guy and the story behind why he wears the neck brace...I'll have to ask her to tell me again now.
i live on hwy 6 between beechnut and bissonent. And i see that guy with the neck brace all the time too. I heard that he walks up and down hwy 6 because his wife died in a traffic accident on 6 and he wants to increase safety. Also at the abandoned k-mart, every 4th of july there tons of people blowing up fireworks, k-mart gets a huge traffic jam and its like a freaking war cuz people are everywhere just lighting firecrackers with total disregard to other peoples safety.
6 needs a mall. People my age said there was a plan to put one up back in the mid 80's but it got rejected. Any truth to that??? Cant count how many times that i wished there was a mall out there. west oaks has really gone down the hole
when i was growing up i always drove by a sign for "Copperfield Mall" that was supposed to be built at the corner of 6 and 529. for most of the 80s and 90s it was just a grassy field... than 20 years later they built a little strip mall with a Target, Old Navy, and a book store.
I used to live in the Alief area and I remember that guy along Hwy 6. I used to laugh b/c I didn't know what the hell he did. He's been around for a long time and I thought he had a partner in crime before as well. I don't know if any of you saw him as well, but it was a bum in a trenchcoat that rode around on a nice looking BMX bike. They'd always be around each other but I haven't seen that guy since I was in HS back in 97.
I did this drive from 290 to Manvel (southeast of Sugarland) where I lived in 1983. It was the same then. Even at 3 in the morning it takes a while to get where you want to go..
Ever heard of First Colony Mall? Its not too far from West Oaks. I don't know why, but I never liked malls in general.
No, I think it will be every Friday, Saturday and Sunday. It wouldn't be worth it to do it for a oneshot event. Lease issues and building customer awareness to drive traffic would make it logical to keep having it there.
Keegan's Wood, huh? Funny. I grew up down the street in Tealbriar- Kempner high territory. Ahhh the old Van Binh Self Defense. My friend's dad owns that little strip mall next to the Mobil. HWY 6 is in essence, surburban hell. Damn makes me appreciate the greenbelt views, and the hillside living here in Far West area of Austin.
LOL. My uncle owns Van Binh's. He moved out of your friend's dad's strip because he wanted a bigger place. It's now by the Sonics next the the abandoned Kmart that's soon to be converted into a Flea Market.
Some of you guys should write the definitve guide to the middle class western suburbs of Houston! It would be a first. Maybe you could be on the travel channel. After all why should New York SF, Barcelona, London, Tokyo, Rome and Paris get all the love. Joking side. This has been an interesting thread for those of us who did not grow up in Houston and who now live in the inner loop area of Houston therebye missing the experience and the charms? of such suburban living. Would you guys grow up there again if you had a choice? Am I wrong in my assumption that everyone there is a conservative Republican who goes to church 3 times a week and would never go to UT Austin. ATM afterall has the "advantages" of being closer , has nothing but the familiar strip malls, and seems virtually free from those dreaded liberals, a bane of conservative parents?
I would absolutely grow up in the copperfield area again, given the chance. I loved it and never thought of it as the "suburbs" until I went to college and everyone I met from Houston had never heard of the area. When I told them where it was geographically, they would say things like "there's civilization way out there?" my parents currently live at a subdivision smack dab at the intersection of 290 and Hwy 6. I love that area and will always consider it home, no matter where I go.
I am not too far from Copperfield. I live just west of Copperfield off of Barker Cypress. Highway 6 is annoying to navigate but its nothing like the 1960/Cutten Road area. I used to live there and now I feel like I live out in the boonies. Plus the school district out here is nice and you dont have to worry too much about crime.
Would I grow up there again? Probably. I went to Kempner High School, a good school in the best school district (Fort Bend) in the greater Houston area. I took alot of what I learned in high school with me. So despite all of the shortcomings of living within the urban sprawl of Sugar Land, it's a good place to grow up. Safe neighborhoods, and good people. As far as your UT assumption, lots of people from my high school were forced to go to A&M after not meeting admission standards for UT (rejected). Sugar Land has its share of conservatives. Hell, they keep voting that jackass Tom DeLay. However, Clements, Dulles, and Kempner put tons of Asians into UT year after year. I did find it amusing that all my classmates who went to Baylor because it's smaller class sizes and more intimate learning environment are kicking themselves for it now.
I grew up in Katy, Texas, west of Houston and that town rules. It sure beats the crap out of Angleton/Galveston/League City/Texas City. Trust me, my grandfather was in a nursing home on Nasa Road 1, and my grandmother lives in Stinkadena(aka Pasadena). And I guess I don't fit your model glynch since I am from a very well off middle class family in a predominantly white suburb(went to Katy Taylor, and no I'm not a racist) and am very very happy at UT-Austin
