Those are neighborhoods that I grew up in. I'm waxing nostalgiac about them this weekend for some reason. Anybody live there or know the neighborhoods. 1313 Thornton (corner of Ella-- as I recall) and 713 Garden Oaks Boulevard
Giddyupp, I have owned houses in both those neighborhoods. I don't live there any more. Most recently moved from Garden Oaks in January. I especially liked Garden Oaks. Isn't 701 Garden Oaks close to the section that has Garden Oaks Elementary. Perhaps the best section, though I'm partial to Section 1, where we lived. Where do you live now?
I know them VERY well. Went to high school in Oak Forest and have several friends who grew up there. One of my closest friends growing up spent his childhood in Candlelight Plaza? I get all the Candlelight's mixed up. But, it's right across Ella from there. It's a nice area. Kinda like the Heights but with larger yards.
Oh yeah. My grandparents live in Candlelight off of Del Norte (close to T.C. Jester). My parents live off on Glebe (right off of 43rd Street). I used to go to Candlelight Park with my grandpa growing up. I still hit up Myte Burger off of 43rd (next to the fire station) for some lunch every now and then. Giddyup -- I had a friend who lived near Ella and Thornton..... about two houses down on the left as I recall. I think her mom still lives there. Good times.
What a hoot! I lived at the corner of Thornton and Ella from 1953 to about 1958 or so. We used to go play in Candelight Park all the time. As I recall it was down Ella somewhere. Yeah, glynch, we were just down the block from Garden Oaks Elementary. There used to be a large vacant lot at the corner of 43rd and G. O. Blvd. We were two houses in. It used to be a two-story gray house. Lived through Hurricane Carla by throwing paper airplanes out of the upstairs windows. Now I live in Oak Ridge, North Carolina now but we moved from Garden Oaks out to Memorial just before I entered the fifth grade. Jeff, did you go to Waltrip and Black Jr. high? As I told you before, my grandparents house is right up the road from you on West 22nd (?) Street. jlaw: names? Its been a long time for me!! I think reading about Codell's baby threw me into this nostalgia funk. Houston was a great place to grow up; I hope it still is!!
I remember as a kid they were building what we thought was a warehouse across the railroad tracks and all of a sudden there was a s ign that said Lutheran High North outside.
that's where i went as well Jeff. my brother is a sophmore there now and that place hasn't changed at all. Still looks like a worn out warehouse.
Yup. One of my classmates' father was the architect. I was at Our Savior when it was being built. It opened just a couple years before I was able to go there. JPM: I'm guessing you graduated recently? I actually spoke at career day there the past couple of years. I still know quite a few of the teachers. Their technical/computer guy (Mr. Stuenkel) was my band director. We didn't get along. Mrs. Eikemeyer (the counselor) is my cousin's wife. Mr. Richter, who was the baseball coach, was my principal at Our Savior. Mr. Hynous was my economics/government teacher. The list goes on. Ironically, the guy who I actually like the most there is Don Christian, the head master. He seems like a really nice guy and he got there only a couple years ago.
i graduated in the spring of 2002. After seeing that picture of you and some other fellow bbs posters floating around here i thought i recognized you from somewhere. I must have seen you speak at one of the career days. Everytime i hear Mr. Stuenkels name i just laugh. That guy is the biggest ass. My sophmore year he backed the bus up at a gas station and hit a car. Then a year later i believe while working on the set for the school musical fell off a ladder and broke his arm. Mr Hynous, has that guy ever been interesting? His class was always the longest 45 minutes of the day. I've got to agree with you on Don Christian. He' s a nice guy. His wife taught my senior english as well. She was a little bit on the crazy side but was a good teacher.
I've lived in Oak Forest for about five years now. Whenever I mention that I live there inevitably someone says "Hey! My Grandmother lives there!" or "I used to live there!". The property values have increased dramatically over the last few years. We have a neighbor who bought her house new in the '50s (or something) for about $8,000.00. Today she could easily get about $130 - $150 for it. My wife and I really like the neighborhood. It's probably one of the few decent inexpensive places to live close to town.
i live in garden oaks right now, over on 43rd and alba. i just moved here about a year ago from west u. it's a pretty nice, quiet neighborhood.
If one exited Thornton and turned right on Ella (North?), what are the first couple of streets onto which you can turn left? My best childhood friend from that era lived in one of those houses at the corner of Ella and ______? Jeff, if you're still paying attentiion to this, you may remember I made a couple of posts last year about having really vivid dreams about his mother and I was bound to try and track her down. He had killed himself at age 16 about 6 years after I had lost touch with him. He left behind a son. I'm going to look her up right now-- been putting it off for too long. Bye! EDIT: Damn, she's not in the online directory anymore....
giddy: I do remember that. Good luck findin her. Stuenkel blew out his knee playing basketball while I was there. He and I had a lot of run-ins while I was there. I was really interested in getting better as a musician and he just wanted someone to do what he wanted. I just wasn't that guy. I actually met with him and Don last year about a few things. I hadn't seen Stuenkel since right after graduation (1987) and the first thing he said to me was, "I curse your name every time I have to carry that bass amp up the stairs." When I was there, they needed a new bass amp and I helped them pick out a head and a cabinet that was fairly large because it was needed to play outdoors for football games. Of course, I was 16 at the time and wanted anything big enough to crank through. They bought it but he still curses me for it. That should give you an idea of his attitude towards me. Such a nice guy. So incredibly boring.
I saw ESB at the old Garden Oaks Theater. I think it's "The Net" Church now or something like that. Cool sound equip & lighting company right over there too, L&D I think... they set up for acts like ZZ Top and the like at the rodeo.
I spent a lot of time in that theatre. The drugstore around the corner was our comic book connection.
Back in the 70s I owned a house on Chantilly. I loved it there because the house had magnificent wood floors, big trees and it seemed close to everything -- Galleria, downtown, everything.
