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#102
Posted 13 January 2009 - 03:17 PM
Jennings & Vickery - 1956
2008. Now, where did I put that chain saw?
#103
Posted 13 January 2009 - 06:47 PM
2008. Now, where did I put that chain saw?
You're the master. Incredible comparison.
I am amazed how little has changed in 52 years. I do wish the signage was still there. Classics.
#104
Posted 15 January 2009 - 05:26 PM
#105
Posted 23 January 2009 - 04:01 PM
From Post #44. Oakwood Cemetary 1970s
Reshot with no leaves and no drilling rig.
#106
Posted 23 January 2009 - 08:58 PM
#107
Posted 23 January 2009 - 10:42 PM
#108
Posted 24 January 2009 - 12:36 PM
#109
Posted 06 February 2009 - 04:07 PM
#110
Posted 09 February 2009 - 11:14 AM
http://fortwortholog...ow-7th-houston/
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Kara B.
#111
Posted 28 May 2009 - 01:36 PM
Texas State Bank 1918 - Houston & 9th
Houston Place 2009 with a couple of extra floors
#112
Posted 28 May 2009 - 08:06 PM
The old is a great one for comparison. Don't think I have ever seen it. But I must say, the building itself, though growing in height etc... has not changed as much as you would think. I know of a few other buildings in town that were made shorter than its architectural capability. I would like to have a list of them. (Pretty sure the Ashton Hotel is one.)
BTW, we don't hear much from the people that bought condos in that building... I wonder how life is treating them there.
#113
Posted 28 May 2009 - 09:01 PM
http://fortwortholog...ow-7th-houston/
Kevin this is a great comparison. Shows how much empty space really is downtown, in places.
Voice & Guitars in Big Heaven
Elementary Music Specialist, FWISD
Texas Wesleyan 2015
Shaw-Clarke NA Alumna
#114
Posted 29 May 2009 - 10:16 AM
Looking south on 8th Ave at Pennsylvania in 1913. Note the unpaved streets and hitching posts.
2009. Shame that first house on the right was replaced by an ugly doctor's office.
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#115
Posted 29 May 2009 - 11:43 PM
The Celeborelle restaurant on Hemphill is a nice re-use. And yummy.
#116
Posted 01 June 2009 - 01:33 PM
Looking south on Throckmorton at 5th - 1948
2009
#117
Posted 01 June 2009 - 02:10 PM
#118
Posted 02 June 2009 - 01:51 PM
If you look carefully in the photograph, you can see that the finials on the Petroleum Building once extended above the top of the wall. These elements have been long removed from the building.
#119
Posted 02 June 2009 - 02:42 PM
Voice & Guitars in Big Heaven
Elementary Music Specialist, FWISD
Texas Wesleyan 2015
Shaw-Clarke NA Alumna
#120
Posted 02 June 2009 - 07:32 PM
He is going to have to publish of book of his work.
#121
Posted 02 June 2009 - 09:17 PM
I'm amazed by the second to last set of pictures that we still use these ugly wooded transmission poles. At what point do we bury these horrific things?
#122
Posted 07 June 2009 - 10:01 PM
My guess is never - at least not in neighborhoods with existing lines. Who would be willing to pay for it? Think of what the cost would be. Not only would the street/sidewalk have to be dug up for new transmission lines and transformers, a cut would also have to be made across each customer's property in order to access the buildings - which would also have to be rewired at the entry point.
If the cost were paid for by the individual property owners - well that would be a HUGE assessment and, for most, a big hardship for electrical service they are already getting. If the electric company were to pick it up, the cost would have to be passed on to all electric customers in a price increase - which would be substantial because there are LOTS of overhead lines still around.
In some neighborhoods they are even using the existing poles to bring fiber into businesses. Doing a cut through the street is VERY expensive so often using the poles is the only cost effective way to bring the cost down to the point that it is viable.
In new parts of town, it might make sense because the utility infrastructure has to be built from scratch anyway. But so long as power and communications are delivered by wires, those poles that are already here will still be with us.
#123
Posted 09 June 2009 - 01:00 PM
Downtown(s). Me too.
#124
Posted 09 June 2009 - 08:08 PM
#125
Posted 09 June 2009 - 08:44 PM
Here is a picture of the police officer a year or so ago in the Sculptor’s studio.
And here is the completed statue with the Firefighter, Riderless horse and the Police Officer.
#126
Posted 16 September 2009 - 12:01 PM
I love this stuff.
#127
Posted 18 September 2009 - 09:11 AM
Stop 3 of the Tandy Subway in 2002
Photo courtesy of Dr. Jon Bell, Presbyterian College, Clinton, SC
Stop 3 in 2009. As I walked to the front of the building, I noticed a guy asleep on a mattress on the floor.
#128
Posted 18 September 2009 - 09:14 AM
Stops 2 & 3 from the Henderson St. Bridge in 2002
Photo courtesy of Dr. Jon Bell, Presbyterian College, Clinton, SC
2009.
#129
Posted 18 September 2009 - 09:27 AM
#130
Posted 18 September 2009 - 10:04 AM
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Kara B.
#131
Posted 18 September 2009 - 11:03 AM
I was not downtown for the subway days. Did not even remember it was configured that way down there. Guessing that huge building was maintenance for the cars. I rode those cars just a few times when I had Jury duty. I would walk to the court house some times depending on the time of day. Used to be a crap neighborhood.
#132
Posted 18 September 2009 - 11:54 AM
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Kara B.
#133
Posted 19 September 2009 - 11:42 AM
Hooray for the vertical parking structure! Still, I agree that closing the tunnel was short sighted. Now that the plug where the entrance used to be is publicly owned (TCC District) it might be possible to reopen the tunnel, if not as a transportation route then as a "bat cave" for Tadarida brasilienses, the Mexican Free tailed bat. This is a migratory species who are insectivorous, and live in large underground colonies where mother raise their single pup each year. These bats have enormous economic benefit through destructive (and annoying) insect control. These are the bats that thousands of people gather to see fly from their roosts under the Congress Street bridge in Austin on summer evenings. Here is a link to the Mexican free-tailed bat. If the tunnel entrance was opened and appropriately gated so that bats could pass in and out and curious people couldn't, the mosquitos along the river area would decline significantly in number, making bike riding, boating, walking/running, or sitting in bluff-side cocktail patios more comfortable, and might bring more people downtown to see the flight.
#134
Posted 21 February 2010 - 07:20 AM
This is the JH Greer building. (Chilies? Jakes?) The old pic from 1907 the new one from yesterday.
BTW: In the old photo you see there was a Dentist. No, that was not really the good old days. I'll pass.
#135
Posted 21 February 2010 - 08:38 AM
#136
Posted 21 February 2010 - 02:40 PM
#137
Posted 21 February 2010 - 04:35 PM
Bill Sievers
#138
Posted 13 June 2010 - 03:13 PM
City Hall 1938
City Hall 2010
I had looked at taking this photo several times before, but the trees blocked too much. Now that the trees have been cut, it's worth comparing. No....I didn't cut the trees!
#139
Posted 13 June 2010 - 08:59 PM
#140
Posted 13 June 2010 - 09:57 PM
The Buddy Program was started in 1968 when I was Community Relations Director. Sgt. Dick Yaws, a member of the Community Relations Division created this program. This developed into the Code Blue program and other similar programs which today is very successful in Fort Worth.
Chief Hightower was indeed a great Chief of Police and their is a plaque in his honor in front of the Fire and Police Training Center, 1000 Calvert.
#141
Posted 13 June 2010 - 11:26 PM
#142
Posted 14 June 2010 - 09:35 PM
Bill Sievers
I'd be willing to bet that since the pic was from 1909, that the ball shaped object was some
sort of hitching post for wagon/buggy teams.
GenE Shockley
#143
Posted 15 June 2010 - 06:14 AM
Also clears up some confusion on the street for me. I have old post cards of that intersection that looks quite a bit different. I now see that the area front and center where they just cut down the trees was not there at all in 1938. Really, I would have guessed the trees were older than that which sounds pretty silly now that I see the 1938 pic. That intersection is really just a mess. Glad they are addressing it. People that drive up to the intersection just look confused, like they want to just back up and go somewhere else. It is hard to figure which streets are one-way, which are two-way and which are just private driveways for the delivery of donuts to City Hall...
#144
Posted 15 June 2010 - 08:51 AM
Dick Yaws got interested in radio traffic reporting shortly after we started the
Community Relations Division in the Police Department. He would go up each morning with either
KXOL or KFJZ helicopters (can't remember which) and report to work after the morning rush.
After I left the PD, Dick either quit police work or probably retired and went to WBAP. I think he was
as much, talent there, as he might have been traffic.
#145
Posted 15 June 2010 - 07:05 PM
Bill Sievers
I'd be willing to bet that since the pic was from 1909, that the ball shaped object was some
sort of hitching post for wagon/buggy teams.
GenE Shockley
Ok Gene. I thought that might be the case, but it seems too low for a hitching post, don't you think? Maybe some sort of post or rod was affixed to the top of the ball. Anyway, it's intriguing whatever it is. Thanks!
Bill
#146
Posted 14 March 2011 - 08:36 PM
Again, this is a learning process and I am new. Way tricker than it looks. (2 focuses, 2 exposures, alignment, focal length, flash comps...) I used my flash tonight to get a better shot at my old pics.
Though not perfect, take a peek at this new crop after I got home. (First time ever I like Daylight Savings Time.
I bought this old photo on E-bay. This is on 8th Street.
#147
Posted 15 March 2011 - 12:47 AM
Here are some new Now and Then's taken tonight. This thread seems like the best home for them. Thanks again gdvanc for turning us on this stuff. I'm hooked.
Wonderful first effort at this technique, Brian.
Bruce Burton
#148
Posted 15 March 2011 - 06:47 AM
Here is one I forgot to put in last night's set.
#149
Posted 15 March 2011 - 08:14 PM
#150
Posted 16 March 2011 - 09:25 AM
http://www.nytimes.c...er-tsunami.html
I dunno how they do it, but it is neat!
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