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} } //}); </script> <div id="main" class="left "> <div class="archive-header-wrap"> <h2 class="archive-header pagetitle">Monthly Archive for June, 2008</h2> <div class="widget widget_categories" style="display: block;"> <h2 class="widgettitle cats-closed" style="cursor: pointer;"> : <span class="taxonomy-title">June, 2008</span> </h2> </div> </div> <div id="blogcontent"> <div id="post-135" class="blogentry post-number-0 partial-post post-135 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-city-life" data-post-id="135"> <div class="post-loop-content"> <h2 class="blog-headline"> <a href="https://blog.chron.com/bayoucityhistory/2008/06/1-gun-2-kids/" title="Permalink to 1 gun, 2 kids" rel="bookmark">1 gun, 2 kids</a> </h2> <div class="byline "> By <a href="https://blog.chron.com/bayoucityhistory/author/jrgonzales/" title="Posts by J.R. Gonzales" rel="author">J.R. Gonzales</a> <span class="post-date">on June 30, 2008 at 12:00 AM</span> </div>  <div class=" blogentrytext"> <div class="excerpt-section">On April 5, 1887, young L. Hamblen set out for a hunt. Reaching the corner of St. Emanuel and Preston, located near what’s now Minute Maid Park, Hamblen set his shotgun down, according to the Houston <a class="read-more" href="https://blog.chron.com/bayoucityhistory/2008/06/1-gun-2-kids/">…</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="catsandsharing"> <div class="catsandtags">  </div> </div> <div style="clear: both"></div> </div> <div id="post-134" class="blogentry post-number-1 partial-post post-134 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry tag-then-now" data-post-id="134"> <div class="post-loop-content"> <h2 class="blog-headline"> <a href="https://blog.chron.com/bayoucityhistory/2008/06/then-now-11/" title="Permalink to Then & Now #11" rel="bookmark">Then & Now #11</a> </h2> <div class="byline "> By <a href="https://blog.chron.com/bayoucityhistory/author/jrgonzales/" title="Posts by J.R. Gonzales" rel="author">J.R. Gonzales</a> <span class="post-date">on June 25, 2008 at 2:05 AM</span> </div>  <div class=" blogentrytext"> <div class="excerpt-section">Sam Pierson : Chronicle fileSan Felipe at Loop 610, looking west. May 1965. OK, so there is no “Now” photo. Without a helicopter there’s no way for me to accurately show how much the area has changed <a class="read-more" href="https://blog.chron.com/bayoucityhistory/2008/06/then-now-11/">…</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="catsandsharing"> <div class="catsandtags">  </div> </div> <div style="clear: both"></div> </div> <div id="post-133" class="blogentry post-number-2 partial-post post-133 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-city-life" data-post-id="133"> <div class="post-loop-content"> <h2 class="blog-headline"> <a href="https://blog.chron.com/bayoucityhistory/2008/06/collection-provides-a-peek-at-houston-streetcar-companys-track-record/" title="Permalink to Collection provides a peek at Houston streetcar company’s track record" rel="bookmark">Collection provides a peek at Houston streetcar company’s track record</a> </h2> <div class="byline "> By <a href="https://blog.chron.com/bayoucityhistory/author/jrgonzales/" title="Posts by J.R. Gonzales" rel="author">J.R. Gonzales</a> <span class="post-date">on June 23, 2008 at 12:00 AM</span> </div>  <div class=" blogentrytext"> <div class="excerpt-section">Karen Warren : ChronicleA hand-tinted photo of a Mandel line streetcar is one of the photos in the collection. In today’s (June 23) paper, Houston Chronicle reporter Mike Snyder has a story about some <a class="read-more" href="https://blog.chron.com/bayoucityhistory/2008/06/collection-provides-a-peek-at-houston-streetcar-companys-track-record/">…</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="catsandsharing"> <div class="catsandtags">  </div> </div> <div style="clear: both"></div> </div> <div id="post-132" class="blogentry post-number-3 partial-post post-132 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry tag-then-now" data-post-id="132"> <div class="post-loop-content"> <h2 class="blog-headline"> <a href="https://blog.chron.com/bayoucityhistory/2008/06/then-now-10/" title="Permalink to Then & Now #10" rel="bookmark">Then & Now #10</a> </h2> <div class="byline "> By <a href="https://blog.chron.com/bayoucityhistory/author/jrgonzales/" title="Posts by J.R. Gonzales" rel="author">J.R. Gonzales</a> <span class="post-date">on June 18, 2008 at 12:00 AM</span> </div>  <div class=" blogentrytext"> <div class="excerpt-section">Post fileThe last days of the International & Great Northern railroad station, February 1958. The station was located at the foot of Congress at Dowling. Maria Patricia Cortez : For the <a class="read-more" href="https://blog.chron.com/bayoucityhistory/2008/06/then-now-10/">…</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="catsandsharing"> <div class="catsandtags">  </div> </div> <div style="clear: both"></div> </div> <div id="post-131" class="blogentry post-number-4 partial-post post-131 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry tag-houston-chronicle" data-post-id="131"> <div class="post-loop-content"> <h2 class="blog-headline"> <a href="https://blog.chron.com/bayoucityhistory/2008/06/all-the-news-thats-fit-to-wear/" title="Permalink to All the news that’s fit to wear" rel="bookmark">All the news that’s fit to wear</a> </h2> <div class="byline "> By <a href="https://blog.chron.com/bayoucityhistory/author/jrgonzales/" title="Posts by J.R. Gonzales" rel="author">J.R. Gonzales</a> <span class="post-date">on June 15, 2008 at 11:42 AM</span> </div>  <div class=" blogentrytext"> <div class="excerpt-section">William Dodge Kesler : Chronicle file”Sportswear in the manner of Jacques Tiffeau with accessories cowboy style…” For a time, in September 1967, Houston Chronicle readers could send in a $1.75 <a class="read-more" href="https://blog.chron.com/bayoucityhistory/2008/06/all-the-news-thats-fit-to-wear/">…</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="catsandsharing"> <div class="catsandtags">  </div> </div> <div style="clear: both"></div> </div> <div id="post-130" class="blogentry post-number-5 partial-post post-130 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-announcements" data-post-id="130"> <div class="post-loop-content"> <h2 class="blog-headline"> <a href="https://blog.chron.com/bayoucityhistory/2008/06/putting-it-all-together/" title="Permalink to Putting it all together" rel="bookmark">Putting it all together</a> </h2> <div class="byline "> By <a href="https://blog.chron.com/bayoucityhistory/author/jrgonzales/" title="Posts by J.R. 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Gonzales</a> <span class="post-date">on June 6, 2008 at 12:01 AM</span> </div>  <div class=" blogentrytext"> <div class="excerpt-section">Maria Patricia Cortez : For the Chronicle”So the International & Great Northern offices were here?” As I close out the first year of Bayou City History (version 2.0) I wanted to give you a bit of <a class="read-more" href="https://blog.chron.com/bayoucityhistory/2008/06/putting-it-all-together/">…</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="catsandsharing"> <div class="catsandtags">  </div> </div> <div style="clear: both"></div> </div> <div id="post-129" class="blogentry post-number-6 partial-post post-129 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-announcements" data-post-id="129"> <div class="post-loop-content"> <h2 class="blog-headline"> <a href="https://blog.chron.com/bayoucityhistory/2008/06/a-boy-named-joe/" title="Permalink to A boy named Joe" rel="bookmark">A boy named Joe</a> </h2> <div class="byline "> By <a href="https://blog.chron.com/bayoucityhistory/author/jrgonzales/" title="Posts by J.R. 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Gonzales</a> <span class="post-date">on June 4, 2008 at 12:01 AM</span> </div>  <div class=" blogentrytext"> <div class="excerpt-section">From top, Houston Post, Houston Press, Houston Chronicle headlines, January 1964 Shortly before 9 p.m. on Jan. 17, 1964, a 13-year-old boy named Joe walked inside the Sears store off Harrisburg and <a class="read-more" href="https://blog.chron.com/bayoucityhistory/2008/06/a-boy-named-joe/">…</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="catsandsharing"> <div class="catsandtags">  </div> </div> <div style="clear: both"></div> </div> <div id="post-128" class="blogentry post-number-7 partial-post post-128 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-city-life category-entertainment" data-post-id="128"> <div class="post-loop-content"> <h2 class="blog-headline"> <a href="https://blog.chron.com/bayoucityhistory/2008/06/images-from-the-burdick-collection-2/" title="Permalink to Images from the Burdick Collection #2" rel="bookmark">Images from the Burdick Collection #2</a> </h2> <div class="byline "> By <a href="https://blog.chron.com/bayoucityhistory/author/jrgonzales/" title="Posts by J.R. Gonzales" rel="author">J.R. Gonzales</a> <span class="post-date">on June 2, 2008 at 12:00 AM</span> </div>  <div class=" blogentrytext"> <div class="excerpt-section">Reader Josh Burdick, who contributed some photos of Colt Stadium earlier this year, sent along these family photos from Astroworld taken in 1968. 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