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traces of vintage houston

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the red crayola, photographed by les blank (link to frederick barthelme's recollections of their involvement in the 1960s houston music and art scene: 64.106.153.72/...)

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houston street scene, 1956

by Stockholm Transport Museum Commons

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raymond savignac - 'france comes to texas' (1957)

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such modest beards back then

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mid-1930s houston new year's eve

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one of a group of houston mugshots recently acquired by photo collector & collage artist angelica paez (snapatorium on flickr)

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cover of the 1948 exhibition catalog for one of the contemporary arts museum houston's first shows (before the museum had an exhibition space of its own)

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i wonder what they bought

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verso of a vintage visitor's ticket for houston's gulf building (based on eliel saarinen's 2nd-place design for the chicago tribune tower from 1922)

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luisa lambri "untitled (menil house, no. 17)", 2002

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snapped at the westheimer street festival, 1979

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from the archive of a houston sign painter

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lovely colors in this vintage houston, tx map

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dominique de menil at the dedication of the rothko chapel, 1971, with barnett newman's broken obelisk in the background (photo courtesy of the menil archives)

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andy warhol signing posters, with viva and dominique de menil seated at the table (photo by hickey-robertson, courtesy of the menil collection)

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terry riley and pandit pran nath at the houston astrodome, 1981

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townes, lightnin' and ladies in houston; photo by john lomax iii

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vintage 1930s postcard of the bird house at hermann park zoo, houston, texas, usa

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handbill from love street light circus, houston

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vu in houston, 1971

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love street light circus, houston

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modern photo of the penguin arms apartments, built in 1950--a rare surviving example of the googie/organic style in houston. it's currently a private home (only a stone's throw from my own) and could really use some TLC. please, current owners, don't let it be torn down!

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Nancy N. update: it did go up for sale, and i was very worried for a while, but i've been told that kuhl-linscomb bought it and plan to make it a showroom for modern furnishings and such. looking forward to that!

slightly creepy depiction of general douglas macarthur on the cover of a dining menu from the long-gone shamrock hotel in houston, june 1951 (image courtesy of a new digital archive of shamrock hotel ephemera at the university of houston)

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east met west (for a couple of years anyway) at houston's own busch gardens, 1971-1973.

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proudly representing h-town, 1974

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rene magritte at the rodeo with dominique de menil, 1965

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