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Washington Avenue (Houston)
Washington Avenue is a road in Houston, Texas, United States. It is named for Washington County, as it is part of the original route from Houston to Brenham, the seat of Washington County. U.S. Highway 90 was routed along Washington Avenue prior to the opening of the Katy Freeway. Ralph Bivins stated in a newspaper article published by the ''Chicago Tribune'' that decades before 1995 the area along Washington Avenue was a "major corridor of commerce" as people used the road to travel between Downtown Houston, the Sixth Ward, and the Houston Heights. Bivins described Washington Avenue in 1995 as a "decrepit" road with used car lots, "boarded-up" buildings, and second-hand stores. Around 2009 the area around the road gentrified and gained a "Yuppie" population. Entertainment district Around 2009 the area became a popular entertainment area due to its location near Downtown Houston and the Houston Heights, a community within Houston that forbids the sale of alcohol within its bound ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West
West or Occident is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sunset, Sun sets on the Earth. Etymology The word "west" is a Germanic languages, Germanic word passed into some Romance languages (''ouest'' in French, ''oest'' in Catalan, ''ovest'' in Italian, ''oeste'' in Spanish and Portuguese). As in other languages, the word formation stems from the fact that west is the direction of the setting sun in the evening: 'west' derives from the Indo-European root ''*wes'' reduced from ''*wes-pero'' 'evening, night', cognate with Ancient Greek ἕσπερος Hesperus, hesperos 'evening; evening star; western' and Latin vesper 'evening; west'. Examples of the same formation in other languages include Latin Occident, occidens 'west' from occidō 'to go down, to set' and Hebrew מַעֲרָב maarav 'west' from עֶרֶב erev 'evening'. Navigation To go west using a compass for navigation (in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richmond Strip
The Richmond Avenue Entertainment District, commonly known as the Richmond Strip, is an entertainment district along Richmond Avenue in western/southwestern Houston, Texas. It was especially popular in the 1990s, but it later declined as a partygoing destination in favor of other areas of town, such as Washington Avenue. Erin Mulvaney of the ''Houston Chronicle'' stated that at its peak, it was "seen as the Houston's answer to Sixth Street, Beale Street and Bourbon Street."Mulvaney, Erin.Crowds long gone, Richmond Strip a focus of revitalization efforts" ''Houston Chronicle''. February 24, 2015. Retrieved on March 9, 2015. History Marty Racine of the ''Houston Chronicle'' said "At the dawn of the '90s, geographically dysfunctional Houston lacked anything resembling an "entertainment district."Racine, Marty.Woodlands to add entertainment sites" ''Houston Chronicle''. Friday May 19, 1995. Houston Section, Page 1. Retrieved on May 27, 2012. Originally the Richmond Strip housed a few p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Washington Avenue (Houston, TX)
Washington Avenue may refer to: United States * Washington Avenue (Miami Beach) in Miami Beach, Florida * Washington Avenue (Milford Mill, Maryland) * Washington Avenue (Towson, Maryland) * Washington Avenue (Minneapolis), a major street in Minneapolis, Minnesota * Washington Avenue Loft District in St. Louis, Missouri * Washington Avenue (Las Vegas), Nevada * Washington Avenue (Sayreville, N.J.) * Washington Avenue (Brooklyn), New York ** Washington Avenue (BMT Myrtle Avenue Line), a station on the demolished BMT Myrtle Avenue Line and BMT Lexington Avenue Line * Washington Avenue (Albany, New York), a major east–west route in the city of Albany, New York * Washington Avenue (Philadelphia) * Washington Avenue (Houston, Texas), a road in Houston, Texas * Washington Avenue (Washington, D.C.) See also * Fort Washington Avenue * Washington Avenue Historic District (other) * Washington Avenue Bridge (other) * Washington Street (other) * Washington Bouleva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KHOU
KHOU (channel 11) is a television station in Houston, Houston, Texas, United States, affiliated with CBS. It is owned by Tegna Inc. alongside Conroe, Texas, Conroe-licensed Quest (American TV network), Quest station KTBU (channel 55). Both stations share studios on Westheimer Road near Uptown Houston, while KHOU's transmitter is located near Missouri City, Texas, Missouri City, in unincorporated area#United States, unincorporated northeastern Fort Bend County, Texas, Fort Bend County. History The station first signed on the air on March 23, 1953, as KGUL-TV (either Gulf of Mexico or gull, seagull). It was founded by Paul Taft of the Taft Broadcasting Co. (no relation to Cincinnati-based Taft Broadcasting, company of the same name nor its associated Taft family). Originally licensed to Galveston, Texas, Galveston, it was the second television station to debut in the Houston media market, market (after KPRC-TV, channel 2), taking the secondary CBS affiliation from KPRC-TV as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parking Meters
A parking meter is a device used to collect money in exchange for the right to park a vehicle in a particular place for a limited amount of time. Parking meters can be used by municipalities as a tool for enforcing their integrated on-street parking policy, usually related to their traffic and mobility management policies, but are also used for revenue. History An early patent for a parking meter, U.S. patent, was filed by Roger W. Babson, on August 30, 1928. The meter was intended to operate on power from the battery of the parking vehicle and required a connection from the vehicle to the meter. Holger George Thuesen and Gerald A. Hale designed the first working parking meter, the Black Maria, in 1935. The History Channel's... ''History's Lost and Found'' documents their success in developing the first working parking meter. Thuesen and Hale were engineering professors at Oklahoma State University and began working on the parking meter in 1933 at the request of Oklahoma Ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Houston Chronicle
The ''Houston Chronicle'' is the largest daily newspaper in Houston, Texas, United States. , it is the third-largest newspaper by Sunday circulation in the United States, behind only ''The New York Times'' and the ''Los Angeles Times''. With its 1995 buy-out of long-time rival the ''Houston Post'', the ''Chronicle'' became Houston's newspaper of record. The ''Houston Chronicle'' is the largest daily paper owned and operated by the Hearst Corporation, a privately held multinational corporate media conglomerate with $10 billion in revenues. The paper employs nearly 2,000 people, including approximately 300 journalists, editors, and photographers. The ''Chronicle'' has bureaus in Washington, D.C. and Austin. It reports that its web site averages 125 million page views per month. The publication serves as the " newspaper of record" of the Houston area. Previously headquartered in the Houston Chronicle Building at 801 Texas Avenue, Downtown Houston, the ''Houston Chronicle'' i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rice Military
Rice Military is a neighborhood in Houston, Texas, United States. The Beer Can House is located in Rice Military. History The name originates from nearby Camp Logan, a World War I-era U.S. Army training camp, which was replaced by Memorial Park after the war.Feser, Katherine.Rice Military an eclectic `urban center'" ''Houston Chronicle''. Sunday January 21, 2003. Business 6. Retrieved on October 21, 2012. Available from the Houston Public library, accessible from its website with a library card, The “Rice” in Rice Military comes from the family that used to own the area. One of the most popular of the Rices, William Marsh Rice, left behind a fortune to found Rice University. Bankers Trust Co. paid $54,425 ($ in current money) to the Rice family and another party for the entire area that would become Rice Military." Betty L. Martin of the ''Houston Chronicle'' said in 2008 that Rice Military as a "once-rural community built more than 80 years ago that featured neighborhood sto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sixth Ward, Houston
The Sixth Ward is a community in Houston, Texas, United States, one of the city's historic wards. History The area now called the Old Sixth Ward was originally part of a two-league Mexican land grant issued in 1824 to John Austin, a close friend of Stephen F. Austin. It had been assumed they were cousins but Stephen Austin's last will and testament referred to John Austin as “my friend and old companion”. Two years after the Allen Brothers purchased the grant from Mr. Austin's estate in 1836 to establish the city of Houston, Mr. S.P. Hollingsworth filed a survey of the western environs of downtown Houston which included today's Old Sixth Ward which he divided into large, narrow tracts that ran northward from Buffalo Bayou. By January 1839, several tracts within the Hollingsworth survey had been sold to several prominent Houstonians, including W.R. Baker, James S. Holman, Archibald Wynns, Nathan Kempton and Henry Allen. By 1858, Mr. Baker and his colleagues owned or held m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Houston Post
The ''Houston Post'' was a newspaper that had its headquarters in Houston, Texas, United States. In 1995, the newspaper shut down, and its assets were purchased by the ''Houston Chronicle''. History Gail Borden Johnson founded the ''Houston Post'' on February 19, 1880. He expanded the paper by acquiring the Houston ''Telegraph'', the legacy of the ''Telegraph and Texas Register'', which operated the first press in Texas after the Texas Revolution. By 1884, however, the paper was financially distressed, when William R. Baker led a group of investors to bailout the publication. Despite their efforts, the original publication ceased in October 1884. The ''Houston Post'' was re-established with the merger of the ''Houston Morning Chronicle'' and the ''Houston Evening Journal'' on April 5, 1885. J. L. Watson was the business manager and Rienzi M. Johnston was the editor. Watson implemented the use of linotype machines to replace the process of manual typesetting. He gained financi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East End, Houston
East End Houston, managed by the East End District (EED), is a district in eastern Houston, Texas, United States, located between the eastern edge of downtown to the Port of Houston and South to Hobby Airport. The District is home to Houston's early history and industry and is the site of Harrisburg, the seat of government for the Republic of Texas in 1836. East End Houston consists of many different ethnic groups, including Hispanic, Asian, White, and African American. Latinos make up more than half of the 100,512 residents, The area includes two of Houston's oldest Hispanic neighborhoods, Magnolia Park and Second Ward. History East End Houston is bounded on the west by downtown Houston and on the east by the Port of Houston. Buffalo Bayou flows past the site of Harrisburg, an early Texas trading post and seat of government for the Republic of Texas in 1836. Founded by John Harris, for whom Harris County is named, Harrisburg was initially considered by the Allen brothers for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Midtown, Houston
Midtown is a central neighborhood of Houston, located west-southwest of Downtown. Separated from Downtown by an elevated section of Interstate 45 (the Pierce Elevated), Midtown is characterized by a continuation of Downtown's square grid street plan, anchored by Main Street and the METRORail Red Line. Midtown is bordered by Neartown (Montrose) to the west, the Museum District to the south, and Interstate 69 to the east. Midtown's 325 blocks cover and contained an estimated population of nearly 8,600 in 2015. Originally populated as a Victorian-style residential neighborhood in the 19th century, Midtown experienced an economic depression during the latter half of the 20th century, resulting in the departure of residents and businesses and a proliferation of vacant land. The formation of the Midtown Redevelopment Authority in the early 1990s and a renewed interest in Houston's urban core resulted in the gentrification of the district throughout the 2000s, fueled by an influx ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grey Goose (vodka)
Grey Goose is a brand of vodka produced in France. It was created in the 1990s by Sidney Frank, who sold it to Bacardi in 2004. The ''Maître de Chai'' for Grey Goose is François Thibault, who developed the original recipe for the vodka in Cognac, France. Company history Grey Goose was created by Sidney Frank Importing Co (SFIC). Sidney Frank, founder/CEO of the company, developed the idea in the summer of 1997. The idea for Grey Goose was to develop a luxury vodka for the American marketplace. SFIC partnered with cognac producer François Thibault (a French ''Maître de Chai'', or, Cellar Master) in France in order to transition his skills from cognac to vodka production. Francois Thibault designed the vodka to express the true taste and character of the ingredients. This has long been the standard for Grey Goose vodka. The company selected France due to the country's culinary history and it was to differentiate itself from other vodkas produced in Eastern Europe. The w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
