Post Oak Boulevard: A Texas Legacy
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- Uptown Houston is often called Houston’s ‘second downtown’. But not too long ago this stylish neighborhood was home to dusty farms and vegetable stands. From the early settlers to shopping mecca and urban oasis... "Post Oak Boulevard: A Texas Legacy" examines the transformation of Houston’s most glamorous address. This program was produced by Texas Foundation for the Arts.
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PLEASE make more documentaries like this on the City of Houston. A+++++++++++
This is fabulous. I love it! Those who find it boring, likely have not grown up in the city of Houston. Great history of how Houston has changed over time and nothing fake about it. I really enjoyed it; including architectural aspect of it, as well as retail, and more. It brought back so many fond memories. Thanks so much!
We really enjoyed this documentary.
My 3rd Great-Grandfather was William White.
I love Houston so much it hurts.
Damm I feel that comment
Being from HTown, this is a very interesting documentary. I've been to most of the places mentioned. However, this is all North Post Oak. Drive 5 smiles south on S Post Oak and it's a whole different story.
True story one of the founders of the American Mafia La Cosa Nostra Giuseppe Morello immigrated to NYC from Sicily in late 1800's . His family then from NY moved to Houston area and started a farm. They couldn't stand the humidity and heat and after a few years moved back to NYC. He then got into organized crime and started the first Mafia family that was taken over by Joe the boss Masseria then succeeded by Charlie Lucky Luciano then Vito Genovese to what it is know today as the Genovese crime family. Thanks to our humid hot climate it was formed in NYC and not here. LOL
A few went to New Orleans🤤
I worked for Hines Interest in the early 1990's...it was fabulous working in Transco Tower (now Williams) on the 48th floor - the skywalk went right to the Galleria...fun place to work, live, shop and dine. The Christmas lighting ceremony in November is really pretty too.
I forget to mention this is a beautiful documentary. This is one of my favorite areas of Houston.
Awesome documentary, more people should know about this. And wow I didn't realize that Uptown was bigger than Denver, Cleveland and Atlanta's downtowns.
This post didn't stand up very well in the time capsule. Five years later? Houston went through a terrible flood yet again. Houston and Harris county are both decreasing in population.
Look for the pandemic to forever alter the airports and the way people travel. The major airlines took a devastating hit because of the shut down and now are going to be paying billions extra in fuel.
@@WilliamJones-sf5pt Houston and Harris County are NOT decreasing in population at all.
@@chingosdinero They were just reported to be decreasing by the U.S. Census. The city of Dallas decreased even more. Both Austin and Fort Worth are booming.
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This was very interesting. My Dad's father immigrated from Sicily and bought a 20 acre plot to farm on Post Oak in the 1890s.
t tlotta - I know this is an old post, but my mother talks about your family. My mother’s family had Westmoreland Dairy. Her brothers would have their cars worked on at System Garage.
Yes, I know it's a long time since you posted, but this is so cool! My family came from Sicily also!
@@LK-vg7ug Westmoreland Dairy, wow I remember having Westmoreland dairy products delivered to our house in the early 60's.
@@rsanford100 Me too...we lived in Foster Place
My GRANDPA OWNED WITTIE DRIV INN IN SPRING BRANCH!!
My grandmother was a tailor at Sakowitz for decades and Marvin Zendler was one of her many customers. She may have even fitted this woman's wedding dress! hahaha! I can recall the restaurant that was next door and it was very unique but was a bit old by the time I was there.
Zindler
@@medmcmuldren Yea.....him too.
So interesting! I lived in the Galleria and Memorial areas in the 70s and finally moved outside of Houston when it go too crowded for my liking. Then Houston kept building (and did a land grab) and reached the area I moved to, so I moved to a small town farther out. I think I'm safe here from the long-reaching tentacles of the big city. It's possible my present location could be swallowed up, but not in my lifetime.
The narrator says at 50:17 that Memorial Park meets the Post Oak area on the west side of the West Loop. I think he meant to say east, since Memorial Park lies east of the 610 Loop and south of I-10. I lived just west of the Loop a block off Memorial Drive. Once I passed under the Loop, I could be in my front door kicking my shoes off within 3 minutes. Unless I stopped at Butera's deli for a sandwich. ;)
This documentary has me in the mood to travel into Houston and explore my old stomping grounds. Maybe even make connections with some old friends. So glad I watched it.
Love your comments.
what "trailer park" do you reside in and do you have indoor plumbing?
@@richardmuniz6916 I'm sorry, but I don't understand the meaning of your post.
@@Squee_Dow He something we Zommers call an ''internet troll''
Great work on this! I have always been interested in the history of this area and being able to see how things used to look is just amazing. I'm proud of Houston for coming so far.
God bless our Texas Independence heroes.
The history is more complicated than what was mentioned here. The war was partly so that the residents of Texas could keep their slaves. The Mexican government was not going to allow that to continue.
I have met several of these folks as they were patients of mine at Methodist. Crazy, inspiring folks. They thought I was a Barbra Walters type, when we talked . They would tell me much, as I made them feel at ease and not a medical setting. Different times.
H*TOWN HOUSTON,TX IS GREAT CITY AND IM PROUD TO BE A TEXANS
Thank you from heart for this video, I enjoyed and I am happy to learn. Happy new year everyone, stay safe and blessed
rich and compelling. viva Htown❤
Born in raised in Houston since 92. very imformative and cool video. I hope yall make more videos like this in the future. West Houston next!!
My dad worked at KPRC_TV from 1950 to 1966. The station's first location was a "Quonset hut" style building near Pin Oak stables. The broadcast facilities were moved to S. Post Oak Dr, just south of the intersection of Post Oak and Westheimer. In the early 50's, S. Post Oak ceased at the intersection with Richmond Rd. At that time, Richmond was paved up to S. Post Oak. Beyond, going west, it was an oyster shell and gravel road.
Simply outstanding documentary Y'all!
I learned SO MUCH!
Thank you.
Majority of African Americans didn't buy or own land in Houston but rather Galveston. And they owned a lot of land in places where the German, Czech, and Bohemian settled. So the African Americans in those areas of Texas, they spoke German, Czech. Its quite an interesting story. Y'all should do a story on it. Unfortunately, like the Italians, during industrialization, most of the African Americans left the lands their grandparents owned and traded it for the big city life of Houston
Too bad the Italians didn’t establish Houston....the food would have been better.
What a great documentary.
I love going to the galleria
It’s is lovely there...as I pass the area to stop at The Container Store on the corner of Post Oak & Westheimer and stop at WholeEarth and on my way to Wholefoods (Post Oak) and the traffic is horrific almost at any time of day/night- I would love the serene of yesteryear but wouldn’t have most the stores? I have been coming to the area since I was a child in the late 70’s and had really changed from what it was.
The traffic on Westheimer was actually much worse in the early 1980's before the street was widened. But yes, 610 is much worse.
This documentary is nice. I had no idea of the surrounding history that this place had to offer!
Besides my previous comment, this is a great documentary. I enjoyed learning the history of the area.
I love this !
This went from an interesting Houston documentary to a Galleria area commercial very quickly.
Born and raised in Houston since 1970, and have seen it sadly change into the crime ridden atrocity it is today😧 All of these areas were beautiful in the early 80s. Now even the Galleria area is dangerous and crime ridden
I agree! I was born in Moulton, Tx Abe we moved to Houston when I was 6 yrs old in 1957! I agree with you 1000%
I'm old enough to remember when Sugarland was almost all dirt roads...
Our parents would drive us kids out to Sugarland just to buy sugar cane at the roadside produce stands. Twenty-five cents a stalk. Gnawed on many a stalk of sugar cane!
Great doc.
And it did. Soooooooo many new buildings are up on post oaks now. Soo many.
When I arrived in Houston in 1970, some people called the CBD Uptown and the Rice/Med Center area downtown.
What? That's a really interesting comment ☺️
RIP GERALD HINES 🙏🏾🙏🏾
I didn't know he passed away. I once worked for him, very nice man to me as a young woman just out of college at the time.
Great history to know.
Nice film. I thought they would mention the amount of different consulates in this area as well
Thank you
Loved your video. Great job. I would like to know what map you used to show San Felipe-Harrisburg detail. I’m interested in that period of Texas history and your map shows the landmarks of that time period. Thanks!
I can only imagine being given 1,500 acres just for being among the first.
He wasn't given the acreage for being first. He fought for Texas Independence at San Jacinto as a young boy.
William White was my 3rd great grandfather.
He was about 23 when the grant was presented.
Let’s just say, by him flipping that land in those early days of Houston, our family didn’t benefit much other than lots of good memories!
@@dbryant7040 My family owned a lot of property between River Oaks and the Galleria in the late 1800's. They sold it because the city was getting too close to their ranch. I wish they would have known the word Lease, and not sell. I am related to the Allen Brothers that founded in Houston on my grand father's side.
@@DataJuggler
That’s interesting!
Yes, leasing would have been a much wiser move for some in that day.
A native New Yorker founded Houston, John K. Allen
Is this why New Yorkers are all moving there?
Very interesting. Live relatively close, but never explored. Wouldn't do it now...crime is out of control.
Excellent
They need to do something to sharpstown mall now plaza america
That was the first mall in America to have air conditioning! I remember growing up by Sharpstown mall in the 70s/80s and it was all blond blue eyed people, and mall was always packed! Good time charley’s was in the food court with that enormous, beautiful hand made ornate artwork with moving parts!
And then....multiculturalism ruined it.
(I’m half Hispanic so don’t call me a racist)
@@bl6797 you sound like a self hating white worshiper (I’m Asian btw so don’t call me racist)
@@bl6797 you're right, I forgot....I grew up in Maplewood South, super close. Sharpstown was the bomb!
the problem with city development since around the 1950's is that they were developing and building horizontally and mass transit can't cover much of it. NYC should be the model with tall buildings. back in the late 40's and early 50's a half hour to 45 minute drive or train ride to the west and you were in a relatively green and sparsely populated Pennsylvania. but today that part of PA has all these suburbs and shopping big box stores to buy shit you don't need. The road construction lobby and Eisehowers National Defense thruway act is what really killed main street and downtowns. Even earlier the car manufacture lobby and corrupt congress took out a lot of street car track, and bought out bus companies to force people to buy cars. Metro LA is something like a hundred miles in circumference and people put up with commuting 60 or more miles to get to work or whatever and add 2 hours for the traffic jams on metro LA thruways. Houston is the same way today, mostly horizontal sprawl with some sky scrapers.
Not everyone wants to live in a shoe box or cramped condos.Take it from someone who lived in New York City,it's a city full of inconvenience.In Houston I can go to the supermarket and buy 2 weeks worth of groceries,go for a weekend drive,and shop at a mall,corner store,dollar store,go to a BBQ joint without ever leaving the city.
Couldn't do that in NYC.
+WroughtIronMGTOW
I've sometimes wondered if I could live in a place like NYC. I've always been here in the Houston area and am pleased to be able to shop for a lot of groceries at one time and do all the other things you mentioned. This is the only life I've known, so I never even considered what it would be like without a car. I can see what you mean about NYC being a city of inconvenience. But I could never be in a position to live that life in the first place because I get claustrophobic whenever I see the streets of NYC with the skyscrapers all around. Just describing it and seeing it in my mind's eye almost makes me hyperventilate. Guess I'm just so accustomed to the wide expanses of Texas.
Compact cities are where everything's at. Even categorising Houston as some city is difficult enough.
They tore Westbury Square down. I really love Houston, I just can't drive in it anymore!
I miss Tokyo Gardens
I never went there, but I remember seeing the sign off Westhiemer as a kid.
Incredible Metropolis, United Nations Neighborhoods
I wish they had transcript for this
Incredibly Rich History
Any updates?
Five star!
24:35 cow
Lol
Houston has a very interesting history. I hate it here, but I LOVE the history
Where are you from?
Why? Its a great city.
Did you know that Hines had to give property to Neiman Marcus in order to entice the luxury department store to anchor the Galleria?
Free land was mentioned in the video.
@@hubriswonk Post Oak isn't a legacy of Texas. Just Houston. Dallas has four retail areas like the Houston Galleria area:
1) Central Dallas
2) Park City Area
3) Far North Dallas (Galleria Dallas)
4) Frisco/Plano
The location of most of what constitutes these four retail areas resides between the Dallas North Tollway (platinum office corridor) and Preston Road (The Golden Retail Corridor).
You know, Houston today is that energy capital of the Earth thing. Worlds largest medical center. Nasa theme park.
Nothing to call home to cry to momma about.
@@WilliamJones-sf5pt I think you should stay in Dallas.
@@hubriswonk When I stated correctly that Dallas has the equivalent of four Houston Galleria areas lined up in a row and extending for some 22 miles, you didn't dispute the point. So, it must be true. The Uptown Galleria area never has had anything like the four malls built within a 1.3 square mile area and having a total of six luxury department stores. The retail in that area also included 200 restaurants in Addison and the North Dallas Design District in Farmers Branch.
I think the point needs to be made that the Houston Uptown Galleria area is only iconic relative to Houston.
There, I said it.
Is it true that Roy Hofheinz was involved with the Galleria before turning his attention to bringing MLB to Houston? And that the Astrodome could have been built in Memorial Park? In addition, Houston's first TV station (KPRC-TV) was first located on Post Oak, before moving to Southwest Freeway. Uptown Houston seems much more oriented toward the automobile than downtown. Houston can boast of three skylines: Downtown, Uptown and the Texas Medical Center.
Greenway Plaza, the Energy Corridor and Greenspoint too. There are several in Houston actually.
22:58 She looks just like Kate Bradley from Petticoat Junction.....
now its a fucking parking lot great job!
Haha, get a life
Oh this video is leaving out alot of details. We don't teach that in Texas.
I love Houston!! Fondren and Main. Right around the corner FOOL.
OMG Yes!!!
Foremost Dairy had their facility and milking barns there as late as the early 60's and they missed the old Pin Oak stables and their horse shows
Yes!!
Between the 49:00 and50:00 minute, that goomer Ziggy sounds like he just stepped off a plane for his first time in Texas.Still can't lose that N.Y. yankee accent.
Didn't he state he 17 years in business,you know he's been in Texas a lot longer than 17 years.
Edge city, read Joel Garreau
Thanks for helping me fall asleep! :)
+theonlyrel
So why did you watch if you were bored. Think! Take responsibility for the value of your time and make judgments accordingly. Of course, the down side of that is that you don't get to whine, but you might find that liberating.
Sure, it's great place if you're a fuckin gazillionaire
Ooops!
Czechs came in 1830 . We became the third most largest spoken in Texas till 1990! Where is the information on this??? We were against slavery and were murdered for not serving in the civil war because of slavery
Although Houston's views on slavery were much more progressive than most Southerners, I think it would be a stretch to say he opposed slavery.....since he owned slaves.
Post Oak Rd is ghetto top to bottom and Post Oak Boulevard is pretty much another downtown road you got your panhandlers but you also got your rich ass people.
The history of white houston
As usual.
Uptown is beautiful but there are too many people, too many pets, whose owner’s let them poop everywhere including the sidewalk without cleaning it up and some of the residents of the area are racists and way too nosey with too much time on their hands. They live in the high rises and look into other residents’ backyard and comment on how they keep their pets and yard! There is so much judgment in the area by the high and mighty!
So according to the historian Dan Worrall it was a third Anglo third German and a third African American. What happened to the displaced Mexican families? As always they are looked over. As interesting as this piece is it’s overwhelmingly biased.
If they had been a large number of Mexican families then the historian would have mentioned it or changed his ratio..............
There was nothing here before that... It was wild lands.
Spain and the new Mexican government gave out land grants BECAUSE no one was using the land.
this videodkoes mention any hispanis history in the pasr or in the present, even thoug h this was Mexico.
Too bad the city allowed the destruction of the last soda fountain restaurant off post oak but gotta build those high rises……
im the 69th like
Don't be fooled if your not a millionaire you aren't welcome there
You got that right. If you aren't wealthy or an illegal alien there's no way one can live comfortably anywhere near Houston. Houston is ruined.
Amen
Did Gerald Hines pay for this? Because that's what it sounds like.
Why s o celebratory, no nightlife - for example - even got mentioned?! Promos like 'yours' tell me where to forever skirt; phew!
Amazes me to hear these men say San Feleepay. Our founding fathers named the street San Felipe, just as it it written. Sounds, not like hispanics say it, but without the Latino pronunciation. Dave Ward, Shara Fryer, Bob Allen, and all the TV personalities knew exactly how to say it as it was meant to be pronounced. These guys must be much younger to not know this fact about that famous street, San Felipe. Said...San Filape, just as it looks. Makes me cringe listening to them, not knowing better.
I was wandering how doo you buy land that wasn't sold to you..
The land was stolen from Aborigine American's .. Today they are misnomer as African-American for political reasons ... My Grandpa and his family were kicked off their land...
Facts, they can't explain how "slaves" made up the majority of many of those places but those lands are now in wight hands. You hit the head on the nail.
@@chadscott8733 they were prisoners of war . Slav = Slovakia they were people of servitudes to the Moors of Granada. The 1st blood wights.
So really they gave the Aboriginal Americans their names .
People really need to get this real history.
@Robert R Thank you ❤️
Now the area is just full of crime.