Farms: 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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That lady's gray page-boy haircut at 12:38 is alternately annoying and fascinating.
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Retail Developer Gerald Hines...a true Texas visionary. He created The Galleria.
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im the 69th like
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.