Posting is light, but I'm having a little fun

Well, to me it is fun.  It may seem pretty boring to someone else.

Being a long term Houstonian,  I'm interested in the history of the city.  That part may not be so much fun as looking at old city maps.

It is interesting to see how the city has grown.  The old neighborhood I grew up in was actually out of the city limits in 1915.   The family moved there in the late fifties, that's the area I was curious about, and found it. Interesting that it existed at that early a date.  If you notice from the history of Houston, the city exploded in population at about this time.

The Houston Ship Channel had opened recently.  The Spindletop gusher had come in not that long before.  The Galveston Hurricane disaster in 1900 had pushed Houston to the forefront in importance and it never turned back.  But there was a bumpy spot.  The Camp Logan Riot occurred in 1917, not too long after this map was published.  Camp Logan was military training facility located just outside of the city.  The Hogg family bought the land the camp was situated on and donated it to the city in the aftermath, and it was made into a park dedicated as a memorial to the tragedy--- and so named, Memorial Park.

Anyway, the places that would be considered "inner city" today were, like the park,  in the boonies in 1915.   The suburbs of the fifties weren't even on this map.  It didn't go out that far.  Maybe because those places didn't exist yet.

By the time I got to Houston, it was already big.  Now, it is frickin' huge.