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It's a shame that the cost to renovate or maintain is so prohibitive. No doubt the entire buildings will collapse upon themselves in the near future.

My family is from the Dawson and Purdon area. My father always told about how the Model T Fords would have to reverse up "Tehuacana hill". That was before his time, so presumably a story from my grandfather. Model T's had a gravity feed fuel system and the tank is at the base of the windshield, so on a steep hill they would not get fuel. This was before 171 existed, so 638 was the main route. I suspect 638 has been relocated to the west at some point, because it's not particularly steep and does not align with the center of town. I didn't know about the roof collapse, I haven't been there in a long time. As a kid, the most interesting feature was the emergency escape slides on the south side of the building. You can still see them there, mostly obscured by the trees.

You left out the most interesting fact about Tehuacana... it was almost the state capital! When they voted on the capital location in 1850, it came in either 2nd or 3rd place (info seems conflicting). I can't imagine how different the area would be now.

Owned and “maintained” haha

Ta wok a nee. is the way my family used to pronounce it. A great aunt and uncle buried there.

I don't know where The Trinity Institute's funds are going but obviously they are not being spent on saving these buildings.

I just drove through there last week on my way back from Dallas never knew about this

We have made videos in over 250 towns in Texas. Tehuacana is my favorite so far, and i dont know why. The park is one of my favorite places.

Wow what a trip to my youth! i had an uncle that spent his remaing years in Tehuacana. I would visit him yearly for a week or so every year from mid 90s through HS and made a yearly visit in my early adulthood. As kids we would just go walk around town as youngsters playing and exploring. Tehuacana school (not the university) was pretty much still complete when i was a kid, it was next to the post office and playground, there was a time or two that we entered the building and looked around there was a piano and heaters is all i really remember. its sad to see it has been gutted. the university was complete then and i was told by the grounds keeper that the very first indoor basketball court in texas was on the third floor of the university. at the time there was a very small portion of the university that was renovated and had some relics. metal deetecting had found many late 1800 early 1900 coins around the grounds. I wish our tax dollars would go to renovating enchanted relics like this at least enough to stop collapse. thank you for this video youre onto something with this format.

west-min-ster. just three syllables.

It's a strange one alright, but the pronunciation of "Waxahachie" could maybe be explained as "Walks-a-hachie" But enjoyed the video!

Really cool video, Scott. Thanks for sharing! 👍🏼

Any updates on this nothing burger LOL

I just moved to Houston a few years ago. This city does not do a good job preserving historic sites and historic buildings. Houston rather demolish an old art deco building and turn it into either a vacant parking lot, a plain garage, or an office building which eventually will be vacant. I used to work next to EADO and enjoyed the food and atmosphere all long St. Emmanuel. I heard this district used to be the Old Chinatown and then it was just old abandoned warehouses until it got revived to what it is today, Downtown Houston offers very little entertainment spots all around. It's a shame how the city just keeps downtown a WORK-ONLY-NO-FUN environment. Even Austin and Fort Worth have a better downtown life than Houston. Shame how this project is going to destroy a good part of the city that has just been revived...

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I loved that place

15-16k$ a lot. Don’t know where you get 100$k

stayed at the hotel in 1980. It was stunningly vintage and beautiful and the small bedroom had water dripping down the rocks. I lost all the pictures of this seceral years ago and wish I had them. 1/ 8/2025

Go to forest park is a male cruising area

hMMMM looks like a squatters paradise

after the katy boondoggle, i thought i had seen the worse of wasteful DOT spending but this new 45 project takes the cake of stupidity.

Developers, big monied interests, and the DINKS just south and west of the Pierce Elevated will be the big winners in this plan. Inner City families (remember them?) will continue to be pushed out to the suburbs.

Midway is now home to the Laysan Albatross, including its most famous resident, Wisdom. Wisdom was born a few years after WWII and was first banded in 1956. At 74 years old, she is now known as the world's oldest bird and has survived through decades of pollution and climate change.

This project is exactly what the city needs. Bravo!

Merry Xmas Scott. Looking forward to your videos in 2025. Great site.

Are you Luke from modern family?

Wonderful, now we won’t have the lemmings clogging the streets, staring at the gaudy non-art, such as the block of Leeland/St. Emanuel. I’m amazed at what people consider art.

I hope when they start the deportation, they start here.

I used to live near the area! I remember visiting before they put up the fence to keep you out... It was so eerie and I rarely get creeped out by that stuff. But a completely empty and evacuated town will give you the creeps when you stroll through

This story is a whitewash of the communities; they are full of illegals, it is Mexico inside of Texas. The snob talking in the video looks down on people living poor and like many snobs in Texas he despises the homes of the poor. I have no problem with the homes in the subdivision, but I have a huge problem with all the illegals living there. It was published in one Texas newspaper that Governor Abbot receives $800,000 per year from the promoters of this area. It also said the people promoting the area is not some boxer but the Mexican cartels.

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I encourage everyone who reads this to start framing ANY youtube video that you view with one question: were we a freer, stronger people then? Or now? Because even if we chose the cowardly way-or the meandering path of the dullard -we owe something to those we brought into this world. The age old outdoors maxim: ALWAYS LEAVE THE CAMPSITE CLEANER THAN YOU FOUND IT

The biggest problem is White people don't want Public Transit especially Light Rail Transit near their neighborhood let alone in them u seen where the Light Rail goes nowhere near

Man, you screwed up from the beginning by calling it “a highway widening plan” when it’s actually a “highway REMOVAL” plan. This plan is all about the removal of the Pierce Elevated portion of I-45, come on now man!!

Okay y’all, this particular project has….the POTENTIAL ….to really alter the fabric of the eastern portion of our City of Houston in a REALLY good way. It really does. …..BUT…… It’s gonna take soooo gaddamn long and be soooo gaddamn disruptive to actually accomplish, that it’s gonna be ridiculous, and there will definitely be doubts spawned about whether or not it’s even worth it. And this is understandable. Right? NOW, to the business at hand::::::: The park to be on top of this highway, if done “right” has the possibility to really make this a complete city-game changer. Again, if it is done ➡️➡️RIGHT‼️⬅️⬅️ Houston has a very valid and long history of doing things the functional, but CHEAPEST way. 🤦‍♂️-Buildings (are just boxes), roads (plain, no palm trees, shrubs or other trees planted to “pretty” it up, or stone features, nothing etc), parks(just basic plots of grass, no decorative gates or statues or big artwork), monuments and all. These things are all cheap as possible, visually unattractive, BUT they’re all functional. The “park” Houston eventually places on top will be an easy comparison to what Dallas has already done. We shalt ALL see for sure if what I’m saying is a hundred percent true or if we’re dealing with a whole new City of Houston. I mean, they all do indeed get the intended job done right, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯? 🤦‍♂️🙄 Just really look around and then compare what you see here in Houston to other “MAJOR” cities and you will see a crystal-clear difference. With Houston being on the downside. Just take a really GOOD LOOK AND COMPARE. 🤦‍♂️ I wish with everything in me, that that will NOT be the case here. Now is really NOT the time nor ESPECIALLY the place to pull that cheap, but functional, ahh dumb stunt. Please, oh please 🙏 don’t do this, Houston. Actually do actually LOOKS GOOD and that FUNCTIONS WELL AND actually LOOKS GOOD and this time 🙏. Dallas even though it’s number THREE city in Texas, has the far larger reputation and popularity vs Houston. Even in skylines people say they prefer Dallas even though Houston’s is 4X bigger AND it’s much taller. And Austin is soon to pass us up in both y’all! Look it up!! Dallas just LOOKS better as a city because they actually TRY to. Houston just doesn’t even try. Basic Betty. And let’s not even compare the light rail systems 🤦‍♂️, embarrassing to say the least. Whew. I just hope and pray that Houston at least TRIES to get this one not only right, but make it GOOD!! Houston has FLAVOR and natural culture that Austin and Dallas WISH they had. They’re both bland CULTURALLY and that’s where Houston wins and what makes it special it just doesn’t use it to its full potential. PLEASE get this one right HOUSTON. PLEASE 🙏

i have been inside this place. it really did not seem that bad, my wife and I did notice a lack of street lights& several round abouts. infact I even leaned into aquiring some land in it. ...umtill I learned about the torential rains & flooding. so here i am looking into more on houston terrenos & the flooding

Trey Harris my cousin has donated millions to Governor Greg Abbots campaign fund as well as most all local amd state elected officials to keep them from giving them any "trouble" ...

The developers Trey and John Harris in pics are my cousins. Robin Lane my brother and Kevin Harris my cousin are also owners are part owners too. I have been "banned" at family events for posting my openly not supporting my family targeting illegals who can't get loans in America. John took over ... Trey getting a few DWI''s in the last year. My brother Robin told me they target illegals....

This it is complete BS! Money grab and waste of time and a major traffic nightmare!

I could spend all day reading peoples comments about their time on midway atoll. I know we have all this great technology now, right at our fingertips, but I would’ve loved to been alive back then and share similar experiences.

It will help commuters in North Houston (Huntsville) get to their jobs in South Houston (Dickinson). The city center is just flyover country now and a place to receive all the floodwater runoff from the new developments surrounding it.

I stayed in that hotel when it was a Holiday Inn. It was very nice.

i want one....

I used to frequent St. Emanuel almost daily when I worked downtown. I’m really disappointed to hear of this regressive plan. Houston city leadership is so self-destructive. It’s almost as if they don’t want people living and investing into the area.

That's where the old Bordon Dairy Building used to be. A below grade freeway next to a bayou that floods the whole downtown. What could go wrong? Some developer wants the land that I-45 sits on.

This is the East End. Not East Houston

Born in Port Arthur at the historic St. Mary's hospital, a beautiful building, now torn down like so many of the others.

The Internet is putting many malls out of business.San Jacinto Mall east of Houston was demolished.

No mention of Piranha (1978)😮!🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟

I live here now, I love it.