This was 1984. Houston had nearly 1 million fewer people and had far more homicides and incidents of crime than today. Houston is a much better, safer, and cleaner city today. It's amazing how nostalgia clouds the reality of which was yesterday.
When I came to Houston in 1980, there were more than (5) buildings under construction at the same time. I loved walking around downtown, all of the stores that existed at the time, like FOLEY’S, WOOLWORTH’S and SAKOWITZ. I miss those days. 😢
3:06 Billboard for Cullen Bank, now Frost (it was already co-owned), and 3:43 for RepublicBank, now BofA. The drive-thru bank at 0:17 was Texas Commerce Bank, now Chase.
moved to Houston in 83 and it was a cool somewhat big country city with Ice Houses everywhere. You could drink a cold beer in different parts of town, have fun and it was cool. Not so much now. Too many crazy drivers, like everywhere and the city is being ran by corrupt people like most city's now but that's the sign of the times. I still love Houston
1:57, amazing you can get on here without a brick wall of traffic. 2:40, good to see people back then also couldn't get in the correct lane to exit. Good footage, weird how everything is so different but still the same. Coming from someone who was born that year.
I remember watching this movie on HDNet Movies back in the 2000s. One thing that bothered me is they went from I-45 to suddenly being on 59 and then 610 and Shepherd. Anyone from Houston would see that.
I learned to drive on the Houston freeways in 1983. Had my first car as soon as I got my driver’s license. Drove those freeways all the time from then until I graduated from high school. Back when the Southwest Freeway was three lanes in each direction. Had a summer job in Greenway Plaza and often stayed there after work to go see a concert at The Summit. Drove to Galveston on the weekends to hang out at the beach - which I’m now paying for with melanoma popping up over and over, but we didn’t know about sunscreen in the 1970s and early 1980s…
I used to work at that little bank at that corner in the first part of the footage, back in 1990, I would walk all around Downtown district, such better times then 😢
Yeah, with the binocular lens at times and star transitions along with the unknown rock music this looks like an intro to some short lived 80s detective show. It's like it got canceled in pre production and the intro was never finished with the actors names placed over the footage we are seeing.
Back the, having lived in Walnut Bend in the Westchase District, having lived there in the same house for 52 years, I was 21 years old at the time of this filming. I was a very sick and ill young man. On my way being taken up hwy 59 on the way to 3-acute at the Houston International Hospital (HIH), today I can still clearly remember seeing on the way those large, kind of tall At the time, they looked like horrible monsters. Today, I live way out in the hill country, am alive and well, and just couldn’t be happier.
Indeed. The Gulf building (with its rotating lighted logo sign on top) was the tallest building for many years, until 1971. That's when One Shell Plaza went up. A couple more good-sized buildings went up in the 70's, but in the late 70's and 80's, the taller ones sprouted up like dandelions. That's also when the Transco Tower (now Williams Tower) was built.
Ha! All the transplants need to catch up with the city's film history. This is footage taken for the making of the excellent film, Paris, Texas (1984) directed by Wen Wenders (I saw you mentioned this at the end). The local punk band, MyDolls, are featured in the film at one point. As a native Houstonian, the city has only improved.
See all those overpasses, well the structural steel used in their construction was fabricated by Mosher Steel Company located in the Heights. Mosher took on building rail cars in addition to downtown rascacielos and then turned to bridges for survival. Becoming too expensive to get contracts, eventually the entire plant was razed, including the Engineering building and today all that space sits luxury apartments. Train used to go down middle of plant and when circus train came through you could see all the circus animals clear as day, all exposed, even the circus equipment
It’s so much better today. Back then no one lived downtown and the entire east side was empty parking lots. Now thousands live there, sports stadiums and no more parking lots! Just look how empty and dead the streets were back then. Now is alive and happening.
It looked better & felt better back then. Now I couldn't be more lost & disgusted with the growth & destruction of our amazing history & landmarks. God can't bring me home soon enough🙏🏻
the scammers in gov't ruined it. sad, but true. around 1995-200 Houston kicked ass. now these same roads are clogged like other big shitties, from 7am until 10pm
When Houston was still a good place to live!
Love the 97 Rock billboard!
It’s still a great place to live what are you talking about
@@C0astinG4mer I know what he's talking about
@@C0astinG4merHouston is a 💩 hole now. Lost all the fun things and radio. Full of illegals and crime. I'm homesick, but not sad that I left
Moby was the Best!!
This was 1984.
Houston had nearly 1 million fewer people and had far more homicides and incidents of crime than today.
Houston is a much better, safer, and cleaner city today.
It's amazing how nostalgia clouds the reality of which was yesterday.
That traffic way too chill compared to today lol... got lots of memories riding with my dad around Houston in the 90's.
Born in Houston in 1986. That freeway still look same today. Amazing video.
When I came to Houston in 1980, there were more than (5) buildings under construction at the same time. I loved walking around downtown, all of the stores that existed at the time, like FOLEY’S, WOOLWORTH’S and SAKOWITZ. I miss those days. 😢
I remember going to the James Coney Island, street level, but same building as Foley's. They had no AC and the place was packed...
Buildings and freeways look very similar to now. It's the cars that have changed.
You're absolutely right
2:59 wow the Eastex Freeway was really tiny. 😮
3:06 Billboard for Cullen Bank, now Frost (it was already co-owned), and 3:43 for RepublicBank, now BofA. The drive-thru bank at 0:17 was Texas Commerce Bank, now Chase.
The bank shown at the beginning is now abandoned, they use it for parking for events at post sometimes though
Cool video. Video quality and edit is nice. Thanks for sharing!
0:20 that’s the drive-thru bank seen in the movie Paris, Texas when Travis and his son Hunter are following his mom driving the red Chevette.
It’s all taken from the film PARIS, TEXAS
I moved to Houston near the end of 1986, this is how it pretty much looked around the downtown and freeway areas.
Im only 43 but takes me back to before all the panzies took over. Lol seeing I10 back at two lanes is a trip.
I'm 43 as well. I grew up in Alief.
@@matthewvoss7365 That means back in 1984, you two were only 5 years old. I am 46 years old so in 1984, I was 8 years old back then.
moved to Houston in 83 and it was a cool somewhat big country city with Ice Houses everywhere. You could drink a cold beer in different parts of town, have fun and it was cool. Not so much now. Too many crazy drivers, like everywhere and the city is being ran by corrupt people like most city's now but that's the sign of the times. I still love Houston
I got married and moved here 3 months before hurricane Alicia in 83. It was much different.
Billboard @3:29 reminds me of the "97 FM Rocks" and the "Rock 101 KLOL" days!
OMG…..Bless you for this!
1:57, amazing you can get on here without a brick wall of traffic. 2:40, good to see people back then also couldn't get in the correct lane to exit. Good footage, weird how everything is so different but still the same. Coming from someone who was born that year.
I remembered the old north 59 when I was a kid. The stores and homes used to look alot more rundown than it is today.
That NIGHT TIME footage was ON-POINT!!
This is all footage from the 1984 movie “Paris, Texas”.
I remember watching this movie on HDNet Movies back in the 2000s. One thing that bothered me is they went from I-45 to suddenly being on 59 and then 610 and Shepherd. Anyone from Houston would see that.
@0:21 we would use that bank's (NationsBank?) parking lot and walk to Power Tools! The Shephard exit off I-10 looks the same today.
If I could only spend just a day in 1983 again….
Hurricane Alicia.
I learned to drive on the Houston freeways in 1983. Had my first car as soon as I got my driver’s license. Drove those freeways all the time from then until I graduated from high school. Back when the Southwest Freeway was three lanes in each direction. Had a summer job in Greenway Plaza and often stayed there after work to go see a concert at The Summit. Drove to Galveston on the weekends to hang out at the beach - which I’m now paying for with melanoma popping up over and over, but we didn’t know about sunscreen in the 1970s and early 1980s…
That stretch of 59 before it splits into 45 looks the exact same hahah
I used to work at that little bank at that corner in the first part of the footage, back in 1990, I would walk all around Downtown district, such better times then 😢
This is just footage from the film Paris, Texas.
That boy's name is Hunter...he's Karen Black's son.
Yeah, with the binocular lens at times and star transitions along with the unknown rock music this looks like an intro to some short lived 80s detective show. It's like it got canceled in pre production and the intro was never finished with the actors names placed over the footage we are seeing.
such clear video!
Thank you
Freeways looked so chill back then, but now we’re the new LA 😩😩
Back the, having lived
in Walnut Bend in the Westchase District, having lived there in the same house for 52 years, I was 21 years old at the time of this filming. I was a very sick and ill young man. On my way being taken up hwy 59 on the way to 3-acute at the Houston International Hospital (HIH), today I can still clearly remember seeing on the way those large,
kind of tall At the time, they looked like horrible monsters. Today, I live way out in the hill country, am alive and well, and just couldn’t be happier.
Hey I emailed you two weeks ago about the tree branches that were sitting in the driveway. Are you still going to pick them up?
Bruh
I've heard that most of those skyscrapers were built in the 80's during the oil boom. Is that true?
Yes
Indeed. The Gulf building (with its rotating lighted logo sign on top) was the tallest building for many years, until 1971. That's when One Shell Plaza went up. A couple more good-sized buildings went up in the 70's, but in the late 70's and 80's, the taller ones sprouted up like dandelions. That's also when the Transco Tower (now Williams Tower) was built.
Very cool what you did here!
Good footage for it to be 1983
It's from a movie called paris texas
Looks the same, except that the cars are different, things are more run down though
Taken from the movie Paris, Texas (1984).
I love not seeing Honda Accords weave in and out of traffic. Everyone is driving cool in this video
and jeeps and BMWs and Saturns
Ha! All the transplants need to catch up with the city's film history. This is footage taken for the making of the excellent film, Paris, Texas (1984) directed by Wen Wenders (I saw you mentioned this at the end). The local punk band, MyDolls, are featured in the film at one point.
As a native Houstonian, the city has only improved.
The H In the 80's traffic wasn't that bad compared to now it's a nightmare driving on the freeways .
Depends what time you go
Man i miss those days. Compared to now.
The traffic on I-45 looks exactly the same as it does now lol
The slowest I went going to South Texas was when a garbage truck overturned on a major highway in the middle of the city in 1979.
It's almost as if cars define the time.
I find it hard to believe there were that few cars on the freeway and traffic wasn’t moving at 5mph
Pearce elevated been a problem 😩
Let's not forget that 101klol was still around back then.
Wow! At 2:35 that’s where I used to work! Met my future wife. Moore Paper.
This is from the movie Paris, Texas. I lost my virginity at the Houston Zoo.
Poor ape..
What area?
that 765B exit is so diff now.
Is there a way i can get and use this footage for a project?
amazing thank you so much, I wonder if that old white guy in the suit that was looking at the camera is still alive ...lol..anyways i was born in 1992
Less traffic, no road rage phenomenon. Running red lights, stop signs, speeding and cutting people off not the norm. Less crime as well.
Wow, I lived close to there. But I was 5 years old.
City looked just as post-modern back then as it does today.
See all those overpasses, well the structural steel used in their construction was fabricated by Mosher Steel Company located in the Heights. Mosher took on building rail cars in addition to downtown rascacielos and then turned to bridges for survival. Becoming too expensive to get contracts, eventually the entire plant was razed, including the Engineering building and today all that space sits luxury apartments. Train used to go down middle of plant and when circus train came through you could see all the circus animals clear as day, all exposed, even the circus equipment
Where is Houston?
Is it me or did the city looked cleaner?
Still the same ole potholed streets and freeways 43 yrs later, just 10 times the vehicles.
When US-90 went through Houston (it still does, TxDOT just doesn't advertise it anymore).
And US 75, which now officially ends in Dallas as I-45 begins on the unsigned I-345.
I was there
I still am
I was 4 yrs old then...😎
I guarantee that man was at Rankin Road every weekend, lol
It’s so much better today. Back then no one lived downtown and the entire east side was empty parking lots. Now thousands live there, sports stadiums and no more parking lots! Just look how empty and dead the streets were back then. Now is alive and happening.
A lot of us lived there for generations now it un affordable
its a crime infested crap hole nowadays
Yes and they’re plowing it down to widen the freeway because that always works perfectly.
@@tbewin1z143too much republican propaganda and Fox News for you.
@@jw77019 imagine using 2008 talking points, also pssst 90% of media is horribly biased in favor of the Democrats
The music .. oof! Bailed
Omg 😳
When Chrome ruled…
2:22 U S. 75 co-signed with I-45
I’m surprised that Judge Middleton does everything from evictions to lawn code violations to assaults. The man has to really know his law.
It looked better & felt better back then. Now I couldn't be more lost & disgusted with the growth & destruction of our amazing history & landmarks. God can't bring me home soon enough🙏🏻
Funny how downtown still looks the same
the scammers in gov't ruined it. sad, but true. around 1995-200 Houston kicked ass. now these same roads are clogged like other big shitties, from 7am until 10pm
How did gov ruin it to be clogged? Genuinely asking..
Sim City 4 vibes
The great and legendary Mayor Kathy Whitmire! She was ahead of her time and wanted monorail 🚝 even then.
yeah, but why are the showing a hitchhiking homeless boy being picked up by a full grown man?///not cool
Stolen from Wenders’ film PARIS, TEXAS
That looks more 90s
Raggedy ass city
I love Houston.