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Originally Posted by Dan Denson
That Eastwood area looks sort of interesting. Is that where you live?
The ward where the boarded up houses are looks amazingly like parts of New Orleans. I'm assuming they're being razed so that more condos will go up. I guess there are pros and cons of that.
Nice photo set!
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yes, I live in Eastwood... the brick house in the first and last shot
Agreed... Houston and New Orleans used to have a lot more in common, but the personalities of the cities (one is obviously concerned with preservation, and the other lives "in the moment" to a fault) have caused them to go down very different paths.
It's almost laughable how time can play tricks on us... New Orleans had always been the larger city until the popularization of the automobile and freeway system...
1840 population of N.O.-- 102,193
1840 Houston-- est. 800 (the Republic of Texas did not conduct a census).
1940 N.O.-- 494,537
1940 HOU-- 384,514
1950 N.O.-- 570,445
1950 HOU-- 596,163