Houston A Photographic Tour Of My Hometown

Author : Ava Rodriguez
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0999002910
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Houston: A Photographic Tour of my Hometown written by Ava Rodriguez and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of color photographs constituting a city portrait of Houston Texas, with the focus on the Downtown District and inner-loop neighborhoods

Author :
Publisher : Trinity University Press
ISBN 13 : 1595348085
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Hometown Texas written by and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brown and Holley are interested in place and what makes people who they are. With particular interest in how people take the hand they’ve been dealt—fate, family, circumstance, luck—and craft a life for themselves, the authors celebrate the grit and gumption of these Texas originals. Introducing quirky characters and tenacious spirits, Holley’s stories seek out the personality of the small town while Brown’s photographs capture the essence of a changing landscape. Hometown Texas aims not to be nostalgic or sentimental but rather to show readers an unknown Texas—one that, while not vanishing, is certainly on the wane. Organized into five topographical, geographic, and cultural sections—East, West, North, South, and Central—three dozen stories and more than eighty complementary images work to create a parallel narrative to reveal what Brown has described as the “collective, various, remarkably complex soul that makes Texas unique.” Hometown Texas is an exploration across miles and cultures, of well-traveled roads and forgotten byways, deep into the heart of Texas.

Author : Steven R. Strom
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477310967
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Houston on the Move written by Steven R. Strom and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Houston completely transformed itself during the twentieth century, burgeoning from a regional hub into a world-class international powerhouse. This remarkable metamorphosis is captured in the Bob Bailey Studios Photographic Archive, an unparalleled visual record of Houston life from the 1930s to the early 1990s. Founded by the commercial photographer Bob Bailey in 1929, the Bailey Studios produced more than 500,000 photographs and fifty-two 16 mm films, making its archive the largest and most comprehensive collection of images ever taken in and around Houston. The Bob Bailey Studios Archive is now owned by the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin. Houston on the Move presents over two hundred of the Bailey archive’s most memorable and important photographs with extended captions that detail the photos’ subjects and the reasons for their significance. These images, most never before published, document everything from key events in Houston’s modern history—World War II; the Texas City Disaster; the building of the Astrodome; and the development of the Ship Channel, Medical Center, and Johnson Space Center—to nostalgic scenes of daily life. Bob Bailey’s expertly composed photographs reveal a great city in the making: a downtown striving to be the best, biggest, and tallest; birthday parties, snow days, celebrations, and rodeos; opulent department stores; Hollywood stars and political leaders; rapid industrial and commercial growth; and the inexorable march of the suburbs. An irresistible “remember that?” book for long-time Houstonians, Houston on the Move will also be an essential reference for historians, photographers, designers, and city planners.

Author :
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1618586408
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Historic Photos of Houston written by and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From NASA to the Theatre District, rodeos to drilling oil, Historic Photos of Houston is a photographic history collected from the areas top archives. With around 200 photographs, many of which have never been published, this beautiful coffee table book shows the historical growth from the mid 1800's to the late 1900's of ?the Space City? in stunning black and white photography. The book follows life, government, events and people important to Houston and the building of this unique city. Spanning over two centuries and two hundred photographs, this is a must have for any long-time resident or history lover of Houston!

Author : Mando Rayo
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477310436
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Tacos of Texas written by Mando Rayo and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rooted in tradición mexicana and infused with Texas food culture, tacos are some of Texans’ all-time favorite foods. In The Tacos of Texas, the taco journalists Mando Rayo and Jarod Neece take us on a muy sabroso taco tour around the state as they discover the traditions, recipes, stories, and personalities behind puffy tacos in San Antonio, trompo tacos in Dallas, breakfast tacos in Austin, carnitas tacos in El Paso, fish tacos in Corpus Christi, barbacoa in the Rio Grande Valley, and much more. Starting with the basics—tortillas, fillings, and salsas—and how to make, order, and eat tacos, the authors highlight ten taco cities/regions of Texas. For each place, they describe what makes the tacos distinctive, name their top five places to eat, and listen to the locals tell their taco stories. They hear from restaurant owners, taqueros, abuelitas, chefs, and patrons—both well-known and everyday folks—who talk about their local taco history and culture while sharing authentic recipes and recommendations for the best taco purveyors. Whether you can’t imagine a day without tacos or you’re just learning your way around the trailers, trucks, and taqueros that make tacos happen, The Tacos of Texas is the indispensable guidebook, cookbook, and testimonio.

Author : Duncan W. Alderson
Publisher : Kensington Books
ISBN 13 : 0758292759
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Magnolia City written by Duncan W. Alderson and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Houston in the 1920s is a city of established cotton kings and newly rich oil barons, where the elite live in beaux art mansions behind the gates of Courtlandt Place. Kirby Augustus Allen, grandson of the Allen brothers who founded Houston as a real estate deal, is grooming his daughter Hetty to marry Lamar Rusk, scion of the Splendora oil fortune. Instead, at the No-Tsu-Oh Carnival of 1928, beautiful, rebellious Hetty encounters a mysterious man from Montana dressed in the gear of a wildcatter--an outsider named Garret MacBride. Hetty is torn between Lamar's lavish courtship and her instinctive connection to Garret. As Lamar's wife she would be guaranteed acceptance to the highest ranks of Houston society. Yet Garret, poor but powerfully ambitious, offers the adventure she craves, with rendezvous in illicit jazz clubs and reckless nights of passion. The men's intense rivalry extends to business, as rumors of a vast, untapped ocean of oil in East Texas spark a frenzy that can make fortunes--or shatter lives and dreams beyond repair. A sweeping, sumptuous debut that evokes the turmoil and drama rippling through the history of the Lone Star State, Magnolia City is a story of love, greed, jealousy, and redemption, brought to life through the eyes of its unforgettable heroine.

Author : Ray Viator
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623497728
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Houston, Space City USA written by Ray Viator and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-13 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On July 20, 1969, humanity paused with attention locked to television and radio broadcasts as the astronauts of the Apollo 11 mission dramatically touched down on the dusty face of the moon. The first word from the lunar surface: Houston. Houston, Space City USA is a visual celebration of the city’s historic ties to the US human space program. When President Kennedy declared, “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard,” he did so from the campus of Rice University. More than half a century later, Houston continues to serve as the nerve center of the American human space program. Author and photographer Ray Viator, a longtime Houstonian, has lovingly captured the spirit of a city’s devotion to space exploration from then to now. Using striking photographs of the full moon as a visual motif of Houston’s connection to spaceflight, Viator also weaves together historic images to show how former cow pastures transformed into mission control. Some connections are obvious—the Houston Astros or the Houston Rockets. Others are hidden in plain sight, like the arm patches on the uniform of every Houston police officer that read, “Space City U.S.A.” Viator’s lens captures this and more. Houston, Space City USA not only marks the important milestone of the first lunar landing, but it also helps readers discover and rediscover a city’s constellation of connections to one of humankind’s greatest achievements. The author's proceeds from the sale of this book will benefit Houston Public Media.

Author :
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9780878059546
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The South by Its Photographers written by and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1996 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographic images by forty-eight of the South's best photographers

Author :
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780890965191
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Battleship Texas written by and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A & M University ; no. 45." History of the battleship Texas from its commissioning in 1914 to the present as a tourist attraction.

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Sunset written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: