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  • čas přidán 2. 08. 2021
  • Produced by Pearlman Film Productions for the City of Houston, the Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Council, the Houston Chamber of Commerce, and the Port of Houston, this 1970s promotional film surveys what makes Houston a desirable “frontier city.”
    Narrator Don Armstrong highlights everything from Houston’s booming industrial operations and international airports to its top medical centers and universities to its recreational and cultural offerings.
    #HoustonNews #houstontexas #news #HoustonPolice #lapdpolice #hpd#abc13 #texasnews #usanews #texas #houston #documentary #houstoncrime

Komentáře • 884

  • @bingbong9844
    @bingbong9844 Před 2 lety +263

    Seeing Houston with these tiny skyscrapers is crazy. It’s a completely different city now.

    • @theamused8705
      @theamused8705 Před 2 lety +21

      That was about 50 years ago so makes you wonder what it will look like 50 years from now in 2070s.

    • @brandonray4379
      @brandonray4379 Před 2 lety +1

      We'll aal be dead by 2070, why does it matter.

    • @michaeljozwiak25
      @michaeljozwiak25 Před 2 lety +9

      @@theamused8705 The Jetsons are forty years away in 2062.

    • @theamused8705
      @theamused8705 Před 2 lety +3

      @@brandonray4379 not all of us 😉

    • @franzizs8537
      @franzizs8537 Před 2 lety +8

      With nobody in their streets. Crazy

  • @cavitycreep
    @cavitycreep Před 11 měsíci +14

    1975 was orange as fuck!

  • @candysmith8724
    @candysmith8724 Před 2 lety +28

    The 5th largest US city in 1975...Wow! When we moved here in 1980 it was the 3rd largest city. Amazing growth! I've lived here 42 years...it's been a fabulous place to grow up and raise my family. My father took a position with Geosource Engineering back then, got layed-off 3 years later. He started his own engineering software company and never looked back! Our family has thrived in this town.

  • @s1234pro
    @s1234pro Před 9 měsíci +15

    I was born in Houston in 1954. The people have changed so much. No one wants to be neighbors. No one wants to help or give their time. I believe there's too many of us. Sad.

    • @ssjwes
      @ssjwes Před 9 měsíci +1

      You can only help so much to the point you're just being taken advantage of. I help half my street, mostly elderly people. They help me where and when they can. Give and take. One couple picks me up stuff from the store when they're there and another cooks me food sometimes. It is sad how much it's changed though. A lot more local crime. At least most of the newer people that've moved in near me are decent. Also some the people that moved away were not the best of people.

    • @jayalexander3356
      @jayalexander3356 Před 9 měsíci +5

      That's because the majority aren't Texans. They're all annoying liberal transplants. I'm trying to get out of here as soon as I can.

  • @SubZeDiZeD
    @SubZeDiZeD Před rokem +26

    Couldn't help noticing how much skinnier and in shape the average person was in 1975....

    • @darbyreviews1801
      @darbyreviews1801 Před rokem +5

      Less corporate bs telling you what to eat back then.

    • @carlbass4449
      @carlbass4449 Před rokem +7

      K wild.. I'm enjoying how much they were heterosexual and Christian back then too..

    • @henrystowe6217
      @henrystowe6217 Před rokem +1

      ​@@carlbass4449 me too

    • @Yetti0
      @Yetti0 Před rokem +1

      I was skinny and still skinny

    • @kamareespencer9464
      @kamareespencer9464 Před rokem

      @@carlbass4449 lol this is the same Godly generation that brought us Aids

  • @Itsme-dt9we
    @Itsme-dt9we Před 2 lety +24

    Born and raised in Houston. Love the city but it’s gotten so congested and the crime has risen. So many ppl have moved here but you’ll always know a true Houstonian.

    • @spaceageexp8679
      @spaceageexp8679 Před 2 lety +9

      Crime was much much worse in the 80s than it is today. This video only shows the positives of the 70s. Let’s just say there’s a reason places like the Third Ward didn’t make an appearance here. Houston had its pros and cons then just like it does today

    • @abelmontalvo4052
      @abelmontalvo4052 Před 2 lety +4

      @@spaceageexp8679 Houston was on fire in the late 80s and early 90s crime was a lot worse drugs were everywhere. It was crazy I lived it

    • @mieshacanb6967
      @mieshacanb6967 Před 2 lety

      That is why I am leaving Ohio TO MANY PEOPLE moving here and raising everything 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 Intel and Amgen... I'm actually moving to Houston with my family 😊....****Sorry*****

    • @spaceageexp8679
      @spaceageexp8679 Před 2 lety +1

      @@mieshacanb6967 I promise... If you think too many people are moving to Ohio, you will hate Houston and Texas. Much more people are moving to the Lone Star State

    • @spaceageexp8679
      @spaceageexp8679 Před 2 lety

      @JulieBishop Exactly

  • @rogerbass9176
    @rogerbass9176 Před 2 lety +40

    I sure would like to see an updated version of this video, before and after.

  • @cewait
    @cewait Před 2 lety +33

    I was recruited by a few Houston companies in the late 1970's. One sat us down and presented this film to our group of 30 or so recruits. Great memories. BTW, I went with a company that was not located there only to be transferred there a year later.

  • @boreed5734
    @boreed5734 Před 2 lety +15

    I loved the 60's it was so laid back and fun, things started changing in the '70's because of progress then the '80's hit and everyone lost their minds.

  • @randysiler7458
    @randysiler7458 Před 11 měsíci +7

    Graduated from high school in 1974 in SE Houston. The city has changed so much from then to now. I moved out of the city in 98 to a small town one hour south. Houston has never stopped growing further in all of the counties surrounding Harris county.

    • @vhr3717
      @vhr3717 Před 6 měsíci +1

      I stay in Harris county born 2001 it’s crazy over here trying to see what once was…

  • @carolinarha
    @carolinarha Před 2 lety +10

    No matter what I love my City of Houston ❤ ! I wasn't born here but I have been here now for 39 yrs. The city has grown a lot in all aspects, obviously we are in 2022, also lately many people from other states had come to live here almost 500,000+ and we still growing..... Houstonian forever ❤

  • @malcolmhales8181
    @malcolmhales8181 Před 2 lety +38

    I moved to Sharpstown, Houston in 79 from London England. It has changed so much since then, and not for the better either.

    • @xboxgamer2180
      @xboxgamer2180 Před 2 lety +7

      Sharpshooter town now

    • @annoin
      @annoin Před 2 lety +4

      It will change for the better give it time. Corruption has to go.

    • @saulramirez6117
      @saulramirez6117 Před 2 lety +3

      @@annoin lol cute

    • @itoro22
      @itoro22 Před 2 lety +2

      @@annoin wishful thinking. That’s cute.

    • @jtonnac9096
      @jtonnac9096 Před 2 lety +5

      @@itoro22 lol look at how they reclaimed 2nd, 3rd and 4th ward. When "they're" ready to move in on an area trust it can be done swiftly.

  • @itoro22
    @itoro22 Před 2 lety +6

    Born and raised in Houston in 1985. Watching my city at that period is crazy to me. Houston has completely changed and we’re now the fourth largest city in America.

    • @miked6523
      @miked6523 Před 2 lety +3

      Not to far off as the 3rd largest…

  • @cmtippens9209
    @cmtippens9209 Před rokem +10

    I wasn't born in Houston but we moved here from Dallas before I was school age. This would have been my junior year in high school, and this is the Houston that I remember fondly, not the garbage dump it is now. I live in a different county now but every time I have to go "into town" I cringe at the thought. Very sad.

    • @enzodriver
      @enzodriver Před 2 měsíci

      why do you think it is a garbage dump now?

  • @craigmccracken6075
    @craigmccracken6075 Před rokem +18

    Born in 1968 and raised in Houston.
    Grew up going to Peppermint Park and Astroworld.

    • @erichani1
      @erichani1 Před rokem +1

      Yes I remember peppermint park had my 10th birthday party there

    • @erichani1
      @erichani1 Před rokem +2

      I used to go to astroworld I miss it

    • @MoreBrutal-gr6ty
      @MoreBrutal-gr6ty Před rokem +1

      Peppermint Park
      czcams.com/video/lm8TED6tI54/video.html

  • @J-S.P
    @J-S.P Před 22 dny +3

    I don't care WHAT any of you say.....1975 was a GREAT year

  • @jessicacole8404
    @jessicacole8404 Před 2 lety +13

    I am 23 years old and watched this by accident. It's cool to see how much stuff is still the same

  • @lwarteman
    @lwarteman Před 2 lety +7

    I'm a native Houstonian & loves growing up in the 60s & 70s. I was 12 in 1975. I went to many an Oiler & Astros game at the dome, not to mention HLS&R. We spent long summers at Astroworld & the beach. I have worked downtown & uptown. I have lived in several other cities, but came back home 2 years ago to stay. I don't live in the city, but just North. I still love HTown, my hometown. ♥️

  • @bhud1972
    @bhud1972 Před 2 lety +28

    Loved seeing that flash of the Brown & Root building on Clinton Drive in the beginning. Almost every member of my family worked there at on time or another. It’s still there, but KBR moved downtown.

    • @kelseyd96
      @kelseyd96 Před 2 lety

      haha you know Clint Knight?? he was prolly named after Clinton Ave.

    • @JH-pr2fg
      @JH-pr2fg Před 2 lety +3

      I loved seeing the Brown &Root sign myself, my dad worked for them when I was a kid in the 70's. Great time to be a kid back then.

    • @lwarteman
      @lwarteman Před 2 lety +2

      My Dad & Uncle both worked there too.

  • @TrulyUnfortunate
    @TrulyUnfortunate Před 2 lety +26

    Wow!!
    I was 10 years old when they made this video!!
    Houston is still a powerhouse when it comes to business and innovation.

    • @steveharris9861
      @steveharris9861 Před 2 lety +3

      I was 18. Idk, things are worse now. 🤣

    • @TrulyUnfortunate
      @TrulyUnfortunate Před 2 lety +3

      @@steveharris9861
      We lived in Bear Creek Farms in 75.
      It's located on Clay road south of hwy 6.
      The closest grocery store was on Memorial and Dairy Ashford.
      We were surrounded by farmland and a dairy farm backed up to our place.
      We rode around on dirt bikes with our shotguns or .22's and the Cops would wave at us or stop us to ask if we'd had any luck.
      My Dad bought an acre and a half for 5k.
      Those same lots now go for 225k and more.
      There was a little store on 6 called Hoopers that had pool tables and sold beer,wine and other convenience store stuff and it was rumored there was a whore house in the back.
      Man I miss those trouble free days.....

    • @steveharris9861
      @steveharris9861 Před 2 lety +1

      @@TrulyUnfortunate I grew up in Bunker Hill village. I remember huge parties at Bear Creek park. I remember when there were geese on the prairie off I-10 past Fry road. Too many memories to write about, virtually all of them good. 🙂

    • @TrulyUnfortunate
      @TrulyUnfortunate Před 2 lety +1

      @@steveharris9861
      Yeah Bear Creek Park was kick ass!!!
      If you weren't at the beach you were at Bear Creek Park.
      I miss the geese myself,the sky would turn black and white there were so many of them.
      Also remember the days when there was nothing from Addicks out to Katy.
      Those were definitely the good old days.

    • @steveharris9861
      @steveharris9861 Před 2 lety +1

      @@TrulyUnfortunate More 70s memories: Memorial City mall was rinky dink with Montgomery Ward 🤣, Galleria was a safe place to go, rock concerts at the music hall, rush hour was going downtown in the morning, going outbound in the afternoon, railroad tracks off the Katy fly. I live in Magnolia now - traffic is as bad as Houston.

  • @Absorbing146
    @Absorbing146 Před 2 lety +20

    I worked in new home construction during the 1970's and You could quit one builder and walk across the street and get another job with anther builder the same day.
    Rent for 1 bedroom was 135.00 a month and that included electric and water,,
    Bought and brand new land cruiser for 4,000 in 1974.
    No cell phones, no internet. No crack No aids.
    But plenty of good music .
    '

    • @blueberrydumpling9206
      @blueberrydumpling9206 Před 2 lety +3

      Wish I could’ve been there

    • @e.s.4017
      @e.s.4017 Před 2 lety +1

      Accounting for inflation, assuming a start year of 1974 (same year as your land cruiser) that $135 would equate to a rent of $811.40 today, and the land rover would be 24,000.

    • @Absorbing146
      @Absorbing146 Před 2 lety

      @@e.s.4017 I went online and priced 2022 Toyota land Cruisers and they are running 50,000 and over. Of course in 1974 they were just basic and looked complete different than todays.

  • @Tekevin
    @Tekevin Před 3 měsíci +6

    Can yall imagine the people in the video are in their 30s-40s which mean they are either 80 year old or dead now….. scary how time flies.

  • @hannoverfist5628
    @hannoverfist5628 Před 2 lety +19

    This is the same voice actor from the hide under your desk if there is a nuclear attack scholastic film

    • @mieshacanb6967
      @mieshacanb6967 Před 2 lety +2

      This dude did EVERYTHING LOLOL 🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @marka.graffakasnakebitenat3736
      @marka.graffakasnakebitenat3736 Před rokem +1

      Well, Pat Brown, Don Nelson, Ron Stone, Steve Smith, Bob Allen, Dave Ward, and Marvin Zindler were unavailable.

    • @cmtippens9209
      @cmtippens9209 Před rokem

      Don Armstrong, traffic reporter! 🚁

  • @kennethbode2017
    @kennethbode2017 Před 2 lety +10

    That's the Houston I remember. I hauled many a load of rebar into Houston in the mid to late 70's and saw a lot of the growth first hand.

  • @dr.lorianne
    @dr.lorianne Před 2 lety +20

    So cool to compare 1975 to now. Amazing growth.

  • @tammylacour6805
    @tammylacour6805 Před 2 lety +9

    Houston is a beautiful place to live I've been here all my life and couldn't live anywhere else🖤💜💚💚💛🧡

  • @troyspartan95
    @troyspartan95 Před 2 lety +14

    I tell you I feel sorry for our children because times are only getting worse and we got to live in good times when things were simple but awesome. I was born in 1973 and grew up in the 80s and 90s When music and everything was Amazing and our children never got to Experience simple times when family's and everything meant so much.

    • @jacob5058
      @jacob5058 Před 2 lety +1

      At least they have their tablets and phones be on social media all day on tiktok lol while eating tide pods.

    • @LolLol-zp4jy
      @LolLol-zp4jy Před 2 lety

      Its actually better to be born now if you are conscientious about optimizing your physical and mental health to be most productive. For example, biohacking neurochemistry by not wasting dopamine on TikTok and such.

  • @donnaking8056
    @donnaking8056 Před 2 lety +26

    These were the good days. Houston was the city to live in but now Houston is over populated with raggedy streets and too much violence.

  • @hanc37
    @hanc37 Před 2 lety +20

    Driving to Katy was a drive out in the country back then... There was nothing past the old Igloo plant on the corner of now Beltway 8 and I-10.

    • @gatorbackradial
      @gatorbackradial Před 2 lety

      That site is now carved up between freeway right-of-way and a retention pond to keep the underpasses from flooding. Would be neat if they put a fake water tower with the word Igloo on it where the original was (somewhere in the retention pond), but alas, that will never happen.

    • @hanc37
      @hanc37 Před 2 lety

      @@gatorbackradial Even with the retention pond the underpass still floods...

    • @kurtsaxton823
      @kurtsaxton823 Před 2 lety +1

      Katy is Houston now for the most part.

    • @hanc37
      @hanc37 Před 2 lety +3

      @@kurtsaxton823 Back then it was all rice fields and cow pasture.

    • @DADRB0B55
      @DADRB0B55 Před 2 lety

      @@hanc37 And then shitty retailers and businesses decided to build homes and sold it to poor suckers who didn’t know the geography was way less than the land value is worth 😂 Somehow it’s their fault that the city decided to release water after Harvey to intentionally flood their neighborhoods as well ? Houston has been going to hell for the past 10 years ESPECIALLY if you’re working class

  • @cmtippens9209
    @cmtippens9209 Před rokem +6

    I knew I recognized that narrator's voice! That's traffic reporter Don Armstrong. 🚁🎤🎧🚙

  • @stephanie_smith
    @stephanie_smith Před 2 lety +12

    @10:33 this made me giggle! As a 3rd generation Houstonian i wish our weather was mild year round!

    • @mieshacanb6967
      @mieshacanb6967 Před 2 lety

      Hell to compared to US (OHIO) Y'ALL ARE mild 🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @jesusgalvan6513
    @jesusgalvan6513 Před 2 lety +22

    I'm a Houstonian born raised and grew up in Houston all my life.

  • @bmcbg
    @bmcbg Před 2 lety +11

    moved here in 83 and it was a great city..Astrodome Gilly's Ice Houses and just a good big country town but it's changed. It's crazy here now like everywhere . people drive on the freeways like they want to run over you and it doesn't make sense.Corrupt government isn't making it any better but downtown has changed for the better

  • @oni-one574
    @oni-one574 Před 2 lety +12

    Looks nice with everyone not on cell phones.

  • @derekcolvin9944
    @derekcolvin9944 Před 2 lety +15

    I don't remember Houston being Sepia toned back then.
    Nice shots of Astroworld, too.

    • @fallbrookhoustonnews
      @fallbrookhoustonnews  Před 2 lety +1

      This sepia color it is due to the used video camera film used at that time. Thank you for watching !

    • @macmcleod1188
      @macmcleod1188 Před 2 lety +3

      It wasn't sepia, it was the polluting smog blowing over from stinkadena.

  • @perniciouspete4986
    @perniciouspete4986 Před 2 lety +12

    "Houston, you have a problem."

  • @Agent40d
    @Agent40d Před 2 lety +10

    Crazy to see how the city was before i was alive

  • @unclehotpocket6241
    @unclehotpocket6241 Před 2 lety +6

    Awesome video!! Great channel! Can’t wait for more videos!

  • @tennillegoodall3249
    @tennillegoodall3249 Před 2 lety +10

    ASTROWORLD & WATERWORLD!! Oh how I miss those parks😒! I hate my kid wasn’t able to enjoy those 2 parks like I did.
    But someone said something about population & how Austin passed Houston up, yeah that’s a NEGATIVE LOL! I wish some of these people will move to Austin!! This is as of 2022 & Houston is at the top:
    10 Largest Cities in Texas:
    Houston (2,345,606)
    San Antonio (1,456,069)
    Dallas (1,325,691)
    Austin (996,147)
    Fort Worth (954,457)
    El Paso (684,753)
    Arlington (400,032)
    Corpus Christi (320,393)
    Plano (290,624)
    Irving (264,762)

  • @markwilliford5319
    @markwilliford5319 Před 2 lety +31

    I miss Astroworld...

    • @spaceageexp8679
      @spaceageexp8679 Před 2 lety +1

      I miss the Astroworld festival

    • @budislavmarkovic8267
      @budislavmarkovic8267 Před 19 dny +1

      I used to work right next door to astroworld and the dungeon drop at the Dodge dealer. Every 6 minutes I could hear the kids screaming! àaaàaaaaaahhhh ! I still smile about it!

    • @Alejandro_C62
      @Alejandro_C62 Před 2 dny

      No one misses that crap

  • @cac8too
    @cac8too Před 2 lety +13

    My home city! I was 18 when this was filmed. Still live here. I still love it, but miss these old days.

    • @DespairMisery
      @DespairMisery Před 2 lety +2

      how hot was it outside?

    • @RankinImagery
      @RankinImagery Před 2 lety +1

      I was 17 when it was filmed and still live here. It’s a whole different place now. So much traffic. So much more densely populated.

    • @watchesnews9187
      @watchesnews9187 Před 2 lety +1

      @@DespairMisery 42 days over 100 degrees in 1980. There were even t shirts that said, "I survived the hear wave of 1980."

    • @watchesnews9187
      @watchesnews9187 Před 2 lety +4

      @@RankinImagery EXTREME TRAFFIC and many with road rage of a sort. I grew up five orvren minutes from downtown and about 5 minutes from the medical center. I hate it when people call the medical center downtown. Not to a native.

    • @beckydoesit9331
      @beckydoesit9331 Před 2 lety

      I lost my virginity at the Houston Zoo.

  • @AlbaDoggy
    @AlbaDoggy Před rokem +11

    Damn! Where tf is this city at?! This place looks fun to live and Ike an actual community! But also way more space and less crazy roads, traffic, overpasses, and buildings! I want to live there! Lol I feel like Houston today has been on a rapid decline and now is so boring and dull and nothing to really do. Also it's crazy that this was Houston 50 years ago already damn near! I still feel like the 70's was 30 years ago, not 50 🤯

    • @user-oc6cx5uj4x
      @user-oc6cx5uj4x Před 8 měsíci

      It’s at Texas

    • @AlbaDoggy
      @AlbaDoggy Před 8 měsíci +2

      @@user-oc6cx5uj4x yes I know lol it's in Houston Texas. I live here. It's not anything like this video!

    • @user-oc6cx5uj4x
      @user-oc6cx5uj4x Před 8 měsíci

      🤦🏾‍♀️Dude u said where tf this city at I said Texas anything wrong with that🤷🏾‍♀️

    • @txgal6855
      @txgal6855 Před 3 měsíci

      @@AlbaDoggyit was exactly like this in the early seventies!

    • @AlbaDoggy
      @AlbaDoggy Před 3 měsíci +2

      @@txgal6855 wow! I really missed out! I miss the 90's but even then it was already crazy. I wish I could live a month in the 70's, just to know what it was like!

  • @capriomrowkicz1751
    @capriomrowkicz1751 Před 2 lety +11

    Born in Houston Texas in 1920 and have 55 years old in 1975 is Dream.

    • @chrisdaigle8262
      @chrisdaigle8262 Před 2 lety +3

      Are you 102 years old?

    • @itoro22
      @itoro22 Před 2 lety

      Are you sure you were born in Houston in 1920? 🤔

    • @JD03ish
      @JD03ish Před 2 lety

      Are you still living?

  • @ahumanperson2955
    @ahumanperson2955 Před 2 lety +11

    The city has gone down hill since the early 70s. Down it just a big mess of store closed and bad streets.

  • @seanharris441
    @seanharris441 Před rokem +13

    Glad to see Houston before it went to shit

    • @joe3009
      @joe3009 Před rokem

      Why not enough blacks for your liking?

  • @aaronjohnson8159
    @aaronjohnson8159 Před 2 lety +13

    Hardly recognized without the traffic, really cool to see the history of it

    • @emmamcgray1531
      @emmamcgray1531 Před 2 lety

      So true

    • @emmamcgray1531
      @emmamcgray1531 Před 2 lety

      Wow you are so right no traffic I can't even comprehend

    • @Shikta-poobah67
      @Shikta-poobah67 Před 2 lety +1

      Oh there was plenty of traffic back then. There were fewer freeways, and the existing freeways only had 2 to 3 lanes in any direction. I remember sitting still in logjam traffic on a daily basis in the mid 70’s. The air quality was much worse back then too.

  • @rickker20
    @rickker20 Před 2 lety +8

    Move to Houston in 1979 I was 15 years old. The Katy freeway after dairy ashford there was nothing until Katy.

  • @seanharris441
    @seanharris441 Před rokem +10

    How the algorithm know I was in Houston tho 🤨

  • @loronetrulliot2606
    @loronetrulliot2606 Před 2 lety +14

    I was in the 5th Grade probably when this was filmed we had over a million people and not that many freeways at the time look at it now wow

  • @rmwtsou
    @rmwtsou Před 2 lety +14

    Did my residency in Texas Medical Center in Houston from 1979 - 1984. It was a great city.

    • @thadentist
      @thadentist Před 2 lety +3

      You’re cool.

    • @rmwtsou
      @rmwtsou Před 2 lety

      @@thadentist My brother and sister still live in Texas. Sister near Houston and brother near Dallas. Texas is great state!

    • @mieshacanb6967
      @mieshacanb6967 Před 2 lety

      @@rmwtsou where do you live now and why did you move??

    • @rmwtsou
      @rmwtsou Před 2 lety +1

      @@mieshacanb6967 I now live in Southern California. Moved here because wife wanted nowhere else. She was right! The climate here is paradise on earth. Lived here for 38 years. Brought up 2 kids (both now married and have their own kids.)

    • @mieshacanb6967
      @mieshacanb6967 Před 2 lety +1

      @@rmwtsou oh WOW THAT IS night and day ok! I loved it when I was there and wanted to possibly move there but my late husband HATED it and he was born and raised in Southern Cali so he TOTALLY REFUSED IT LOL. So I guess at the end of the day it is based on experiences and perception. 🤷🏾‍♀️

  • @Knaeben
    @Knaeben Před 2 lety +8

    Houston used to be a nice place until the Internet destroyed it. Now it's just a bunch of asphalt and concrete on a hot, stinking swamp.

  • @perniciouspete4986
    @perniciouspete4986 Před 2 lety +13

    But not a word about traffic, humidity, crime, or roaches.

    • @DonniePalmer57
      @DonniePalmer57 Před 2 lety

      Oh god the roaches are almost as bad as the mosquitoes. Lived here all my 64 years

    • @robertttttt716
      @robertttttt716 Před 2 lety +2

      I've lived in Houston since 1955 I was born in the heights hospital. This old Town's changed we lived at the far edge of Houston now you have to go another 30 MI and all you see is one strip center after another but the best thing is if you need cheap liquor you don't have to go very far.

    • @perniciouspete4986
      @perniciouspete4986 Před 2 lety

      @@DonniePalmer57 I only lived in Houston 14 years--but it seemed like 64.

    • @SkyePhoenix
      @SkyePhoenix Před 2 lety

      Yep! That's what I was thinking.

  • @timothyramsay7975
    @timothyramsay7975 Před 2 lety +3

    Thank you for posting. It bring back great memories

  • @DaveTexas
    @DaveTexas Před měsícem +1

    Starting right off with Greenway Plaza! I worked in the tallest building there for several years about a decade after this video was made. Don’t miss it one bit. Don’t miss the humidity, either, especially since we only had window units for A/C during my childhood. I do miss Astroworld in the 1970s, though, where I spent most weekdays during the summer when I was in 6th-7th-8th grades.
    I sure don’t miss Intercontinental Airport. It took an hour to get there from our house and every flight seemed to be delayed. Haven’t been back there in 30 years.

  • @fozzir
    @fozzir Před 2 lety +25

    The Summit is no more, Gilly's is gone, the Oilers left, Astoworld, the Astrodome, list goes on and on. After Katrina the city went downhill. Even Harris is a blue county. So sad, it used to be a great city.

    • @robertttttt716
      @robertttttt716 Před 2 lety +2

      That's what I was thinking about saying myself wake up each morning for a cup of coffee turn on the news and see the reports about the people that were murdered overnight. He can forget about low taxes every year my taxes go up .

    • @jalenbarlow1303
      @jalenbarlow1303 Před 2 lety

      @@robertttttt716 The murder rate in Houston is still nowhere like it was in the early 90s.

    • @tybarker5038
      @tybarker5038 Před 2 lety +2

      It’s not even the fact Harris County is blue that makes it suck. It’s the sprawl, the heat, the humidity, the flat, dull landscape, the traffic, the ugly strip malls and abandoned houses you come across, mixed in with nice McMansions… other blue cities seem to do it well. Amusement parks, efficient public transportation, well designed and walkable cities… that’s why people love visiting NYC, Chicago, LA.. but then you get to Houston… people would rather go elsewhere. Not a lot to offer in this city that you couldn’t get anywhere else.

    • @negativeindustrial
      @negativeindustrial Před 2 lety +2

      @@tybarker5038
      No blue city is a good place to live. NYC, Chicago and LA are the dirtiest and most dangerous in the country.
      I moved to Texas’s last red city and it’s so much nicer here.

  • @bassranger1054
    @bassranger1054 Před 2 lety +15

    Sad to see what was once an amazing city turn into what it is today.

    • @willieoliver2023
      @willieoliver2023 Před 2 lety +3

      Yes I understand I had a job washed dishes and busting tables at shakeys pizza at the corner of bissenette and Bellaire blvd back in 1977 sharpstoown mall down the street

    • @Shikta-poobah67
      @Shikta-poobah67 Před 2 lety +1

      It’s actually much better today.

    • @willieoliver2023
      @willieoliver2023 Před 2 lety +2

      @@Shikta-poobah67 I don't know about that see I'm pretty old I'm 61 now and growing up in Houston was different even though it was the south didn't have riots and things like the other cities no gangs when the cops stopped u wasn't afraid of being shot you got a ticket went on about your business

    • @bassranger1054
      @bassranger1054 Před 2 lety +2

      @@Shikta-poobah67 do explain

    • @peterbundy7916
      @peterbundy7916 Před 2 lety

      I could sit and talk for hours how nice Houston use to be.But it has become a ghetto, run down Apts,Taco trucks have replaced the restaurants the malls are gone and very few Americans.

  • @andreathompson9605
    @andreathompson9605 Před 2 lety +9

    Best city in the world.

  • @zhanna3747
    @zhanna3747 Před 2 lety +5

    Love Houston!! So happy to live here

  • @bigdaddycah4605
    @bigdaddycah4605 Před 2 lety +12

    We lived in scarsdale in '75 what was then a new housing tract .... Such a long time ago i remember Houston as you showed it here , i remember going to the malls. And not having to worry about getting robbed or shot.. I ve seen i dont know how many rock concerts at the summit , Now is a church. Thank you for the memories...

    • @michaeljozwiak25
      @michaeljozwiak25 Před 2 lety

      From the early 1970s, at Gulfgate Mall, my father was robbed at gunpoint of $400 or $1,000, my sister drove away from a man pointing a pistol at the driver’s side window and my brother’s bicycle was stolen. Three incidents where my 2 sisters walking solo in high school years were followed by men.

    • @bigdaddycah4605
      @bigdaddycah4605 Před 2 lety

      @@michaeljozwiak25 what was your pop a high roller? Back in 1975 a G was a lot of money 💵 why he ain't go to the bank with that kinda loot? People stealing bicycle's everyday upper class men stole mine at J Frank dobie back in '77 as part of hell week.

    • @jedclams4559
      @jedclams4559 Před 2 lety +1

      during the early to mid 80's Houston had almost twice as many murders per year as now

    • @michaeljozwiak25
      @michaeljozwiak25 Před 2 lety

      @@bigdaddycah4605 My Father told me it was $400. My Brother told me, our Father had $1,000. For about 10 years, my Father worked a lot of hours at Hughes Tools.

  • @gmh101358
    @gmh101358 Před 2 lety +12

    This is back when Houston was a GOP city....now its a Demorat hell hole....I went to Westchester in SBISD and grad HS about the time of this film.....Its sad to see what a shithole its become...... I left years ago.

    • @rustybucket5465
      @rustybucket5465 Před 2 lety +2

      100% correct, it started right after democrats took over thanks to the wonderful hard working black voters.

    • @tybarker5038
      @tybarker5038 Před 2 lety

      Boohoo.. still plenty of gun toting, gay bashing, Bible thumping, coal rolling racists here for you to pontificate with.

    • @LanceJ.
      @LanceJ. Před 2 lety

      So you got scared and ran away like a coward? Good, we don’t need weak people like you in Houston. Go hide in Kentucky.

    • @spaceageexp8679
      @spaceageexp8679 Před 2 lety +1

      @Daniel Orozco cuz they’re allowed to vote now *

  • @jessegarcia2060
    @jessegarcia2060 Před 2 lety +8

    The good ol day...when construction worker were white...🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @bwandclsparks
    @bwandclsparks Před rokem +5

    Ha, I graduated high school in 1975! I'm homesick after watching this, but it's SO much larger now!

  • @larsedik
    @larsedik Před 2 lety +6

    Having a mild winter does not make Houston a year 'round city. The summers are unbearable. When I was at Rice, they did not have summer school (maybe they still do not) because they did not want to torture the students.
    A friend of mine in Los Angeles who was originally from Santa Fe told me that she married a man from Houston and moved there. I asked her how she adjusted to the climate, and she told me she couldn't. She thought it started getting hot in February. Since I grew up in central Texas, I could handle the heat until mid May, but June through August I could not, even though I was used to heat.
    I do love Houston as a city, however, and I like it a lot more than I like Austin, where my relatives live.

  • @djlp2212
    @djlp2212 Před 2 lety +19

    I remember 1975 and everything having a red tint.

  • @benjaminrodriguez7356
    @benjaminrodriguez7356 Před 2 lety +19

    I don't like the way it (Houston) is changing. All these new houses being built so close to each other. Little front yards. Some of them (houses) being long and narrow. Some with no windows on some sides. And some of these tenants of these houses don't stay there for a while. Of some these new homes you see people "come and go ".

    • @dphellner
      @dphellner Před 2 lety +3

      You can't have a metropolis of 7 million people and everyone gets a .25 acre lot with a nice craftsman on it. The city would be more of a nightmare to navigate with that kind of sprawl.

    • @benjaminrodriguez7356
      @benjaminrodriguez7356 Před 2 lety +5

      @@dphellner I am a delivery driver in the Heights area and, some streets have a lot of vehicles parked on both sides! It can be very hard to drive through these streets! You got cars all over the place! I remember when it was NOT like this!

    • @dphellner
      @dphellner Před 2 lety

      @@benjaminrodriguez7356 I live in Woodland Heights which is one of the few neighborhoods with wide streets and building restrictions. When you get up to 20th - 25th close to I-10 those are all packed in - mainly shitty zoning and antiquated building laws are to blame. High density is necessary but the infrastructure was never re-vamped for it. I dont doubt it but: people need somewhere to live, and the loop is the spot right now.

    • @benjaminrodriguez7356
      @benjaminrodriguez7356 Před 2 lety +1

      @@dphellner People can live wherever they wish to. I don't care; if anything, more power to them. I'm comparing to how the loop was to the situation now. It seems that it's getting more crammed in!

    • @dphellner
      @dphellner Před 2 lety +1

      @@benjaminrodriguez7356 100% is.

  • @TheFan4alanis
    @TheFan4alanis Před rokem +6

    "...mild winter climate.."😂
    I noticed they didn't say, hot as Hades 90% of the time.😂

  • @matersworkshop6123
    @matersworkshop6123 Před 2 lety +2

    This video brings back so many memories of my childhood growing up in Houston. I've been back several times since moving in 1977 and have seen so many changes

  • @AlexanderNixonArtHistory
    @AlexanderNixonArtHistory Před 2 lety +9

    Houston was red.

  • @dredey1971
    @dredey1971 Před rokem +7

    Love my city!!!

  • @ducknorris233
    @ducknorris233 Před 2 lety +13

    There is a movie called Brewster McCloud that was filmed in Houston and released in 1970. It was directed by Robert Altman of MASH fame. It was filmed around the Astrodome , Houston zoo and other notable Houston landmarks.

    • @texan-american200
      @texan-american200 Před 2 lety +2

      That's an excellent time capsule of Houston. Look up "Houston Story," "Terms of Endearment," "The Evening Star" and "The Thief Who Came to Dinner" for some other excellent examples of Houston's past.

    • @yenbbc8840
      @yenbbc8840 Před 2 lety +2

      i never saw Brewster McCloud until recently. i didn't think it was good but there were great shots of the city that brought back memories.

  • @davidbruce5524
    @davidbruce5524 Před 2 lety +4

    I was 25 and a newlywed (married at 23 y.o.). We were living on Westheimer. It was a great city back then.

  • @everett7812
    @everett7812 Před 2 lety +6

    houston is so overpopulated now its awful, ppl just flood us but they're turning it into the place they left from bc they were the issues

    • @rubywarner34
      @rubywarner34 Před 2 lety

      True

    • @LanceJ.
      @LanceJ. Před 2 lety +1

      You mean like when white people came to Texas when it was populated by Mexicans? Y’all brought your European problems.

  • @acmecompany
    @acmecompany Před 2 lety +15

    Houston was actually a nice place at one time

    • @johnmarshall4442
      @johnmarshall4442 Před 2 lety +5

      You are correct. Lived there during this time period as a kid graduated 1986 . It's not the same place . Texas is not the same place

  • @Yetti0
    @Yetti0 Před 2 lety +8

    We moved to Houston in 1957

  • @joaquinperez9146
    @joaquinperez9146 Před 2 lety +2

    Thanks for the upload! The city seemed so much redder back then, lol. Seriously though, It's amazing to see how much different Houston is from 1975, overall a lot for the better, some for the worse.

  • @rodneypratt4239
    @rodneypratt4239 Před 2 lety +5

    I was there I lived there and I loved it. God how I missed the 70s. Bad weed good loving

  • @leeoswald9799
    @leeoswald9799 Před 2 lety +6

    The best part of Houston in 1975? No Katrina trash had arrived yet.

    • @LanceJ.
      @LanceJ. Před 2 lety

      What about the trash that hides behind the name of the person who killed an American president? Go play with your mom/sister Cletus.

  • @paulnguyen8910
    @paulnguyen8910 Před 2 lety +7

    One year ago, the Gulf Oil sign was taken down.
    My family moved here in August 1972 and returned in August 1976.

  • @kentexas
    @kentexas Před 2 lety +4

    Houston has changed quite a bit in 48 years. Houston now has the world’s best Rollerball team.

  • @christianbrother4724
    @christianbrother4724 Před 2 lety +10

    I was a kid going down there all the time. Thought it was a grand city back then.

    • @hy1762
      @hy1762 Před 2 lety

      I remember shopping at Foley’s downtown, and walking in the tunnels with my sister and parents. I love these memories.

  • @guerodadon
    @guerodadon Před 2 lety +12

    Hah now we got swangas and lowriders and donks

  • @rbjones72703
    @rbjones72703 Před 15 dny +1

    I lived in Houston from 1964 to 1988. I love the museum district and Hippie Hill.

  • @paulaward5346
    @paulaward5346 Před 2 lety +6

    Hello from Tyler Texas!

  • @alfonziagarrett6944
    @alfonziagarrett6944 Před 2 lety +3

    That's the year I was born in 1975 houston. I have lived in Houston all of my life. and I watch houston change over the years. now I live somewhere else.

  • @wisdomthroughaworldofwords1412

    The city council is efficient and taxes are low. I think that was a stretch even for back in the day 50 years ago. No long term planning. But for a big big city. This place has had its great moments.

  • @clanderson5761
    @clanderson5761 Před 2 lety +8

    And still growing rapidly 6-12-2022

  • @Hilaire_Balrog
    @Hilaire_Balrog Před 2 lety +10

    I was 5 in 75. One of my great joys was my mom taking us to the Central Library downtown in the early 80s. Now it's disgusting and full of the homeless. Would never take my kids there now. Too dangerous.

  • @richardthetroll6758
    @richardthetroll6758 Před 2 lety +10

    The good Ole day's 🙂.. not the same anymore 😢

    • @abelmontalvo4052
      @abelmontalvo4052 Před 2 lety +3

      All good things must come to an end

    • @supahcomix
      @supahcomix Před 2 lety +3

      Now it’s too expensive to even buy a small shack to live in

    • @Semper_
      @Semper_ Před 2 lety

      Yeah :/

  • @JD03ish
    @JD03ish Před 2 lety +5

    The narrator, Don Armstrong, still does helicopter news reporting, I think. Police chases, industrial fires, etc…..the sensational stuff.

  • @tylermiddaugh1515
    @tylermiddaugh1515 Před 2 lety +6

    everyone is hating on houston like right now isnt the best time to be here

    • @dmunoz5999
      @dmunoz5999 Před 2 lety +4

      CRIME is being allowed to prosper by judges who will not put these thugs in jail!!

    • @jalenbarlow1303
      @jalenbarlow1303 Před 2 lety

      @@dmunoz5999 Crime was much worse in Houston in the early 90s.

  • @bronsonzarate8648
    @bronsonzarate8648 Před 2 lety +11

    I live on the outskirts cities of Houston. Houston itself I would not live in. The traffic is up the ass, drivers drive like shit, and the attitudes dont seem that great. There are too many people moving there, you feel the overpopulation when you drive inside houston. Its a double edge sword, personally i do not like it.

    • @Bahpes
      @Bahpes Před 2 lety +1

      Luckily only time i go into houston is at night so rarely any traffic at night so i never see traffic in houston😂

    • @bronsonzarate8648
      @bronsonzarate8648 Před 2 lety

      @@Bahpes I literally just came back from a motorcycle ride front and back the rain caught me and the traffic was horrible, plus when i go on the side of the damn road to pass the heavy traffic sometimes some fool tries to block me. I love sugarland and up in the woodlands.

    • @Mayito_Tamps
      @Mayito_Tamps Před 2 lety +1

      Thats why i wanna move to South Texas im done with Houston

    • @nativetexanful
      @nativetexanful Před 2 lety +1

      Houston was a much nicer city when this video was made. I remember going there as a kid back in the 70s. Like almost everywhere else Houston has changed for the worst.

    • @manuelbautista8592
      @manuelbautista8592 Před 2 lety

      now that we have politicians who only care about their own interests. The same Democrats as Republicans neglecting the best city to live. too much crime, dirty streets…shootings every day…nobody puts order today. But still there are no politicians with vision in Texas. They don't care about us taxpayers.

  • @redbone8844
    @redbone8844 Před 2 lety +4

    I love my city 🏙 Born and raised!!!

  • @Eduardo-cz3wf
    @Eduardo-cz3wf Před rokem +4

    This is great and rare footage of Houston airports, I’m part of a historical organization and we would like to have this in our archives. Would you mind sharing it with us?

  • @4evermistyblu
    @4evermistyblu Před 2 lety +3

    I was born and raised in St. Louis, Mo. I married a Houstonian and we move here 8 years ago and I love my new city. I believe the video stated Houston was the fifth largest American city, I believe it’s fourth now. More and more people are moving here and I don’t blame them.

    • @robloxvids2233
      @robloxvids2233 Před 2 lety

      Same. Born and raised in STL (Grant's Farm area then later St. Charles) and moved to Houston 27 years ago when I was 16. I miss the hills and cool(er) evenings that STL had...

  • @keekee7404
    @keekee7404 Před 2 lety +4

    I love Houston and was born and raised here. I have been all over this country and Houston offers a unique blend of diversity, food, music, and culture. I see a lot of people commenting on how great Houston used to be but it is still great IMO. That is why people continue to move here in droves.

  • @supermariodan3887
    @supermariodan3887 Před 2 lety +8

    I was born in Houston in 1975 during all this

  • @fatimahelamin2924
    @fatimahelamin2924 Před 2 lety +8

    That was the year My Husband and I got Married and We're still Together with ALLAH'S BLESSINGS!

  • @mikenixon2401
    @mikenixon2401 Před 2 lety +3

    Make me feel young again. I remember the growth boom. Kind of miss those days.

  • @sheilawoolley8843
    @sheilawoolley8843 Před 2 lety +6

    The narrator is Don Armstrong of ABC13

  • @shonwest1539
    @shonwest1539 Před 2 lety +8

    I remember when I-10 was only 3 lanes 😅