Houston - Texas in 1975.
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- Опубликовано: 2 авг 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.
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Seeing Houston with these tiny skyscrapers is crazy. It’s a completely different city now.
That was about 50 years ago so makes you wonder what it will look like 50 years from now in 2070s.
We'll aal be dead by 2070, why does it matter.
@@theamused8705 The Jetsons are forty years away in 2062.
@@brandonray4379 not all of us 😉
With nobody in their streets. Crazy
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I lost my virginity at the Houston Zoo.
Can you send me .3 btc?
Houston has never been 3rd largest. It’s currently #4. Chicago is 3rd.
I sure would like to see an updated version of this video, before and after.
I moved to Sharpstown, Houston in 79 from London England. It has changed so much since then, and not for the better either.
Sharpshooter town now
It will change for the better give it time. Corruption has to go.
@@annoin lol cute
@@annoin wishful thinking. That’s cute.
@@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.
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.
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
@@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
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*****
@@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
@JulieBishop Exactly
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.
Couldn't help noticing how much skinnier and in shape the average person was in 1975....
Less corporate bs telling you what to eat back then.
K wild.. I'm enjoying how much they were heterosexual and Christian back then too..
@@carlbass4449 me too
I was skinny and still skinny
@@carlbass4449 lol this is the same Godly generation that brought us Aids
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.
Not to far off as the 3rd largest…
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 ❤
1975 was orange as fuck!
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. ♥️
I am 23 years old and watched this by accident. It's cool to see how much stuff is still the same
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.
haha you know Clint Knight?? he was prolly named after Clinton Ave.
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.
My Dad & Uncle both worked there too.
Born in 1968 and raised in Houston.
Grew up going to Peppermint Park and Astroworld.
Yes I remember peppermint park had my 10th birthday party there
I used to go to astroworld I miss it
Peppermint Park
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So cool to compare 1975 to now. Amazing growth.
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 .
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Wish I could’ve been there
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.
@@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.
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.
Houston is a beautiful place to live I've been here all my life and couldn't live anywhere else🖤💜💚💚💛🧡
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.
At least they have their tablets and phones be on social media all day on tiktok lol while eating tide pods.
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.
Wow!!
I was 10 years old when they made this video!!
Houston is still a powerhouse when it comes to business and innovation.
I was 18. Idk, things are worse now. 🤣
@@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.....
@@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. 🙂
@@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.
@@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.
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.
why do you think it is a garbage dump now?
"Houston, you have a problem."
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.
Best City in Texas
are you moving ????
Houston was known as the murder capital of the United States in the '70s.
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.
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.
@@gatorbackradial Even with the retention pond the underpass still floods...
Katy is Houston now for the most part.
@@kurtsaxton823 Back then it was all rice fields and cow pasture.
@@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
I'm a Houstonian born raised and grew up in Houston all my life.
Same north Houston by 45 & 8
I lost my virginity at the Houston Zoo.
Better you than me.
@10:33 this made me giggle! As a 3rd generation Houstonian i wish our weather was mild year round!
Hell to compared to US (OHIO) Y'ALL ARE mild 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Crazy to see how the city was before i was alive
Move to Houston in 1979 I was 15 years old. The Katy freeway after dairy ashford there was nothing until Katy.
My home city! I was 18 when this was filmed. Still live here. I still love it, but miss these old days.
how hot was it outside?
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.
@@Anguish88 42 days over 100 degrees in 1980. There were even t shirts that said, "I survived the hear wave of 1980."
@@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.
I lost my virginity at the Houston Zoo.
Born in Houston Texas in 1920 and have 55 years old in 1975 is Dream.
Are you 102 years old?
Are you sure you were born in Houston in 1920? 🤔
Are you still living?
I don't remember Houston being Sepia toned back then.
Nice shots of Astroworld, too.
This sepia color it is due to the used video camera film used at that time. Thank you for watching !
It wasn't sepia, it was the polluting smog blowing over from stinkadena.
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)
Hardly recognized without the traffic, really cool to see the history of it
So true
Wow you are so right no traffic I can't even comprehend
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.
The city has gone down hill since the early 70s. Down it just a big mess of store closed and bad streets.
Best city in the world.
Love Houston!! So happy to live here
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
We in the same Houston? downtown is a mess
Awesome video!! Great channel! Can’t wait for more videos!
Thanks so much!!
Thank you for posting. It bring back great memories
Thank you for watching ! we really appreciate your comment !
Did my residency in Texas Medical Center in Houston from 1979 - 1984. It was a great city.
You’re cool.
@@thadentist My brother and sister still live in Texas. Sister near Houston and brother near Dallas. Texas is great state!
@@rmwtsou where do you live now and why did you move??
@@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.)
@@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. 🤷🏾♀️
Looks nice with everyone not on cell phones.
This is the same voice actor from the hide under your desk if there is a nuclear attack scholastic film
This dude did EVERYTHING LOLOL 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Well, Pat Brown, Don Nelson, Ron Stone, Steve Smith, Bob Allen, Dave Ward, and Marvin Zindler were unavailable.
Don Armstrong, traffic reporter! 🚁
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
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
Ha, I graduated high school in 1975! I'm homesick after watching this, but it's SO much larger now!
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.
I stay in Harris county born 2001 it’s crazy over here trying to see what once was…
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...
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.
@@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.
during the early to mid 80's Houston had almost twice as many murders per year as now
@@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.
Sad to see what was once an amazing city turn into what it is today.
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
It’s actually much better today.
@@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
@@Shikta-poobah67 do explain
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.
I love my city 🏙 Born and raised!!!
Same here
Love my city!!!
But not a word about traffic, humidity, crime, or roaches.
Oh god the roaches are almost as bad as the mosquitoes. Lived here all my 64 years
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.
@@DonniePalmer57 I only lived in Houston 14 years--but it seemed like 64.
Yep! That's what I was thinking.
I was 25 and a newlywed (married at 23 y.o.). We were living on Westheimer. It was a great city back then.
One year ago, the Gulf Oil sign was taken down.
My family moved here in August 1972 and returned in August 1976.
We moved to Houston in 1957
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.
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.
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.
Hello from Tyler Texas!
Hello Paula and Thank you for watching!
Houston has changed quite a bit in 48 years. Houston now has the world’s best Rollerball team.
I remember 1975 and everything having a red tint.
LMAO
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.
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?
I knew I recognized that narrator's voice! That's traffic reporter Don Armstrong. 🚁🎤🎧🚙
What radio station?
@AlbaDoggy he worked for channel 13 for like 75 years
I miss Astroworld...
I miss the Astroworld festival
Glad to see Houston before it went to shit
Why not enough blacks for your liking?
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.
Houston was red.
Houston was actually a nice place at one time
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
The narrator, Don Armstrong, still does helicopter news reporting, I think. Police chases, industrial fires, etc…..the sensational stuff.
I'm so proud to be a houstonian 🤠
And still growing rapidly 6-12-2022
Make me feel young again. I remember the growth boom. Kind of miss those days.
I was a kid going down there all the time. Thought it was a grand city back then.
I remember shopping at Foley’s downtown, and walking in the tunnels with my sister and parents. I love these memories.
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.
I was there I lived there and I loved it. God how I missed the 70s. Bad weed good loving
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 🤯
It’s at Texas
@@user-oc6cx5uj4x yes I know lol it's in Houston Texas. I live here. It's not anything like this video!
🤦🏾♀️Dude u said where tf this city at I said Texas anything wrong with that🤷🏾♀️
@@AlbaDoggyit was exactly like this in the early seventies!
@@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!
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 ".
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.
@@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!
@@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.
@@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!
@@benjaminrodriguez7356 100% is.
I was born in Houston in 1975 during all this
The good Ole day's 🙂.. not the same anymore 😢
All good things must come to an end
Now it’s too expensive to even buy a small shack to live in
Yeah :/
Remarkable City and this is a really informative presentation.
How the algorithm know I was in Houston tho 🤨
everyone is hating on houston like right now isnt the best time to be here
CRIME is being allowed to prosper by judges who will not put these thugs in jail!!
@@dmunoz5999 Crime was much worse in Houston in the early 90s.
Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for watching!
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.
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...
I remember when I-10 was only 3 lanes 😅
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.
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 .
@@robertttttt716 The murder rate in Houston is still nowhere like it was in the early 90s.
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.
@@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.
That was the year My Husband and I got Married and We're still Together with ALLAH'S BLESSINGS!
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.
This was the City that I grew up around. It is sad what it has become.
I was a senior at Westchester high 75/76.....Its become a hellhole....thanks to a blue party
Ahhh change is good. Born here 61 years. Like the rest of the world there is no place without bad stuff going on anywhere
FACTS!
Houston #1.
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
True
You mean like when white people came to Texas when it was populated by Mexicans? Y’all brought your European problems.
Crazy I discovered this channel cs I like right near la colmena down fallbrook, now I can know about all the damm accidents near here
I was in fifth grade then.
Nice to look back.
And I just happen to have ZZ Top in the CD player now. What a coincidence.
Wow!!
I was -11 years old when they made this video!! RIP Astroworld!
Awesome!
Thanks!
Why does the 1970s look more attractive
Things seemed better back then. 🤣
Simplicity
Because it was a much better time. I graduated hs in 85 (Lamar) and all my friends & I agree, we'd love to be able to go back.
People actually dressed well when they went out.
Not littered with drugs and gangs 🙄🙄
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.
WHEN I CAME TO H-TOWN IN 1976, IT LOOKS LIKE THIS.
46 YEARS AGO.
Me too i come 1976