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The options presented to the road's residents included "Mayumi Road', "Japanese Road", "Japan Road", and "Boondocks Road". Out of 170 voting residents, over 100 chose "Boondocks Road". The Boondocks was a popular catfish restaurant that had closed a decade earlier. Anger at outside groups characterizing them as racists is the common explanation ...
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places in downtown Houston, Texas. It is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the Downtown Houston neighborhood, defined as the area enclosed by Interstate 10 , Interstate 45 , and Interstate 69 .
The restaurant stopped operations in 1998. Erica Cheng of the Houston Chronicle wrote that during the period it was active, it "was Houston’s premier Japanese restaurant". [30] In 1978 W.L. Taitte stated in Texas Monthly that the restaurant, which had servers do Japanese dances, "tries hard with the Japanese act for frustrated tourists."
In 1902, the Houston Chamber of Commerce requested help from Japanese Consul General Sadatsuchi Uchida in improving Texas rice production techniques. [1] At least thirty attempts were made by Japanese to grow rice in the state at this time, with two of the most successful colonies being one founded by Seito Saibara in 1903 in Webster, and another by Kichimatsu Kishi in 1907 east of Beaumont.
Harris County Constable Precinct 7 has its offices in Palm Center. [15] [16] A branch of the Harris County Tax Office is in the same complex. [17] There is a U.S. post office and an office of Neighborhood Centers, Inc. within Palm Center. [18] The Houston Business Development, Inc. (HBD) and the Business Information Center (BIC) are in Palm ...
State Highway 6 (SH 6) runs from the Red River, the Texas–Oklahoma state line, to northwest of Galveston, where it is known as the Old Galveston Highway. In Sugar Land and Missouri City, it is known as Alvin-Sugarland Road and runs perpendicular to Interstate 69 / U.S. Highway 59 (I-69/US 59).
Westheimer Road (/ ˈ w ɛ s t (h) aɪ m ər /) is an arterial east–west road in Houston, Texas, United States. It runs from Bagby Street in Downtown and terminates at the Westpark Tollway on the southern edge of George Bush Park, stretching about 19 miles (31 km) long. The street was named after Michael Louis Westheimer, a German immigrant ...
The Japan Festival was founded by Houston businessman Glen Gondo, the then president of the Japan America Society of Houston (JASH). [1] Gondo had been elected president of JASH in 1992. [2] That same year, the city of Houston unveiled the new Japanese Garden, designed by landscape architect Ken Nakajima, in the city's Hermann Park. [2]