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The Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco. In October 1904, A.P. Giannini founded the Bank of Italy in San Francisco. [3] [4] In October 1928, Giannini created a holding company that he named the Transamerica Corporation, which owned Bank of America, Bank of Italy, Bancitaly Corporation, National Bankitaly Company, California Joint Stock Land Bank, and Banca d'America e d'Italia [], which gave ...
27 August 1983: Transamerica L-100-30 N17ST crashed in fog at an elevation of 2,650 near Dundo, Angola, [14] killing all seven crew on board. [15] 29 December 1984: Transamerica L-100-30 N24ST was destroyed on the ground by gunfire at Cafunfo, Angola. [16] [17]
Angleton/Lake Jackson, Texas: LJN KLBX LBX 7,000 Scholes International Airport at Galveston: Galveston: GLS KGLS GLS 6,001 Ellington Airport: Houston: EFD KEFD EFD 9,001 West Houston Airport: Unincorporated Western Harris County IWS KIWS IWS 3,953 Houston Southwest Airport: Arcola – KAXH AXH 5,002 Conroe-North Houston Regional Airport: Conroe ...
Fortune 500 companies based in Houston [1]: Rank Company name 12: ExxonMobil: 48: Phillips 66: 60: Sysco: 105: Enterprise Products Partners: 106: Hewlett Packard Enterprise: 127: Plains GP Holdings
On May 12, 2005, federal agents and Houston Police Department (HPD) SWAT officers served a search warrant and arrested Loewenstein and his ex-wife, and a bank bought the foreclosed house for $700,000 ($1092042.94 when adjusted for inflation) at an auction in June 2005. [3] Development of new houses in Lakes of Parkway ended in 2009. [2]
The Greater Southwest Houston Chamber of Commerce building in the City of Bellaire (the office has since moved) Southwest Houston is a region in Houston, Texas, United States. The area is considered to be from Texas State Highway 6, south of Westpark Tollway to north of U.S. Route 90. Many Section 8 (housing) complexes are located in Southwest ...
Westheimer Road and Westheimer Parkway are named after Mitchell (Michael) Louis Westheimer, [13] a prosperous German Jewish immigrant and flour salesman who had settled in Houston in 1859. [14] [15] He purchased a 640-acre (260 ha) farm west of Houston's city limits at the time, where Lamar High School and St. John's School are currently ...
[12] [24] The City of Houston voted to annex the Alief-Fondren area on November 23, 1977. [25] In 1978, Brown and Root built a large engineering complex at the corner of Bellaire Blvd. and Beltway 8. [26] Houston continued to annex pieces of Alief into the 1980s. [27] West Oaks Mall opened in 1984 [28] and was annexed by the City of Houston the ...