Ellen Frances Tuchman will be creating a mixed-media set of paintings for the new John Phelps Sr. Courthouse Annex in Pasadena, Texas

In person to collect your treasures

and scan your precious photos for the project:

Saturday January 30, 2010

10AM-4PM

Kyle Chapman Annex

7330 Spencer Hwy.

Pasadena, Texas 77505

She is looking for memorabilia documenting the history of Pasadena, Deer Park, Galena Park, Deepwater, La Porte, Morgan’s Point, Shoreacres and South Houston from the years 1890-2000.

Please donate (for a tax deduction) ---- items not chosen

can be returned or donated to the Pasadena Historical Museum

CALL FOR MEMORABILIA WISH LIST

Note: 3-Dimensional souvenirs size specifications— can be no bigger than 6x8x1.5 inches, with the most important measurement the depth (1 ½ inches high if you lay it down on a table)

Themes to consider:

BATTLESHIP TEXAS AND SAN JACINTO MONUMENT - Postcards and photos;Trinkets and souvenirs

ANHEUSER-BUSCH PLANT - Photos, patches from employees, Trinkets and souvenirs

OIL REFINERIES PETROCHEMICAL PLANTS– SINCLAIR OIL, SHELL, LYONDELL, Phillips Fire in 1989 ETC

employee or logo patches, photos of the refineries & some employees, souvenirs with company logos, tin signs..... I really want the miniature toy refinery made by HOT WHEELS

The first plant was Shell so something about their history

SHIP CHANNEL - Photos not just postcards; magazine

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WASHBURN TUNNEL

STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL/CLARA BARTON

Photos, trinkets; I have the first-day postal cover from 1904

COTTON/FARMING

COUNTY FAIR/RODEO – pins and souvenirs

Metal BADGES and embroidered PATCHES FROM POLICE/FIRE/ETC DEPARTMENTS

PARKS- BurnettPark

SPORTS

1.HOUSTON YACHT CLUB/OLYMPIC TRIALS souvenirs

2. BASEBALL - 1987 DEER PARK ASTROS SET W/NOLAN RYAN; ANDY PETTITTE

SCHOOLS

Class or achievements pins; ground-breaking photos, one yearbook needed from each school (this is the easiest thing so I only want a few!)

BUSINESSES

  1. GILLEYS – Urban Cowboy photos of filming movie
  2. logo or advertising from businesses pre-1980
  3. Harris/Red Bluff KKK- this is from the dark side of history but still history
  4. VFW, ROTARY, Clubs – hats, pins, ribbon awards

DRIVE-INSfood and Ice Houses – need uniform name tags or hats, advertisements, photos

1.VICKI’S (south Houston)

2.TRAINER’S (on the old La Porte road at Tatar which is now Pasadena Road)

3.CORRAL (just over the Pasadena city limit next to the Sinclair Refinery)

4.STUARTS (on south Main)

DRIVE-INS and movie theaters– need ticket stubs, uniform name tags, advertisements, photos

1.Colonial Drive-In (La Porte)

2.Eagle Drive-In (Pasadena)

3.Pasadena Drive-In

4.Red Bluff Drive-In (Pasadena)

5.Town and Country Drive-In (4716 Red Bluff, Pasadena)

6. Capitan

7.Long’s

FIRSTS – the first brick bldg; first elevator, first A/C building, etc.

FAMOUS RESIDENTS – Photos or autographs

ETC. ETC.: