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6714 Navigation Boulevard - Navaway Theater.  

Seen here before its grand opening in 1939, the Navaway Theatre was located on Navigation between 67th Street and Wayside Drive. It had one screen and seated 650 people. The original paved sidewalk can still be seen today.

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Southern Brass Manufacturing & Plating Co. It is currently a Pegasso Tours International Bus Station and has served as many different bus stations for several decades.

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A scene from the 6600 Block of Harrisburg 

You can see the Boulevard Theatre on the left and rail tracks for the Harrisburg line of the Houston Electric Company trolley. Houston was way ahead of its time. Harrisburg Boulevard is currently under construction for Metro's ever-expanding new light rail.

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Dumble Street tracks at Eastwood Park In 1916, the City of Houston acquired a 10.8-acre site on Harrisburg Boulevard and established Eastwood Park. You can follow the Galveston, Houston and Henderson (G,H&H) railroad tracks all the way to Galveston.

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5100 Polk Street - Jackson Middle School

Home of the Jackson Leopards, the main part of the building was built in 1925. Polk Street may have still been called Davis Street when this photo was taken.

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1400 Telephone Road - Rufus Cage Elementary School. 

Originally built in 1910, the two-story building housed four classrooms and served students on the city's east side until 1983. The building has been designated a "protected historic landmark" by the City of Houston.

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4120 McKinney - La Reynera Panaderia - Bakery 

Originally opened in 1945 as Albritton's Eats, La Reynera Panaderia - Bakery is still serving the East End in the original art-deco structure.

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4411 Dallas Street - Children outside the Church of the Redeemer.

Taken from the corner of Eastwood Street and Telephone Road. The window awnings were lost during Hurricane Katrina.