Gulf Coast Deco XI

A few posts ago was Gulf Coast Deco X & 1/4, so-named because I had only a few Art Deco structures to share. I've since gone back to Houston and found a couple of other things, so I decided to combine it all together into a whole Gulf Coast Deco post.

Let me begin with the Houston Municipal Airport Terminal. It was built in 1940 and designed by Joseph Finger.








 






The terminal is right down the street from the Houston Municipal Airport Hangar, from 1940, also designed by Joseph Finger:




Also from 1940 is the Hamman Exploration Co. building. I half expected Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers to come out dancing cheek to cheek:









The former Garden Oaks Theater, from 1947:



I don't believe it's Art Deco, but this business has been around for at least sixty years (which is around the period of Deco's peak influence). They also have a pretty cool, vintage (I'm assuming) neon sign:








And another relic of that distant age:






Last time I tried to get the 1929 Peden Co. Building, I wasn't too happy with the results. This one is a little bit better.




Barely visible in the background of another picture, this the Tower Community Center c.1937, architect: Joseph Finger






It may not seem like much now, but here it is back in 1938:
Houston Metropolitan Research Center, Houston Public Library




This Pilgrim's Cleaners on Westheimer (in Houston) looks like Deco to me, but I'm not sure about that. It's pretty neat though.






A different cleaners, a frickin' cool vintage neon sign:


Past episodes:

Gulf Coast Deco

Gulf Coast Deco II

Gulf Coast Deco III

Gulf Coast Deco IV

Gulf Coast Deco V

Gulf Coast Deco VI

Gulf Coast Deco VII

Gulf Coast Deco VIII

Gulf Coast Deco IX

Gulf Coast Deco X

Gulf Coast Deco XII