Mod-ification and Makeovers at the North End of Glenbrook Valley

<a href=Glenbrook Valley neighborhood signage, Glenbrook Valley, Houston, 77061" width="540" height="545" /> <a href=Glenbrook Valley neighborhood signage ca. 1956, Glenbrook Valley, Houston, 77061" width="300" height="113" />The retroGlenbrook Valley neighborhood entry sign above is now standing on Broadway St. north of the intersection with Santa Elena St., Robert Searcy notes. The neighborhood civic club’s new Mod marker echoes one that stood in the area shortly after the subdivision’s early 1950s founding (shown here in a black and white excerpt from a brochure for the 1956 Parade of Homes tour) and replaces the much more rectilinear sign long planted in about the same spot. The new sign’s cursive also mimics the throwback style of the script on the nearby Glenbrook Valley Apartments on Bellfort St.: *** 7710 Bellfort St., <a href=Glenbrook Valley, Houston, 77061" width="553" height="336" /> Elsewhere on Broadway, Scenic Houston’s Hobby-minded landscaping redo wrapped up this month as well; the baby oak trees above are now installed among their older, thicker peers in the median strips just south of I-45:Broadway St. at I-45 Images: Robert Searcy (top 2), arch-ive.org (Glenbrook Valley Apartments), Scenic Houston (bottom) Pregaming on Broadway St.

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