The Pecan Park Eagle

Home of One Pecan Park Eagle
6646 Japonica Street
Houston, TX 77087
1945-1958

Our good SABR friend, Father Gerald Beirne, is busy this week fighting the cold of that rampaging blizzard in New England at his snowed-in abode in Narragansett, RI and he has chosen to spend the time warming our hearts in more hospitable climes with warm and fuzzy high tech sites that are designed to open the bucket of nostalgia confetti that hangs over most of our heads.

This website is sort of a “Goggle Maps Made Even Easier” vehicle for instantly viewing any place in your childhood years that may have been special to you. For example, if you want to see a piece of Pecan Park in Houston, where I grew up, as it exists today, just use the link below and type in “6646 Japonica, Houston, TX 77087” and, voila, there’s our little house i Southeast Houston off the Gulf Freeway at Griggs Road, looking far now than it ever did when we lived there some seventy years ago. Then, if you use the little drag-and-see tools there to move around the neighborhood, you will even find our not-so-famous “Eagle Field” sandlot, catty cornered across the street from our old north-facing home site, now officially known as “Japonica Park.” It’s too cluttered now with small children’s playground equipment to handle the kinds of games we used to play.

Eagle Sandlot Park
1947-1952
Now Japonica Park
Japonica @ Myrtle Streets
Houston, TX in 2015

Of course, you may want to just check out the two photos taken here from our own search and go straight to your own. Just insert the full street, town and city address of your own history and watch what happens.

And please – those of you who will – consider sharing your experience in the search with a comment on this Pecan Park Eagle site, and not as an e-mail to me that leaves everyone else out in the rain on your particular observations . We’re all on this time-limited ride of life together – even if we do enter and exit on our own time schedule. The more we are able to share the joys and sorrows of our own journeys, the tighter our chances grow for becoming more connected to our common ground as human beings.

Here’s the magically visual time machine link that will take you back to where you each started, if it’s on their maps. Have fun!

http://www.vpike.com/

Have fun! Let us hear from you, if you will. And thanks agin, Father Gerald Beirne, for this wonderful gift!

– The Pecan Park Eagle