Westheimer Street Festival (in Exile) Fall 2000 Pics

Eleanor Tinsley Park -- The Final Frontier.  This is the depiction of the Mardi Gras of Houston - the Westheimer Street Festival.  It's ongoing mission - to bring together the flavors of Houston, to mingle together, and have new friends.  To boldly go where no other block party has gone before...

The Fall 2000 WSF on Allen Parkway was fairly similar to the previous May 6/7 event earlier this year, but there was little change in crowd mass.  The only additions in the Fall 2000 weekend included a few events that are nontraditional:  the mechanical bull, petting zoo, and train ride through Eleanor Tinsley Park.  The latest additions might not have increased crowd mass, but the WSF organizers ensured that everyone deserved what they've got - a WSF, but in a different world.

Advertising banner (10/19/00, Lincoln @ Westheimer, in front of Burger King)

Menudo?

The Allen Parkway (Eleanor Tinsley Park) venue was a last-minute resort to relocating the WSF, after it was ousted by a 12-3 vote on 2/17/00.  Attitudes may change, but to purists, the WSF without the Montrose would be the same as the Diaspora, where Judaism is spread throughout the world.  The WSF isn't dead; it lives on, in a different world.  To this day, the original three festival tenants (Bayou City Art Festival, Downtown Street Festival, and the WSF Corporation) no longer have a connotation with the Montrose (exc. the WSF, where they own the naming rights).

WSF2000 Central
The Emissary's WSF2000 Private Collection (Fall '00)
Art Car Expo
WSF(IE) Final Frontier Pics