Lower Westheimer Memories

Westheimer Street Festival Photo Collection (pre-Allen Parkway era)

Here's a collection of WSF pics from various sources (e.g. Houston's Other Newsweekly), which will always be a reminder that a Lower Westheimer tradition will always live forever in Cyberheaven. Although the Houston City Council voted 12-3 (2/17/00) to deny the WSF a street closure permit to mark the Allen Parkway venue as the "new" home, these pics will always be a reminder that the memories will never fade for eternity.

Advertising banners with the street closure slogan are a thing of the past, and it is unlikely that signs like these will someday return. Mardi Gras in New Orleans was outlawed in 1806 - 1837, from the Spanish occupation of the city, as well as the intrusion of frontiersmen during the 1830s. John Florez and Co. might have attributed a lot of time and effort that the party is a success, along with the adequate facilities (port-a-potties, EMS access, and insurance). Business owners (Basic Brothers, Crossroads, Stop N Go et.al.) who have xenophobic views against culturalists, along with suburban refugees, have vowed to usher another era, where loft homes outnumber old hippies, gays, lesbians, and homeless youth.

416 Westheimer (April 1984, Houston City Magazine, p. 110)

Advertisement from Houston's Other Newsweekly (4/28/99)

Niko Niko's (4/28/99) advertising banner

Program Flyer (October 1994: The Year of the Party Whore)

A Short-Time Stay on 604 Westheimer (the current building houses Leather Forever)

HIPY (Houston Institute of the Protection of Youth, Inc.) -- a short-lived homeless teen shelter. Established 1994 (Disbanded 1995)

WestFest 1985 (photo courtesy of Mark Green)

Home