Comments on: Houston Mixtape #2: Huey Long and The Ink Spots Museum

By: Dan Sumner

Dan Sumner — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:55:52 +0000

Chris,

I really enjoyed this article. When I come to visit (hopefully soon) I certainly want to go!

By: Chris Becker

Chris Becker — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 15:02:05 +0000

Indeed. I should point out that lack of zoning has had both positive and negative impact on Houston’s landscape.

Real estate, zoning, and segregation (in all of its guises) profoundly affects the creative culture of any city. In New Orleans that’s very evident, you see it in Houston too, although you might have to dig a bit into the history of the various wards going back to the early 20th century to get a more complete picture.

Isn’t it amazing how many homes in the South had pianos or guitars back before the depression and on into the second World War?

By: Doris Murdock

Doris Murdock — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:47:28 +0000

Chris, the paragraph relating the Metro 80 to Houston’s lack of zoning is excellent. Not that I like the lack of zoning that has also resulted in the destruction of historical properties.

Playing ragtime when the adults were out of earshot also was sometime my mother described. She was one of 13 children, living on a farm in rural southwestern Ohio, and she and the other brothers and sisters would play rags and boogie-woogie on the piano if the parents were gone. The piano was supposed to be for classical and church music. This would have been in mid-1930s.

By: Anita Long

Anita Long — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 02:49:06 +0000

Chris, it was a delight meeting you and your wife, thank you for taking the time to write about The Ink Spots Museum and about my father, this is our Anniversary, we officially opened in the Houston Heights Historic District, TX, on June 19th 2007, “Juneteenth” also known as Freedom Day or Emancipation Day.
Dad was 103 years young and proud of his museum. (April 25, 1904 – June 10, 2009)