Before and After

A nice neighbor who has lived on our street since the 1980's recently gave us some pictures he'd taken over the last 24 months. They show the house that used to sit on this property; the house that was torn down two years ago this month.

We'd heard that the old house had become rundown and was an eyesore. No kidding.


We hear that the old house had become a crack house, a shooting gallery and meth lab. Nice, huh?


I'm sure that most of the neighbors - at least the non-crackheads - were pretty glad to see the old gal go. Our new neighbors even came out to take a series of pics as they were demolishing the place.

Going....


Going....


Gone....


And re-birth...


And look at it now...


Let's hear it for gentrification. This is Houston, Texas, after all. We don't go for all that "preservatin'" old stuff, as Bushie might say. One man's dump is another man's palace, or something like that.