1977 Overview (mostly)

Arg, flatbed limitations strike again. January had something going on with the a Civic Association, and students. . .  and yeah. I got nothing. Same goes for December. Sorry!)

It is interesting to see a roundup of the "big happenings" in the neighborhood at a glance.

February Highlights

• 125 cars vandalized
• Bad flu, but "not bad enough to close schools". Wait, did that ever happen?? 
• Burnett Elementary opened

March Highlights

• Congressman Gammage fights to keep Ellington AFB going
• SVFD got an ATV and helped birth a baby. But not on the ATV.
• Beverly Hills residents fought for street lights (really? There weren't lights in 1977?)
• Scarsdale gets a single cop car and three cops

April

• Tami Richardson qualifies for Nationals (gymnastics)
• Sageglen gets a Civic Association
• And lines are redrawn sending some Frazier students to Stuchberry instead

May

• The largest graduating class to date, 390 students, graduate from Dobie
• Pharmacist Joe Borja gets shot during a robbery
• SVFD was getting prank called
• Outbreak of measles
• And more arguing over what's going to happen to Ellington AFB

June

• Daytime burglaries are up and an elderly woman was mugged in front of the Safeway
• Super turf is approved for installation in Memorial Stadium

July

• HPD's Danny McBee is awarded for his actions that save a 17 year old Soult Belt resident

August

• The Clear Lake annexation fight gets going
• Scarsdale residents were told their water had so  much fluoride in it, their teeth might turn black. (This is why I posted the photo. You wouldn't believe me otherwise.)
• HPD impounds the one cop car Scarsdale finally got because it was involved in an accident.
• The PISD Budget is approved for 50,000,000 million dollars. I got curious about what it is today: almost $525,000,000.
•  "The local City of Houston ambulance began a "here today, gone tomorrow" routine, which lasted two months."

September

• Sagemeadow begins a neighborhood watch
• High winds cause damage around the area
• San Jac "Coming Soon" sign is installed
• Texas Commerce Bank and a new shopping center was announced

October

• City of Houston assigns a brand new ambulance to the area, and it promptly breaks down.
• Scarsdale was under annexation discussions and all garbage pickup ceased.

November

• Sherri Whitnah was Dobie Homecoming Queen
• Vandals went around cutting trees
• Sabo Townhomes burn

December
Something about baseball, a stop sign, and traffic signal happened.