COMMENT OF THE DAY: GOODBYE TO WOODCREST 
“. . . I contend that Rice Military has eaten up Woodcrest whatever the original boundaries were. I have lived about a mile from that Knox Street house for five years, riding my bike through there several times a week, and have never seen any evidence of the Woodcrest brand. (Though the pic of the sign in the TC Jester esplanade on the crickets-empty Woodcrest Neighborhood Association website looks vaguely familiar. It’s in black and white so no telling how old it is.) Rice Military, Crestwood/Glen Cove and Cottage Grove all have Wikipedia pages. Woodcrest does not. 999 out of 1000 Houstonians would not have a clue where Woodcrest was, but lots more know Rice Military. Its original identity has been erased in the last ten or 15 years and it’s now a Condo Canyon like Rice Military so let’s just let that boring Woodcrest name go, especially since there’s a Crestwood right down the street.” [John Nova Lomax, commenting on Hearsay Doubling Up Downtown; Touring the Inner Loop’s Second-Cheapest Rent House] Illustration: Lulu
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Haha “Condo Canyon” sounds like a master-planned community in Sugar Land. Of course, it needs a “Lakes of…” or “…Ranch” appendage to be taken seriously.
Let’s just have a moratorium on Lomax renaming Houston neighborhoods
Anything but “Rice” Military—it’s absurd this area has Rice in the name at all, I don’t care what its history –maybe an area on Sims Bayou was once called River Oaks, it doesn’t mean you name it River Oaks “Bend”
I really wish you had applied this standard of “if only 1 per 1000 Houstonians may know where _______ is, then that name should not be used” when you put the name “Tampico Heights” in print.
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I think if you want to jump down DNaguy’s throat for using a real (if obsolete) neighborhood name, you should probably retract your naming a neighborhood based on Craigslist sofa sales.
It’s absurd that the area is named after the family that established it? Yeah, that never happens.
Don’t be hating just because you’re jealous, Davey. ;p