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24 Ibid; Richard Dean, “BASEBALL ‘89/Astodome Renovation closeto being finished,” The Houston Chronicle, April 2, 1989; BobGreen, former radio producer/engineer for the Houston Astros,email conversation with author, Houston, Texas, October 2000.25 Ibid.Babe Didrikson Zaharias EndnotesLONG BEFORE THE “BATTLE OF THE SEXES,” THERE WASBabe ...THE BABE DIDRIKSON ZAHARIAS MUSEUM1 “Babe Didrikson Zaharias,” Babe Didrikson Zaharias Foundation,www.babedidriksonzaharias.org, (accessed February 16, 2009);Russell Freedman, Babe Didrikson Zaharias: The Making of aChampion (New York: Clarion Books, 1999), 15-16, 35-38.2 Freedman, 51; “Babe Didrikson Zaharias”; Larry Schwartz “Didriksonwas a woman ahead of her time,” Special to ESPN.com,http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00014147.html, (accessedMay 6, 2009).3 “Babe Didrikson Zaharias.”4 Freedman, 89-92; Rhonda Glenn, “Babe Didrikson Zaharias –Whatta Gal,” U.S. Women’s Open.com, http://www.uswomensopen.com/2004/press/whatta-gal.html, (accessed March 23, 2009).5 “Babe Didrikson Zaharias”; Schwartz, “a woman ahead of hertime”; Juan A. Lozano, “Babe Zaharias was Bigger than Game,”Los Angeles Times, May 18, 2003, D-1; http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:DcuiLoy3A4gJ:articles.latimes.com/2003/may/18/sports/sp-dogbabe18+Zaharias+%2B+PGA&cd=11&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us, (accessed May 17, 2009).6 Freedman, 152-156; Glenn, “Whatta’ Gal,”; “Babe Didrikson Zaharias.”7 “Babe Didrikson Zaharias”; “Top 100 athletes of the 20th century,”USA Today, http://www.usatoday.com/sports/ssat2.htm, (accessedMay 17, 2009); “Top N. American athletes of the century,” ESPN.com, http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/athletes.html, (accessed May17, 2009).8 W. L. Pate, President of Babe Didrikson Zaharias Foundation,personal correspondence with author, May 6, 2009.THE RACIAL AND ECONOMIC POLITICS OF A HOUSTONNEIGHBORHOOD1 “The Orient Next Door,” Houston Chronicle, 13 October 1985.2 “Sharpstown on Way to Being ‘Urban Village,’” Houston Chronicle,7 July 1996, 10; “‘City’ of 15,000 Homes Planned,” HoustonChronicle, 10 July 1954, 1, 5; “$30 Million Community CenterPlanned by Sharp,” Houston Post, 12 March 1955, 1, 8; “Sharpstownto be Dedicated at Fete Today,” Houston Post, 13 March1955; “Add Big Tract to Sharpstown,” Houston Press, 12 March1955, 1, 9; “Sales Shown Gain at Sharpstown,” New York Times, 1January 1956, R4; Owen D. Gutfreund, Twentieth Century Sprawl:Highways and the Reshaping of the American Landscape, (NewYork: Oxford University Press, 2004); Peter C. Papademetriou,Transportation and Urban Development in Houston, 1830-1980,(Houston: Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, 1982),76.3 Peter G. Rowe, Making the Middle Landscape, (Cambridge, MA:MIT Press, 1991), 24-25.4 “Sales Show Gain,” New York Times, 1 January 1956; “Gone toTexas,” Texas Monthly, February 1993; “Builders Get 684 AcresNear Houston: Will Add to Dwellings at Sharpstown,” New YorkTimes, 16 September 1956, R14; Rowe, Making the Middle Landscape,23; “Blooming Prairie: Sharpstown,” Newsweek, 21 March1955, p. 88-80.5 “Add Big Tract to Sharpstown,” Houston Press, 12 March 1955,1, 9; “Sharp Belies Out-of-Stater’s Idea About Texas Millionaire,”Houston Post, 13 March 1955, 6;“Sharpstown to be Dedicated atFete Today,” Houston Post, 13 March 1955; “U.S. Housing ChiefApplauds Frank Sharp for Vision, Faith,” Houston Post, 14 March1955, 1, 3; “All of First Section of Sharpstown Sold,” HoustonPress, 13 April 1955, 1; “Sales Show Gain,” New York Times, 1January 1956; “Gone to Texas,” Texas Monthly, February 1993;“Builders Get 684 Acres,” New York Times, R14; “Blooming Prairie:Sharpstown,” Newsweek, 21 March 1955, 88-80; Rowe, Makingthe Middle Landscape, 23, 24-25; Mickey Herskowitz, SharpstownRevisited: Frank Sharp and a Tale of Dirty Politics in Texas, (Austin,Texas: Eakin Press), 56; “Sharpstown Flap Blurs New Vision:Neighbor Pitted Against Neighbor in City’s Oldest Subdivision,”Houston Chronicle, 12 January 1997, A1.6 Rowe, Making, 23-25; “Gone to Texas,” Texas Monthly; Papademetriou,Transportation and Urban Development in Houston, 68;Thomas and Murray, Progrowth Politics; $30 Million CommunityCenter,” Houston Post, 1, 8.7 The interviewees, who wish to remain anonymous, still live in thehouse they bought forty years ago, telephone communication withauthor, 18 October 2008; U.S. Congress, Congressional Record,Extension of Remarks, Recognizing Georgina Suarez Gonzalezand Luis L. Gonzalez, 10 June 2003, http://thomas.loc.gov/beta/billView.jsp?&k2dockey=/prd/k2/congressional_record/xml/108/E11JN3/E11JN30030.xml@cong_record&numHits=1&currDoc=1&currentPage=1&108%3Cin%3Econgress%29&congress=108 (accessedon 19 October 2008).8 “Urban and Suburban Houston: A Tale of Two Cities: Flight to NewEnvirons Hastens Urban Decay,” Houston Chronicle, 7 July 1991;“Now, It’s Remember the Oil Bust!,” New York Times, 22 August1989; “Oil Bust, Space Tragedy and Chronicle Sale,” HoustonChronicle, 5 October 2001; Stanley E. Siegel and John A. Moretta,Houston: A Chronicle of the Bayou City, (Sun Valley, Calif: AmericanHistorical Association, 2005), 219; Dave McNeely and JimHenderson, Bob Bullock: God Bless Texas, (Austin: University ofTexas Press, 2008), chapter 19; “The Great Texas Oil Bust,” Newsweek,31 March 1986; Darrell Gerdes, e-mail message to author, 20July 2008; Betty Townes, e-mail message to author, 28 July 2008.9 Rowe, Making, 25, 27; “Houston Home Prices Fall Sharply in ’86:Home Prices Off but Likely to Improve,” Houston Chronicle, 11March 1987; “Flight to New Environs Hastens Urban Decay,”Houston Chronicle, 7 July 1991.10 Rowe, Making, 25, 27; Jerry Wood quoted in “Gone to Texas,”Texas Monthly, February 1993; “Census Tracks Rapid Growth inSuburbia,” Houston Chronicle, 10 March 1991; “Flight to NewEnvirons Hastens Urban Decay,” Houston Chronicle, 7 July 1991;Darrell Gerdes, e-mail message to author, 20 July 2008; BettyTownes, e-mail message to author, 28 July 2008; “DowntownOrganization Looks East for Marketing Inspiration,” Houston BusinessJournal, 9 January 2004; “Barrios in Southwest Houston,”Houston Chronicle, 2 August 1987.11 Rowe, Making, 27; Peg Purser, Minority Settlement Patterns in theHouston Area (University of Houston: Center for Public Policy,1992), 6,10; “The Orient Next Door,” Houston Chronicle, 13 October1985; “A More Eastern Flavor,” Houston Chronicle, 13 October1985; “Putting the Funk in Functional,” Planning, (June 2008):26-31, 29. Houston’s first Chinatown is located downtown.12 City of Houston Planning and Development Department, PlanningStudies, Houston Land Use and Demographic Profile 2000,Chapter 5: Study Areas, “Study Area 8,” 5-103, http://houstontx.gov/planning/planning_studies/ludem/pdf/chap5_area08.pdf;Greater Sharpstown Management District, “Sharpstown,” http://sharpstowndistrict.com (accessed 8 June 2008); Raymond J. Burby,III and Shirley F. Weiss, Public Policy for Suburban Integration:The Case for New Communities, (Chapel Hill: Urban and RegionalStudies, 1977), 105.54 Vol. 6, No. 3–Sports