Ive been in kingwood off 59 since 2006. nothing was built before

Tubec :
I've been here since 1969. Imagine what I saw. Woods.

Surfer58 :
Yeah I revisited my childhood home in south Carolina a few years ago. All the woods I use to play in were all neighborhoods now. Was tough to swallow.

Tubec :
I remember, as a kid there was a part of our back yard in New England that was barren…we had it tilled, and I helped manually remove a bunch of large rocks in wheelbarrows, then we had fertilizer (manure) trucked in that I helped spread, in order to hopefully revitalize growth…we moved away 2 years later…then I went back there 30 years later and had this weird out-of-body feeling as I saw that barren land was now a forest of huge, full grown trees! I was totally confused for a moment, until reflecting that…yeah, actually, that's something that can happen after 30 years.

Tubec :
You were just a young whipper-snapper but Mountasia was there until 2007. I took my kids there many times. There is Luby's( not my favorite), but it is still there. I have to admit that there were plenty of businesses in that strip, but I have forgotten them.

Tubec : disgusting unnecessary population explosion

Ruger5 :
My in laws moved to New Caney off 252 in 2000 to retire to the country !

We moved here in summer of 1975.

billcherie2 :
surprise surprise! I just wish people were happy, staying put in the cities they live in instead of all wishing to flock our way, I wonder what the overcrowding is going to do to our quality of life if it keeps up at this current pace, don't think that isn't something to ponder.

billcherie2 : I think you mean 242, buddy.

Tubec :
I have been her since '97 and there are too much change to mention. I can only imagine for the people who have lived here all there lives.

My parents bought their home in Greentree in 1993 when Mills Branch was still a dirt road. Crazy to think there's a big gas station and liquor store back there now.

Tubec :
I was raised about 35 minutes from here, and coming to Humble, back then, was coming to a larger area, with more to do, places to eat, etc. I came to Kingwood for it's grand opening,when I was a child. My dad exercised his hunting dogs where IAH is now; it was just fields, then. It is amazing how Much as changed; I remember when 1960 was mostly a dirt road

Mike1273 :
We got here in 1977. DH worked at airport and friends had bought a house in Forest Cove. The Randalls center was being cleared for a parking lot and store. The road was 2 lanes, and the RR tracks were a mess then. There were no street lights. I think Kingwood drive was only open as far as Trailwood...
We also looked at the Woodlands. Panther Creek 3 Br were selling for 36k. There was a small grocery store on Sawdust. People had to drive to 1960/45.
We moved to Aldine/I45 for 5 years, because we needed a grocery store, drug store, restaurants.

I've been here since 2002. So many restaurants have opened! I moved from Houston, where there were already lots of restaurants and shopping! When we moved to Houston from Chicago, in 1963, the only places to eat or shop were downtown and Main st.!

Joe :
When we lived outside of Atlanta, I went with our neighbor, as they have a program to keep the state full of the beautiful dogwood trees, there. They gave me 14 little saplings, and I planted them all, some pink, some white, in a pattern like that. My son was born the week after the planting. Now, 39 years later, 11 of those trees made it, and are a big, gorgeous hedge, at the back of that property. I was back visiting my niece in ATL about 3 years ago, and we drove out to the house. The current owner was on the driveway, washing his car, so we got out and explained about planting the trees. He was so gracious, and welcomed us in to the house, and on the the back yard, to see these great trees. He and his wife had just had Their first son, 2 months before. It's a legacy of Boys and Dogwoods!