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operation since 1830 at its present location. When the you came to Greens Bayou, you used the Magee ferry to
ship channel goes past that ferry, to the right, it turns navigate that waterway. As you made your way toward
into the San Jacinto River, and to the left, it turns into Houston and wanted to get back across the channel, you
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aboard). It was located at the west end of Wallisville
Road. That ferry would take you across the river, to the
east end of Wallisville Road, in Channelview. Then you
could make your way back to Market Street and into
Houston. The McComb’s ferry was made free to trav-
el across in 1898 but was in existence long before that
year. Its service was discontinued in 1927 when the new
Market Street bridge opened for vehicle traffic. Once
you got across the river and were traveling west, when
are not rooms. They are deposito-
ries for the junk raked from the real
rooms. If it is square, stack it; books,
boxes, magazines, and mail. Nev-
er clean Venetian blinds. They are
more lethal than razor blades. A
way to commit suicide is to slit your
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Ken Bredehoeft is a retired school teacher who lives in
Mont Belvieu.
yourself to discard goes there; pho-
tos with the heads cut off, 51 card
decks, old check stubs. This may be
the most interesting drawer in the
house.
Be sure your bathroom is brown.
The tub is dirty, the sink is gray,
the commode is not even to be dis-
cussed, but no white tile for them,
rather grayed boards. Brown bath-
rooms are easy to ignore. Our pio-
neer ancestors lived in cabins with
dirt floors so you can learn to live
with anything.
Never clean on a sunshiny day.
You need to go outside and give your
soul an airing and never be accused
of obsessive-compulsive-disorder.
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Buffalo Bayou. Local folks would travel across the
Lynchburg Ferry to the battleground area. About a quar-
ter-mile down the road, you would turn to the right to
the Zavalla Ferry which had been in service since before
1916, and lasted at least until 1931. That ferry would
take you across Buffalo Bayou so you could make your
way back to Market Street on the other side.
Third question. How did the people of Highlands get
across the river back in the day? They used the Mc-
Comb’s ferry (note photo with two men and a horse
was Tod Moran, a young boy who went
to sea on cargo ships and got in adven-
tures and solved mysteries. I wanted to
be Tod Moran.
Land-locked though I was in central
Louisiana, I yearned to go to sea. I was
always drawing sailboats. I knew the
difference between a schooner, a ketch,
and a sloop before I could do long-di-
vision.
Through a family connection to a
shipping line, I was able to get my sea-
could use the Galena-Pasadena ferry which was locat-
ed where the Washbum Tunnel is today. The Washbum
Tunnel was built in 1950 and the ferry was no longer
used. The town of Crosby also had a ferry to get you
over the water to the other side.
See you next week folks.
great shot of it from 1940 (referred to as the San Jacinto
Bridge of Baytown) The Market Street bridge was built
in 1927 and removed in 1977.
I can remember going over it with my dad in the early
70s. The old Decker Drive feeder road was known as
Market Street back in the day. It is still referred to by
that name across the river in Channelview, all the way
to the 610 loop.
OK, here’s the second question. How did you get
across before the Market Street bridge? Taking a local
ferry was the answer. The Lynchburg ferry has been in
The very top photo is from 1956 and
shows the just-completed new bridge of
the San Jacinto River on Highway 73,
which would become Interstate 10. One
of today’s questions is, how did you
travel across the river before the new
bridge?
Here is the answer. The old Market
Street truss bridge can be seen in the
top photo to the left, just above the four
corners location of the Big Chief Super-
market. Just below the main image is a
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Ken Bredehoeft, center, hangs out with fellow crew mem-
bers aboard an oil tanker in the Gulf.
A young man
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dirt agent.
Other truisms of
housekeeping.
Spiders are our
friends. Pay no
attention to what
is going on up in
those corners of the
ceiling. If this starts
to make you squea-
mish, reread Char-
lotte’s Web. Closets
goes to sea
The American writer Howard Pease is largely forgot-
ten now. He wrote adventure books for boys beginning
in the 1920’s. Pease’s books - The Tattooed Man, The
Jinx Ship, Wind in the Rigging - to name a few, were
well written and filled with the realism and attention to
details of a man who actually went to sea. Pease studied at
Stanford University when he wasn’t out on the high seas
working on freighters.
I read the Hardy Boys, of course, most boys my age
did. I never wanted to be Frank or Joe Hardy. Pease’s hero
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man’s papers, no easy matter. After my first year of col-
lege my parents drove me into Texas to Beaumont where I
boarded a plane to Corpus Christi. It was my first airplane
ride. I was headed to Corpus Christi where I was going to
board an oil tanker. My adventures had begun.
I went aboard just after dark and was shown the way
below deck to my bunk in the fo’c’s’le. We would weigh
anchor the next morning. Tired already from a first day of
so many new adventures, I climbed into my bunk and was
quickly asleep.
Early the next morning something was wrong. Upon
waking I noticed a slight movement in the ship I had not
been aware of the night before. I did not feel well at all.
In fact, I wanted to die! (For the squeamish, I’ll skip over
all the fine details of one’s first seasickness.)
We’re at sea, I reasoned, and I’m feeling the effects of
never having been on any kind of boat. Returning from
several trips you-know-where, I glanced out the open port
hole nearest my bunk. We were still tied to the dock! I
remember thinking, “This is going to be one long day!”
I suffered through those first early morning hours much
to the amusement of several of my new shipmates. I was
told not much was expected of me the first day. Later in
the morning they brought me crackers and water. In the
early afternoon I felt well enough to make it up to the fan-
tail where I sat on one of the benches there. By now we
were at sea. The gulf air was most welcome. We were on
our way to Florida and around the Dry Tortugas and then
up the East Coast.
Showing my true mettle to my shipmates, by early eve-
ning I was able to begin learning my job in the galley and
waiting at officer’s mess.
I was never to get seasick again. Not in the merchant
marines nor on sailboats I’ve sailed on or owned. Not
even while in the Navy off the coast of Japan and on the
edge of Typhoon Kit.
That was a glorious summer on an oil tanker traveling
across the gulf from Corpus Christi and Houston to un-
load usually at ports in Florida. There were no murders on
board, no mysteries to solve, but I was at sea and working
with men who had chosen a life totally different from any
I had known to that point.
I’ll relate one last incident toward the end of that first
summer aboard ship to prove it’s not easy to lose the label
of land-lubber.
Every merchant ship has a radio operator. He stays in
contact as needed to those on shore. I had noticed our
radio operator was referred to not by his name but only
as “Sparks.” A couple of weeks before I was to get off the
ship Sparks was relieved for his vacation time. His relief
came aboard and everyone called him Sparks.
Among a group of salty seaman I innocently made the
comment, “Isn’t that a coincidence? The first radio oper-
ator’s name was Sparks and his relief is named Sparks.”
There was silence all around. Someone then said with a
hint of resignation in his voice: “Son, every radio opera-
tor on a ship is called Sparks.”
We all laughed. If you can’t laugh at yourself, who can
you laugh at?
The new book about tidying the
house has seduced us into spring
cleaning! It is a dangerous book and
should be on the banned list.
Last spring I accomplished the
task in a few sunshiny hours and
didn’t bother repeating it every
week like some of my more uptight
neighbors. I am a conscientious
housekeeper of regular habits. Not
limiting myself to spring, I partici-
pate in this ritual four times a year.
I zip the vacuum through the
house, empty two trash baskets and
the garbage. My opinion is that dust
is clean, dry and harmless, that is
until someone runs a finger across
the top of the piano. Don’t touch it.
Dust minds its own business. Leave
it alone.
Now dirt is different, caused by wrists while you pretend to be clean-
food and water, mold and mildew ing those sharp blinds. JoAn Martin is a retired teacher
and a dead mouse and roaches. Drawers are a homemaker’s best with five published novels. Reach
Avoid dirt with preventive house- friends. Keep one large drawer, cen- her at Josbook@mindspring.com or
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