Ellen Frances Tuchman - Pasadena, Texas Mixed Media Project

Ellen Frances Tuchman will be creating
a mixed-media set of paintings for the new
John Phelps Sr. Courthouse Annex in Pasadena, Texas

In person to collect your treasures
and scan your precious photos for the project:

Saturday January 30, 2010
10AM-4PM

Kyle Chapman Annex
7330 Spencer Hwy.
Pasadena, Texas 77505

She is looking for memorabilia documenting the history of Pasadena, Deer Park, Galena Park,
Deepwater, La Porte, Morgan’s Point, Shoreacres and South Houston from the years 1890-2000.

(Items accepted thru February 2010.)

Please donate (for a tax deduction) ---- items not chosen
can be returned or donated to the Pasadena Historical Museum

CALL FOR MEMORABILIA WISH LIST

Note: 3-Dimensional souvenirs size specifications— can be no bigger than 6x8x1.5 inches, with the
most important measurement the depth (1 ½ inches high if you lay it down on a table)

Themes to consider:

BATTLESHIP TEXAS AND SAN JACINTO MONUMENT - Postcards and photos; Trinkets and souvenirs ANHEUSER-BUSCH PLANT - Photos, patches from employees, Trinkets and souvenirs OIL REFINERIES & PETROCHEMICAL PLANTS– SINCLAIR OIL, SHELL, LYONDELL, Phillips Fire in 1989 ETC employee or logo patches, photos of the refineries & some employees, souvenirs with company logos, tin signs..... I really want the miniature toy refinery made by HOT WHEELS
	The first plant was Shell so something about their history

SHIP CHANNEL - Photos not just postcards; magazine WASHBURN TUNNEL STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL/CLARA BARTON Photos, trinkets; I have the first-day postal cover from 1904 COTTON/FARMING
COUNTY FAIR/RODEO – pins and souvenirs
Metal BADGES and embroidered PATCHES FROM POLICE/FIRE/ETC DEPARTMENTS
PARKS - Burnett Park SPORTS 1.HOUSTON YACHT CLUB/OLYMPIC TRIALS souvenirs 2. BASEBALL - 1987 DEER PARK ASTROS SET W/NOLAN RYAN; ANDY PETTITTE
SCHOOLS Class or achievements pins; ground-breaking photos, one yearbook needed from each school (this is the easiest thing so I only want a few!)
BUSINESSES GILLEYS – Urban Cowboy photos of filming movie logo or advertising from businesses pre-1980 Harris/Red Bluff KKK- this is from the dark side of history but still history VFW, ROTARY, Clubs – hats, pins, ribbon awards
DRIVE-INS food and Ice Houses – need uniform name tags or hats, advertisements, photos 1. VICKI’S (south Houston) 2. TRAINER’S (on the old La Porte road at Tatar which is now Pasadena Road) 3. CORRAL (just over the Pasadena city limit next to the Sinclair Refinery) 4. STUARTS (on south Main)
DRIVE-INS and movie theaters – need ticket stubs, uniform name tags, advertisements, photos 1. Colonial Drive-In (La Porte) 2. Eagle Drive-In (Pasadena) 3. Pasadena Drive-In 4. Red Bluff Drive-In (Pasadena) 5. Town and Country Drive-In (4716 Red Bluff, Pasadena) 6. Capitan 7. Long’s
FIRSTS – the first brick bldg; first elevator, first A/C building, etc. FAMOUS RESIDENTS – Photos or autographs ETC. ETC.: