Telephone Road is a street in eastern and southeastern Houston, Texas, United States. The road extends from South Lockwood Street to the City of Pearland. A portion of Telephone Road is also designated as Texas State Highway 35.
Burton Chapman wrote a book called Telephone Road, Texas. In a 2008 blog post J. R. Gonzalez, a journalist for the Houston Chronicle, said that he could not "think of any other Houston thoroughfare that has garnered a more negative reputation in the last 40 years or so" than Telephone Road. Dave Straughan, a former sergeant of the robbery division of the Houston Police Department said "Telephone Road had a national reputation for being pretty wild. It had good neighborhoods and good people, but it had pockets of people that were known for living on the wild side."
Telephone Road was and is a dynamic thoroughfare meandering from the east side of Houston through working-class developments and suburbs, out to the area that was the countryside (until broad development of Pearland and north Brazoria County). It was home to the A&P Store, the Golfview Hardware Store, the Tropicana Swimming Club, the Santa Rosa Theater, the Four Palms Bar, and the Tel-Wink Grill. It runs alongside Hobby Airport starting at Airport Boulevard. Just north of Hobby Airport, it borders Garden Villas subdivision.
Steve Earle and Houston native Rodney Crowell have named songs after Houston's "Telephone Road."
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Famous quotes containing the words telephone and/or road:
“In the United States all business not transacted over the telephone is accomplished in conjunction with alcohol or food, often under conditions of advanced intoxication. This is a fact of the utmost importance for the visitor of limited funds ... for it means that the most expensive restaurants are, with rare exceptions, the worst.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)
“Evil can be got very easily and exists in quantity: the road to her is very smooth, and she lives near by. But between us and virtue the gods have placed the sweat of our brows; the road to her is long and steep, and it is rough at first; but when a man has reached the top, then she is easy to attain, although before she was hard.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)