Raw States
Old Weird Houston
Houston, TX · Quirky
- When
- March 20, 2027
- Where
- The Orange Show, 2334 Gulf Terminal St · Houston · TX
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet
Old Weird Houston is a one day local history fair at the Orange Show for Visionary Art devoted to the city's stranger past, from forgotten buildings to fringe art movements. Co-presented by the Orange Show and the Archivists of the Houston Area, it mixes storytelling, panels and visual art displays. It has run every spring since 2024.
The history within reach
- Old Weird Houstonsame spot
Old Weird Houston is a one day local history fair at the Orange Show for Visionary Art devoted to the city's stranger past, from forgotten buildings to fringe art movements.
Robert Davis slowed records to a crawl on twin turntables and sold the tapes out of his house in the hundreds of thousands, inventing a whole regional sound.
A postman spent 25 years building a maze of tiles, tractor seats and wagon wheels in his back yard to celebrate the orange, which he believed was the perfect food.
- Magnolia Park1.9 mi
A subdivision by the ship channel that became the first substantial Mexican neighbourhood in Houston, filled by workers on the docks and the railroads and by families fleeing the revolution.
Manchester started in the 1860s as a railroad switch, and after 1920 the Manchester Terminal Corporation built a cotton wharf that has worked since 1926.