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TORY
GARDEN OAKS POST 560
The Post was started
by a number of WWI and WWII Vets on
May 21, 1946
and was going strong by January 1949.
The Garden Oaks Post, which had won
the 1948 membership trophy, was host to the
8th District Membership Rally.
The Rally also dedicated the new Post
home at 102 Drew.
In
1947-1948 the Garden Oaks Post launched an
ambitious Child Welfare Program by taking
option on five acres of land at
Golf Drive
and
Old Wakefield Road
for the purpose of developing a playground
for the children of the Garden Oaks
Community.
Post members constructed a pavilion
type clubhouse on the site, laid out a ball
diamond and volleyball court and purchased
playground equipment for the kiddies. The
Post raised 10,000 in the summer of 1948
with which to finance this playground
project.
In
1951 Garden Oaks Post 560 bought the
property at 3720 Alba and that became their
new Post home from 1951 to present date.
The children’s park that they had
built on
Golf Drive
and Judiway, which was then known as
Old Wakefield Road,
was donated to the City of
Houston
on the condition that it would be a park
named
American
Legion
Park.
The new Post Home 560 at 3720 Alba has
been improved over the years. The members at
the Post installed air conditioning, new
plumbing, new electricity, a kitchen, walk
in cooler, new flooring, new ceiling and a
new roof.
On
March 28, 1991
an F-4C Phantom Jet was transported through
Waller on its way to
Houston’s
Garden Oaks American Legion Post 560.
The plane was brought from
Wichita Falls
and named Desert Storm. Burt Russell,
Co-Chairman of the Airplane Committee, said
the Post spent $3,299 to have the jet
transported to
Houston
by the Huff Portable Building Company which
charged only traveling expenses.
This was all made possible by the
hard work of P.R. Frederich, Jimmie
Atchison, John Brukner and Jim Harmon. Some
of these members went to
Wichita Falls
and escorted the jet back to
Houston.
The F-4C Phantom Jet is now a major
attraction on American Legion’s Post 560
property.
Submitted by Helen Schrader,
Past Historian Post 560.
