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Hey ya'll. I own the house at the start of the video. I had never heard of the movie before buying it and nobody told me anything until I started working on it... now everybody in the neighborhood, even little kids, remind me. I'm a preservationist and I want to do everything I can to make sure it doesn't get torn down- both because of the movie, and because it's one of the last small Victorian houses from the original neighborhood. I saw a map from 1916 when Tuam there was '1st Street' and part of a town plot OUTSIDE of Houston, and my house / Lyric house was the bottom left corner of the platt... at the top of the platt was a street called 'Easy Street' that is now underneath I-45! ... a couple of other things I know about the house.. it was where the family that operated a corner store on Drew and Sauer lived for many years... when they made Jason's Lyric, the old lady living there was paid to stay in a hotel for a few weeks while the did the filming. Part of the scenes inside the house were filmed on a set in Hollywood. There is a part where they're in the front room, looking through the dining room, and you see Jason's bedroom is the next room over. However, on this one bedroom house that room would actually be the kitchen, and the door is in a different place. I struggle a little bit with keeping the house 100 percent like it was in the movie, for example, I put a tin roof on because that will last much longer than asphalt shingles, and that damn 19th century roof is way too steep for this old man to be out there nailing shingles. Also, with the high crime in the area I would like to put a higher fence all the way around, but for now I've just raised the fence on the sides and back. Last year a man got a gun away from a cop, shot the cop, and ran and hid under my house. About 20 cop cars showed up, I had no idea what was going on, but I got in my car and left! My friend who also lives there was sitting in his car and he watched the cops pull this dude out from under the house. So Jason moved to California or whatever, but his brother's ghetto buddies are still banging around there. You hear gunfire every day and night, and hear about murders within blocks every couple of weeks. I'll miss the people walking around and being friendly, the good parts of the old neighborhood, but the crime part needs to go. Alot of the original windows have bullet holes or were shot out. So much has been stolen off the house- the electrical wiring, the front and most of the interior doors, the aluminum window shades you see over the windows in the movie, the Victorian porch decoration and original posts - all stolen. Someone stole the front gates but I replaced with similar vintage 1950s ones. Still it's a beautiful piece of architecture that represents the 120+ years- six generations- that the building has seen come and go. For the fans of the movie and as a reminder of the past I hope it remains there for many years after I'm gone too.

Love the movie but sad to see a lot of the buildings are gone.

This was definitely one of my all time favorite movies!!!! Thank you so much for sharing this video🤗 love the music👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

That Ralston liquor store ain't never leaving...I pass by it every weekend!

At the end of this movie it filmed in my hood..Old six ward district..half a block from my grandmother home..She in the movie too..shes wearing a bright pink robe her name is Ms.garcia,I truly miss her so much I look at at movie from time to time just so i can see her again...love you grandmother..🙏😪🙏

For those who may not know this is the Historic 3rd Ward in Houston Texas which is also where Phylicia Rashad attended Jack Yates High School. All the land is being bought up for gentrification along with my old neighborhood 5th Ward. When Houston was first built courtesy of 2 new yorkers called the Allen Brothers, the original Houston was1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th wards which originally were political sub-divisions with each ward having 2 Aldermen. When the slaves were freed most settled in the Historic 4thward and was called Freedman's Town. Long story short all the Wards along with another Historical location called the Heights are all being Gentrified hence the buildings being demolished. I'd say in another 20 years or less, the entire area will be demolished including all, the historical areas where the slaves laid bricks for the streets in the 4th Ward. Because Houston is a business-friendly city thanks to there being no zoning laws all these areas will be gone and forgotten.

We lived two blocks from the Eric and Alonzo house. The restaurant This Is It is still running. Really good food!

One of my absolute favorite movies 😃

Thanks for putting this together. One of my favorite movies of all time. I love the city of Houston

I can appreciate a good music selection.

What a classic movie Lovin this Thank you so much for sharing This Sad to hear those Buildings are gone Now will they film the movie at Houston is Amazing to me Love it I Hope to visit there again soon.

Go fast...go fast, go fast 🤣 store scene

Wow! The store still looks the same👌🏾

I still want to visit Jason’s n Lyrics houses. Wish my fiancé and I could do a photo shoot at Lyrics house 🥰

A lot of those buildings got demolished over the years

The back round music is on point 💯

Its crazy how in just a 30 year period how everything looks totally different.

Nowadays evrything in a movie looks too hollywoodish. Movies like this, people could relate to them because they were living in those areas.

Im from houston Wow 3rd ward sure has changed since this movie was filmed

The first half of this presentation is awful to see, but the music is DOPE! I wonder what it is...

Just saw poetic justice now this one! New subscriber keep it up!

This whole video just goes to show nothing has changed! It was about a struggling family from the hood. And that same hood years later is still going down the same road. Getting more and more poor. Poverty.

This is it soul food restaurant is still open in 3rd ward I’m guessing it was moved from the original location

One of the best movies ever; I'm 5th ward off Liberty Rd! #HTown4eva!

My fav love movies 💕

4:22 that barbershop I used go too

Gentrification at it’s finest

Does anyone know where the abandoned bus stop was filmed or was it fake?

H-Town 🤘🏽🤘🏽

This makes me sad

Damn they couldn't keep the neighborhood up?

Well ...Htown can either go thru some gentrification or it can end up like Detroit...I think they're choosing gentrification...better off