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Domy Books and Cinema Bomar present Our Wonderful Gulf Coast, a grab bag of locally made Houston-themed shorts and promotional films. The screening will begin at dusk with a selection of silent camera positives and working prints from a promotional film made by the Houston Chronicle. Many of the films date to the 1960s and 70s and will offer a look back at the Texas City Disaster, the computerization of the petrochemical industry, San Jacinto State Park, and oil rigs as marine environments. There is also a series of student films from U of H in the 70s and various local commercials from the 50s and 60s. If you go be sure to wear some insect repellent. The skeeters behind Domy are thirsty.

Ever since LIFE opened its archive of mostly unpublished photographs from 1750 onward, Houstonist has been obsessed with searching through old pictures of Houston (among many other things, of course). Pictures of Judge Roy Hofheinz's apartment in the Astrodome? Check. An eerily barren River Oaks Boulevard? Check. Shudde Brothers before the surrounding neighborhood went downhill and came back up again? Check. Buzz Aldrin glumly sitting in a Tilt-A-Whirl at Astroworld? Check. Houston revelling in its redneck glory at the erstwhile Frontier Festival? Check.