Telephone Road is a street in eastern and southeastern Houston, Texas, United States.
The Long family of Pearland first started the phone company or was involved with laying the lines.
Bill Quinn's original Gold Star Studios produced hit songs by artists including the Big Bopper, George Jones and Freddy Fender.
[citation needed] During the construction of NASA's Johnson Space Center in the 1060s, an office complex on Wheeler Street (one block West of 3700 Telephone Rd, westside) served as the primary office to architects, scientists and engineers while a "dormitory" nearby on Beatty Street housed the professionals throughout completion of the NASA complex.
[1] 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.