This guy writes a lot of fan-service fiction about about Houston and Texas: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B09LRBZGZ2/about
Shipleys Do-nuts also one of the things I really liked about For All Mankind was the references to Houston in the 70’s and 80’s.
Met Don Mahoney and Jeanna Clare at a children's clothing store that used to be in the Northland Shopping Center at the corner of 45 and Spring Cypress in Spring about 50 years ago.
First game of the Twin Towers Gilley's Concerts at the Summit That Pasadena Smell The old Baytown Tunnel the old Kemah Seabrook Bridge Jose Lothario Ninfa's "Slime in the ice machine" Dialing for Dollars Almost forgot about the TEXXAS JAM
Peppermint Park Malibu Grand Prix (on West Loop between I-10 and 290) Games People Play Don's Record Shop 97 Rock Steven's and Pruitt (Uncle Waldo) Moby and Matthews
Carboy Westheimer weekend drag strip Vinal Edge (Northside) Yellow Cab Houston Comets Hannah Storm Yaga shirts
There was a video arcade close to HBU, but I forgot the name. Was it Games People Play or something else? Malibu Grand Prix? Same Company, but different location. Video at the link from Decades ago. https://abc13.com/murder-malibu-grand-prix-timely-richard-wilkerson/2168814/ HOUSTON -- It was called one of the most gruesome murder scenes in Houston history. On the morning of July 1, 1983, the bodies of four young men were found brutally stabbed and slashed to death at a southwest Houston video arcade and racetrack. It happened at the Malibu Grand Prix on the Southwest Freeway near Westpark. Anil Varughese, Roddy Harris and brothers Arnold and Joerene Pequeno were working late at the amusement center and preparing to close when they were murdered during a robbery. Richard Wilkerson, a former employee, along with Kenneth Ray Ransom and James Edward Randle were all arrested and charged with capital murder. Wilkerson and Ransom were sentenced to death and executed. Randle who was a juvenile at the time was sentenced to life in prison. Randle was paroled on January 18, 2019.
Former Landmarks: Almeda Mall Northwest Mall Greenspoint Mall NW Mall Gulfgate Sharpstown Mall and the mall that was at hwy6 and Westheimer As a young kid, we just loaded up and drove to malls. We lived by Brazos Mall.
