I'm 25 Fright night at astroworld when i was like 5 or 6 I think. I just remember Jason, the pinhead guy from hellraiser, and Leatherface scaring the living crap out of me. I cried the rest of the night
Weingarten's Grocery Spring Branch High School There was a pizza place where beltway 8 and I-10 meet that used to have the floor covered in peanut shells. They used to project advertisements at night on the side of 12 Oaks Hospital.
Dayum I used to skate EZ7 back in the 80's. I bailed on a few occasions and had to dive into the water after my board. Good times.
Thanks Gifford. I will check out the Facebook site. Next time I am in Houston lets grab a beer and we can talk about Lamar.
Great bump, Fatty. I really enjoyed reading the thread again. By the way, the movie theatre across the bridge at Gulfgate was the Gulfgate Cinema. The Santa Rosa Theatre on Telephone Rd., may she rest in peace, held a lot of memories for me. Saw Old Yeller there when it came out and the line was around the building. Many years later, I saw John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra there, who were tremendous. Peter Frampton opened for them. I thought the old place was going to fall down around our ears, it was so loud. You could get loaded by just breathing the air that night.
That'd be a little difficult, since I'm in Sacramento these days. But if you're ever out this way, I'd love to grab a beer.
There's also a facebook group for Westbury Square with a lot of old pictures- http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/group.php?gid=67579610630 That was such a groovy place.
Well I go to CA more often than I do Houston these days but usually SD and the SF Bay Area. Next time I head out to Tahoe will try to stop by if I'm passing through.
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Deckard we just probably were in the same place in the late '60's The Santa Rosa, wow... you probably liked the Grants or whatever the 5 and dime was called at Gulfgate... remember when Sage opened on the Gulf Freeway, I remember going to Colt Stadium to watch the Colt 45s, princes hamburgers
There was a Newberry's department store that had a level downstairs, and a Grants across the way in Gulfgate. Yeah, I remember Sage, which became a couple of other stores before being torn down. Did you ever go the the Ranger Drive-In by Gulfgate? They had the best chicken fried steak sandwiches and dip-fries, battered french fries. I'm hungry just thinking about them. Hyde Park Grill in Austin makes fries that are a bit similar, although I think the Ranger's were better. We went to Colt Stadium many times while waiting on the Dome. The mosquitoes could practically carry you off!
Haven't re-read the thread but someone surely mentioned the big mosquito truck sprayers that would go up and down the streets creating the huge DDT fog. Other random stuff: Kip's Big Boy near Gulfgate, the Santa Rosa theater, leaks in the Dome, the King Center drive-in, Princes next door, nickel beer night in the Dome (my dad loved this), the old metal rocketship monkeybar thing in Hermann Park. I saw JFK motorcade at the old NASA building the day before he got shot in Dallas.
Anyone remember a small amusement park type place that I believe was on the loop? From the freeway you could see that they had one of those huge slides that they commonly have at carnivals and things like that. I think the slide was red and white striped. I remember they had some room in there that was dark and cold and was like a maze that you had to crawl through. I went there on a field trip in elementary school and for some reason that place has always stuck with me, but I have no idea what it was. This would have been early to mid 80's.
