holy crap, yes!!! great find! There are a few Farrell's still in California...I wish they'd come back to Houston, though. I have great memories of going there with my whole family, including grandparents, as a little kid. Always felt like a really big deal to me. http://www.farrellsusa.com/
i was never there but have heard about it often, Galveston's Sea-Arama. apparently, Sea World took them out of business.
I went to that link Mr. Brightside was talking about for Malibe Grand Prix and found a page for Sea-Arama. http://abnf.co/TX-galveston,_tx_-_sea-arama.htm It looks like it was demolished in 2006.
Grandy's - Best fast food I've ever had. The chicken fried steak...and those rolls...... Remember the old ladies in aprons going around refilling your drinks? Wyatt's Cafeteria - always my favorite cafeteria In the Galleria, right? Used to love going there as a kid.
Garland's I remember the old one on Mason near I-10 in Katy behind that McDonalds. I think its a 99 cent store now.
Thats funny. Before Blockbuster Music, we had Sound Warehouse that was the only decent mall-type place for music. Then Blockbuster bought out Sound Warehouse and fired all the cool kids that actually knew about music. They wanted all the boys to cut their hair and the girls to not dye theirs anymore, so they ended up with a bunch of preps/jocks working there that knew nothing about music. Everyone boycotted them & The stores all ended up closing anyway. That was okay because we ended up buying most of our music from Bliss Blood at Sound Exchange on Westheimer. Blockbuster Music was their 2nd attempt at selling music.
It was renamed FunPlex a LONG time ago, but it's still there. Fame City Waterworks is long gone though. They built an apartment complex on that land a couple of years ago. Some Fame City nostalgia. Spoiler <iframe width="480" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/7quGNRlHA5w" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Heck yes--I can smell the wet cedar from the water slides and the over chlorinated water as you said that. I loved those three simple slides--especially the one that was like a tunnel and had the saw blade. There were all kinds of twists and blind curves where you could slow down and bottleneck your friends or whoever else was on the way down--nary a broken spine though! The overly dyed blue water with a fine film of oil from the 2 stroke engines on the bumper boats and the batting cages that always seemed to be out of order or were just abondoned like the go-cart track. Many a YMCA Day Camp trips as a camper, a JC and a Counselor to that place...almost as many memories as Astroworld...
