I'm 30. Probably Hanna Barbera land at age 5 or so. My neighbor would take her son and I there almost every weekend.
24 years old The building lights downtown during the rockets title runs, grew up right by studewood park and had a clear perfect view of the skyline. My first trip to an astros game in 1993. my dad refused to take kids that would be a problem at the game, at 6 i was finally deemed worthy of a trip (and he really hated eric anthony for some reason) The goodyear blimp, and when my uncle took me by it's hangar off 45 Frequently going to the amc theaters off 290, before tinseltown, i think an academy is there now. Fitzgeralds, my brother was friends with the owners sons, so when there wasn't an event during the week, we had free run of the place.
Earliest memory of Houston proper was parents taking me to see the Nutcracker with all of us dressed in suits, then we were in the meat section at a grocery store, but that part was probably back in Baytown. Going to Houston was always some magical **** back then: school field trips to Jones Hall or the Zoo, airport, looking over the highway to see the Ferrari dealership on the way to the non-custodial visit.
It's in the same shopping center. That Academy was a Randalls. The first movie I ever saw in a theater was in that place. It was the Little Mermaid.
29 -- Texas Tumbleweed and Wyatt's Cafeteria -- Astroworld -- Going to the airport to meet the Houston Oilers after a playoff win. I just remember the C Concourse packed with people and then the Oilers filed through one by one. Can't do that anymore...A) need a team to win in the playoffs B) Damn terrorist f**ks
Thy recently had to redesign to cut the cost from 500 to 300 million, guess they couldn't quite find the funding. They say the first part is scheduled to open late this year or early next year, but they've been saying this for a while. But officially it's still a-go
I don't think so. From the digging I've done apparently the big structure on the hill was at one point a ski slope, and then later a big slide. I found a post here which says that place I'm thinking of was called "The Mountain" and then later "Mountain Park." I can't seem to find anything else about either of those names. Here is the full quote:
It was also a motocross track at one time and then a garden center also. When it was an amphitheater I took my girlfriend, now wife, to see Rev Horton Heat open up for Porno for Pyros. The way it kept changing I always figures it was built on an ancient Indian burial ground.
Funny you say that as I am in the market for some chewed up gum from Kennard. :grin: westbury square. good one. the link still works not sure if it is still for sale but you can buy at westbury square: http://swamplot.com/a-real-mosaic-condo-the-secret-art-of-westbury-gardens/2008-12-02/ Saw earl campbell at el torito on fondren. They closed el torito down but they still exist in California -http://www.eltorito.com/ the hood where I lived on fondren west bellfort even had a gap. Hard to believe considering how ghetto it is now ahh yes getting physical and whimsical. we bought a tv at oshmans and I liked TG&Y. Games people play on fondren and beechnut.Showbiz was better than this chuck e cheese nonsense. anyone remember the dance club at fame city? I want to say it was called studio circus. dream merchant babbages and video games at sharpstown mall.. my game was super sprint.I can't remember the arcades name. There was the one under the galleria by the fun/magic shop, and there was the one called the goldmine or tilt at westwood mall. I can't believe no love for westwood mall yet here in this thread. That westwood mall area was supposed to be up and coming, and it turned out to be up and coming for murders and robbery. there was an aj foyt dealership on west bellfort/post oak approx at what is now the entrance to 610. They also had a putt putt golf there. someone already mentioned the putt putt on 610 and there was another on 59... and a castle looking building near sharpstown as well. I think the big store was federated. We used to go skate and there was a bad asss half pipe someone built where the toll way comes through. The neighborhood is called glenshire. main street by the astrodome used to be the main area for partying.. All kinds of restaurants like the one with the huge lobster outside. You could see astroworld fireworks from s main and fondren area since it was all fields. of course later it was doing drugs at club some at 3 am and picking up hoes at jamaica jamaica.. like shooting fish in a barrel
I'm 29 for another week. The first ones that stick out the most are downtown when my mom would have to go into work on a Saturday and took me with her. I remember being in awe of the skyscrapers and thinking the tunnel was the coolest thing ever. Such a long time ago.
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Actually, that was the "Marvel McFay" intro dance done by two of the guys that used to get into their costumes. They used to do performances once an hour on this stage that was near the Dexter Freebish (Excaliber.) This was in the 70's and early 80's before Bugs Bunny and friends were implemented.
Going to Taste of Texas for school and being told that their chicken fingers are actually Buffalo tongues. Eating horrible powdered ice cream at the IMAX just because it was "Astronaut Ice Cream" and what we were told they actually ate up there.
I'm 43 I remember * The Windsor Theatre * Pizza Bagels at the JCC * Evil Eye night at the Dome when the Pirates came to town. * Zappo's * Watching Rudy play for the Rockets * Crabbing under the Kemah bridge * Godfather's Pizza in Braeswood Square (in the spot where Musicland had been) * Handy Andy (grocery) just off Hillcroft - they had a promotion that was a giveaway based on televised horse races. * Playing Battle Zone at the Meyerland cinema * Visiting a friend "way out in the country," in Alief. * Cactus Records on S. Post Oak * Jojo's
