sorry, I realized that after I posted it the super target near reliant. it was right there but it was in the area
Hmmm. You mean on S. Main and Braeswood? I don't remember the name of it, but it's been mentioned a few times in this thread. It had ponies and a little "ferris wheel" that was all of 8 feet off the ground. Are petting zoos a think of the past? If so, that's kind of sad. I used to love them as a kid.
S. Main and Braeswood sounds about right. I dont know anyone that can remember the name of that place.
i have a picture from when I was five on those ponies. never knew westbury square but i must be getting old. looking at those pictures, I had totally forgotten meyerland's mall was outdoor in the mall area.
Ha, ha ... I think that computer room is in the basement of the Cullen Engineering building. For those who don't know the punch cards. You write your program and use a typewriter-like-machine that punches holes onto paper card, one line of program onto one card. If you have a 100 line program, you have a stack of cards. You turn them in and come back later (I don't remember 3 days but maybe 1 or 2). They have a card reader that reads your program into a main frame computer, runs it and prints any output you told the program to produces. If you make a mistake in your program, you get to retype the cards, turn it in and wait some more. BTW, you used slide rule then instead of calculator. Very few students had a calculator. I didn't.
http://share.shutterfly.com/share/r...bNm7dozYuIg&startIndex=0&fid=3882511ab212232c Here's a great slideshow of Westbury Square. Rumpleheimer's Ice cream parlor, anyone?
<--*7u65t$r35we6FLASHBACK ACID@&^5.0<--WHAT? ^what is this cabaret voltaire of which you speak? batman, ima thegary was also a chancellor's brat, is that still there? this thread is indeed awesome. i get to houston once a year but it's obviously not the same as living there. this brings me back home, thanks all.
I have a friend now that lives near Westbury Square, so I see what's left of it. And, I'd read that it was once cool. But, I'd never seen it as a kid or even photos of it until this thread. Wow. It's not even a shadow of its former glory.
Used to get rock candy and the candy buttons on a piece of paper there all the time when I was 7 & 8 years old.
I'm 35 and a Houston-native. I grew up out in Memorial, but most of my childhood memories from about age 7 on are from inside the loop. Some are mentioned already, and totally out of sequence, but: Rice Village before it was developed. World Toy and Gift (also referred to as World Toy and Gyp for their inflated pricing) -- the narrow aisles that were stacked ceiling high, the people who worked there (a large one older woman welded to the seat behind the cash register, the tiny elderly women wandering the aisles, and the one male employee who would follow you around to make sure you weren't shoplifting). The Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars at the back entrance away from University Blvd, the miniature soldiers in one of the middle aisles, all the girly stuff close to the back wall close to the theater. The fact that it was next door to a p*rn theater was so bizarre. G&G Model Shop... still there on Times Blvd. Rice Food Mart. Peppermint Park , of course... I'll bet that there were pre-Clutchfans members there on the same day at some point. The Montessori School across from Rice Stadium on Greenbriar. The older kids would listen to Pink Floyd (The Wall, of course) while teaching us Origami, bead-counting, and macaroni art. A mean little girl who shoved me into the holly bushes... another mean little girl who shoved me off the concrete culvert in the playground. Getting a season pass to Astroworld the summer after 7th grade, riding the Cyclone over and over again, playing 720 for hours one 1 token while listening to Cat Scratch Fever on the jukebox. Looking through the Houston Post (?) during football season for the cartoons of the Oiler squashing the mascot from the opposing team. Going through the DQ drive-in (not Hungry's) on Rice Blvd and getting Oilers crap -- glasses, Derek Dolls, etc. Kiddie Wonderland and the sad little ponies. I was told that I was too small to ride the pony, so I had to settle for a ride in a little car or something while my older brother got to ride around on this little broken-down pony. I was so jealous. Taking the bus with my grandmother to go shopping at Sakowitz, Joske's, Battlestein's, Woolworth's etc. Walking down to the Lewis & Coker Grocery Store at Greenbriar and Holcombe and getting a lemon parfait at the KFC. Getting my hair cut at the barber shop in that shopping center. Being told by my Baptist grandmother to avoid the men going into the gay bar also in the corner. Record stores I frequented -- Rat Records -- I had a cool Rat Records T-shirt when I was in 5th grade, I think. Record Rack Getting all my cool import vinyl, Bruce looking all creepy behind the counter, lots of great posters I bought there too. Getting cool t-shirts at the Dream Merchant in Sharpstown Mall. Getting my first electric bass , a white Olympic P-bass copy, from Rockin' Robin for Christmas back in 1985. Getting my second bass, a Black Fender Squire Jazz Bass 2 years later. My first concert - Waiting outside The Astrodome for hours to get tickets to Van Halen's 1984 Tour at the Summit. Other concerts at Cullen Auditorium at UH: The Smiths... PIL Learning to ride my bike... and then later learning how to drive a car in the wide open Rice Stadium parking lot before they made it all organized-looking. St. John's School... pre-massive construction era. All the cool Lamar kids smoking over at Baskin-Robbins (and Zahid, the cool Baskin-Robbins guy who gave us striped Baskin-Robbins shirts for our punk band, Ask Zahid?
Oh, my brother & I used to hang these in our closet. I loved those! But it was the Chronicle, in the middle page of the Sunday Zest section, IIRC.
Man, I miss the Houston Post. The Chronic is a joke and has been ever since the Post went away. Plus, the Post building on 610 and 59 was always one of the coolest looking buildings in Houston. What is that building now?
