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This year is the 50th anniversary of Dallas Pop aka Texas International Pop Festival. I'd like to talk with attendees who might consent to a video interview regarding their time there. I shot 16mm film of the festival ...which Has Never Been Released. Contact me directly...without delay. sprokethead@comcast

Are you looking for rare photos of hippie vans? I had a customized '66 G-10 Chevy van back in the seventies....stand up...geodesic roof...livable. I'd have to send the photo to you e-mail. Hollar if you wanna see+ post.

Does anyone remember an evening at Liberty Hall that showcased a jazz dance routine performed by about 6 local girls? This happened in summer, 1973. I'd like to know more details about that show. Also in Early December of '71, there was a film festival of local filmmakers works. I teamed up with two filmmakers from KPRC; we set up three 16mm projectors in the balcony and showed among many other short/underground movies, footage I had shot two days earlier of The Who when they did the coliseum. I left around midnight but my friends kept showing movies til around 3. Other shows I remember catching were Kinkey Friedman & Velvet Underground.

Mad Daddy's Inferno!...Thanks for the post...first time I've ever herd anyone mention MDI in almost fifty years. I knew the owner's son and I think his name was Porvechio..plus, my band played there one night. Seems I remember we set up in an elevated loft area near the back...we did 'You Really Got Me' et al.

Deuce is Wild Shot at the Catacombs Club with cut-away shot at Love Street-1968

Drag Races Houston International Speedway 1961 Tommy Ivo vs Green Monster -1968

Wonder if any others here may have any photos or memories of this event? I hope long time citizens of Houston can remember. I have film of that event..and will post it as soon as I figure out how. The 16mm film is being digitized and as soon as it's back, I'll edit it and upload. Any suggestions for a server? thanks

The digitized footage arrived today (late) and it's going to take a bit of work. I'm searching high and low for free drag race sounds to fill out what I have for the '62 portion. That year I shot the Burris Huett fuel dragster and I'd really like to track all of what I have before uploading. The 1968 Ivo-Jet car race has sound I recorded while filming; no problem there...but I'm a struggling video editor. Any suggestions or links for sound would be appreciated.

Deuce is Wild

Coming by the end of this month (May 2011) rare film shot at Houston Drag Raceway circa 1961 which includes Huett's Chrysler powered dragster...plus the 1968 race between the Green Monster and Tommy Ivo color w/sound.

Oh man... I remember Valian's, across the street from the Shamrock Hotel. Ate there many, many times. Definitely was the best pizza in the world. Well, people...you all have superb taste in Pizza. Vallian's was undoubtedly the very best! I am bias...it was also the first Pizza Pie I ever tasted...I can remember asking my mom when she surprised me with Itallian food, what all that stuff was.. One bite into an anchovie on a Vallian's Pizza and I was hooked. One other fellow I remember well who could make great Pizza was Mr. Leonard Pearlman (Leonardo's) I had tasted his recipe from the only other location he had. It was in Pasadena and had a bright neon sign. I think it was all take out there in Pasadena...then he opened up on So. Post Oak...liked his Pizza so much I went to work for him. When I asked my boss about Vallian's pizza, he just growled "crap!" I laughed...Leonardo's pizza was really great...but I have never tasted anything to compare with a Vallian's deluxe w/anchovies in about 40 years now :-( Vallian's was also the perfect dinner date...then head on downtown to the theaters. They made a dish called veal scallopine a la` pizza...also had cozy partitioned seating...candle light. Darla!! are you out there?? Where's my blue-jean baby queen, Darla from Nov.6, 1963?...oh...'scuse me..flashback.... I remember Vallian's having an un-adorned, exterior side right up to the sidewalk along Main St. starting just a few steps south of Holcomb...with their sign spelling out VALLIAN'S in large 4-5' lettering set at almost ground level...running across a large length of the facade. Sure would like to see a photo of Vallian's

"]What was the scene at "The Hill"? Hippies hanging out smoking weed? Practically all of my film was 16mm shot on either a Bolex Rex4, a Pathe`PR16AT. or (lastly) a Beaulieu R16PZ. There are several 'interesting' shots in the "Hill" reel. Cinema Bomar is handling screening at Domy Books....as I can make the finished reels available. I read that one poster retold her story of sliding down the Herman Pk hill on a big cube of ice. Well, I didn't film that, but I definitely have a few 35mm stills of it. I'm searching for those shots for release later. I could some help here in 'producing ' this stuff into digital form. If anyone knows what a xenon short-arc lamp or a telecine is, please make generous contact :-) I would also appreciate some help with transparency scanning. Maybe the people from Houston Arts & Media will respond to my inquiry.

Pacifica also covered the block party held outside Anderson-Fair Restaurant on Grant Street last October. That event drew several hundred people who listened to rock bands and local liberal politicians touting the candidacy of George McGovern. This was the latest in a series of outdoor fiestas over the last several years: they've featured tap beer, street dancing and flea market booths hawking crafts, cakes and underground comics. I have the film (16mm) from one of those block parties at Anderson Fair/Tortilla Flats.