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J W

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  1. I think Dance Town is still there . But its a bingo hall now . I even think the sign is still there . I moved away from Houston six years ago , but when I use to be in that part of town I would sometimes pull into the old parking lot there and crank up the volume on my Johnny Bush tape just for old times sake .
  2. Bud and Bud , the Hooper Twins ! They were identical twins and a real popular local act back then . They played C+W clubs all over town .
  3. I remember West Beach in the 80's when you could build a fire , camp and spend the night . Not a beach house in sight .
  4. I had a charter membership going back to the summer of 87 when it opened up . I remember how really nice and clean it was the first couple of years . A few times during a weekday I remember having the whole place to myself . That didn't last for long .
  5. Burger Mart on Edgebrook . I was raised in Freeway Manor and remember when Edgebrook was extended to the Gulf Freeway .Must have been around 1960 or 61. Burger Mart was the very first business to go up . We kids were so excited . We all wondered what Icees were .
  6. Yes I know the school by the church ( went there from 58-61) , but talk to some real old-timers at the parish and they will tell you that the church once owned property at the southwest corner of Park Place and Gulf Freeway . In fact , that was the original site of the church . Up until about 1958 part of the parish school was also on that corner . I know , I went to Ist and 2nd grade there in 56-57. Read the Church's history on their website. It explains that the construction of the Gulf Freeway forced the parish to move to the present site.
  7. I taught school at Nimitz in the early eighties. Until around 86 it was pretty much a white suburban school. I remember the buses each morning pulling in with the kids from Acres Homes . The explosion of apartments in Greenspoint had altered the demographics by 1987 and the busing was stopped.
  8. Bert Lynn's Music Shop was on Park Place near Telephone in a shopping center not too far from the Santa Rosa Theater. In 1964 my dad bought me my first electric guitar and amp from Lynn's . Still got that amp.
  9. Broadway and Park Place , Their big Wagonmaster burger on a poppy-seed bun was truly food for the gods !
  10. J W

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    My dad ,whose 80, is an old Bob Wills fan . He says from the of the war to around 1955 Wills played at End of Main alot . If your thinkin later , it could be Regal Ranch in Stafford. Wills played there ever so often until the late sixties . We need to start another post on old Houston CW dancehalls and honky-tonks .
  11. That wasnt Gaidos . It was Christie's . it closed in the late 90's . I think the big shrimp was auctioned off .
  12. Anyone remember or better yet was an allumni of St Christopher's Catholic school , located on the Gulf Freeway at Park Place . I went there from 56 to 58 . It was already an old building back then . It was demolished around 1960 or so . And yes the nuns were tough !
  13. Thanks plumber 2 . I had accepted Filio's earlier theory that what I had remembered was actually the HC Home for Boys in Clear Lake . But , even though I was just a kid , my memory was of one on the Gulf Freeway . We lived in the Edgebrook / Freeway Manor area . So the Scarsdale location would be about right .
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