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http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/bayou-city-history/article/Throwback-Thursday-to-Houston-s-past-6555118.php?cmpid=btfpm found this on chron today

there was two pesos and taco cabana. TC is out of San Antonio. The two restaurants were pretty much identical in layout, menu, and decor, the only difference was one was turquoise and the other pink. TC brought a trade dress lawsuit against two pesos and won. The result was TC wound up acquiring two pesos and taking over the locations.

chi chis was in houuston sometime in the mid 80s. the only location i'm sure about was in humble, in the building that became, and still is, olive garden. ate there once or twice, nothing spectacular. miss el torito more.

Deauville Center is south of 525, and about a mile south of Greenspoint between 525 and West. It also had a Furr's, Randall's, and Bobbie MGee's. The movies were converted to adult by about 1980-81, just after Greenspoint opened. I don't think it was so much evidence of Greenspoint's decline as it was that Greenspoint was built in an area that was already showing signs of stress and probably should have been put somewhere else.

isn't Swiss haus the one you had to go through to get to le cue upstairs? I'm pretty sure it.closed.in the 80s.when the village began it's transformation from a laid back lower key place to what it is now.

my wife and I used to go to Woodlake square quite a bit in the late 70s/early 80s. We would go to swensens ice cream, a California outfit I knew from san Francisco that was here briefly. our wedding cake was purchased from handy Andy, they had an in house bakery that made some very modernistic cakes. And in the 80s there was kelso's rendevous, a short-lived blues club I liked a lot.

did jack roach ever take over Pearson? in '62, my aunt bought a fairlane from the dealership in that building, but i've always remembered it as jack roach ford. also, as a side note, does anyone know if Jack Roach was related to the Roach boys, one who pitched at SHSU, and one worked at Astroworld, ald later they opened Spanky's Pizza on 610 near Gulfgate?

thanks for the correct about 525. I knew that, just had a senior moment i guess. is that how it starts?

If we're going outside the loop, there were two on Little York close to 45 and one on 529. One on the south side of Little York was fairly small, and I can't remember the name. The building stood for years after it closed and it became a church. Don't think the building is still there now. On the north side was Big Texan lanes. It went into a former store, again don't remember, and after it closed it became the Food Town that is still there. On 529, Imperial Valley Lanes, an AMF location, was open until about 2004 or so. That building is still there and unoccupied.

A squad of Yankee soldiers running around Texas in 1862 without major notice being taken seems very unlikely to me, so I did some quick google searching and came up with the following. In 1862 Fitz Henry Warren was assigned to Missouri. In Missouri, there is a town of Houston in Texas county. About 100 miles from Houston, Texas county, Missouri, is an area called Bear Creek, Missouri, at least on current day Google Earth. To me, that seems a more likely area for this skirmish than to think they managed to move from Missouri to Bear Creek here in Houston, TX.

Do you want existing buildings or just where they were located? For example, there used to be a bowing alley in the Fulton Theater building, and after that it became the Stardust ballroom. But now the building is gone and the location is part of an HISD campus.

From at least the late 60s til it moved out of downtown in the 70s that club was in the building at main and congress, on the east side of main across from the hotel icon building, one block from the old courthouse. However, on a closer look at the picture on houstoric it looks like me that the rooflines of the cars in the foreground are all mid-60s, and the garage and fire escape indicate that that is the back of the hotel building. Maybe in the mid-60s it was located on franklin, which could make sense as that was the time of the first Market Square revival. During that period, which I was too young to enjoy, there were a lot of clubs, bars, and restaurants on the square and right off it, including the Cellar (is that right?) which was apparently a psychedelic rock kind of club, the Moulin Rouge, on of several strip clubs downtown in that era, with a neon windmill in front iirc, La bastille on franklin, and some restaurant that had a replica viking ship in it. I think that location in the 80s became a mexican restaurant, but I'm not sure. I've always wondered what happened to that boat because it got a huge write up in the paper when it went in, and then disappeared. Anyway, so maybe it was on Franklin about three blocks from the courthouse and then moved even closer.

http://citemag.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/MonumentsOfMainStreet_Cite2.pdf Thought I'd add a link to pictures of the demolished buildings. Thanks sevfiv for the names.

Neat site, but I think there is one error. The Pink Pussycat was in a building at Congress at Main which was demolished after a battle to preserve it. IIRC the owner brought in bulldozers in the middle of the night to start the demolition. The club had lost its lease and moved to Richmond west of Shepherd long before that. Not that I ever went to either location. Or parked on Congress next to the club......

Don't know about South Main but if anyone knows if any of the businesses had a large steam plant that would be a clue. My dad worked at the SP Hardy Street shops for his entire working life. We lived close to intersection of Calvalcade and Irvington, near the park on Robertson. The steam plant at the shops had a huge whistle to signal start and end of shifts and lunch. Even two miles away, we could clearly hear the whistle. When the two minute whistle blew (2 before 4 o'clock, meaning get ready to leave) we knew it was time to jump in the car and go get dad. Sometimes we would go early and be at the shops when the whistle blew. That was some kind of loud, I'm telling ya......