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GBryant

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  • Birthday 11/11/1976

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  1. The Fame City building was purpose-built for Fame City. It was an empty field before that.
  2. Was it a Roy Rogers before it was a Lee's? I only remember the Lee's being there.
  3. I remember the place, but I don't think it was a Fame City. They had a virtual reality setup and a Battletech simulator center - neither of which I ever got to try.
  4. Do you have a plan for sourcing the pictures? I've never been able to find much online.
  5. There were also Safeways at Bellaire Blvd and S. Rice (where the Randall's is) and Stella Link and S Braeswood (where Sellers Bros is now). My family and I used to go to the one on Stella Link all the time.
  6. I don't know if you fine folks have seen this yet: http://www.cardcow.c.../texas-houston/ It has a bunch of, well, vintage Houston postcards. Edit: Crap, I thought certain that if I'd seen this here before that I would have remembered it. I just found the other threads that mention this site. Sorry, guys. If a mod wants to delete this, please do.
  7. Heh, I lived out that way at one point, as well. Never played in the landfill, but I would drive past it quite often on the way home from football practice at Elsik.
  8. I see you mentioned monkey's hill. In the 80s we had a Monkey Hills that was the drainage ditch at the north end of the horse pasture between Bellaire and Beechnut. We'd jump our bikes across the ditch. Same place? I, too, remember walking to Horn Elementary. My folks never gave a second thought about my walking home form there.
  9. Aww, c'mon now! I was aged 4-14 in the 80's and I still have very fond memories of the era. I guess it's just what you grow up with. My top 10 (in no particular order): 10. The OLD Third Planet in that little house. 9. GiGi's model shop in Sharpstown Mall (especially that model of the Invisible Woman) 8. Trick or treating - after dark! 7. Funland arcade at Meyerland Plaza 6. Open-late Thursdays at the Bellaire Public Library (Yeah, I was/am a dork) 5. Cruising Westheimer (It was in the back seat of my parent's station wagon, but Westheimer at night still felt magical) 4. 25 cent bowling at Palace Lanes on Bellaire during the summer 3. World Toy and Gift 2. Astroworld when a season pass was $30 - not that my parents ever got one for me. 1. PLAYING THE FARK OUTSIDE. The city is safer now, but back then parents seemed to have less compunction about letting kids play outside. At least my parents and my friend's parents didn't. There was also less emphasis placed on safety and that "neglect" was lots of fun. I wonder if kids still try to climb the electric towers in the horse field between Bellaire and Beechnut, east of Newcastle? Or cross the trestle over Braes Bayou? Or navigate Bellaire and Meyerland via bayous and drainage ditches? I spent much of my youth playing in - and around - sewage. Fun. I do hold some envy for those that were young and on their own in Houston during the 80's. But, I wouldn't give up my childhood in Bellaire during that time for anything.
  10. I'm another one, but I always thought that it was called People Places. I like your recollection better as I always thought that was a dumb name. I attended Horn Academy on Pine Street in Bellaire and would have gone to People Whatever in or around 1984. I'm afraid I can't confirm any specific memory of it other than it existed and that I had to ride on a bus to get there.
  11. My family would frequent the Po Folks at Fondren and 59 South. I really liked the chicken and dumplings and the fact that they served drinks in Mason jars. I guess, now that I think about it, they were going for the whole Cracker Barrel thing including the peg games at every table. I remember that they had old Burma Shave signs on the walls and one read: Peach is good with lots of fuzz Man's no peach. . .and never was! Wow, I'm now having a vague recollection of a Chinese restaurant at the same location. They had a noodle soup dish that they prepared at the table. They would drop dried noodles into a bowl of something or other and it would create a billowing cloud of steam that greatly impressed my young self . It was also there that I learned that hot mustard nauseates me.
  12. Wasn't there a Christie's on Bellaire Blvd? In the early eighties, my family would go there quite a bit and I could have sworn it was Christie's. I think it was near Bellaire and Renwick, but can't be sure. Anybody have any ideas?
  13. I may be completely making this up, but I seem to have a vague memory of there being some sort of Post Office kiosk in the Southeast corner of the parking lot. Does anybody else remember this? Oh, and my friends and I spent hours in that Fun Time. Thanks so much for the pic.
  14. Well, what do you know - I was both a Cub Scout and a Boy Scout. My Cub Scout pack met at the clubhouse behind Horn Academy on Holly next to the playing fields. I couldn't tell you the pack number. My Boy Scout troop was 1113 and met at a Catholic church in Alief. We had a lot of good times. I still have my Death March patch from Camp Strake. I wonder if they still do that?
  15. When I was a kid in the 80s my friends and I had but two wishes: a bag that contained an infinite number of quarters and the ability to teleport to the arcade at Meyerland Plaza. Alas, we had neither and had to walk or ride our bikes the couple of miles or so to get there with our lone dollars and change. I think fifty cents was the threshold for legitimizing the trek. We couldn't care less about the rest of the mall at the time; but, I would give quite a lot to be able to walk through its run-down interior again. I do remember there being a kind of dumpy toy store on the side that faced Beechnut. And the JayCees would have a haunted house around Halloween in one of the empty storefronts.
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