scrubba

Hey everybody, Scrubba here . Yes, contrary to rumors , I'm still alive . I used to own Art Forms design up on North Freeway and I'd like to know of anyone who may still be in the Cement Swamp and have memories and pictures of the silliness we all participated in ? I'm digging out photos to scan as I post this . I promise to keep it P G !

Note to Billy, the Wiengartens was a Wiengartens from when I leased there , ( 1976- 1983 ) . Big Texan lanes was opposite of the grocery store and the DPS was net door to the bowling alley with a Walgreens liquour and drugstore , a Radio Shack and a couple of other sores I don't remember . Out in the front of the parking lot , there was a Tenneco gasoline station too. On looking at a recent Google Map, looks as though a lot got torn down from when I left the area in 1984. The North Freeway Business park is still behind the shopping plaza , but I'm told everyone I remember from that time i no longer there .

I used to shop at the wiengartens store located in the then Little York shopping plaza at little York and North Freeway. In it was a DPS, Big Texan Bowling and the grocery store . My business was located directly behind the D P S parilel parking slot . Id eat lunch and watch thes people try and put their "Puny lil cars in a 25 foot space , what fun that was on a hot day ! scrubba

I neva wouldda thought this would happen ...............

Westguy, I'm going to reply like this . Every one of the places you mentioned were also frequented by me an yer parents . I once owned a small Custom van accessory manufacturing business up off North Freeway. I have just spent probably the last half hour just reminessing my own life and times there . Hey, you happen to have been born in a very transitory time in the life of the "Cement Swamp " as i used to an still do call Houston. Saddly, I had to leave Houston in 1883. I wound up in Dallas trying to hang onto a hard fought dream , ( my business ). The same real estate blows then spread all over Texas , like a plauge . personally, I'd love to return , if even just for a week end to see what became of my adapted "Home " . Saddly, because of questionable health , that's no longer possible .............It's people like you who help me stay connected . THANK YOU ! scrubba

The times on Airline bring back fond memories . I had a shop over on N. Fwy near there . scrubba

Thanks for sharing that ! I used to eat at Princes too........... Scrubba

In all the years I lived in Houston, I admired it over the LACK of heavy handedness I saw living in both Washington D C and of course Richmond Virginia just south of D C . I wish ya the best of luck . Texas was FOUNDED by renegades , prisioners , has beens , drunks and other assorted charicters that were demed to unworthy by the "Blue Bloods " Long live and God Bless Texas !!!!!!!!!!! Scrubba

Well....... I guess that means that the Weingartens store I used to shop at up on Little york road off North freeway is gone now too. I wonder if the Bowling alley is still there ? Damn , I'm really getting old I used to buy cold cut for the guys there cause we had Van accessories to make as I owned a business just behind the shopping center. Ed Shaver, scrubba

Mark , uh I like whar ya commin from der Brutha, I like it when somebody like yerself can give a statement like you did . Yep sound like ya got yer act together there too. I think you need to go see if K P R C if they're still News talk will alow you on as guest commentator . If no one else says it , well let me thank you here . Thank you for the story, uh post . Ed Shaver, scrubba

Actualy yes It happened in my family waaay before my wife and I met . See her dad was a geoligist for Shell oil. He was a Venuezuelian citizen. The government then sent him to University of Texas to further his credentials . Eventually his family was transfered to Houston where he worked with "Tar-Sands and other rock formations in the search for oil. He eventually retired from Shell after spending some fourty years there . By the way in the late sixties I took the Shell Dealer training school to become a service station operator . It was an invaluable experence , wouldn't trade what I learned for anything too.