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Hurricane Carla in Brazosport: The article says water got up to the first floor of the administration building. As I recall the ground level is mostly parking. Plant B and Lake Jackson were flooded because the storm surge came so far inland it came around the end of the levees erected to protect Plant B (the one along Hwy 288 for those not familiar with Brazosport). Lake Jackson is approximately 10 miles from the coast. The Ammonia plant is right across 288 from the Administration building. Whew! A picture from the Facts special edition: The Surf Drive-in in the lower left, I guess that's Plant B in the background -- I think this was before Dow Badische (now BASF) was built. The drive-in across from the Surf was Boddiddlies or something like that; never went there. The interchange of 288 and 332 would be just off to the right; I guess it wasn't built then. I guess we lived in Lake Jackson when the only way in was on Oyster Creek Drive, a shell road coming off of the old Angleton-Clute road, but I don't remember it. Later, you could go to the foot of Azalea, jag over to Plantation and go out thru Clute, either following Plantation all the way to 288 or take the 'short cut' out Commerce. I don't remember when 332 came through from Brazoria -- originally that was just an extension of Oyster Creek Drive and didn't branch off to go to Surfside. I took a trip to Brazosport recently and came back very depressed. I took a lot of pictures but not as many as I wanted as I ran out of space on my card. I'll get around to posting some of them. Some corrections: above I referred to the Cherry St. bridge in Freeport -- there probably never was one. I should have been saying Velasco St. bridge. I'll go back and correct the posts. I think the Velasco theater was probably on Ave A, not B. Just about everything there has been razed. Quintana was on the south side of the mouth of the Old Brazos, Surfside on the north. The original site of Velasco in the early 1800s however was right on the coast. It moved inland after storms. I've never heard of North Center Way or South Center Way; we always called it Other Way. Thought I even had a pic of a street sign but can't find it. I guess Sanborn should have passed out free maps to all the residents. P.S. Lee's in Fpt has been razed and is now in a small space on Broad in the same block; looks like only one counter inside. They must've lost a lot of merchandise. There's nothing yet in the old Showboat.

My great Uncle owned the Root Beer stand near The Mystery. Anybody remember the root beer stand?