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  1. Ashikaga
    Since Astroworld is gone and it sounds like there are no more amusement park in Houston, does that leave Kemah with the only one?
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    You can look on CinemaTour.Com or CinemaTreasures.Org. I thought that Texas Highway 225 ended into IH-610. I didn't know that it intersected with Broadway.
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    There was a rock group back in the 1960s called The Electric Prunes.
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    I didn't go to Pilgrim Elementary School. I attended kindergarten at Park Place Elementary School in 1963-64. Can you tell me anything about that school after I moved away during the summer of 1964?
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    On Cheech & Chong's "Big Bambu" album, "Unamerican Bandstand" hosted by Laid-Back Lenny, introduced the winner of the "How Many Downers You Can Drop Contest."
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    I think that I can safely say that the house was either the home of Charles H. Milby or it's a house that was named after him the same way that Milby High School was.
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    Yes, sometimes when you have to make up your own recipes, they turn out better than the original product.
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    I guess in the old Southwest Conference enrollment didn't matter. UT and Texas A&M have between 40,000 and 50,000 students. Rice University was at the bottom with 5,000. This is from the 2006 World Almanac, page 658.
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    Nabisco does well. I'm looking on page 390 of the 2006 Edition of The World Almanac. Of all cookies, Nabiso Oreo sold $197,957,900 worth in 2004-05 and topped the industry with a 5.4% market share. Nabisco Chips Ahoy came in second. The Budweiser brewery there in Houston should be in good economic shape. Bud Light beer sold $1,341,192,448 worth in 2004-05 for a 15.6% market share. Regular Budweiser came in second with a 9.8 percent market share.
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    Yes, back then there was no Caller ID/Answering Machines/Voice Mail/Call Waiting, etc. If your phone rang, you had no choice but to answer it and hope that it wasn't a bill collector. If you called someone and you heard a busy signal, you had to hang up and try calling them again later.
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    Going by the zip code, this school appears to be near the Williams Tower building.
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    I remember going to Globe on Woodridge next to Gulfgate. I also remember going to a U-Totem. In my mind, I'm thinking that it was south of where I lived on Galveston Road just before you get to South Houston. If I'm right, it's probably not there anymore. Or if the building is still there, then some other business is most likely occupying it.
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    Gnu, If you respond to that last message of mine, it might be more appropriate to post yours and my response and that photo (if it can be posted) on this topic.
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    Thanks. I did the math. I was in her class back in 1964. That would have made her 43 back then. She sure looked a lot older than that. I have that class photo with her in it in my e-mail folder. If you could give me an e-mail address to forward it to and if you or someone else on this forum could post it, then all of you could look at it. I think you'd agree that she looked much older than 43.
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    I attended Kindergarten at Park Place Elementary School in 1963-64. I recently found my class photos and my report card. My teacher's name was Ms. Hurlburt. Have any of you heard of her? I doubt very seriously that she's still living.
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    I guess you could say that Nabisco is "All-American." Oreo cookies and Ritz crackers are regarded as American snacks. When I was a little kid, I remember one of their competitors was a company called Sunshine. Its logo was the robust baker.
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    I'd be too afraid to take a job as the window washer for this building.
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    Yes, I remember the baritone singing voices of the Tommie Vaughn radio commercials. I also remember the singing for the radio commercial for Chuck Davis Chevrolet. No, I don't recall "Rocket City." I do remember seeing Frizzell. It was on that street that ran alongside the Weingarten's store in Gulfgate, I think that it was Woodridge/Woodbridge??? I remember when we'd go to Globe Department Store, I could see Frizzell when we were walking through the parking lot. Dan Quayle must have owned it.
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    Is The Potato Patch just one restaurant or is it a chain in the Houston area?
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    A woman whom I used to know who lived in Houston told me that she worked at a restaurant called the Potato Patch. I've never heard of it. She told me that she remembered Uncle John's Pancakes.
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    Yes, I remember a small town that my aunt and uncle lived in was the same way. If the whole town had the same prefix, you would dial only the last four numbers. I live in Bridge City, Texas. From the 1940s until the late 1980s, 735 was the only prefix. Now the town has five, but the population hasn't increased. It's the proliferation of cell phones, fax machines and pagers which has caused the number of prefixes to increase fivefold.
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    Oh, yes. I remember when the whole state of Texas had about five area codes. 713 encompassed not just Houston, but way over here to where I live in Bridge City, as far north as Jasper, and as far west as halfway between Houston and San Antonio. In 1983 my area code changed to 409. I'm surprised that it hasn't been broken up with a new one added. But, that could happen.
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    Are you talking about W.T. Grant? A five-and-dime store like F.W. Woolworth and Ben Franklin? There was one just a little ways down from Newberry's in that open middle part of then-Gulfgate Shopping City. I remember my parents bought me some Silly Putty in that store.
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    When I was about four or five years old, my parents and I went out one night. I fell asleep in the back seat of the car. When I awoke, I sat up and found myself staring at the big, green Sinclair dinosaur on that storage tank. Talk about something scaring a little kid! A guy that I graduated from high school with named David Snyder posted a comment about the Red Bluff Drive-In Theatre on Drive-Ins.Com. He said that it spent its last years showing XXX-rated movies and that it had a tall fence around it so that nobody could see the screen. Someone on this forum said that he was able to see it. If you log on to Drive-Ins.Com, you'll see where I posted some photos and microfilm newspapers ad on the Don Drive-In and the Surf Drive-In Theatres in Port Arthur and on the South Park and Showtown U.S.A. Drive-In Theatres in Beaumont.
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    I was simply stating my personal belief/theory. I'm certainly not right even half of the time. Like I've told people on this forum, I believed back in the late 1970s/early 1980s when the VCR came out, that the result would be all movie theatres going out of business. Well, it turned out that most drive-in theatres closed, but there are still quite a few indoor theatres still in operation. In the Chronicle ads, I saw two of them had 30 screens! Yes, you're right. No form of home entertainment could ever replace my memories of Astroworld, Peppermint Park, Busch Gardens, etc.
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