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Ashikaga

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  1. I would think that the seating capacity in each of the 30 screens would be small, unless the building that contains all of them is big itself. I would also think that being in there would be like being in a sardine can, not being able to move around because of all of the people, etc. Am I right or wrong?
  2. It's a shame that these thetres are things of the past. I thought that most theatres now were 10 and 15 screens. But in yesterday's Chronicle I saw one that had 30 (THIRTY) screens! Have any of you ever been to that one?
  3. Subdude can come up with just about anything. Here he came up with the recipe for the piece of candy that came with the tortilla chips at the Monterey House. To me, it really tasted just like you were putting a whole tablespoon of sugar into your mouth.
  4. One of these days I hope to get over to Houston and see it myself for the first time in 42 years.
  5. I remember that it had a big pond with huge goldfish in it, between 6" and one-foot long. (I read that the bigger the environment goldfish live in, the bigger they'll grow). I also remember a free beer center. My dad got a plastic cup of Busch.
  6. Is the Hermann Park Zoo located in Midtown? I went there as a kid. Is it still open?
  7. My dad said that postcards used to be called "penny postcards" because they required just a one-cent stamp to mail them. Now I think that they require somewhere between a 20 and a 30-cent stamp. As far as my personal memory of postage stamps, I remember you could seal the envelope and mail the letter with a 5-cent stamp. You could mail a letter with a 4-cent stamp but you had to tuck in the back flap; you couldn't seal it. I can also remember the 8-cent airmail stamp. But in reality most envelopes with one of those weren't flown.
  8. Wouldn't the imploding dynamite process be "quicker and cleaner"?
  9. This looks like one of those places in the past that had "personalized" service. That kind of service is virtually non-existent in Wal-Mart Supercenters.
  10. My dad said that we lived in Greens Bayou when I was about a year old. Does it still exist?
  11. Yes, there was the AstroWorld Hotel. I remember back in the 1970s the Guiness Book of World Records had The Celestial Suite in that hotel listed as the most expensive hotel room in the world renting at $2500 a night. I looked on HoustonFreeways.Com and saw two aerial photos, one of the land being cleared for the Astrodome, and the other of the "skelton" of it under construction. That website also had photos of the Baytown-LaPorte Tunnel being built and being demolished.
  12. I just thought I'd express my personal opinion about this topic. I haven't seen too many roller rinks recently. They used to be the place for the youth to congregate. I think that they are not as popular because of VCRs, video and computer games, and more things that make the young stay at home more. But I may be wrong. That was my same reasoning as to why there are hardly no drive-in movie theatres anymore. If the Starlite Drive-In Theatre in Porter folds in another year or two, my belief might be valid.
  13. The only letter/word prefix that I remember from back in the "old" days of Houston is "NA" which stood for NATIONAL.
  14. It's amazing. In various parts of Virginia, there are historical markers that say things like: "George Washington slept here", "Thomas Jefferson slept here". And both of them managed to be elected and re-elected President of the U.S.!
  15. I found a website that had a map of the U.S. when area codes started back in 1947. At that time, the entire state of Texas had four area codes: 713, 214, 512, & 915. It explained that in a state that had more than one area code, the second digit was 1. In states that had only one area code, the second digit was 0. I think that I can safely say that Texas now has, at the very least, ten area codes. They say that more area codes are needed because prefixes become exhausted due to the proliferation of not just regular telephones, but of cell phones, pagers, and fax machines.
  16. I don't believe it! You remember things exactly the same way that I do. Yes, that was indeed the tune for Chuck Davis Chevrolet. Is the car lot still there, but under a different name? No, it wasn't any ear infections on your part. I also remember the bass/baritone singing voices for Tommie Vaughn Ford. Yes, it did sound eerie. This was back when I lived in Houston from 1962-64. Tommie Vaughn passed away last year. Thanks for looking up Uncle John's Pancakes. Now I think that I can safely say that it no longer exists (unless someone else on this forum says that he/she passed down O.S.T. and says that they saw it or remains of it).
  17. One of you (I can't remember who) found on Ebay and posted an Uncle John's Pancakes coffee cup and ash tray. Thanks. I still hope that someone out there will find out exactly where it was located.
  18. I don't have any pics but I sure wish that someone did. I remember Peppermint Park well. The one that I went to was in the close vicinity of Gulfgate Mall (then Gulfgate Shopping City) and the Carousel Motel. I remember its name in big visible letters on its roof. You could see it clearly from Gulf Freeway.
  19. It should have a good lounge. On KTRH radio, Chris Baker's producer called up the Four Seasons to find out how much a room cost for one night: $200.
  20. The only name that sounds familiar to me is Buddy Dial. Who did he play for?
  21. Subdude, You'll never cease to amaze me as to how you come up with almost everything!
  22. Yes, I remember that Frank Ryan majored in some kind of advanced science or engineering.
  23. Are there any Satanic/Athiest/Heathen places of worship in Houston? The U.S. guarantees freedom of religion.
  24. More like 42 years. I just read in an encyclopedia that Rice started charging tuition in 1965. What did WAC stand for? That same encyclopedia said that Rice initially allowed no more than 450 undergraduates to enroll each year. It changed that in the 1960s. When trying to think of Rice athletes that went professional, the only name that comes to my mind is Tommy Kramer. Does he reside in the Houston area?
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