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I went digging into the matchbook collection that I snagged from Mom and Dad's before we had the estate sale and found this: It has the Fort Worth phone number...I wonder if they got it there, or did they give these out in Houston. Guess I'll never know!

I'm sure you all are correct. I don't know what I was thinking...I probably couldn't spell yet when we patronized the place!

I've never found anyone else - besides my siblings - who remembers Jaton's (wasn't it spelled that way?) My family rarely ate out, but this was a favorite cafeteria. I remember huge lines going out the door on Mother's Day or Father's Day. I asked my brother about it recently - he said it is now one of those medical buildings on Richmond behind Greenway.

I know this question is 2 years old, but I just saw it...and maybe I chimed in on this topic before and my aging brain doesn't remember...but you are thinking of Zyder Zee. There used to be one on Fondren between Hwy 59 and Bellaire Blvd.

I never ate at The Velvet Turtle - but I remember it well. It was south of Hillcroft on Hwy 59. Now it's some big flashy strip club. (COLORADO?) The old English looking hotel was further south - Royal Coach Inn. Was the disco called Ruggles?

Guess they ARE making a comeback - there's one on Hwy 59 in Richmond.

Well, not too frustrated, you would get this photo with former Texas Governor Bill Clements and Dallas Cowboys Great Roger Staubach!

Re: Palmeiro & OCD I haven't noticed this about Orlando - but I used to notice it about Biggio - only not so much anymore. It's been a few years now - but he would always come up to the plate, tap his bat on the base, turn it around in his hands, and then adjust the helmet with his right hand. I only notice him adjusting the helmet now. I guess that's how he got all the pine tar on it.

Ha! Shed was correct. I remember him well. I just emailed him tonight because I heard a familiar voice on Channel 2 News and came into the room and re-wound the DVR - sure enough it was his Dad doing one of those "man on the street" interviews. He's one of those people I'll always be friends with. Hey have you heard this! It's my favorite Public Service Announcement! http://www.enviromedia.com/MP3/TCEQ_stormdrain.mp3

There were plenty of MYFers that did dumber! I wish that hadn't kept you away. I remember one time we were having a "lock-in" and a few of us sneaked away to the church sanctuary and decided to have "Disco Church." So we flashed the lights off and on really fast to look like a strobe...how sacrilegious could we get?! The church has those huge windows that face Bellaire and the Fire Dept guys saw the flashing lights and called the cops. The MYF leader awoke to find 3 of us with our arms spread against the church wall and a cop pointing a gun at us! Dumb at the time - but funny to remember.

Oh man - my memory IS failing me! Gethsemane IS where I knew you from! I went there from - well I don't know - since before I have memories until I left for college. But I'm still very connected because of my Mom and Dad...now just Dad. If you take time to look at it (this being an architectural forum!) - it really is a beautiful church too. All of us girls dreaded the thought of trying to decorate the place when we got married because we thought it was ugly. But fortunately by the time I DID get married I came to appreciate it's style. Kind of Frank Lloyd Wright...ish? I was glad that the organist suggested I use the original candlesticks on the altar. The architect designed them specifically to go with the church. I love that turquoise, orange and brown church!

I know there were 2 Del Tacos on S. Gessner - one near the Hwy 59 intersection and one near the Westchase district. I liked their strawberry soda.

Just drove past Christie's on Westheimer yesterday - still there! We always went to the one on Bellaire - near Hillcroft - no longer there.

I found a web site of Farrell's history. It said there were 130 parlours coast to coast and two currently in operation. They have a video of a birthday celebration from 1974. That takes me back. I was there for my birthday in 1976 and remember being mortified! Here's the link to the site: http://www.happyitis.biz/

Hey stolitx - I posted this on another thread - but the ones I will never forget are: Earl Campbel saved at Sage. He's a runnin' back! and Joe Sambito saved at Sage. What a relief!

Which was trashier? Sage or Globe? Definitely Globe.

The Great Skate was my junior high hang out. My first boyfriend got down on one knee in the middle of the rink and asked me to "go" with him. How romantic.

Me too! I loved playing Cetipede and Galaga! And kitty-corner to the arcade was "Roman Delight Pizza." The guys there would give cat-calls to all us girls going in to work at the Chik-fil-a in our lovely polyester double-knit uniforms. Don't remember the Blue Marlin though - Humble might as well have been the other side of the world for me.

I still have one of their old ad campaigns seared in my brain... "Earl Campbell saved at Sage - He's a runnin' back!" Or "Joe Sambito saved at Sage - What a relief!" (Joe Sambito was a relief pitcher for the Astros in the 70's)

Chelsea Street Pub was the only bar. I can't tell you how many times I heard "Up Against the Wall Redneck Mother" while we were closing up the Chick-fil-a. That's funny - I had forgotten about that "fancy" restaurant lowspark mentioned...no one went there. (It was across the way from the See's Candies...yum!)