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There's a black and white video of this July '77 Ramones performance floating around among collectors that I've seen. It's awesome.

I was a Boy Scout at the South Main Baptist Church troop from '69 to '71. The head of the troop was Ralph Mills. Every year our patrol would compete against against other patrols in a large Houston area scouting competition called Camporee (I think). It involved basic scouting skills like knot tying, etc. It was held at a scout campground somewhere right outside town. Anyone remember these competitions? I may have the name for them wrong...

Did you know a guy from those Catacomb days named Stephen Hammond? I interviewed him for my 1960s Texas Music website here.

I wouldn't be too quick to judge this change. The model of combining middle with high school kids under one building is getting popular nationwide and some of the results are favorable.

Anyone remember a bar/restaurant in Montrose around '73-'75 called Ebeneezers? They used to serve me wine there when I was 16.

Please post them. Check out the ones I've got on flickr here. There are several from the Family Hand, etc.

I saw Tuff Darts (from NYC) play in Denver in the spring of '78. They were touring to support their LP on Sire. My guess is they must have played at Liberty Hall around that same time.

I looked at that link and further down on the page it also listed Channel 23 KTVP, Houston TX. Never heard of it either. There's also Channel 29, KXYZ. Never heard of it. (KXYZ was the original callsign for Channel 13). Finally, Channel 39, KNUZ, which I do know about and was the actual DuMont affiliate in Houston for a breif period in the 1950s. Channel 16 was the second UHF station for Houston after 39. But whereas 39 was able to stay afloat in it's early years, 16 was not and dissapeared relatively quickly. As a side note does anywone remember which UHF station began broadcasting Texas Ranger baseball games in Houston in the early 70s (it wasn't 16 I don't think)? For several years you had a nightly Rangers baseball game on TV in Houston and about only about one Astro game per month televised on Sundays!

Anyone been to Cleburne Cafeteria on Bissonet? I've never been there but have heard for years it's excellent. I don't think it's a chain of restaurants so maybe you can't compare it to the others mentioned here.

You've got a great site with some cools scans. I'll add a link to it from my site... 1960s Texas Music

Class of '75 Lee grad here...when did it really start to go downhill?...when did they change the name? Is it now zoned for Gulfton?

...and the Al Ray didn't close in '64 as I saw films there as late as '69. Interesting thread about it on this board here.

He's still gigging all over Texas. Look for him to perform in February at the Gulf Coast Hall of Fame Show in Port Arthur. http://www.panews.com/communities/local_story_360114821.html Roy in Port Arthur

Houston Blacklight and Poster Co. peel off sticker business card

Thanks for this. When did this article appear in the Post? There was also a jazz club down there in the early 70s called La Bastille. I remember driving down to Old Market Square while in high school during the spring of '75 and the hippie scene was basically gone. Interesting that it came and went so quickly...

This was the HISD following the federal mandate of forced public school integration? Some cities responded to the mandate more quickly than others. In Boston I think there were riots about this - - the forced busing. Some cities just ignored it. I was a student at TH Rogers Jr. High at the time and the demographics of the school changed significantly from '70 to '71. Many more black students and teachers in '71. I have no idea what part of town they were bussed in from.

In a way yes, because you can view the work on his very public website here: http://zonezero.com/exposiciones/fotografo...as/default.html I ran the story of the Poe tragedy by a long time Houstonian who remembered it and she recalls reading in Time magazine the week after it happened that the man's son was the offspring of an insestious relationship the father had with this daughter. Anyone else know anything about that?

Great pics bookman thanks. I graduated from both T. H. Rogers and Robert E. Lee ('69-'75) and this is the first I've ever heard of a Randy Harvey getting killed. Anymore details? And was being a student at Lee in the 70s that bad?..a "living hell"? I had friends when I was in high school that went to Westbury, Milby, and Lamar and from what they told be about their schools it was just like Lee. Sure being in a graduating class of over 600 students sucked. Thanks to Houston's urban sprawl kids from so many neighborhoods/areas went to the school. A kid from Tanglewood had classmates from Dairy Ashford...they might as well have lived in different towns. You NEVER saw them after school around town. The student body of Lee in the early-mid 1970s was divided into the groups kickers, freaks, jets, and the always present nerds/geeks. Maybe it was a different scene at privates like Kinkaid or St. Johns back then but I'm sure it was the same at all of the west side high schools (Sharpestown, etc.). This was the day when there were much fewer private schools in Houston.

These were given away by Houston station KAUM in around '72. I used to have this also except it was a full sized wall poster. It picked it up a record store in Sharpstown mall for free. They also had bumperstickers and apparently 5x8 cards.

My father grew up in the Montrose area in the 20s and 30s. He attended Montrose Elementary, Sidney Lanier Junior High, and San Jacinto High School. He often told me stories of spending 25 cents (or "two bits" as he called it) to take the trolley car downtown on Saturdays to see a movie and get a hotdog at James Original Coney Island. I believe the only one of those schools left that is still open under that name would be Lanier. I'm familiar with the Montrose area's emergence in the early-70s as the "hippie" and gay community of the city but can anyone comment on what the neighborhood was like in the late-50s to early-60s? Was there ever a beatnik community there?

FreakyDude try viewing them as a flickr slideshow...

this one thanks!

What's the history of Montrose Elementary School? When did it open/close and is the building still there?

I've assembled these in an online slideshow. It's a cool way to view them. http://www.flickr.com/photos/76262968@N00/show/ or you can link to it from the 60s Texas Music site http://go.to/texasmusic