
john Lopez
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Do you still have the newt Johnson image?
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Anyone remember any old bowling alleys inside the Loop?
john Lopez replied to mcook2002's topic in Historic Houston
The Fulton Bowling Alley in Fulton Village. -
Thank you very much.
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Anyone remember the name of the Creole restaurant on Richmond at about Stanford, just East of Montrose? It was on the south side of the street and in a house, I think. I ate there in late sixties, early seventies.
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That sounds like the right area. Simpsons SS diner was moved from Main street to a storage lot on north shepherd where they used to move & sell houses, in 1977. I tried to purchase with a partner but we got outbid by someone who wanted for their country home or deer lease?
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Newt Johnson's Diner was in the area you describe, by the old train station, where main post office was built. I looked at the old diner building in the seventies, to possibly purchase it, out in a pasture off Hwy 59, Humble Area. Someone had moved it there on their family farm. It may have been a burger joint when they first moved it but by mid to late seventies, it was in bad shape.
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We used to eat there at least once a week and at Mrs.Me's. They were the first Thai and Vietnamese places in town, I believe. Yes, the Tiger Cries were on our plate at each visit.
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Unfortunately, WS suffered from a common malady in the Seventies, (in Houston,) white flight. As a few people of color began to buy in Westbury, there was a mass exodus to move further out. This was (and maybe still is?)a weird ritual in Houston. You can find many neighborhoods and subdivisions that suffered from this. I never quite understood the panic mentality but I was very aware of it's existence.
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Love Street Light Circus Feel Good Machine
john Lopez replied to Reefmonkey's topic in Historic Houston
I hung out there a lot. I played in a few rock bands that played around market square, The Cellar, poor Willies Pub, etc. I almost got arrested for falling asleep in Love Street, "sleeping in a public place" violation. It was a cool place to hang in the sixties/seventies. -
El Rancho on Canal?
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I had some old photos at one time from drag races there in 1968, 1969. There would be some great race cars trailered out there to race for cash. Very illegal, I guess, but they were "private" roads, not city or county roads. That created a jurristictional issue. Races went off & on for at least a year. Some agency finally shut it down, but I can't remember details.
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There was "the Village" theater, probably more I can't remember. I lived right by Al Ray. It is at edge of Lindale Park Subdivision, bordered by Robertson, Fulton, Cavalcade, & Loop 610, North. Irvington Blvd. runs through lindale. It is a really nice, near North side, neighborhood.