Ekim Snevig

Sage included a gas station near the front-right-hand side (facing the store). I worked at the gas station at 16 years old, as well as a stint inside the department store as a porter. The location was on the east side of what is now called I-45 (we knew it as 75) about 100 yards southeast of the intersection of 75 and Monroe. Sage was walking distance from my childhood home on Glenlea (Gulf Freeway Oaks), and I would do exactly that - walk to work. I remember the upstairs snack bar inside the department store, and while working as a porter, I would have my lunch-break there. The grocery store section was on the south end, with the toy section being on the north end. Later, pretty much directly across 75 from Sage (on the west side of 75) was a Honda motorcycle dealership. There was a test track on the south side of the Honda dealership. My friends, brother, and I would ride our motorcycles on that track either after the dealership closed for the day or on Sundays. The Honda Dealership was replaced by a U-Haul dealership later on, and I worked there too around 17 or 18 years old. It was a great time to grow up in southeast Houston. :-)