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  1. Thanks much everyone! Also, my grandad was Lou Gordon, and I'd love to hear anything you may have heard about him… I do know he wasn't the whitest sheep in the flock, and was well known for gambling at pinochle, and on other things as well, so I won't be offended if the memory isn't particularly flattering…

    I'm attaching a photo file taken at Playland in my grandmother's mug joint. I don't know the exact year it was taken, but guessing at my mothers age being around 12, it's '46 or thereabouts.

    My grandfather, Louis Carl Gordon, my grandmother Myrtle Jo Aldridge, my mother Judith, my aunt Betty Jean, and my uncle, David.

    As it happens, after reading Sparky's posts, I can tell she is my aunt Betty Jean, lol. Her memories and my notes of what my grandmother and mother told me about Sam's death are quite different, but she wasn't living in Houston at the time, so… I'll go with the original source, lol.

    What happened to Sparky? Is she still around? Did you have trouble attaching your photo? Was it the same one Sparkey posted a while back?

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  2. Toddle Houses in 1973. Thought there would have been more than that at that time, but this is all I found in the directory.

    701 Elgin

    4321 Montrose

    3330 Richmond

    9101 Main

    At the same time, there were the following Dobb's Houses:

    2800 Terminal Rd - A & B

    3515 Westheimer

    4908 San Felipe

    4802 Richmond

    8611 Memorial Dr

    4331 Old Spanish Trail

    2319 W Holcombe

    7895 Hillcroft

    4005 N Braeswood

    7905 Long Point

  3. Yeah, I remember Meyer Speedway, all right - my uncle Bill Blumrick #7 was one of the champions out there. I've posted a video of the 1967 Labor Day 100 lap Modified Stockcar feature on YouTube, and here's the link.

    Bill led almost the whole race. Joe Plowman #28 had been on his back bumper the whole race and finally passeed Bill on the 95th lap. One lap later, Joe's engine went kablooey! Bill retook the lead for 3 more laps, and HIS engine crapped out. Charlie Schild #1 took the checkered flag.

    Bill was sponsored by Frizzell Pontiac, off the Gulf Freeway at Gulfgate. "Whale Of A Deal!" Therefore the "Whale Tail" on #7.

    Bob Blumrick

    Wow - incredible video! Thanks for posting!

  4. as someone who has been away almost 40 years and is now back, can anyone say what happened to these?

    albritton's cafeteria on waugh dr close to dallas? great twice baked potatoes

    Jetton's cafeteria on richmond maybe at buffalo speedway? close to greenway plaza

    alfred's deli and bakery on both rice blvd and stella link? good bakery

    - and back then luby's in houston and dallas was called Romana, not luby. the first one in houston was on the buffalo speedway south of the SW FWY. I have stood in line 25 minutes many many times in that place for the fried fish, tartar sauce, pea salad, pecan pie, and iced tea. the building is still there but closed up now. of course, there are lots of luby's. why would that locale close? the area certainly could support another luby's - or former Romana.

    and, last, dunkin donuts on shepherd north of richmond - east side of shepherd. you could get a dozen filled for 99 cents. this is not to downplay shipley at all. i ate my weight lots of times at shipley too.

    ding

    I guess they all closed down. I know Alfred's closed. But I believe his son operates a very similar deli in the Rice Village and has photos of his dad's old place.

    I'm sure the answers are somewhere on this board. Would be a lot faster just to tell you if I knew. :D

  5. The sports car ride, if I remember correctly was called Spin Out. Several years ago, before Astroworld had even closed down, someone in Sealy Tx was selling the fibreglass bodies from two of the Spin Out cars. They were quite large; in the 6' long range. The two car bodies ended up selling for something like $20!

    I considered bidding on them, but what do you do with something like that?! :P

  6. My dad just had some Super 8 footage made into a DVD and there's probably three or four minutes of Kiddie Wonderland on there. The footage dates from 1972 or '73. There are also a few shots from the Rodeo Carnival and others shot on a snow day here. There's some cool scenes of hippy girls on the corner of Westheimer and Mt Vernon pelting cars with snowballs.

    That would be awesome to see!! Can you post it somewhere? B)

  7. I am a new member and this is my first posting. My posted name is "Sparky" which is a nickname given to me by Buddy Rackly at the old Playland Park race track. My Family lived at Playland. ....... Hope this answers some questions and causes more. Thank you for this site. Sparky

    Wow, Sparky, fascinating post! Can't wait to read more and see some of those pictures. Thanks for taking the time to post. :)

  8. I have searched the past posts, but I can't find where anyone posted a picture of the Indians atop the Bill Williams restaurant on Main Street. If someone has one, would they please post it?

    I don't want to get too excited, but I think I may have found one of the Indians while on an outing this weekend. He was kneeling on one knee, and he had his hand in a position where he would have been holding a stick (over the fire?), and a hole in the extended hand that would have held a pole or large stick.

    Sorry Heights, I've never seen a picture of the Indians. I have several menus, postcards and matchbooks, but no pic of the Indians. :(

  9. Forgive my babbling here, but I'm having way too much fun with all the memories this site is bringing back for me. I hope that I'm not breaking any of the rules or anything....

    How weird, I just recently told someone about that giant shrimp with the pistols. I don't remember if it was the same restaurant, or another one near that one, but there was a giant crab over a doorway around there also. I remember seeing them whenever my parents drove me down S. Main, and those things just creeped me out! I think they were gone by the time I was old enough to face my fears and actually go eat there.

    I had a nightmare or few about those giants on S. Main. but I remember I would get nervous whenever I realized the car was being turned to go down "that road" and would hope for a greenlight so we could just keep going. My parents thought it was cute and were all smiles and giggles while trying to convince me, while laughing, that they weren't real. I also vaguely remember something about one, or both, of them changing at one point, just don't remember what the change was (didn't the shrimp get, or lose, a cowboy hat?), but seeing that they had changed since the last time I'd seen them, really worried me at the time.

    Years later, I forgot all about my fear of being killed on the way to the zoo by the giant crab and shrimp when I went to Chuck E Cheese for the first time and saw, out of the corner of my eye...a HUGE rat walking, on two legs, towards me!

    A few years ago, while breathing into the paper bag provided to me by the haunted house medical staff after I turned a corner and found myself face to shin with the enormous, escaped from Hollywood, Predator, (my choking and immediate backing away from the thing, I now know, was more like my begging to be chased by the totally amused person, or persons, inside the hideous and too well done, costume), it was determined that I'm just a dork, with some "issues" when it comes to oversized creepy things. I'm sure, for the rest of my life, that every time I come across a giant and have to restart my heart.....I will think of that crab and shrimp. :blink:

    Oh, and one of my favorite restaurants that vanished was a place called The Lone Star Cafe. I haven't been able to remember the name of the road it was on yet, but want to say it was somewhere near the Yammin's Pizza (used to go there a lot) that was on S Gessner at the 51 (this place being on Gessner just doesn't seem right to me though), but it was on the Stafford side of the 51, and I think it was in the same center that the Shakey's Pizza used to be in.

    I loved going to Shakey's because they always showed the old black and white comedies, like The Little Rascals, Laurel & Hardy and Abbott & Costello.

    Pipe Organ Pizza was a fun pizza parlor too, with cute, normal sized, harmless, marionettes.......not giant rats, creatures or predators :P

    TexAzGal: Warning! View the following photo with the lights on! :lol:

    gaidos02mf5.jpg

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