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  1. interesting....very interesting. Thanks for the topic.
  2. Geez, what is that giant white thing next door? Wonder if they can see into the courtyard from their 2nd story windows...
  3. Hey Marty, welcome to the forum! I think I have seen your web page somewhere - the descriptions of your pics sounds familiar. Could you post some of the links?
  4. Here's a link to an article by the Houston Press concerning the brick streets in the Fourth Ward: Fourth ward brick streets Some interesting quotes from the article:
  5. Ah, thanks - did u see the b&w one I just uploaded?
  6. Don't know the year on this PC, but pretty old. So is this an old picture of Hobby Airport? Here's one from December 1954
  7. Thanks Mark. Do you know what happened to the original 8mm film? Today that film should be able to be converted directly to digital format and then to DVD. The quality would probably be improved - not so sure for 8mm but it's possible. Also I bet there are other interesting scenes in the original footage not on the DVD. Sounds like a cool side project.
  8. Haven't seen the PBS series - I *think* parts of it were for sale in the past on VHS only. I believe the GND video comes from footage shot by Mack ?? (dont remember his last name) over the years. You could email Judy Dudek at gill.judy@sbcglobal.net and find out if they have any of the DVDs left. We would love to see the Playland pic posted here.
  9. Hey Mark - is this the same DVD as the GRD Videos Playland Park & Meyers Speedway DVD? Don't remember Almeda Speedway or the Houston Dragway being on that one. Thanks!
  10. Swarthmore Street in West University sometime in the early 1950s... great video - thanks!
  11. Hmmm... For me, Casa Ole fall into the same category as Monterey House, Tortuga, Pancho's and others of their ilk. The food there looks and tastes cheap. The chips are often greasy at these places, the cheese is the lowest quality, the food is not well prepared, the rice is mushy or overcooked, the food tastes reheated and not fresh and on and on... blah...
  12. Nursing home? I know, I know, terrible!! Mental Hospital? Who would want to live in a place that means you are sick in the head? Oh, the shame! Who made up those terms? Those are just awful and downright mean. You're absolutely right. I wouldn't want to live at either of those places. Do you live in one of those?
  13. Well 'orphanage' may not be a derogatory word, but to live in a place called by a word that means, "a place for a bunch of kids who's parents have died", isn't very hopeful at all... Now, concerning the word 'daughter', I wonder if that was what Pearl Jam was writing about? I never did understand that song...
  14. The topic was meant to discuss the website and its contents and organization in general, not specific and detailed events from Houston's past...
  15. I agree 100% - no 200%! It was the demographics that killed it. I attended Lee in 1980-1981. It was rather a rough place already. And it wasn't just the surrounding apartments near the flea market. Lee's boundaries extended all the way down to Bellaire Blvd. North of Bellaire & West of 59 (maybe east of 59 too?) were Lee HS. South of Bellaire was Sharpstown HS. Yes, it was Ron Stone Jr. that attended. I think he was a Senior when I was a freshman. My wife has a yrbook from that yr. Maybe I can dig up some pics.
  16. Yep, that was a "ringback" number... a test number. There was one I used to call - I think they were different based on the exchange. Don't remember it now... They did have test lines called loop lines that you could dial into and talk to one or several other people depending on the line. I wonder if that's what it was. There used to be a number in 713 that was just an oscillating tone - I always wondered if that was one side of a loop line. Can't remember the number anymore. Old loop numbers for Houston (thanks textfiles.com!): AREA CODE: 713 XXX-1499,XXX-1799;XXX= 442, 960, 666, 664, 780, 667, 668, 489, 455, 988, 524, 356, 351, 376, 447, 466, 342, 493, 492, 482, 441, 354, 339, 324, 484, 487, 526, 686, 555, 466, 481, 781, 771, 458, 681, 682, 471, 665, 997, 224, 341, 661, 976, 469, 462, 468, 759, 367, 977 (713) 486-1499/488-1799 = low high 356-1799/1899 = low high 491-1499/1799 = low high © 713-442-1499 713-442-1799 713-489-1499 713-489-1799 713-447-1499 713-447-1799 713-354-1499 713-354-1799 713-555-1499 713-555-1799 713-682-1499 713-976-1799 713-960-1499 713-960-1799 713-455-1499 713-455-1799 713-466-1499 713-466-1799 713-339-1499 713-339-1799 713-471-1499 713-471-1799 713-469-1499 713-469-1799 713-666-1499 713-666-1799 713-988-1499 713-988-1799 713-342-1499 713-342-1799 713-324-1499 713-324-1799 713-481-1499 713-481-1799 713-665-1499 713-665-1799 713-462-1499 713-462-1799 713-664-1499 713-664-1799 713-524-1499 713-524-1799 713-493-1499 713-493-1799 713-484-1499 713-484-1799 713-781-1499 713-997-1799 713-468-1499 713-468-1799 713-780-1499 713-780-1799 713-356-1499 713-356-1799 713-492-1499 713-492-1799 713-487-1499 713-487-1799 713-771-1499 713-771-1799 713-224-1499 713-759-1799 713-667-1499 713-667-1799 713-351-1499 713-351-1799 713-482-1499 713-482-1799 713-526-1499 713-526-1799 713-458-1499 713-458-1799 713-661-1499 713-661-1799 713-977-1499 713-977-1799 Hmm... apparently they still exist? 713 234-xxxx Houston, TX 281 234-xxxx 832 234-xxxx
  17. Yep, it's pretty good - I wish it even more info and pictures than it does. That would be awesome.
  18. Didn't know those three restaurant chains were all owned by the same corporation. Having eaten at all three restaurants I can say the food is about the same at all three! ;-) The only ones I'm nostalgic over are the old Monterey House buildings from when I was a little kid. Did used to like going to Poncho's (another chain) and raise the little flag to order sopapillas (yum). Don't really miss the food... Except for them being rock bottom cheap, never understood their appeal. Tortugas has the best concept of the mix, though.
  19. Thanks for all the great photos and ads!! Great thread! :)
  20. All is know is before the candy poisoning incident we used to literally fill up a paper grocery bag full of candy on Halloween. We had so much candy the bag would be ripping apart by the time we got home. Good times, good times... Then, the pixie sticks...
  21. Would this be the same roller coaster? Dated May 1943. I believe I found this image online at the Smithsonian.
  22. Yep - we're all much too afraid of the consequences these days to go around posting our names and addresses all over the place.
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