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Scotch

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  1. I think someone earlier in the thread mentioned it was a Pepe's. I thought the old Pooh's Park sign was finally taken down a year or two ago? It was up there for a LONG time after it closed. If I had the room I'd love to have that sign. If the rusty sign you saw had a yellow dog on it, it is THE sign.
  2. I have to disagree about the China Wok Express building. The building has been there about 25 years, or more. It does look pretty different than it used to, but I don't ever recall it ever being levelled and being built back from the ground up. They made is look like the Soundwaves building(since torn down) about ten years ago by putting the blue roof on it. Was Danver's the name of the place with the A&M light fixtures and Ol'Sarge painted on the wall? I remember eating there but was very young. Before Blue Baker it was a micro-brewery and a Texas Aggie Bookstore. That place has been through alot of changes... What all has been in the Gumby's building? (I forget what is there now)
  3. The corner of William J. Bryan and Texas Ave. They do the restaurant inspections and also have a clinic-type component, among other things.
  4. Hmm, ok here is what probably happened. Safeway was where the Health Dept. is, then when Weingarten's went out of biz or whatever, Safeway moved to the bend location and even survivied to the Appletree name change. Things that have been here before that are no longer here? Wow, that would be a big list. Here's a start: Pooh's Park: Bowling Alley(closed earlier than the other attractions), mini-golf, skating and Water Slide. I'm pretty sure it included a go-cart area as well. Fun place for the size city we had at the time. Mini-golf place across from Yesterday's, close to where the hotels on the west side of Texas are. Ft. Shiloh K-Mart Steak and Ale (became Oxford Street) The Saber Inn; Julie's Place/Bombay Bicycle Club where Taco Cabana;Denny's are now Chimney Hill Bowling center (I think the lanes made the move to Wolf Pen Family Fun Center) Montgomery Ward's Service Merchandise If you just meant chains the list probably wouldn't be that big.
  5. Could have been, I'm not quite sure of that location. I want to say for a while there was Church's, Tinsley's and Popeye's within a few blocks of each other, that was a long time ago though and I can't be sure. I had forgotten about Weingarten's but my father told me it was where The Bend, the bingo hall and C&J's BBQ is now. I thought Safeway had been there, but I'm sure he is right as there was a Safeway where the Health Dept. currently is.
  6. OK, I remember for sure where the Tinsley's College Station was. It was located by a church and next to Pooh's Park. Old timers will remember this. The church may still be there, but the old Pooh's Park area is where the Hobby Lobby center is. The location across from Manor East Mall probably was a few other things after Tinsley's moved out and before China Wok express moved in. Now that I think more about it, I think the other location was on the side of the street that Church's Chicken is currently on around 22nd St.
  7. I blame Tinsley's for my love of carbohydrates. They had awesome chicken and their rolls were great. They had honey available in bottles at the table and they were mmm, mmm good. I was pretty young when they left B/CS but I'd bet they failed from poor management as opposed to not having good food. The last Tinsley's that I know of was in Huntsville on I-45 and was mainly a cafeteria. I'm pretty sure it was the "flagship" of the chain. I believe it finally closed about five years ago. The location of Tinley's I remember for sure was the current China Wok Express accross from the Tejas Center. Other possible locations were the Gath's location at Martin Luther King(might have been a block or two away though, as I think Popeye's was once in the Gath's location) and one in College Station. I'm not sure at all of the CS location, maybe what became Quick As A Flash(later Ritz?) across from Whataburger on Dominic? Did the article mention a location?
  8. I've moaned about this before on this site, but I really wish College Station voters would have approved funding for their potion of LoTrack in the early 90's(Bryan and Texas A&M had already pledged their portions, and TxDots contribution would have been extremely generous). The plan called for numerous ground level overpasses of Wellborn and the railroad tracks through the Texas A&M campus, grade separation/interchanges at Villa Maria, University, Bush and 2818, as well as a few more bridges over the lowered Welborn/tracks such as at F&B/Old College and at a location between Bush and 2818. Now fifteen years later construction is finally beggining/about to begin at the numerous problem intersections. Ross Street has been a mess for at least ten years, it is amazing it has taken A&M so long to find a solution. The Mitchell Physics building should be a nice looking building, especially since Michael Graves and Associates will design it.
  9. This topic has drifted from a discussion about the memorial to an uninformed discussion of the 1999 collapse to an all out attack on the unwashed of Texas A&M. Lets put the focus back on the real issues. Simply put, those of us who love Texas A&M and Bonfire never realized that it could fall and hurt people. When Bonfire fell, though I had attended at least 12 of them in my 23 years, it was a complete shock. I assumed it to be unshakeable. Even in 1994, when the stack shifted, it took hours and hours to dismantle it with cranes and equipment so that it could be rebuilt properly. No one dreamed it could fall like a house of cards. Those who knew little about Bonfire or only heard about it after the 1999 collapse can feel smug in "knowing" that it was destined to fall, and can feel high and mighty Monday-morning quarterbacking, but the fact is no one who knew anything about Bonfire ever thought of that possibility. There were many who were against the building of Bonfire, but those concerns were (1)Environmental(trees were cut and burned), (2) Academic, (the Bonfire took time away from studies), and indeed (3) Saftey, but not in terms of the stack falling but of concerns at the cut site where axes are used and logs are often hand loaded onto trucks. In reality, the latter two reasons were usually used by those who were against the Bonfire for environmental reasons but did not want the tree-hugger label. In terms of the unthinkable happening, I will speak of something all of us on the board basically know equally about, the much larger national tragedy of 9/11. When I saw the World Trade Center fall to the ground after seeing it said in countless movies and television episodes it was yet another shock. Now many building engineers say that the construction techniques used to make it so tall were also what doomed it to collapse entirely, but before they actually fell, did anyone ever even dream that could happen? The fact that the design was seriously flawed and led to a total structural failure should not mean that something could not be built that would be safer and not prone to collapse. Back to 1999; 12 who were building something they loved, died. The fact that the design was seriously flawed and led to a total structural failure should not mean that something could not be built that would be safer and not prone to collapse. The off-campus Bonfire outside of Bryan has firm rules that make it far safer and the responsible contruction techniques will surely be the basis for a safe future on-campus Bonfire. When Bonfire does return to campus it will be the safest construction project in the land. from the Student Bonfire website: "Similar in appearance to recent Bonfires, Student Bonfire stands 30' tall and mimics the tier design. However, all logs in Student Bonfire are touching the ground, adding stability and safety. Furthermore, centerpole is attached to 4 support poles, known as Windle Sticks. All 4 are in the ground at 7'. Centerpole is buried 9'. There is an engineer advising stack construction." The results speak for themselves, Gig'em:
  10. I just love how those who are on the outside looking in speak with such pretention and disdain for Aggies and Texas A&M. I will be attending the off-campus Bonfire again this year. Bonfire will live on, safely, for all Aggies to enjoy.
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