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  1. I believe that Don Janicek died a few years ago. I'm trying to look it up on the Chronicle archives. I found it. DONALD "DON" HOWARD JANICEK, born July 26, 1933, passed away October 27, 2002 at age 69, after suffering a massive heart attack. Don was best known as the Founder and Owner of Don's Record Shop in Bellaire. Don was a Charter Member and Past President of The Bellaire Southwest Rotary Club, and a recipient of the Paul Harris Award. He was a Past Board Member of the Belliare Chamber of Commerce and member of Holy Ghost Catholic Church.
  2. When I was in high school - mid 60s - there was a number that I believe was called The Grapevine. When you called it, you could hear several people talking at once. What usually happened, was that you would give someone your number and they would call you to have a private conversation. I never gave out my number, but I did call someone else who gave me his number. We never did meet, though. I guess that was the first chat room.
  3. We used to shop at Craig's in the Village all the time. We didn't have to "dress up" to go there like we did when we went to Sakowitz or Battlesteins. Later on, when I was in college, we shopped at Craig's in Memorial City, especially before Foley's opened there.
  4. I remember watching him when I was really young. I always thought he was saying, "I'm just a wonder of the waistline." I couldn't figure that out, because he wasn't fat or anything.
  5. I remember that Westbury and Lee look exactly the same. I'm curious, does Lee still have the original three-story classroom building? I would think that it had the same construction as the one at Westbury and probably the same structural problems.
  6. The person who found them used them for the science fair project that year. I don't know what happened to them after that.
  7. On the west side of the ditch near johnson jr high, a wooly mamoth or masterdon skeleton or fossil was found in the early 1960. I knew the kids who found those bones. I probably would have been one of them, but I was not there that day. I can remember one of my teachers at Johnston commenting on this and wondering why they were playing in the ditch.
  8. I didn't go to Reagan, but I have several friends who did. I'm sure they would feel exactly the same way.
  9. Does anyone remember these: I attended a nursery school in 1952 - I was four. It was somewhere in "downtown" Bellaire. I think it was called Playhouse or Playmates. The one thing that I remember the most was that they had a tricycle merry-go-round. There were about 8 - 10 tricycles mounted on a platform and only went around if all the children were pedaling. Edit: September 2, 1954 Playmates Pre-School 5221 Spruce / MA-2987 Mrs. Herbert Rohloff . . . Mrs. Howard Dunaway The other one is the first place I taught in the early 70s. It was just east of Post Oak, but I don't remember if it was off of Willowbend or West Bellfort. It was called Town & Country School and Camp. The people who owned it were named Bobo. I tried to find it on google, but I'm not sure. There is something south of Willow Park that looks like it could be a school. Edit: September 13, 1961 Town & Country School. Off Willowbend Blvd. at 11524 Craighdead - MO 5-1148. Mrs. N.R. Bobo, Owner. Can anyone help with either of these?
  10. I'm not sure when Lamar was built, but my dad went there in the early 40s. ETA - It was built in 1937. We had no air conditioning when I was in school. I had to go to college for that. The school where I taught my first two years also had no air conditioning. That was really miserable. They finally got it the third year.
  11. In the years I was there (63-66) Fred Pepper was a phys ed. teacher. Rivers Lodge was dean of women, Kenneth Gupton was asst. principal, and William Burns was principal. Mr. Burns died the summer after I graduated and Mr. Gupton became principal.
  12. Does anyone remember this? I was in the 6th grade at Horn Elementary in September of 1959. They told us to go straight home, but would not tell us why. I knew that Kolter Elementary was named after one of the teachers who died. A few years ago I worked with a lady who was the substitute that took over Jeanne Kolter's classroom after her death. You will need to scroll down to read the part about Poe School. http://www.texasranger.org/dispatch/7/Gooding.htm
  13. That really makes me sad. Westbury was only two years old when I started in 1963. I think I got a fantastic education. In the faculty section of the yearbook, it shows that a great many of the teachers had master's degrees. When I took the advanced placement English test at U of H, I was able to place out of the first semester freshman English. Later I found out that almost everyone from Westbury who took the test placed out of it. We joked that they probably made the test harder the next year.
  14. I just found out from my dad - who is 81 - that he took flying lessons from Cliff Hyde back in the 40s. He said it was somewhere out on South Main, which makes me think it must have been at the Sam Houston Airport. I googled Cliff Hyde and found this link that mentions that his service operated out of the Sam Houston Airport. http://www.1940airterminal.org/houstonaviationtimeline.htm
  15. I went to a restaurant in Kemah in 1969, but I don't remember the name. It might have had the word captain or club in the name, but I just can't think of it. Does anyone know?
  16. That's because everywhere you go, it's the same few stores. Target, Wal-mart, Starbucks, etc. I took a ride to Kemah last January to see the boardwalk. I hadn't been there in over 10 years. With the exception of two, every restaurant out there is also in Katy or on the west side of town. Sometimes it seems like there's almost no point in going anywhere because in a way, it's like you never left home.
  17. I'm a little closer to your age. I was born in 1948. My grandparents lived in the 3900 block of Coleridge. The funny thing about JMH is that they would cash checks for my grandmother and she didn't have to leave the car. She would give me the check and I would run in and give it to the person in the courtesy booth, and they would give me the cash. We live in Katy now, but took a little trip to the Village yesterday to go to the Variety 5 & 10. My favorite store was World Toy & Gift. We would go in the back door and spend forever in the back section with all the 10 and 15 cent toys. My mom and my sister and I went back in the early 90s when they were closing. Of course all of that section is gone now.
  18. My grandparents lived in West University (we never called it 'West U') and my grandmother did most of her grocery shopping at either JMH or Weingarten's in Montclair Center. The Montclair Center sign had a light at the top that rotated like a lighthouse. When I would spend the night, it would shine in the back bedroom - off and on all night. I felt that it was kind of creepy.
  19. What a great picture. It's really strange to see Westbury's water tower and no school right next to it. I lived in Marilyn Estates - the subdivision just west of Johnston. This picture must be 1959, because Kolter Elementary hasn't been built, and it was open when we moved there in October of 1960.
  20. I know about the new one. It looks great. I wish that the google satellite pics were more up-to-date. I'd love to see an overhead view of the campus now.
  21. The original three-story classroom building was condemned a few years ago and torn down. They were going to renovate it, but when they went in to inspect it, it was so bad that they immediately shut it down. I believe it had something to do with the foundation. I don't think they even let students come in and empty their lockers. The last part may be wrong, but it's what I heard. Maybe someone else can verify it.
  22. My grandparents lived in West University and their phone number in the 40s was M 1156. By the time I was learning to use the phone (I'm 58) the number was MA 1156. Shortly after I learned, the phone company added another digit and the number was MA3-1156. We lived about three miles away (in Bellaire) and we also had the Madison exchange.
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