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    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. Does this guy look familiar? He is about 6-7
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    B-29? How about the B-36?The problem with the B-36 was not so much its runway length, but its weight. Very few airports, military or civilian, could handle the 36's weight. Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls was one of the few that met the requirements, and that is why it was chosen as a B-36 base.
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    J Edgar Hoover was the FBI, and Hoover kept files on everybody so he could use the information to get whatever he wanted. Why wouldn't he keep files on Hughes? Somebody should have investigated J Edgar and his wife, Clyde Tolson.
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    OK, so who is Norman Baxter? His name is very familiar. When I worked for Gulf Oil in the reproduction department, I got a poster-size copy of a drawing of downtown similar to the style of the old phone book drawings. Although the styles were strikingly similar, I do remember that my drawing was done by a different artist.
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    I don
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    I remember the very first one. It was a normal drawing of downtown, and somewhere in the drawing was a mother cat and her kittens crossing the street. You really had to look hard to find them. The next year, the cat and kittens were there in a new drawing, and there were a couple of other
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    Don't recall the animals, other than the ones like me that hung out at Clyde's Eatery just across the way from BEP. They were known for a great prime rib, and had a very neat bar crowd. It is now a Chinese buffet.Don't know if I or anyone mentioned Vliiage Inn Pizza on Westheimer near Chimney Rock. Dean Scott used to play there in the early 70s.
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    Not sure where I heard this. I have posted this before, but got no confirmation. My understanding is that at least one of the trains running at Hermann came from Playland Park when it closed down.
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    Not sure about that restaurant, but my first taste of KFC was in the late 50s, maybe early 60s at a place called the Bluegrass Inn. It was a nice, dine-in restaurant on Gray across from Capt. John's and the bakery (Mrs. Baird's?). The fare was all-you-can-eat, and you had your choice of either fried chicken or fried shrimp. I am pretty sure the price was $1.99 for whichever you chose. I can
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    Cajun Town Seafood Restaurant on Little York at Bingle. It has some of the best seafood in town, and at great prices. It
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    We used to go to Leo
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    Although it was a common term for freeway intersections, the interchange in the photo was Houston
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    I spent many an hour there at Talley
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    I fondly remember the murals inside Union Station, most likely from a WPA project. Also, they had a great model train layout on one of the upper floors that was open to the public. My dad took me to see it numerous times as a kid. BTW, the items on the train were selected from the Smithsonian, or were destined to reside there after the tour.
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    The shoes were probably Bob Lanier's. I think he wore a size 22 or something like that. They also had John Havlicek's green Converse tennies from his Celtics days. My favorite exhibit was Archie Bunker's chair.
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    So, will the new CVS be across the street from the new Walgreens, or cattycorner from it?
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    WestU, Napoleon Square opened in the early 70s. Sections A and B in the northeast quarter opened first. I moved in with a friend in Section C while an apartment in D was completed in September of
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    Did you mean Bonaparte
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    When I worked for Blue Bell in
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    Well, kinda sorta. It was me, but the handwriting was Betty Lou's.
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    I was the big kid who was outside writing my name in the snow.
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    Don't need any link because that day is etched in my memory. I was in Mrs. Tillinghast
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    TBird, my mom came to Bastrop yesterday, and that was the first time I have had to really talk with her. She told me that she met Josephine at Polar Wave, and met her brother, Jimmy, there, too. Mom did skate there, but she worked there as well, and that
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    Actually, NMG, I was not as affected as you because you and those involved (perpetrators and victims) are a few years younger than I am. In fact, I had already gone through a marriage and a stint in the Navy by the time that happened. I knew none of those involved other than knowing people who knew them. It wouldn
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    My mom went to Hamilton, then to Reagan. They moved to Midland for a while, then back to Houston where she graduated in
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