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My mom used to skate there back in the late '30s. One of her good friends there was Josephine Cottle. Mom dated her brother for a time.

Josephine was

My great grandmother used to tell me that if I didnt pluck my eyebrows I would look like Bull Curry, and no little girl should look like Bull Curry. Now how was I ever going to look like Bull Curry. I was a tiny little girl with blonde hair and no eyebrows to speak of. Great grandma Ida was a hoot.

That

Fever Tree

I had one of their albums, possibly the last one they made. The leadoff song was Imitation Situation, and that may have been the album title as well.

The best song on the album was the absolute very best version of "Hey, Joe" that I ever heard.

There were two guys I remember in the Men

You'd think this guy's mug would scare the paint off walls, but he was actually a gentle giant.

"Wild Bull" Curry was a famous "rassler" who I often saw at the Majestic Theater, and he always had kids hanging around him asking for autographs or just cutting up with him. And from the smile on his face, I knew he just ate it up. What a great guy.

Wild Bull Curry

Did you go to the Majestic? If so, do you remember the big, burly guy with one eyebrow with kids hanging all around him?

I remember this guy very well, but with a slightly different slant. He didn

Strawberry Patch, Circus, Pappadeaux - all the same place, and all owned by Pappas Brothers.

I'm sure there were a number of watermelon stands around Houston. The one near us was on North Shepherd and, I believe, 26th. There was a small produce market on one corner, and the watermelon stand was on the other.

You could buy the melon whole, or by the slice. If you bought it whole, they would "plug" the melon by making three deep cuts, then removing the plug so the buyer could see if it was ripe or not. When the customer was satisfied, the plug was simply reinserted.

petemoss, who posted above, still talks with Jeanna on occasion, so I assume she is still with us.

I don

From The Houston Tribune

JEANNA CLARE AND DON MAHONEY

by Gloria Cambell Cross

"Without a song, the day would never end. Without a song, a man ain

if nearly complete means 40%

But, you have to keep in mind that much of what bones were missing on one side of Lucy, scientists were able to recreate from the corresponding bone on the other side that was recovered. All they had to do was mirror the bone. When you put all the pieces in place, most of the skeleton could be seen.

Lucy is the nearly complete, as well as the most complete fossilized, skeletal remains of an Australopithecine discovered by Don Johansen in 1974. The Houston Museum of Natural Science was very fortunate to have arranged for an exhibit of Lucy that was to occur in 2006. But, I can't find anything on it.

Did she come and go? Had the visit been delayed? Canceled?

Playland Park was at S Main and Murworth. The

In the mid 60s, many of the guys my age became very familiar with 61 Riesner Street. That

My grandmother lived at 14th and Waverley and I spent many hours watching those trains roll by. My best friend near her lived on Herkimer, and his house backed up to Nicholson.

My guess is that the railroad ceased operations somewhere in the 60s, and possibly the later 60s. BTW, the street was called Railroad originally, but I don’t know when it was changed.

So, any guesses as to what 2200 Main was back then? Anyone know what is there now?

For one thing, Harriman is the one who brought up his connection, otherwise I never would have known. Second, I think he was pretty young when it happened, maybe in his teens, so he may not have been exposed to all the gory details at the time.

Lastly, he seemed as though he enjoyed the notoriety of being connected with such a famous (infamous) case. And why not? It

Good job, Filio!

That had to have been one of the stranger things that I have experienced. Here I am talking about the Henley/Corll case, and the boat-shed owner was standing in front of me.

When the guy walked in, Charlie introduced him as something Harriman (can

Could it have been Mountain Belvieu off I-10?

My mom is moving from Houston to Austin. She closes on her house next Wednesday, and we will move the next day. We will get a U-Haul truck for the move, and will store her excess furniture and other belongings in a storage unit here in Bastrop.

I signed for the unit this morning. As with most business people in this town, the guy at the place was a talker. People just love to talk here. Charlie would enter something into the computer, then talk some more. As it turned out, he lived in The Heights for a good while in a rental on Dorothy near 11th. Small world.

One of the stories I told Charlie was about taking a date to DePaul

You can clearly see some Mountains in the background of a longshot showing Bud driving into the trailer park, coming home from work.

Wasn't that the Baytown Mountains?

According to IMDB, filming for Urban Cowboy was at Gilley

Pictures! We need pictures!!!

Not defunct per se, but I really miss the original 1923 James Coney Island on Walker & Main. The chili is still as good in the newer locations, but the faux 'retro' design makes me vomit. The original was the best! Why oh why did it have to close?

When I worked at Gulf Oil in '67-'68, James Coney Island was a mainstay for me. Coneys were 20