ImTomTerrific

Boy scout from '68 - '75. Eagle Scout at 15 in '73. Order of the Arrow. Junior Assistant Scoutmaster. I did the whole thing. My son was in Cub Scouts and Webelos....never could get him interested past that.

Here are a cpl of links to the Washburn Tunnel http://www.texasfreeway.com/houston/photos...d_houston.shtml http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washburn_Tunnel

The Washburn Tunnel goes underneath the Houston Ship Channel. It is located just south of the intersection of Federal Road (north and south) and Clinton Dr (east and west).

The tunnel is the Washburn Tunnel. It's at the end of Federal Road and only about 1 mile south of the area known as Greens Bayou. Greens Bayou is in the city of Houston and is split between HISD and Galena Park ISD. My father also worked for Todd Shipyard in the early 50's and I grew up in Northshore

Greens Bayou is a section that dates back to the 40's. It's in the east side of Houston. Basically, it is bordered by the Bayou on the north and east. It goes about to Industrial Road on the south and just west of Federal Road. I grew up next to the area known as Greens Bayou. I'm sure someone on here will correct me on the exact boundries, but that is basically it. Todd shipyard used to east of the old Armco Plant where Industrial Road dead-ends. It's a private dock today. Hope this helps.

I'm very sketchy on the history of when they went defunct. It was my understanding that they went defunct several years after I left....say 1975-1976 maybe. However, I had also heard that they'd been resurrected which would account for the 1984 encounter. I don't know if they're still in existence today. We were a very respected group in our day. We held a Christmas concert at Fannin Bank every year (I still have my silver dollars that they gave each member every year). We also held a concert on the grand staircase in the original front side of the Museum of Fine Arts every year. We performed with the Houston Chorale and the Houston Symphony with the guest conductor, Sir John Barbirolli. A children's TV special was produced at Astroworld in 1968 called "The Pied Piper of Astroworld" in which the Singing Boys were a part of. The year after I left the chorus they went to Austria to perform with the Vienna Choir Boys. I have very fond memories of the group and the wonderful experiences I had. I'm sure I have some pictures somewhere, but I'm not sure there is really an interest. If someone would like to see them I'll see if I can find them and scan them.

I was in the Singing Boys of Houston from 1966-1970. I know that the group was disbanded several years later, but I've never run into anyone else that remembers it or was a member.

thanks for posting the pictures, idid.....it's the 1st time I've seen my old Montrose School in 25 years. I'm going to have to hunt down my class pictures from the 60's that were taken inside the classrooms and post them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_School_f...and_Visual_Arts http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Jacinto_H...l_%28Houston%29

How 'bout Neisners, Ben Franklins and Perry's. Even TG&Y

Berthas original restaurant was on Southmore near the old Sears on Main St. My wife and I started going to Berthas in the early 80's. At that time it was a dive on McKinney street and was demolished a few years later to make way for the George R. Brown Convention Center. It was a really cool place and she had an blind organ player named Milo. Our son was a baby at the time and Bertha would come over to the table while Milo was playing and pick up our 2 year old and dance around the restaurant with him. When you came to the rest. in the evening, she had the front register closed and you had to go into the kitchen to pay your bill. After the eminent domain of the McKinney rest, she moved to 2 Houston Center on the corner of McKinney and San Jacinto (I think)...it was across from the Southern National Bank on the east side. It was very swank and didn't really feel like the comfortable family rest. it had once been. I remained there for a couple of years until she moved to Montrose Blvd. near St. Thomas in a strip center. That rest. had a calypso feel to it and was always packed. However, Bertha had financial problems and the rest. didn't last very long. The food was FABULOUS and I still crave her guacamole and tacos. Bertha was personal friends with Mickey Gilley and she had a huge painting of him in each of her restaurants. Sadly, Bertha passed away a cpl of years ago.

I hadn't thought about that in YEARS! There also used to be a number that you could dial that would ring you back when you hung up...kind of a line test. It was fun to dial it and then walk away and let someone else answer a dead line. I grew up in Northshore and our phone exchange was Glendale. You could tell who'd lived there the longest by the number that followed the exchange. The oldest was GL3, then GL5.

I was a student at Montrose Elementary in the late 60's. My mother was a teacher there. It has been reported in several places (Wikipedia included) that the school was demolished in 1971 to make room for HSPVA, but in actuality it was 1981. The school was a beautiful mission style stucco structure. The entire school was built around a courtyard and all of the rooms opened to an outdoor corridor that surrounded the courtyard. In each corner of the courtyard was a mosaic tile bench with climbing roses on trellis'. In the center of the courtyard was the cafeteria. All of the rooms had hardwood floors that the custodians would oil. There was no air conditioning, but large double hung windows that we would open from the top and bottom with huge fans to try and keep us cool. Plus, each room had a "cloak room". In those days the kids were the crossing guards or "The Patrol" as we were called. We had huge bamboo poles with "STOP" flags and stood at each corner of the school grounds to help the other students cross. During that period (1965-1969) Montrose was experiencing Urban Flight and much of the neighborhood stood empty. That was the period in which the "hippies" began moving in because it was cheap to live there. I always say (tongue in cheek) that I went to school with the hippies kids and their names were "Dawn" and "Sun" and "Moon". When the school was about to be demolished my mother was invited to collect a piece of memorilia. So, in her backyard now sits one of the mosaic tile benches that had originally graced the beautiful courtyard. I wish I had pictures of the school, but unfortunately the only ones I have are of the inside of the classrooms when they took our group pictures.