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FrankM, I bet you even had your graduation from Milby in 1977 at the Sam Houston Coliseum.

I commented on this thread or possibly another one that I would be really sad to see Worthem closed for a soccer stadium or anything else for that matter. It is a piece of history in that it was one of the first if not the first golf course in Houston. It is also one of only four courses left inside the loop. (Worthem, Memorial, Herman, and River Oaks) However the reality is this, of the City of Houston owned courses only one is in the black. The rest bleed red ink. Memorial because of the wranglings that were done when it was renovated has a provision that all revenues generated have to stay at Memorial and the funds cannot be used to fund any of the other courses. The way the City looks at the situation is what facility on this location will serve the most users? My best recollection is Memorial has somewhere around 70,000 rounds of golf played there a year. Worthem has less than half of that. Lets for discussion sake say its 30,000. If closing the course and transitioning the area into soccer fields, baseball fields, lacrosse fields, and additional park area would serve say 200,000 to 250,000 citizens a year then its a no brainer the city will opt to ditch the course. Whatever the go forward position is one thing is clear, if any additional facilities are built at the site, the course will close. No plan would ever consider retaining any part of the course while adding any other facilities. As far as the discussions with the Dynamo the current belief is that if they reached an agreement all the City would contribute to the mix would be tha land. The Dynamo would be responsible for all construction costs.

I remeber Gaido's on South Main. The one in Galveston has been there for what seems like forever. My son played YMCA basketball with Casey Gaido when he was in the 1st grade. His father was Paulie Gaido who was still running the Galveston location at that time. The resturant they opened right next to it was named for the little Gaido my son played basketball with. At that time they lived in Bay Oaks in Clear Lake and Paulie drove to Galveston to work every day.

This is wild, today while looking at this site a friend at work noticed me looking at this site and saw the Bolton and Barnstone topic and started asking me about it. Turns out he got married in November and one of his family's friends that was in attendance was none other than Preston Bolton. My friend said he is about 75 to 80 years old and had heard he was interested in contempory and mods and offered to design a house for him if he wanted to build one. Small world.

Number 10 came away from the clubhouse and played your second shot over the bayou. There was a footbridge across and then the 11th was a short par three back across the bayou. When you stood on the 11th tee box if you looked to your right there was the two lane bridge. The road that connected it went straight across the course to Glenview.

Does anyone remeber the old bridge that was actually on the Glenbrook Golf course. If you drive down the Gulf Freeway feeder north from Howard you will pass over Sims Bayou. Right after you cross it if you turn right you will be on a street that parralels the bayou for a ways and then turns north and eventually comes out on Park Place between St Christophers and Charlton Park. At one time about a 1/4 of a mile down that road from the freeway there was a bridge over the bayou. Eventually they closed it to street traffic but it was used for the course for many more years. As a child my wife used to go that way to church with her Mother at St. Christophers.

I'll have to ask my wife but I don't think so. This man was ex Military and had servred as a Major in Viet Nam. He owned several rent houses and apartments and spent most of his time taking care of them. He also rented the house my wife grew up in until her mother finally bought it from him.

My mother in law lives right behind the Glenbrook pool and I remember those houses. I think some of them are still there. The only way to get to them is from Highway 3. One of the houses over there actually had a dock on the bayou and kept and old cabin cruiser type boat there. I always thought that was pretty neat that you could live in Houston and still have a dock with a boat. It was a long haul to the ship channel and anywhere else but I still thought it was pretty cool. Also along those lines there is a piece of property at the end of Neal street behind the pool that a doctor has purchased and is building a huge house on. As neal bends and becomes another street there is a driveway that serves the house on Neal but continues up a little hill and goes back near the bayou. My wife and mother in law walked up there one day and looked around. It's a huge house with a concrete domed entry way and looks like it will be 5,000 sq ft plus house. Years ago a man by the name of mr. Boyd owned the house on Neal, and the house that used to sit on the hill. The house on the hill burned years ago and Mr Boyd and his wife moved to the house actually on Neal. After his death the property was pieced out and sold. Now someone is actually building a mansion where the old house stood.

Sad in a way that everybody is so quick to give up the golf course in favor of a soccer complex. I know the city owned facility has gotten run down and lacks maintinence but as we look to improve Houston, lets also remember that the preservation of certain areas of town are just important to many on these boards. Gus Worthem is the original Houston Country Club and one of the oldest courses in the City of Houston. My fondest wish has always been that someone or some group would work to bring the beauty of the course and preserve the historic value of it rather than just bulldoze it on our way to the future. I watched as they destroyed another golf course when I was 11 and did not understand the significance of it at the time, but Barnett Stadium and a HISD bus barn sit on what used to be a beautiful course and given the choice of the two I'll take the golf course.

The whole process of getting it from Herman Park to MMP was the subject of a show on the History Channel called Mega Movers.

I was being a couch potato the other day surfing through the cable channels when I came across a movie called "My Best Friend is a Vampire". For whatever reason I watched it for a while and low and behold the whole thing was shot in Houston. The high school they used was none other than my alma mata Milby High school. The kid who became the "nice" vampire had an afternoon job delivering groceries and the name on the truck was Jamail's. It had numerous shots of downtown Houston, and at one point he was waiting for a bus and the name of the street was Idylwood. I think his house was in West University because from the street scene in the movie you could see what looked like the garage door house that is on the corner of Kirby and another street right across from Rice Village. That house has been featured on the HGTV show "Whats With That House?" Its three stories with metal siding and what look like garage doors on the second floor. The same architech has had another house similar to it in Houston feature on the same show. If you ever see the movie check it out, not for the movie but for an interesting tour of Houston through Hollywoods eyes.

My wife and I graduated from Milby in 1977. She took the exact same route as you from Bonner to Deady to Milby. Her Mother still lives in Meadowbrook on Neal right next to the swimming pool. If you lived on Howard during that period I wonder if you knew the Lyles. They still live on Howard in a two story red brick house on the south side of Howard about a block west of where Neal hit Howard. Mrs. Lyles parents lived just across Howard from them. Also there was a house owned by the Richardson family that they ran as a boarding house for some time. My uncled lived ther when he worked for Bloodworth-Bond shipbuilders. His twin sister, my Mother was married to Leroy Richardson for a number of years till they divorced. My Mother later married my Father and I was born in 1959. This is such a small world.

I think 2016 Main while it may not be the right address would have been the scene they filmed in the high rise apartments downtown next to the Pierce Elevated. It was supposedly where Travolta's rich substitue girlfriend lived.

What I always found interesting about the old Monterrey House was that all of their food was cooked at one location and then shipped out to the stores where they basically just heated everything up, melted the cheese on top and sent it out to your table. Their plant, or commisary as they called it was located in South Houston on Richey just east of Highway 3. Whenever you were in the area you could always smell the food cooking. As a kid I used to go bowl at Meadowcreek Lanes on Richey and would pass the commisary all the time.

Astroworld brings back so many memories. My Father sold concrete blocks and construction material and he provided most of it for the company that built Astroworld. As a kid he took me out to see the construction site numerous times in the late sixties when it was being built. Then in 1976 and 77 I worked at Astroworld. That was when they were building the Cyclone. I worked in the warehouse and we delivered everything out to the parks. One day I had to take a forklift and move a pattelt full of BB's out to the Cyclone. We had the BB's because they were used at a game in the Country Fair where you used and air gun to try and shoot all of a star out of a paper target for a prize. The shot came in 50 pound bags and they used 6 to a car on the Cyclone to test it before anyone rode it after it was built. Several of the bags flew out of the seats and busted open sending the BB's everywhere. For years after that I was one of the few people who knew why there were BB's on the ground under the Cyclone. For anyone interested in a really old piece of Astroworld history if you are ever driving on Highway 6 west of 288 and a little west of 521 if you see a fenced in area on the south side of 6 you can still see several of the original buckets from the original Astrowheel. That was the two side ferris wheel type ride that was original to the park opening. It was closed after so many mechanical problems and as I remember one of the mechanics who worked at the Park asked if he could have some of the cars. They said sure and he put them out on Highway 6 where they are still sitting today.

Wow! I had not thought about these guys in a long time. We used to go to the Steak and Ale on the Southwest freeway to see them all the time. It would have been in the late seventies and early eighties. At the time they were the Elliot, walter, and Bennet Band. I actually still have one of their albums that I bought back then 33rpm LP.

MI3-7274 My parents had that number for 40years in Southeast Houston

What year did you graduate from Milby? My wife and I graduated from Milby in 1977. She went to Deady Jr. High and I went to Jackson Jr. High. We both graduated from U of H, her in 1982 and me in 1981.

In honor of the upcoming Christmas season how many people here remember seeing the Santa's they put on the carrousel horses at the Carrousel Motel every year? As a kid that was always a sign that Christmas was coming every year when they put those up.

Dinner Bell Cafetiria: My Great Aunt lived on Pearson off Broadmoore and this was where she bought all her cakes, our favorite was German Chocolate. Hickory Stick Bar-b-que run by Charlie West and we ate there all the time. The Mother of a good friend from my childhood worked there. Now it's Lowes parking lot. There was an Italian restaraunt tucked in the woods right across the street from the Hickory Stick and its long since gone, so are the woods. Franks Grill on Telephone: Still open and going strong right next door to the liquor store that has been there just about as long as Franks. The Tel Wink Grill: Still open as of the last time I drove by although they are not open 24 hrs like they once were. Sheffields Ice House/ Beer Joint. Still there at the bend in Telephone Road. THis was my Fathers hang out for over 30 years. Turks Bar-b-que. Another of my Fathers hang outs for shooting pool. On Long Drive just west of Telephone Road. The corner of Bellfort and Telephone was one of my favorite places because there was a Duncan Donuts right next to a Der Weinerschnitzel. Both are gone and a used car lot sits there now.

I might know some people that went to school with you as I graduated from Milby in 1977.

I think when they refer to malls as in Gulfgate being the first, they mean the first enclosed mall. As a kid I remember Gulfgate being open air until the early sixties when they enclosed it. At that point it became the first enclosed and air conditioned mall.

OMG! Surf the web and there is no telling what kind of stuff you can find. I grew up in the Southeast side of Houston and can remember Gulfgate mall in its glory years. I can actually remember the "shopping center" before they enclosed it and it became one the first if not the first "malls" in the country. Someone asked about the Fed Mart that was across Woodridge from Gulfgate but how many of you remember the store Globe, which was there before Fed Mart? Also there was a Weingartens grocery as part of the mall at the corner of Woodridge and what is now the 610 feeder. As a kid I lived on Arnim which is one street past 610 off Woodridge. I remember when they opened the theatre at Gulgate because we were sitting at home watching it on TV and I remember being fasinated that what I was seeing on TV was going on like a block away from my house. My dentist was in the basement of the mall and the stairs were located on the wing that went towards the movie theatre, near the Newmans store. Newmans had a basement as well and thats where the toys were. Kids remember this sort of thing. There was also a great bakery/sandwich shop right next to the bank in the mall called Mize's. I actually drove through the tunnels under the mall when I took drivers ed in high school. Our instructor wanted to know what was there so he told me to drive down the ramp. There were three entrance/exits to the system. One was at the Joskee's/Dillards lower portion, one was along 610/Holmes Road across from the movie theatre, and one was next to Weingartens by the bank. A good friend of mines brother actually crashed through the front window of Joskee's one time. We used to ride our bikes to the mall and get going real fast on the hill between where the bowling alley entrance was and the lower level of Joskees. when you got to the bottom you had to turn really fast to avoid the plate glass windows at Joskee's. Well he tried but was going to fast and crashed right through the window.