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I remember seeing a retrospective story about that place on Ch 26 in the early 90's and driving by it not too much later; it was a very creepy looking place.

It was on the SW corner of the 610/59 interchange if I remember correctly, where the big hill used to be that was a waterslide and later an ampitheater was built there. It's all gone now due to the Westpark tollway.

There is still a Griff's in the metropolis of Ruston, LA where I went to college at Louisiana Tech.

The Huey Lewis concert was on a Saturday in 1990; I remember because we went to Benihana on Westheimer from Spring that night for my birthday. The concert was just west of 45; the freeway was open west of there if I recall and was free for the first few days (this was back when you had to stop & pay whether w/ exact coins or at the booth & get change and the traffic was not that bad), I remember we made it all the way around to I-10 but I don't remember if it was open all the way to 59; I think that may have been the next day or so. '86 was a good year here after all, this was before anyone in my family (namely me) worked in oil & gas. I got to carry the Olympic torch that summer about 3 feet down Cypresswood Dr. w/ my scout troop. My dad got to go the Astros' penant clinching Monday playoff game w/ the Dodgers too.

Ahh, good old Kathy Whitmire. Remember she also introduced us to good old Lee Brown....

I was thinking about the downtown fireworks shows on the 4th, since we didn't have them that I remember and wondered if this was on Youtube, sure enough it is. Bonus points awarded if: * You were here in 1986 * You can define sesquicentennial * You know who Jean Michel Jarre is More info here http://www.questbbs.fsnet.co.uk/rvhouston.htm

My dad worked for awhile doing site/environmental assessments and had to check out a potential cell phone tower location in the parking lot of Sherwood Cryer's G's Ice House about the time this article came out. He went on a Sunday morning to avoid any run-ins, right after he pulled up Mr. Cryer pulled up in his pick-up. Dad told him what he was doing, and said he remembered the club and the movie. Sherwood told him he liked Michael but not any of Travolta's other movies. Dad soon went on his way and was glad he didn't get run-off/chased off/beaten. He didn't ask his opinion about Mickey Gilley.

There was also a Tinsley's in Tomball and I think there was one in Conroe as well. I seem to remember they had an old DC-3 called the Boss Bird, and I remember my dad telling me something like the owners had used the plane to smuggle drugs and that spelled the end of Tinsley's Chicken, don't know for sure if that was true or not.

Here is a link to a video when KHTV changed to the CW, with a flashback of their last 40 years including Don Mahoney and Jeanna Claire:

I was goign to mention Bill Douglass' Shoe Box, we went to the one near Champion Forest on 1960, and if I was good I got to go to the Playhouse Toys store next to it. Saw the mention of Suniland. My mom said they used to make their own furniture polish that had this great smell, and she loved going there because of it. My folks still have most of the furniture they got after getting married there.

The high rise scenes were filmed at 2016 Main, you can see the Houston House in the background. As for the uptown nightclub, it was Elan back then, on St. James near Yorktown. It is now a restaurant called The Courtyard. My family used to be in the dry cleaning business here in town, during the filming some of the crew rented a house in Tanglewood and brought some clothes in to be done, I'm not sure if any wardrobe items were done, but the crew was driving around in the beat-up Mustang Debra Winger used in the film.