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  1. I vaguely remember the bungee tower. Searching the Chron archives I only found one mention here:

    http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive....id=1994_1206347

    "Afton Oaks Civic Club responds quickly to anything that threatens the residential character of the neighborhood. The association was instrumental in shutting down the
    bungee jumping operation that was located nearby at Loop 610
    ."

    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.

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    Okay, I did it. Tried out Griff's in Denver for lunch today. Really a good flavor to the burger. In a way, reminded me a bit of the Bellaire Broiler Burger. I will go back!

    As for Del Taco, they came into Denver about 2 years ago. They are okay, but I don't see the attraction of tacos and french fries together.

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

  3. Yeah, I do. Details are fuzzy (I was in my 20s, afterall), but I remember a stage right in the middle of the toll road. I seem to also remember that the party trash on the roadway caused it to be pretty slick, necessitating a bigger cleanup than was originally planned.

    For all the doom and gloom, there were also some good times. 1986 produced...aside from a record number of foreclosures...the Rendezvous Houston concert noted in another thread, in April, the NBA Finals against the Boston Celtics in June, the US Olympic Festival, an Olympic tuneup event with over 3,000 athletes in August, the MLB All-Star game at the Dome in July, and the Astros versus the Mets in perhaps the greatest playoff series ever in October.

    There was also a sort of camaraderie brought on by the oil and housing collapse. Whereas money and wealth causes isolation and self-centeredness, recession causes people to look to their friends and neighbors for what is really important. It was a very interesting time to live in Houston. In fact, the collapse is the foundation of the controlled excitement surrounding the current boom. Oldtimers know it could happen again.

    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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

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