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  1. there was two pesos and taco cabana. TC is out of San Antonio. The two restaurants were pretty much identical in layout, menu, and decor, the only difference was one was turquoise and the other pink. TC brought a trade dress lawsuit against two pesos and won. The result was TC wound up acquiring two pesos and taking over the locations.

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  2. Deauville Center is south of 525, and about a mile south of Greenspoint between 525 and West.  It also had a Furr's, Randall's, and Bobbie MGee's.  The movies were converted to adult by about 1980-81, just after Greenspoint opened.  I don't think it was so much evidence of Greenspoint's decline as it was that Greenspoint was built in an area that was already showing signs of stress and probably should have been put somewhere else.

  3. did jack roach ever take over Pearson?  in '62, my aunt bought a fairlane from the dealership in that building, but i've always remembered it as jack roach ford.  also, as a side note, does anyone know if Jack Roach was related to the Roach boys, one who pitched at SHSU, and one worked at Astroworld, ald later they opened Spanky's Pizza on 610 near Gulfgate?

  4. If we're going outside the loop, there were two on Little York close to 45 and one on 529. One on the south side of Little York was fairly small, and I can't remember the name. The building stood for years after it closed and it became a church. Don't think the building is still there now. On the north side was Big Texan lanes. It went into a former store, again don't remember, and after it closed it became the Food Town that is still there. On 529, Imperial Valley Lanes, an AMF location, was open until about 2004 or so. That building is still there and unoccupied.

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  5. A squad of Yankee soldiers running around Texas in 1862 without major notice being taken seems very unlikely to me, so I did some quick google searching and came up with the following.

    In 1862 Fitz Henry Warren was assigned to Missouri.

    In Missouri, there is a town of Houston in Texas county.

    About 100 miles from Houston, Texas county, Missouri, is an area called Bear Creek, Missouri, at least on current day Google Earth.

    To me, that seems a more likely area for this skirmish than to think they managed to move from Missouri to Bear Creek here in Houston, TX.

  6. From at least the late 60s til it moved out of downtown in the 70s that club was in the building at main and congress, on the east side of main across from the hotel icon building, one block from the old courthouse. However, on a closer look at the picture on houstoric it looks like me that the rooflines of the cars in the foreground are all mid-60s, and the garage and fire escape indicate that that is the back of the hotel building. Maybe in the mid-60s it was located on franklin, which could make sense as that was the time of the first Market Square revival. During that period, which I was too young to enjoy, there were a lot of clubs, bars, and restaurants on the square and right off it, including the Cellar (is that right?) which was apparently a psychedelic rock kind of club, the Moulin Rouge, on of several strip clubs downtown in that era, with a neon windmill in front iirc, La bastille on franklin, and some restaurant that had a replica viking ship in it. I think that location in the 80s became a mexican restaurant, but I'm not sure. I've always wondered what happened to that boat because it got a huge write up in the paper when it went in, and then disappeared. Anyway, so maybe it was on Franklin about three blocks from the courthouse and then moved even closer.

  7. Neat site, but I think there is one error. The Pink Pussycat was in a building at Congress at Main which was demolished after a battle to preserve it. IIRC the owner brought in bulldozers in the middle of the night to start the demolition. The club had lost its lease and moved to Richmond west of Shepherd long before that. Not that I ever went to either location. Or parked on Congress next to the club......

  8. Don't know about South Main but if anyone knows if any of the businesses had a large steam plant that would be a clue. My dad worked at the SP Hardy Street shops for his entire working life. We lived close to intersection of Calvalcade and Irvington, near the park on Robertson. The steam plant at the shops had a huge whistle to signal start and end of shifts and lunch. Even two miles away, we could clearly hear the whistle. When the two minute whistle blew (2 before 4 o'clock, meaning get ready to leave) we knew it was time to jump in the car and go get dad. Sometimes we would go early and be at the shops when the whistle blew. That was some kind of loud, I'm telling ya......

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  9. When I was a kid growing up off S.Main in Knollwood Village in the mid 50s my mom's favorite grocery store was Weingarten's at the intersection of Stella Link & S.Braseswood. I always liked going with her because there was a toy store behind the grocery store that while mom shopped for groceries I would play with the toys. I also bought a lot of model cars in the toy store.

    The other grocery store we had in the area we used when we didn't want to drive all the way over the Weingarten's we'd shop a Ward's grocery store on Buffalo Speedway a block south pf Linkwood Dr.

    Also does anyone on here remember Richmond Grocery store on Richmond and I think Loretto Dr.? I remember they were the 1st 24 hour grocery store back in the early 70s.

    Freaky Foods!

  10. My wife and I loved Emiliano's for several reasons. First the food - although owned by Pancho's it was really good and different from most in the area at that time. There were several dishes that I really miss to this day. Also the margaritas were excellent, at least in my memory, which may have been clouded by those same margaritas.... second, the house band was Larry and Marilyn and the Brass Connection, featuring Alonzo Alonzo on drums... the son of the founders of the band Alonzo y sus Rancheros (I blelive that's the name) mentioned in other threads about music in the area. Marylin had about a four octave range and could sing the h*** out of "Bobbie McGee". One of my friends worked for Larry and we got to go to a recording session one night at Gilley's studio. And he got us past the waiting crowds several times. : ) I think Marilyn is now a big deal real estate agent in theSW but the band may still be performing..... Lastly, the people watching....many fairly recognizable faces could be seen there, including one local female tv reporter who seemed to always be there enjoying *several* of those margaritas...... still miss the place. Good times, good times......

  11. It's also possible that the story was confused with Spring Creek Park and embellished. Spring Creek Park was the site of a Confederate gunpowder mill that exploded resulting in three deaths. An account of this is available from the Klein ISD site. Maybe this was the origin of the "battle"

  12. Does anyone remember matrangas on w grey? Does anyone know when or why they closed down

    and what is there now.

    There was a Matranga's on Irvington for many years, in a small building a little north of Collingsworth. Used to walk past it every day on my way home from Davis. I think it closed in the 80s, not sure if the building is still there or not, I keep meaning to look and then I forget. I think Joe Matranga retired due to health problems and age, and may have died shortly after. Not entirely sure though.

  13. I believe the restaurant by the Pierce Elevated that went to Mercado was Adrian's. Thie first location was in a remodeled older Mexican restaurant that I think was the Santa Rosa. Never went to it as the Santa Rosa but always kind of liked the building.

    I believe the restaurant by the Pierce Elevated that went to Mercado was Adrian's. Thie first location was in a remodeled older Mexican restaurant that I think was the Santa Rosa. Never went to it as the Santa Rosa but always kind of liked the building.

    I miss Paradise Bar and Grill.

  14. Finally. someone else who remembers Capri! I've asked other places, but it seems to have had a limited reputation.

    I also don't remember exactly where it was, but I have a vague recollection of it being about where Amy's ice cream is (was? I haven't been down there in ages). We used to get it for late-night dinners at Astroworld cash control, and it was the first non-chain pizza I'd ever had - as you said, very tasty, great cheese.

    I hope someone comes up with the exact location and/or knows of anything in a similar style.

  15. I remember that restaurant. I was 15, my first boyfriend, the Preacher's son, took me there. That's where I had my first drink, and some really good seafood with some type of tomato concotion on it.

    I think that the disco in the hotel was called "Twinkles". Ruggles is (was?) a kind of big-deal restaurant on Montrose.

    That 's it!!!!!!!!!!

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