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  1. Just kidding about the hills. The only "rolling hills" Houston ever had are freeway overpasses.
  2. The skating rink was up front closer to South Main. The pool sat way to the rear.
  3. Forgot about Planet Music. It was a really cool place but didn't last long.
  4. That's great. Wish I had seen that show. I probably didn't even know who the Ramones were in 1977.
  5. Where was Wyatts located? I remember all the others plus Whites, Woolworths, Madding's, Lew's Records and a bunch more but my mind is drawing a blank on Wyatts.
  6. You can see just the southern side of the mall at the bottom of this picture. link (Before 610) By the 80's Meyerland Mall was in pretty bad shape. There were a lot of vacant spaces. I think thats when they turned the great 2 screen cinema into one of those monstrous 10 screen jobs that are smaller than most of todays TV's. I worked there for a couple of years at Palais Royal in the 70's. Got to see and experience the upper part of the mall. All the stores warehouses were on the second floor. Trucks (from bob-tails to 18-wheelers) would drive up a ramp on the south side of the mall. It was a good layout because it was easily accessible and out of the publics view. I believe it was the only mall in Houston with that feature. That's one reason they never completely covered the mall. They didn't believe it could handle the additional weight.
  7. Gateway for sure. Great picture Subdue. Although I can't remember all the trees and rolling hills behind it. Oh, well. That was a long time ago.
  8. You will need the quicktime plug-in Alief history
  9. I went to Sage at 610 and Beechnut a lot when I was a kid. Sage was kind of the first Walmart. They sold everything. After they closed, the family opened Arnies Warehouse, which is still there. This thread is great. Lot's of memories. I knew Don's step son real well. He had a room at his house stacked from floor to ceiling with records. I didn't see a mention of White's Auto. They did car repair and also sold appliances and furniture. Another great record shop was Lew's Records. They had the little enclosed booths with turntables and headphones that you could take a record in and listen to.
  10. LOL. I think you need your OWN web site. At least a personal blog. I know I would be very interested in hearing some of these stories.
  11. Thanks for sharing your memories of the Catacombs jwphillips2. It was a great place although I probably spent more time at Of Our Own. (More of an age and wheels issue then personal preference). Would love to hear more from you about the Catacombs and the Houston music scene in general. Maybe I could add something to my feeble web site. My web site
  12. Not sure if I'd be looking at Westbury as a place to raise children. Especially if you plan on sending them to public schools. Westbury's demographics are much different from the 60's and 70's when Westbury Square was thriving. Most of the blame for Westbury's demise can be put on the rash of apartment construction in the area during the 70's and 80's. Westbury has never recovered from it. Westbury High School is definitely not the same school I graduated from in 69. link
  13. I had one of both the old Humble building and the Astrodome as a kid. Where they are now, who knows?
  14. I highly recommend getting Fever Tree's CD Another Time/Another Place. The only good song it's missing is Hey Mister, which was originally only released as a single. Fever Tree Bought a lot of LP's at Evolution Records. Can't quite remember World Records. Actually it was April 1969. Visit My Website
  15. Farrells and Pipe Organ Pizza would embarrass the heck out of you. At Pipe Organ Pizza they had staff dressed as Disney characters that would make you go onstage and dance with them if it was your birthday. I'll never forget taking a good friend there for the first time on his 19th birthday and watching him unsuccessfully try to fight off Mickey and Minnie as they dragged him to the stage and made him dance to their stupid birthday song. Ahh. Good times.
  16. Man those are great. Makes my few posters look pretty pitiful.
  17. Sorry. I should have clarified that. In the old days they had these framed wooden boxes hung on the wall in the actual ticket booth that held the tickets.
  18. Rice University tore down the Village theater about 15 years ago. (Rice owns virtually all the land in the Village). I salvaged the ticket boxes from the theater as they were demolishing it. It was never a very fancy theater but still a good place to see a flick.
  19. And don't forget back then we had to ANSWER the phone to see who was calling. How on earth did we survive?
  20. I've been meaning to get over there and see that show. I have a couple of items from Liberty Hall on my website I'm working on but would like to add more if anyone would like to contribute. Would really love a picture of the place if anyone has one. http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~tannahil/index.html
  21. Thanks. I have a link to your site on mine. Great site. I just noticed the link you had for Josefus. Blew me away. Never knew it existed. They were one of my favorite bands. Still have their 1st lp. I think I saw them at Of Our Own about 50 times.
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