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OU = University of Oklahoma

Were they the Tabor brothers? Phil and Paul? Spring Branch produced a bunch of good football players most of whom went to UT: Chris Gilbert, Donnie Wiggington, Mike Luck. Former OU coach Gary Gibbs played there.

I had friends in Spring Branch who went to Spring Branch High. I remember going to the school but I can't remember where it was located. Can someone help me? Also, did they tear it down or is it still up?

Yeah Deana nthere are still a few but most of the real honkey tonks are way past gone. Spencer Highway has almost completely changed.

We used to have friends in Pasadena and would go over there from Baytown to visit and shop some. The old white working class Pasadena is long gone, Nesdel Club, Johnny Lees, I'm Proud to Be a KIKKer, Panchos, Mickey McCarty, Taco Bueno, Ice Houses, the Banditos MC, David Allen Coe, Mr. Dellhoussie gone! A friend of mine grew up in Pasadena with Bert Coan and we used run his old Chevy pickup ragged going to all the beer joints on old Spencer Highway to watch the pool and shuffleboard hustlers work. You would not believe how much money used to get passed back and forth in those run-down joints. Mickey Gilley splits time between Pasadena and his theater in Branson, Mo. The night they unveiled the old Gilley's sign at Cowboy Ranch Mickey showed up fer it and threw the switch to relight the old sign. The guy that owned Cowboy Ranch was a real eccentric which was reflected in Cowboy Ranch. The whole place had symbolic meaning to him right down to the rain gutter than ran down through the center of the parking lot. All the signs in that lot were old Pasadena businesses. He told me the bar was the original bar from the old Galvez Hotel. The grass used to be greenah in Pasadenah.

Hey what about former Ch. 26 anchor Fran Fawcett Peterson? I used to work with her down at ol 26 and she was really nice. She's a social wheel these days, right?

After watching The Aviator, I wondered if there were any lasting architectural remnants of Howard Hughes' short life in Houston? Where did the Hughes live? Is his old house still standing? What about the old Hughes Tool building? I know about his gravesite, but little else.

I'll say. Back in the late 1970s/early 1980s Halloween night on lower Westheimer was like another planet!

If you go to Kerrville, head out on Highway 27 toward Ingrham and you'll find a Gibson's Discount Center. The old sign is the same as it was back in the 1970s when I used to shop at the one in Baytown. But I believe that it is more-or-less a hardware store and not a discount department store.

Superb stuff, thanks very much.

Yes! Mine, however, was the appropriate battleship gray.

Ahoy! I had one of the Battleship Texas.

Growing up in Baytown, I loved eating at Monterey House which was located on Market Street just down from Robert E. Lee High. When I came back to town after a stint in the Marines, it had been converted to a Chinsese restaurant, but it still had the Mexican "architechture" and a Spanish-style carpet on the floor. I know of two Monterey House restaurants still operating: One in Pasadena and one in Humble just of FM 1960.

Thanks for this info and the pics. They are, as we used to say in the 1970s, "far out." Although I was pretty anti-hippy (born in 1961, I preferred punk) I still remember many of Houston's Hippy hangouts. Anyone remember the Treehouse on Westheimer?