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Bobby Lahr(sp) was Bert Lynn's assistant and he went on to work for Truth or Consequences out in LA. We had Mr. Caboose on Channel 11 in the mornings in the early 60s, Milk Drop Moe in the afternoons, I don't remember the channel, Saturday mornings there was an auction program MCed by Dick Gotlieb I think sponsored by a Dairy company

There was a Chi Chi's on Fondren south of Braeswood and North of W Bellfort, across the street from The Foundry if memory serves me. The chain was started by Max Magee a wide receiver of the Green Bay Packers

I just realized I got my streets completely wrong in an earlier post ( Oct. 2014) Evans Music was in a small shop on the corner of Kelvin and UNIVERSITY not Rice. It moved across the street to the strip center on Unversity than ran from Kirby to Morningside...My Dad's American Legion Post 77 was on Kelvin near Amherst on the East side next to a Toy store...Yes the Meyer Bros was on Kirby and University that now houses HPBooks with the circular stairway...I am stuck however on the name of a large store/ building that was located between Times and Amherst, west of Kelvin. It was located in an area that was East of the notorious Cinema West. Can some olde timer help another ?

The Hotel/Motel was The Royal Coach Inn

Other cafeteria chains in Houston/Bellaire...Footes and Thornhills

Checked a map and it could have been ALDER between Chimey Rock and Renwick. If my mind is on it I think I remember the place being a JMH grocey store in the 60s that was converted. There were some apartments behind the building

Yes the HP Books is in the old Meyer Bros store. Evans Music was in a small frame building on Rice in the 60s then moved across the street to the strip center along Rice. American Legion Post 77 was in the area for years, University State Bank was next door to Moeller's, then moved further North.

Blancoexpat- it seems like the watermelon stand I remember near the Museum District...between Main and Fannin, East of Weldon's cafeteria

I believe it was Los Troncos...try this site; it's loaded with info...http://blog.chron.com/bayoucityhistory/2010/07/los-troncos-restaurant/

I saw that 1950's restaurant listed for demolition on Swamplot. 5080 O.S.T at M.L.K. (previously S.Park)...Another one bites the dust...was it renamed?

If memory serves me ( who knows if it will) before the Lewis and Coker was in the strip center on Westheimer there may have been one on the sw corner of Alabama and S. Rice Ave ( near what is now the Galleria and in the past, the kiddie amusement park Wee Wild West.)

There was a Safeway then Appletree in a strip center on Eldridge and Jess Pirtle in Sugar Land in the early 80s . Leter became a Gerlands then shut down and became a gym and now a church.

Thanks IHB2 I thought that the Felix was in that brick building but wasn't sure...it had many incarnations. Buddies and I would catch the bus in front of the Sears Catalog store and Wagners Hardware to go downtown for movies at one of the big 3--Metropolitan, Majestic, or Lowes then go to the Linoleum Club at James Coney Island for Lunch. Simpler times and trusting parents...They had some pretty good burgers at Anderson's Pharmacy near Bissonet and Avenue B just north of some apartments next to the vets and the Midget Market...also remember the 3--33 cent banana split promotions( pick a banana and the price was on the skin between 3 and 33 cents). That area was my stompin grounds mid 50s to going off to college in the late 60s...Feld Park, Evergreen pool, Abercromie Fields...

In that same area ( within a half mile) at various times was a Prince's Drive In, Ding How Chinese take out, Kip's Big Boy, Griff's Hamburgers, Dunkin' Donuts, Foote's Cafeteria, Mr. Hamburger, Chuck Wagon, Madding's and Duggan's Drug Store fountains, Hickory Pit BBQ, Shakey's Pizza, and there was also a small Mexican place near the intersection of Bellaire and Bissonett just east of Broiler Burger and Bert Wheeler's that I cannot remember the name of to save my life...

There was a One's a Meal in the Bellaire Triangle shopping center and also one next to the Delman theatre across from Sears. Sad day when Cellar Doors were gone, last one I believe was on Stella Link and Bellaire...