ccowles

Thanks for this walk down memory lane. This was my dad's favorite restaurant. You walked into that cowboy looking front and the waterwheel room in the back was awesome. We used to get the big pile of shrimp and fries and onion rings. I remember that bread too. Brings back fond memories of a simple time.

I miss Pino's the most. I go to their place in Bryan when I can but is not the same. One of the oddest places we used to frequent as a kid was Western Travellers BBQ on hwy 90 in Sheldon. The front half of the place was a typical western BBQ place with wagon wheels and john wayne pictures and clunky wooden floor. The back restaurant was a seafood place you went to a 2 story back room that was themed with polynesian huts and an artifical creek fed by a water fall and the walls and ceiling had glowin the dark stars. My dad would get us the shrimp platter and it was all you could eat. It burned down in the early 80's.

Victoria's Station

What was the play park around TC Jester and the loop probably where the Boy Scout building is now. I went there a couple times as a kid and drove by it often. I thought it was Peppermint something.

Are you talking about Hamburgers by Gourmet? They had a mushroom for a sign. They had one in the old Roy Rogers (which I remember as a kid) at the Galleria. My all time favorite restaurant is Pino's. I go to College Station to eat at the brother's place. But nothing beats Pino's.

Here is a picture of my dad and Norman Pierce at OK tire company on Washington Ave. Can anyone name the car? I haven't a clue.