TexAzGal

OMG!! That's them! LMAO! Awesome - now I at least have something to show people so they'll stop lookin' at me suspiciously as I describe the giant, pistol packing - and pointing - shrimp. LOL - this is great! Thank you, you just made my day......even if ya did fix it so I'll hafta sleep with the light on tonight!

Forgive my babbling here, but I'm having way too much fun with all the memories this site is bringing back for me. I hope that I'm not breaking any of the rules or anything.... How weird, I just recently told someone about that giant shrimp with the pistols. I don't remember if it was the same restaurant, or another one near that one, but there was a giant crab over a doorway around there also. I remember seeing them whenever my parents drove me down S. Main, and those things just creeped me out! I think they were gone by the time I was old enough to face my fears and actually go eat there. I had a nightmare or few about those giants on S. Main. but I remember I would get nervous whenever I realized the car was being turned to go down "that road" and would hope for a greenlight so we could just keep going. My parents thought it was cute and were all smiles and giggles while trying to convince me, while laughing, that they weren't real. I also vaguely remember something about one, or both, of them changing at one point, just don't remember what the change was (didn't the shrimp get, or lose, a cowboy hat?), but seeing that they had changed since the last time I'd seen them, really worried me at the time. Years later, I forgot all about my fear of being killed on the way to the zoo by the giant crab and shrimp when I went to Chuck E Cheese for the first time and saw, out of the corner of my eye...a HUGE rat walking, on two legs, towards me! A few years ago, while breathing into the paper bag provided to me by the haunted house medical staff after I turned a corner and found myself face to shin with the enormous, escaped from Hollywood, Predator, (my choking and immediate backing away from the thing, I now know, was more like my begging to be chased by the totally amused person, or persons, inside the hideous and too well done, costume), it was determined that I'm just a dork, with some "issues" when it comes to oversized creepy things. I'm sure, for the rest of my life, that every time I come across a giant and have to restart my heart.....I will think of that crab and shrimp. Oh, and one of my favorite restaurants that vanished was a place called The Lone Star Cafe. I haven't been able to remember the name of the road it was on yet, but want to say it was somewhere near the Yammin's Pizza (used to go there a lot) that was on S Gessner at the 51 (this place being on Gessner just doesn't seem right to me though), but it was on the Stafford side of the 51, and I think it was in the same center that the Shakey's Pizza used to be in. I loved going to Shakey's because they always showed the old black and white comedies, like The Little Rascals, Laurel & Hardy and Abbott & Costello. Pipe Organ Pizza was a fun pizza parlor too, with cute, normal sized, harmless, marionettes.......not giant rats, creatures or predators