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yuan1274

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  1. I don't log on as much as I used to. Speaking of car dealers, my first car was a 1963 Rambler American. Here's a Rambler dealership in Houston that I never knew anything about:
  2. I remember Tommie Vaughn Ford, but not Luke Johnson Ford. Does anyone else remember it? Where was it located?
  3. My dad passed away last year and he left me some old photographs. One of them was of an old electric railcar in a big city. I don't know where it is. Would someone out there know if it was one on the Houston-Galveston Electric Railway which operated from 1911-1936?
  4. I lived not too far from Gulfgate from 1962-64. We went to that drive-in theatre which was called the Winkler. As far as I know it stayed open for about 3 or 4 years after I moved away in the summer of 1964.
  5. I also remember seeing 40+ years ago a car dealer in Pasadena called Boyd Mullen Chevrolet. Its sign was eye-catching.
  6. Back in the early 1960s, I remember hearing a commercial on the radio for Chuck Davis Chevrolet. Maybe someone who has access to a Yellow Pages book from back then can look it up and see where it was located.
  7. That's the Winkler Drive-In Theatre. We went there when I was about 4 or 5 years old. It was located on the corner of Winkler Drive and Flowers Street. I found out that a Home Depot store is on that spot of land today. http://www.drive-ins.com/theater/txtwink
  8. I can remember Tommie Vaughn Ford way back in the 1960s. Mr. Vaughn died a few years ago. I did find a couple of things.
  9. I just realized that I might have lost my sense of direction. This photo might have been taken from the side that the movie theatre was later built on and that the building in the background might be the Newberry's store that you'd be in front of when you'd come off of the walking bridge. Yes, and I think that might be Gulf Freeway in the right background.
  10. I asked that because in that picture it looks like some kind of building is on the other side. If my memories serves me correctly, that movie theatre was built sometime in the late 1960s/1970s. I remember people were amazed that there was a "TWO-SCREEN THEATRE!" I think this is it. Someone out there can feel free to confirm it or not. Is this the inside of it? And here's another old photo showing the back side of the Weingarten's sign. My mom bought her groceries there. And I think that "ABC" was a hobby store which sold model airplanes, cars, etc.
  11. Thanks. I remember Playhouse Toys and Gulfgate Lanes, which was an underground bowling alley. I found some other old photos. Yes, even though the floor is outside, it is made of some kind of tiles. If you look closely to the left, you can see Joske's and Sakowitz: You can tell by the cars that this was in the 1950s. In the 1960s, a two-screen movie theatre was on the south side of IH-610. Does anyone know what was there when this photo was taken?
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  13. Is this about the Palm Center to which you're referring or is it about another place with the same name?
  14. I'm under the impression that this picture is Gulfgate today. Maybe someone can confirm if it is or it isn't. You can see it on the left
  15. I don't know the name of the street. All I remember is being in St. Joseph's Hospital. I remember a nurse giving me a big plastic syringe. I filled it with water and I squirted my dad with it.
  16. Someone said the Prudential building was on Holcombe. Does anyone know the address number?
  17. Yes, a website called "deadmalls.com" had a link to "wikipedia.org" which listed all of the defunct/out of business stores. Those stores were listed. When I was a teenager I remember getting a Steppenwolf record at Woolco and two suits at Joske's. With the exception of Weingarten's and U-Tote-Um, I've never been to any of the others.
  18. Are you talking about St. Joseph Hospital? I was in there when I was four years old. Would you happen to know the street address of it?
  19. Thanks. The one closest to where we lived was the one at 5305 Telephone, so that's probably the one.
  20. Does anyone remember A&P supermarkets? I can vaguely remember going to one in the early 60s when I was a kid. I remember they gave PLAID trading stamps. Maybe if someone has access to a Houston Yellow Pages book, they can look up where they were located. I could probably pinpoint the one I went to way back then. It was between 1960-65.
  21. I wonder when this was printed?
  22. One of my local public libraries had this book and I checked it out. Yes, one of the chapters is about drive-in theatres. I liked that aerial photo of the Post Oak taken in the early 1950s. It said that is where the Williams Tower is today. But there's one thing I read that I never knew before. It said that one of the things which led to the demise of DIs was when Daylight Savings Time started in 1967. I thought that we have always had DST. I read somewhere that DST was conceived by Benjamin Franklin as a joke.
  23. Oh, how I miss the good ol' days of the Southwest Conference when Arkansas was the only non-Texas team in it. No matter which college one attended, they knew they would meet the same teams again the next year. It was a friendly rivalry, before the problems that SMU had.
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