spiderroller

1. Ocean Club 2. Rick's Cabaret 3. Yucatan Liquor Stand 4. Astros 1986 NL Pennant (witnessed the Mike Scott no-hitter clincher) 5. Astros vs. Mets NLCS 6. Club Proteus 7. Cineplex Odeon on Bering Drive 8. Still mostly a black and white cit 9. No cell phones 10. No internet

Ok.. yea... lets see.... HPD "swarm" Gulfton? LMAO. Look.. you uproot the Gulfton Ghetto.... then the slumhabitants will move and turn some other neighborhood into a Ghetto. I believe I have the best idea though, in an attempt to accomplish your 'dream': STEP 1: Go through the entire Gulfton Ghetto Apartment Complexes and hand out free blankets that contain smallpox. There is a precedent for such a strategy (and government approved). All other steps will easily follow.....

Yea, that's it. That will revitalize Sharpstown. Remodel the Food Court in the Mall. I say: Tear the MF down. Now. In fact, I'd tear it down with 50 wrecking balls by surprise one day taking out everyone in it... just give all the shop owners a 15 minute notice to bolt out of there. Odds are that would prevent dozens, if not hundreds, of murders, rapes and robberies over the next 20 years as those foke in there won't be around to commit those crimes.

I remember a "Lee's Den" on South Main.... some of the best Chinese Food ever in Houston.... ate there many times as a child with my parents. I haven't read this whole thread... but... will always remember the Shakey's Pizza on Bellaire Blvd. (now Enterprise Car Rental, and next to Baskin Robbins and Dunkin Donuts which are STILL there!)...... and...... Alfie's Fish & Chips... there were many Alfie's all over town, but we spent many a childhood asking for extra "chips" at the one in the strip center behind the Dunkin Donuts on Bellaire Blvd. Come to think of it.. right across the street where there is a big bank (in front of Bellaire Post Office)... was... Kip's Big Boy!

Another great restaurant from the 50s & 60s was Vallian's ... Holcomb @ S. Main. Undeniably the best pizza on earth :-) Did that one make the pages here? Oh man... I remember Valian's, across the street from the Shamrock Hotel. Ate there many, many times. Definitely was the best pizza in the world.

The original Albert Sydney Johnston Jr. High School is located at Cleburne and Chevenert, right off of 288. My parents went to that school. The old classic building is still there, renamed. I attended the "new" ASJ off of Chimney Rock in SW Houston in the 70s.

Wow.... we didn't have season tickets, but my father's boss had them - 1st row on the 3rd base dugout. Section 120, Row 1, Seats 1-4. I went to so many games as a kid I can't count them all, sitting in those seats, and many of my best childhood memories are of the DOME. I have lots of memoribilia from those days, and plenty of stories. I'm guessin that you heckled Tommy Lasagna as much as we did! Do you remember that's what we hecklers called him as he coached 3rd base???

I haven't gone on to read all the other posts, but yes, I remember. We used to go down there to play pinball and other games. It was an arcade under the bleachers. I'll never forget the classic baseball game, where the steel ball was "pitched" and you hit it with a bat, using a big round button.