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    the boat storage was south of Main back off of Hiram Clark, just about 2 miles from where I grew up on Wuthering Hts. This horrific event always comes to mind when someone tells me how much more dangerous it is now than when we grew up
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    the last movie I saw there was "Von Ryan's Express" in my dad's Plymouth Fury III.....I remember it well
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    Marlins RULE....class of '79, er, if I hadn't dropped out to take that construction job
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    my personal favorite memories of the Astrodome is seeing the cast of Bonanza at the HRLS in the late 60's with my big brother
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    the skating rink predates me by a few years, and I ain't all that young.... in my day the big metal building in the parking lot was the indoor pool. I used to have swimming parties in February when I was in elementery school....that was reall cool back in the day....I miss it, but it was something from a different time...
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    Mel had the best bbq beans I have ever eaten! he use to chop up th fat side of the briskets and throw the meat in the beans for the best artery clogging time you could get as a side dish
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    the bubble was a Plexiglas canopy which was chained to the bottom of the deep end at 4 anchor points. A pump blew air through a hole in the bottom of the pool. the air stream was regulated so the air captured under the canopy was forced out by new air, therefore it did not become stagnant. My older brother swears he has some old 8mm reels that relatives from NYC took at Gateway in the late 50's. I have yet to see the films. Like you, I have very fond memories of Gateway, tetherball, zinc oxcide on my nose, burgers and soft serve from the concession stand, and the Archies on the juke box...man, oh man..."Sugar, Sugar" I can almost smell the place now
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    there was an HISD magnet school called the Contemporary Occupational Training Center (COTC) in the mid 70's. It was located at Travis and McGowan, in an old auto dealership... I went there one year before going to Madison HS. Does anyone remeber this place, or know anything about it? found this a minute ago... http://www.houstonisd.org/HISDConnectDS/v/...00052147fa6RCRD
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    it sits on city land, as does the private school that is on the front of the property....I have not seen it flood in long time, but I was wondering more about the early years and story behind the construction...and we love it there too flipper..it is our regular summer vacation
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    Does anyone know the exact back story on the Willowbend Willow Pool? It is a quite, green oaisis off Cliffwood, and my understanding is that it has been there since the fifties, however it is not visible on the large arial photo of the Westbury area identified as the early 60's.....
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    it was Playhouse Toys....back when stores could afford to be locally owned and independent.......
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    I forgot about the great fried snapper at and shrimp and Kapan's Bill Williams Steak House in old Sugar Land, fried chicken on Sunday, way before there were kids meals!
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    yep Harlows was open late back then, we always tried to save emough money after the clubs for an omlet and coffee
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    when somebody tells me how dangerous things are today I remind them of what it was like to be an 11 year old living a couple of mile from that boat storage shed in 1973.... back then missing kids were not on milk cartons or TV, they were mostly called run aways and written off.... it's not more dangerous, just more coverage.... 35 years later it still makes me feel sick
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    Luke's Hamburgers Strawberry Patch Harlow's... before Tillman got his hands on it Dot's Cafe The Brisket House downtown Christi's on S. Post Oak and the consession stand at Gateway Pool!
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    during the mid to late 70's we lived in Willowbend, and we were all zoned to Madison, even tough Westbury was less than 3 miles away.
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    I was in DE at Madison back in the late 70's. Does Distributive Educations still exist? I have mentioned to some of my friends kids and look at me like I am insane
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    that is what I love about this place....just for the asking! you guys are the best.... does anyone else remember the gravel loader across S. Main from the Mc Clendon Triple?...we used to climb that beast and watch movies without sound....back when that seemed like a cool thing to do
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    My father-in-law was a native Houstonian, and he used to talk about an old illegal casino/brothel(?) out Hwy 90. He said it existed after WWII and up into the 1950's. There was an old brick gatehouse just west of the current Beltway on the south side of 90 that he said belonged to the casino...does anyone know about this, or was my late father-in-law yankin' my chain? Jake Friedman Domain Privee Casino At 11620 South Main St. Edit: This is actually located on Old Main Street Loop Road near South Main Street (Highway 90.)
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    Yep, that's it..thanks, cause I could not read that sign from the loop
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    First of all, are there any pictures of the old Meyer estate on Brasewood, just east of Post Oak? Secondly, does anyone know what is going up there?
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    It was Goony Golf, I worked there for about year while I was in highschool...place had THE NASiEST BATHROOMS IN TOWN!
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    In 1965 Madison was located on the fringe of a rural area....the farms were old, and the subdivisions were brand new. I guess it depends on who you mean by "they". My neighbors on Wuthering Hts seemed to all move to Kingwood or the Woodlands in the early to mid 70's...I don't think Ft. Bend was far enough away from whatever they thought they were running from
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    that would probably be a lot funnier if I hadn't driven by just before the cops got there....several angry people standing by a pick up with the windows shot out
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