Dagnabbit

& wasn't Hercules summoned by something called "the moonstone beam" an amulet that looks a great deal like todays compact disks.

Uncle Sam's was on the east side of Fondren about a block or so south of Westhiemer.

I seem to recall a burger joint in the center of a strip center (no drive thru) near there called Toby's Old Fashion hambugers.

I was a Westbury Steer for 4 years, players came mostly from Anderson Elementary. As for the televised games, I believe they were shown Saturday afternoons on channel 39 through the 1969 season. I think Fun Stadium is now used as a soccer stadium, big surprise. However the stadium was used in the mid 80s as the home training facility for the Houston Gamblers of the short lived (USFL) United States Football League.

Howdy folks, I believe the store you are confusing with Pier 1 was called Pasha Imports and was located across the plaza from Cargo Houston, they sold the same type of bent bamboo items as Pier 1.