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EMME

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  1. It was not a kickerish place. It was a kind of cooler disco type. Dance music but not necessarily disco music. Popular top 40. Most dance clubs back then didn't allow athletic shoes. They weren't yet "cool". Cooters was kind of a casual, unpretentious dance club in a time of flashy/trashy dance clubs. The people that worked there were like family, the owners took care of their employees. I'm betting that if you find one long time bartender to contact, they are still in contact with alot of the other employees. Long time friendships were forged there. When Randy's opened in west HOuston, alot of the Cooters people jumped over there. I don't remember if Cooter's had had a change in management or not, but Randy had been I think a long time GM of Cooters and was much loved.
  2. Heights proper is not corporate/big box friendly, so this is where they go. I am glad, I don't want them in the Heights, but I do want them. I think it is a great use of the space. I would be a regular if there was a LaMadeliene or Cafe Express. I frequent, the Target, PetSmart and Washington Heights Veterinary Clinic, and often run by the TacoBell/KFC there (which I never ever do other times or other places). I have been to the Chili's and the Freebird. I am so glad Bryan has opened his Southwell's there. His food is fabulous. He grew up as a Houston Country Club manager's son, so he learned the need for quality ingredients early. I stopped in on Friday last to do an adoption contract for a dog, and they were very kind to let us non-purchasing people use a table. When I bought a coke to "pay" for the table use, he was very nice and said I didn't have to do that. They will do well there. And they have alot more than burgers, although the burgers are fab. And as an aside, the PetSmart would do well to replace its general manager. With as many dog lovers as there are in the area, he is the one and only reason that store is not packed. The only reason they get my business is its proximity to the veterinary clinic next door.
  3. I have heard good reports on Dessert Shoppe which is in its soft opening. There is a dessert shop of some sort opening on White Oak but that may be a ways off. Pie in the Sky on 19th has a help wanted sign out, so they should be pretty close to opening.
  4. iPhone has a Kindle app

  5. http://www.hcnonline.com/articles/2009/10/22/west_university_examiner/news/wu_coming_going.txt "It turns out River Oaks area post offices at 1900 W. Gray St. and 2802 Timmons Lane will not be sold — at least, not any time soon."
  6. THey lost me in all those same ways, plus the pressure to tip the waiter in a cafeteria. If I am going to feel obligated to tip a waiter, I will sit at my table, have somebody "take my order and deliver it".
  7. We drove from west Houston to eat at Matranga's. I saw Joe a few years back dishing out spaghetti at the Sacred Hearts Spaghetti lunch held every Thursday at the Sacred Hearts hall off of AIrline and I-45. Their spaghetti is almost as good as Joe's.
  8. Our postal worker will stop delivering mail if your dogs, secured inside your fence, bark aggressively at her.
  9. Lizzard's on Fountainview Comedy Workshop and the Comics Annex Rosco's Jazz Bar (tended bar there) Remington's Jazz (cocktailed there) Birdwatchers Kawliga's Caribana (PJ) Rivoli Houlihan's (tended bar there) Sam's (when it was still good) Cooter's Randy's Judge's Eddie's Pizza
  10. Can we take some animals from the Boston Zoo? They are going to euthanize as many as 20% of their animals due to budget cuts.
  11. I was never inside. My sister was friends with the young lady whose father owned the house. It was quite the neighborhood gossip that he loved the color purple to the point of insanity.
  12. Mr. Cook was mad for purple. Everything inside was purple.
  13. I was on the F.U.N. drill team for the Shamrocks. I'll have to dig up an old photo. For some reason, my mother always lost my S for my uniform, so she would cut out a cardboard one and pin it on.
  14. I hate to say it, but I think fcarter photographed death on the Chronicle's door. On the upside, I don't think anybody ever caught the messenger of death in a still photo before.
  15. One of us should be embarrassed for calling him the wrong name. I hope it's not me.
  16. Did he go by Herman, because this guy was definitely Herman. Young (then) black (still) guy (assume still).
  17. Ahhh, Maxim's. My father took me there for my birthday lunch from age 6 - 14. They had the best chocolate mousse. Camille Berman had quite a checkered reputation.
  18. That sounds like fear mongering to me. I have been hearing about the increase of gangs for at least 35 years. They come, they go.
  19. Looks like a perfect house for lots of loving dogs.
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