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EastEnd Susan

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  1. Sounds like my great grandmas potato patties. She made these with leftover mashed potatoes mixed with egg and green onions and flattened it out like a pancake and fried it in bacon grease. I feel my arteries hardening at the thought.
  2. We always parked and went in right at Sakowitz. Sakowitz had a great little candy counter with the chocolate coins and suckers with little faces in them. But we always made it down the mall to the popcorn. If you find that time machine please let me know. Now I'm craving an Orange Julius. When I was little I thought they tasted like St. Josephs aspirin. Used to be Charlie Thomas Ford back in the late 70's.
  3. I still do not understand that with all the aerial photos of Houston I cant find a single one with that big red and white striped roof. They get close..like Gulgate and the cinema but no Peppermint Park.
  4. I would love to post the video on youtube but its on one of those giant vhs tapes. I had the 8mm tape converted to vhs at Sears back in 1991. I just recently found out how to post a pic. I'm so proud of myself. The snippit of film is only about 1 minute long. I think what looks like a crane is actually part of the fence. It had barbed wire on top.
  5. Sorry about the quality but these are from 1963 8mm film. Note the Carrousel Hotel in the background of one of these shots. This was my sixth birthday party.
  6. Mom bought all our school clothes at Sakowitz and Joskes. The store I liked best was Playhouse Toys. It had that wonderful new toy smell. I can still smell it. I persuaded mom to get me a skateboard when I was 13 about 1970. We got it at Playhouse and I still have it. Maybe I should contact the Smithsonian. lol. It was about 15 inches long, 6 inches wide and made of thick wood with chicago wheels. You remember the pink wheels like on the old rollerskates. She would by candy from Russel Stover for our easter baskets. I remember one Saturday they had a band playing in the middle of the mall and they had long hair so I thought it was the Beatles. Ahhh youth. I loved that mall.
  7. I remember going to gaidos on South Main not only to eat but one time we had to go pick my brother up as he had gotten very ill . We asked him exactly where he was and he said he was throwing up under the big six gun toting shrimp. What a lovely adventure.
  8. I lived in the 6600 blk of Ave, L right by Navagation and saw plenty of red bricks in my childhood years. For a while my Greatgrandmother, Ida lived with us and told many a wonderful story. One was about the red bricks on Navagation and that they were put there to pave the road because one of our presidents was coming to visit Houston and would be arriving at the port and driving down Navagation to Downtown. They wanted the street to be pretty. Probably not and ounce of truth to it but we believed it. Ida was born in 1879 and she MUST have known Everything!
  9. My family and I used to eat at a place called Bill Williams. I think it was on OST and also a place called Bill Bennets in downtown Houston. I guess they had a thing for Bill places. I myself liked nothing better than a cheese burger from Reddigs Ice Cream Shop on Wayside. Or the shrimp basket from Princes on Wayside.
  10. yep, thats right because I was looking at pictures last night and our christmas tree was down and standing by the house covered in ice and snow. If it was 1972 the tree would still be in the house. It was still my sophomore year though. Thanks Devonhart.
  11. I was almost 3 years old when this happened. My brother was almost 8 so he had a good time. I on the other hand spent the entire time trying to keep rubber boots on that were many sizes too large for me. I have this on vhs tape. The snow I remember best was in 1972 I think. I was a sophomore at Austin high and they closed the school for a snow day.
  12. I only got to go inside the place that one time with the church party but we drove by it every day. My mom lived in the royal wayside apartments when she and my step dad first got married in 1963 and this was just a short walk from the sims estate. I would walk down there.. which I was NOT suppose to do and try to peek in the gate. I never could see much. I just keep hoping someone will somehow come up with a photo.
  13. My brother was probably at the same Fab 4 concert. I saw a few concerts there but the ones I remember were at Hofeinze Pavillion... like Elton John Goodbye Yellowbrick Road tour, Bad Company, Queen, David Bowie, Thin Lizzy, George Harrison. Too many to remember. Went to the rodeo every year it was there from 1962 until it was moved to the Dome. I would post a picture of me and the fam going to the rodeo where you can see part of the Coliseum in the background but I'm not that computer savvy. I have it as a jpg in my picture folder and I know how to attach it to an email but not on something like this.
  14. http://www.faculty.missouristate.edu/d/Den...rock_concer.htm This might help
  15. My great grandmother used to tell me that if I didnt pluck my eyebrows I would look like Bull Curry, and no little girl should look like Bull Curry. Now how was I ever going to look like Bull Curry. I was a tiny little girl with blonde hair and no eyebrows to speak of. Great grandma Ida was a hoot.
  16. I Guess I would have been driving west on ost and turning left on southpark or mlk. Back then it was Southpark. It was only about 300 yards or so until you got to the house on the left hand side of the street . It was a wooden house. The house was really big and had big staircases going up both sides of the living room.
  17. Do you remember a big 2 or 3 story white house with black trim on Southpark? I remember going with my great grandmother in the early 60's to visit a woman that lived there named Mrs. Tart. We would drive north on OST and turn left onto Southpark and the house wasnt too far down on the left hand side. It also was surrounded by a white split rail fence. There was a boarded over well in her backyard with the story of a little boy that drowned when he fell in the well. Another story had it being an orphanage at one time.
  18. It had a half circle driveway in front and a big concrete fence in front so you could only catch a little glimpse of the property through the 2 gates that were iron. It was very big and very spooky. In the early 70's, my church had a haunted house party there. All I remember was palm trees around the house and a spiral staircase in very poor condition in the front room and a riding stable and what looked like a smaller house in back. My brother said some biker group lived in it for a while before the police found out they were there and chased them out. I can't find pictures of the place anywhere or even anything written about it. It was torn down right after that holloween party . There was also a big church to the south of it but its a school now. Does anyone know anything about the house or the family? Thanks in advance, Susan
  19. I remember the Globe across from Gulfgate. It was the only one we ever went to. I think there was a Michelin tire store close to it with the big white michelin man standing either on the roof or in front of the store. On Woodridge on the other side of 45 was the christmas tree lot where we always bought our christmas tree.
  20. Thanks John, Thats the place. Wasn't it on a corner and the entrance was on the side street? That was so many years ago. It was the first mexican restaurant I was ever taken to as a child.
  21. We seldom ate out either. My brother and I lived in the house with 2 great cooks. My great gandma Ida and my Grandma Mattie Lou. Best chicken ever in that old cast iron skillet. And Cream gravy form the drippings. Oh man, I so want that chicken.
  22. Not many cattle until you were farther out South Main. Then of course there was Sugar Land, Richmond and Rosenberg where the cattle outnumbered the people.
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