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  1. capt. kirk
    on further research......playland park was located on south main, just inside loop 610, bordered by south main-murworth-and lantern drive...further east was kirby...the map shows the outline of where the astrodome was to be and the bridge across 610 and of course no astroworld yet. the 1957 image shows everything....by 64 the racetrack was gone and the partial park remained, the next year that shows is early 70's, everything is gone
  2. capt. kirk
    the picture that is posted, really clearly, is butler football stadium and baseball complex..........other posters said that meyer wrrapped in 77.......butler stadium was a gleam in someone's eye then. you must be talking about the very dim circle west of the sports complex...possible
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    one site listed the winners from 59 thru 71 a.j. foyt, gene force, harold smith, don branson, dale swaim, parnelli jones, gordon woolley, ernie derr, ernie derr, jack bowsher, jack bowsher, iggy katona, bobby allison
  4. capt. kirk
    i believe the pic you see is a baseball field and football field............that would be butler stadium and sports complex on south main.............meyer speedway went down with playland park in the 60's............lol................you young guys are something
  5. capt. kirk
    right, brown and gold, the golden bear was about 30 ft tall and the drill team was called the gauchos, all girls. last class was in 69 i think, now h.c.c. main campus. the history room is on the second floor and enclosed in glass. famous alum is walter cronkite
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    the bullet..........the ride my cousin put me on and the one i screamed at the top of my lungs to get off of, lol. playland was a great place, the wooden coaster and the might mouse or something close
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    yes palm center was on griggs near cananaugh.........it predated all of the future malls in houston. it now belongs to hcc as the southeast campus i think.
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    i dont know about the rest of the years but i do know who was under that costume in 72-73, a good old friend of mine, david alexander. austin went to state a couple of times in the 50's but did not win either contest. i also remember the scottish brigade and knew several people that were in that organization. that area and the school has real gone done but so have the rest of that end of town. my school is not doing much better but it is still standing and for 83 she still looks pretty good.
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    according the houston archives, gulfgate opened sept 20, 1956...the first open air mall....(palm center was actually the first one, hcc is there now on griggs rd)....77 stores with 5,500 parking spaces, 802,770 square feet.....150,000 were there for the grand opening. gulfgate was torn down in 2002 and rebuilt as gulfgate center. after palm center came gulfgate, then northline, then almeada and northwest......but don't forget meyerland and westbury square.....memorial city, town and country(completely demolished)......greenspoint somewhere in the mix.....then the mall near n.a.s.a......willowbrook comes somewhere in here.........there was shaprstown in the early 70's and was just recently renamed according to the area of town...........also a mall near 59 beltway area, since diminished and may not be there.......then katy mills...........first colony but have no idea the year.........katy mills is the newest...........GALLERIA is by far the biggest and most expensive
  10. capt. kirk
    just inside of 610, about 4 or 5 blocks, i think that there is hotel of some kind there now. the pool must have been filled in
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    yes, 69th was before garcia...that street and wayside originally were two way streets going north and south. sometime in the late 50's or early 60's they made 69th one way going north and wayside one way going south. garcia i believe was a vietnam veteran with lots of medals from the area'
  12. capt. kirk
    i dont know if you will come back to this but yes i'm interested..........my email is buffman656565@yahoo.com, thanx gary
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    that is an amazing picture. the only thing missing is the water slide. as you look at the pic, it was located on the right side of the pool very near the rope that separated the shallow and deep end. it was a great place and for $1 or $1.50 it occupied a saturday for sure
  14. capt. kirk
    located on shepherd dr...go north from 610 just as you go under the railroad bridge its on the right. not sure what it is now located on shepherd dr...go north from 610 just as you go under the railroad bridge its on the right. not sure what it is now
  15. capt. kirk
    MANY YEARS AGO NOW,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,THEY REPLACED IT WITH THE HOBBY CENTER.....................YOU NEED TO GO DOWNTOWN MORE......................ITS CHANGED
  16. capt. kirk
    THERE IS SAN ANTONIO LEE, ROBERT E. LEE IN MIDLAND, LEE OF BAYTOWN, HOUSTON LEE, DAVIS HIGH SCHOOLS ARE EVERYWHERE, SAME WITH THE 3RD ONE. AND DONT FORGET THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI AND ITS REBELS...........IT WAS A BATTLE FLAG AND NOTHING MORE, IN FACT IT WAS THE 4TH FLAG OF THE CONFEDERACY, AND THE CIVIL WAR WAS NOT TOTALLY ABOUT SLAVERY. IT HAD TO DO WITH TAXES, REPRESENTATION, NOT AGREEING ON LAWS. THE SOUTH WANTED INDEPENDENCE AND LINCOLN WANTED TO DO WHATEVER IT TOOK TO HOLD THE UNION TOGETHER. YOU MIGHT REMEMBER WILLIAM TESCUSEH SHERMAN, HE BURNED ATLANTA AND DESTROYED SOUTH CAROLINA, AND HE WAS A SEMINARY STUDENT AND PRESIDENT OF WHAT WE CALL L.S.U. OR LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY. A PREACHER NO LESS. DO SOME RESEARCH. MOST OF THESE SCHOOLS WERE BUILT BEFORE SEGREGATION AND HAVE HISTORY. SOME HAVE LIMITED THEIR MASCOTS AND SUCH JUST TO NOT CAUSE PROBLEMS. AND THE NEIGHBORHOODS BACK WHEN THE SCHOOLS WERE BUILT WERE MOSTLY CAUCASION AS THEY SAY. OVER THE YEARS THE MAKEUP OF EACH SCHOOL AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD HAS CHANGED. WILL YOU SAY THE SAME ABOUT CHAVEZ HIGH SCHOOL OF HOUSTON OR OTHER PROMINENT PEOPLE. YOU FORGOT JAMES MADISON, MOSTLY AFRICAN AMERICAN BUT MADISON WAS THE 4TH SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. LOOK UP SOME OF THE HISTORY ON ALL THE HOUSTON SCHOOLS, IT MIGHT CHANGE YOUR MIND A LITTLE...........I FOUND A BLOG ON THIS VERY SAME THING AND IT WAS VERY INTERESTING, ALSO SCHOOLS THAT HAVE BEEN SHUT DOWN DUE TO RELOCATION OR CHANGE IN ETHNIC BACKGROUNDS. ALSO THE THREE SCHOOLS THAT YOU MENTION DONT MAKE A BIG DEAL ABOUT THE NAME....THEY ACCEPT IT AND GO ON AND YOU SHOULD DO THE SAME THING.....AT ONE TIME THEY TRIED TO GET THE WASHINGTON REDSKINS TO CHANGE THEIR LOGO BUT GUESS WHAT.....THEY ARE STILL THE REDSKINS AND K.C. IS STILL THE CHIEFS..........FLORIDA STATE AND OTHERS NAMED THE MASCOT DUE TO THE PEOPLE THAT INHABITED THE AREA IN THE FIRST PLACE, YOU KNOW BEFORE THE WHITES. GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR RESEARCH AND THEY ARE STILL CALLED THE REDSKINS AFTER ALL THESE YEARS...HMMM AND THAT WAS WHEN THE WESTBURY REBELS WERE PRETTY GOOD
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    THERE WAS THE MUSIC HALL AND RIGHT BEHIND IT WAS THE COLISEUM....ACROSS THE STREET TO THE SOUTH WAS THE HOUSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY......ITS SINCE BEEN MOVED. ALLEN PARKWAY IS RUNNING UNDER I-45
  18. capt. kirk
    YES, THE LAST TIME I SAW THAT BLDG IT WAS AN EQUIPMENT RENTAL PLACE ON THE NORTH SIDE OF 610...............THERE USED TO BE SEVERAL SCATTERED ACROSS HOUSTON
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    THE BUILDING IS STILL THERE.........THE ADMIN OFFICES FOR SBISD...........NEXT TO IT IS REGGIE GROB ATHLETIC FIELD...........THERE WAS AN OLD STADIUM BEFORE GROB
  20. capt. kirk
    THE OLD SOUTHWEST CONFERENCE.....IN THE 40'S THEY WON A BOWL GAME I THINK........IN 61/62 THEY WERE PRETTY GOOD UNDER JESS NEELY........CWS BASEBALL 2003........FOOTBALL 2008 BEAT WESTERN MICHIGAN IN TEXAS BOWL..........THE REPLAY OF DICKIE MEAGLE RUNNING FOR A TOUCHDOWN AND A PLAYER COMES OFF THE BENCH OF THE OPPOSING TEAM AND TACKLES HIM........OTHER THAN THAT THEY ARENT VERY GOOD...........BUT RICE IS ONE OF THE BEST FOR EDUCATION FOR THE MONEY...........ONLY $10,000 PER SEMESTER................BERKMAN FOR THE ASTROS WENT TO RICE.................KING HILL FOR RICE FOOTBALL IN THE LATE 50'S..................KEN HATFIELD WENT TO ARKANSAS WITH JERRY JONES AND JIMMIE JOHNSON AND COACHED AT RICE FOR A WHILE.........YOU KNOW JOHNSON AND JONES, RIGHT..............JUST TYPE RICE INSTITUTE IN THE SEARCH BLOCK AND IT WILL GIVE YOU A BRIEF HISTORY LARRY IZZO OF THE DOLPHINS PLAYED FOR RICE
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    I DONT KNOW ABOUT 2 OR 3 BUT 1 WAS A CATHOLIC CHURCH. MOST OF THE PROPERTY RAN FROM LAWNDALE TO ALMOST THE BAYOU..........IT HAD A BRICK WALL RUNNING THE ENTIRE LENGTH FACING WAYSIDE. ON THE OTHER SIDE, THE FIRST STREET PAST WAYSIDE WHEN YOU ARE GOING WEST ON LAWNDALE.......TURN LEFT OR SOUTH...........THEN WILL THE IRON FENCE YOU COULD SEE THE CLEARED LAND AND CHURCH, ETC.......THEY TORE IT DOWN FOR MONEY AND PROGRESS
  22. capt. kirk
    SGT MACARIO GARCIA USED TO BE 69TH STREET GOING NORTH AND WAYSIDE DRIVE COMING BACK SOUTH.
  23. capt. kirk
    IF YOU GO SOUTH ON MYKAWA FROM GRIGGS YOU WILL PASS BELLFORT AND A FEW OTHER STREETS AND GO UNDER BELTWAY 8, I THINK, PASSED THE OLD PEE FARM FOR PRISONERS, PASS THE CEMETARY AND BROOKSIDE VILLAGE AND END UP IN PEARLAND. HAVE A NICE TRIP...........IT USED TO BE A GOOD AREA
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    IF ITS THE ONE IM THINKING OF........GO SOUTH ON MYKAWA, TURN RIGHT AT ALMEDA GENOA...........THERE WAS AN OLD SCHOOL BLDG AT THE CORNER.............LAST TIME I WAS THAT WAY THERE WAS SOMEONE LIVING IN IT BUT ITS BEEN ABOUT 30 YEARS AGO
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    SOUNDS LIKE GULFGATE..............BOTH STORES WERE THERE...........OPENED IN 1957 MOST OF THE TENANTS MOVED INTO THE SHOPPING CENTER BEHIND TOWN AND COUNTRY AND TOWN AND COUNTRY WAS COMPLETELY TORN DOWN AND EVERYTHING THAT WAS STILL IN GOOD SHAPE WAS SOLD.................SEVERAL YEARS AGO NOW
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