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    Yep, they used that too. That is the current City Park Department Headquarters Building (Wayside at Telephone - in the park there). I think they used several buildings. I have heard about Office City and I have also heard they also had an office inside Gulfgate. I do know they used the current Ambox building - Telephone at Westover - too. President Kennedy visited there when he came.
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    Palm Center is/was not an enclosed mall. I found this description in chron: While on the topic of first malls... I have always heard that about River Oak Center But 15 years before another center was built in the nation??? I have also heard that Highland Park Village (1931) in Dallas was the first shopping center in America . So i guess the key is to define a category so you can be "first" in something!
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    that's easy...only one choice...and i can't recommend it...for beer anyway. I head to the Gingerman instead.
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    there used to be an El Pollo Loco here in the 80's..on the east freeway...maybe at Kress? Applebee's? are they back now? they were here in the early 90's. Woolworth's Grill? I specifically remember the one in Almeda Mall. Timmychan, Nah..I never ate at Steak and Egg but my wife did. I can believe it that everything was there from then from what she said.
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    speaking of that Steak and egg place..i just noticed the other day, the old building is gone and a big pawn shop is there now! bummer, i think that little building that steak and egg was in had to have been there since the 30's or 40's.
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    The brewpub part must not be a doing well at the clear lake location. I thought they had pretty good beer...food is pretty good - great pizzas. The restaurant is always packed when I have been there. It does much better business than the previous establishment there - Bradley's What is it with Texas and Brewpubs??? We just can't seem to get any more and can't seem to keep 'em.
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    I LOVED Sambos as a kid. they had pancakes with ice cream on them and cool stuff for kids...cartoon menus or hats or something. I think there was one on NASA 1 too. Shakey's - there was one on Nasa 1. Sizzler - one was on Kingspoint behind Almeda Mall - its the Kidney Center now If you are mentioning Sizzler then you gotta mention Bonanza. Bonanza - One was at I-45 and Belfort/Howard. Its a "gentleman's club" now. PoFolks sure came and left quick. I remember going there several times. I used to love Orange Julius'..one was in Memorial City mall. Speaking of cafeterias...STILL! What does anyone think of the Dinner Bell on Lawndale at Wayside?? I have eaten there a couple a times..its like going into a time warp...I don't think anything has changed in there since 1967.
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    Checkers was here in the 80's more cafeterias...Furr's anyone?
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    The Credit Union on Edgebrook was a Taco Bueno. i think the company was dallas-based. it may have been a del taco too later but it was built as Taco Bueno. Maybe Alfie's fish and chips?..i remember eating at one on Broadway in galveston. Their logo was the canadian mountie from the cartoons. What about H Salt fish and chips? They are still around in California. I know their were a few here in the early 70's. And the little places..about the same size as an old box shaped jack in the box but were made to look like windmills with cedar shake siding. can't remember the name seems like it started with a W.
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    late 70's and early 80's also had Taco Bueno's too.
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    I just noticed this, subdude! you said their slogan was "cathedral of the common man" look closely at that rendering...My driver is waiting for me to get out of church! Common man!?? pbbbbtthh! Doesn't he look like a chauffer?! (probably just a guy in a hat..but anyway..it is hard to tell) The lady to the right is very classy too but I guess everybody was back then...getting all dressed up to travel, etc. especially for church.
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    Thanks, I still cannot picture how the existing buildings could have looked like that. From driving by on Griggs it just looks like a run of the mill converted strip center.
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    So are the current buildings used by the HCC, etc the same that were there but remodelled. I have had a hard seeing how the pic in the arch guide can become what is there now.
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    I never saw the original Palm Center (at least that I was old enough to remember ) but I have been intrigued by the pic in the 1972 architecture guide. Two story open air retail. looks similar to a 50's-60's motel - sort of. Can anyone describe this part of Palm Center and what stores were in there?
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    a bit of trivia...did you know that their older building(s) to the north of this structure was the original Park Place BAPTIST Church. They relocated down Broadway at Dixie and Sims Bayou in the 50's and I guess the Methodists bought their old building. Also the old Park Place City Hall was where the current methodist building is. I think the Methodist Church was orignally a smaller facility just on the corner at the circle (some land was lost to the freeway). I like how the pigeons hang out in the gridded steeple tower. There always seems to be a lot of 'em
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    at some point they had a little umbrella on the sign too.
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    Maybe you are thinking of Hermann Park? They have a kids train and the zoo is there. you probably could have seen the Prudential building from there back then.
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    Sorry, Kirzania, I was replying to Ashikaga. I know Taz wasn't there in 1978 when he went. I was telling him HIS memory was wrong. BTW, Everytime I went to Astroworld when Taz was there it was always closed for repairs. On another note, I remember as a kid you could ride the Cyclone over and over from about 11 until closing at midnight. We used to keep tabs on who had ridden it the most times. I have no clue what our record was but know I rode it 17 times one night. Talking about the Dexter Frebish/Excalibur, remember there was that spot in the bottom turn where there was "blood" on the support pole.
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    At Farrell's you would get a free sundae or something if it was your birthday and you joined a club and they would send you stuff. The servers would come out wearing red light siren hats - at least that's my memory. We went to Farrell's in Almeda Mall several times for my birthday. Swensons was cool too. They had the Earthquake which was a HUGE bowl with a scoop of every flavor they had in it.
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    BTW, I still have a rotary phone. It was in the attic when we moved in. I hooked it up in a spare bedroom. It works great, the receiver is very solid. Of course, I don't use it too often..especially nowadays with the 10-digit dialing.
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    yeah, I think all (or a lot of) phones were leased up until the breakup of AT&T around 1980. I remember my grandma had this cool old black phone from the 40's - at least. Very heavy and solid, lots of deco design influences. When she moved to DC in the late seventies, she had to turn in her phone because it had been leased! I wanted to keep it (ie. steal it) but back then you didnt mess with the "phone company"
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    Yeah, torchlight, that's what i meant. It was a MacFrugals right before Gulfgate was razed. I think in the exact location of where it was is probably the parking lot for new center.
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    the land was regraded. so the whole "underground" is gone. Just a big swath of flat land with the new stores on top.
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