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  1. With all the talk about Wyatts, Picadilli, DinnerBell, etc, I have to ask does anyone remember LC Cafteria in the basement level of the old San Jacinto Building? Or even better, some photos would be awesome! I remember you could enter through an outdoor escalator on the Main & Walker side. You could also enter through doors which led to an indoor escalator on the Travis & Walker side. I seem to recall a big markee visible while going down the outdoor escalator reading "Entering Houston's Most Beautiful Cafeteria" or something like that. I left downtown Houston in 1985 for New York but came back in 1998. By this time it was an buffet style "all you can eat" with only the Travis side open. Although not quite the same, dining there gave me a sense of nostaglia. I remember when I was little, it seemed huge! Some indoor photos would also be awesome!
  2. I was browsing the newspaper The Bellaire Texan dated July 29, 1964 and came across a business ad for The Golden Inn Cafeteria with locations of Buffalo Speedway, Kirby Drive, and 3000 Richmond Ave. Was this the original cafeteria before Romana and Luby's? Did anyone ever go here? Any memories or pictures? C.H. Sitton, Manager Former owner-operator of Sitton's Cafeteria, has been named the manager of the new Golden Inn Cafeteria, 3000 Richmond Ave. Mr. Sitton sold out his cafeteria in the Buffalo Speedway Center when his lease expired. He extends an invitation to all his former customers to visit the Golden Inn Cafeteria.
  3. Found this matchbook on Ebay for Romana Cafeteria located at 5215 Buffalo Speedway. What's the story of this place? Was it bought out by Wyatt's Cafeteria (turned Luby's) and then this particular location closed? Looks like this is was located at the present-day HEB on Bissonnet & Buffalo Speedway. Was this restaurant in the Speedway Shopping Center? The Speedway Shopping Center was active in the 1960s. I'm not sure when Romana Cafeteria was in operation. Another location of Romana Cafeteria was at 6223 Bellaire Blvd. at Hillcroft Ave.
  4. Now that we're on the subject of eating establishment, I've started remember cafeterias. I remember going to the Piccadilly in Parkdale Mall once back in the 1970s. The Luby's on North 11th Street in the Gaylynn Shopping Center closed down but a new one was built just up the street on the corner of North 11th Street and Interstate 10. In Port Arthur, there was a Luby's in Jefferson City Shopping Center for many years. It's now closed down but a new one was built just a few blocks from it on the corner of Twin City Highway and Texas State Highway 73. There is also a Luby's in Central Mall in Port Arthur. About 10 years ago, a Luby's opened up over in Orange on the corner of IH-10 and MLK Drive. But it closed down in less than five years. The building is still standing. I'll never understand business, to construct and open up a Luby's just to close it down in a few years. Go figure. Also over in Orange, there used to be a Wyatt's Cafeteria in Northway Shopping Center. It's now been closed down for quite awhile. There was a Wyatt's on Gulfway Drive in Port Arthur, but it also bit the dust. The only one that I remember here in Beaumont was in the Gateway Shopping Center. At different times in the past, I do rembered going to all of those Wyatt's. Those cafeterias served what I would call good, "American" dishes. I remember liver & onions, fried/baked chicken, rolls, glasses of iced tea, etc. If all three chains aren't over there in Houston, then I would think that at least two of them are. I'm pretty sure that someone will tell me if I'm right or wrong.
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