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I want to relocate to another part of Texas. I've got my eyes on Corpus Christi. I like the idea of living in a big city (a little over 300,000 population) on the coast with a mostly Hispanic population (52%). If anyone out there has any additional information they can give me about Corpus Christi, I would appreciate it.

Is Interstate 69 the big corridor that Governor Rick Perry wants to build?

Yes, you remember it well. I remember hearing it on radio station KTRH.

U.S. Highway 59 is one of the main "freeways" that goes through Houston. Doesn't it have the same kind of signs that you said your photo of U.S. Highway 75 in Dallas has?

Well, the photo wasn't up close enough for me to clearly see who it was. My favorite part of Saturday Night Live was the Mr. Bill Show (OH, NOOOO!!!).

Where can I get information about the famous Texan Theater located at 812 Capitol Street? Thanks!

I just thought I'd express my personal opinion about this topic. I haven't seen too many roller rinks recently. They used to be the place for the youth to congregate. I think that they are not as popular because of VCRs, video and computer games, and more things that make the young stay at home more. But I may be wrong. That was my same reasoning as to why there are hardly no drive-in movie theatres anymore. If the Starlite Drive-In Theatre in Porter folds in another year or two, my belief might be valid.

It's a shame if this place no longer exists. It looks like it took a lot of time, labor, and money to build it. I wonder if there are currently any buildings in Houston, still standing, that were constructed back in the 1800s?

When I lived in Houston, a brand of potato chips called Morton's was popular. I remember they made something called "Chip-O's".

Is that Drew Carey? Yes, I'm always living in a dream world. For about a year I've been dreaming how my life would have turned out had I stayed in Houston and not moved away back in 1964. Do you shop at Dollar General? Back when I was in high school, girl's mothers wouldn't let their daughters go out with a guy who drove a van.

The only letter/word prefix that I remember from back in the "old" days of Houston is "NA" which stood for NATIONAL.

I never cook. I live alone in a travel trailer. I have my cabinet filled with only canned foods. When I'm hungry, I simply empty a can of something into a bowl and stick it in the microwave. Right now I have enough food in my trailer to live through a siege. And I always buy it at Dollar General store. So I don't need to have a supermarket near or far from where I live.

Sell your vehicle and walk everywhere. Then there won't be anymore traffic tickets, gasoline, insurance, etc. to have to pay for.

You've explained exactly what that IH 155 was that I drove on from Carruthersville, Missouri to Dyersburg, Tennessee. You say that it's a spur. Yes it came off of IH 55, which you say is its parent interstate.

Last year GNU took a picture of the house that I lived at there in Houston and posted it on this forum. He told me that it was stucco. What exactly is "stucco"?

It's amazing. In various parts of Virginia, there are historical markers that say things like: "George Washington slept here", "Thomas Jefferson slept here". And both of them managed to be elected and re-elected President of the U.S.!

Back when I was a kid in the 1960s, I remember "big" size sodas called Mr. Cola and Sunburst. They boasted to contain one pint, 16 ounces! The neon sign at convenience stores said: "Drink Mr. Cola, Serves Three" Today, 16 ounces is nothing. I've noticed that most sodas come in either 20-ounce or one liter bottles. At least half of the people who buy them don't finish them and they end up pouring a lot of it out. No wonder there's so much waste! Also, I read an article that said that excessive soda drinking has contributed to the currently obesity rate in the U.S. And it is also a reason why there is so much tooth decay. That article also said that if a person drank one 20-ounce bottle of regular (not diet) soda everyday for one year, that it would be the equivalent of 1,700 (seventeen hundred) spoons of sugar. And it said that even if you drank diet soda instead, the acid in the carbonated water would cause tooth decay and gum disease and possibly ulcers. I now see that it was a blessing in disguise that I became diabetic back in 1998. I've drank only water since then.

I found a website that had a map of the U.S. when area codes started back in 1947. At that time, the entire state of Texas had four area codes: 713, 214, 512, & 915. It explained that in a state that had more than one area code, the second digit was 1. In states that had only one area code, the second digit was 0. I think that I can safely say that Texas now has, at the very least, ten area codes. They say that more area codes are needed because prefixes become exhausted due to the proliferation of not just regular telephones, but of cell phones, pagers, and fax machines.

I don't believe it! You remember things exactly the same way that I do. Yes, that was indeed the tune for Chuck Davis Chevrolet. Is the car lot still there, but under a different name? No, it wasn't any ear infections on your part. I also remember the bass/baritone singing voices for Tommie Vaughn Ford. Yes, it did sound eerie. This was back when I lived in Houston from 1962-64. Tommie Vaughn passed away last year. Thanks for looking up Uncle John's Pancakes. Now I think that I can safely say that it no longer exists (unless someone else on this forum says that he/she passed down O.S.T. and says that they saw it or remains of it).

I'm looking to possibly relocate to Corpus Christi if and when I have the resources. If and when I do, I know that I'll be getting on to Interstate 37 from time to time.

Thanks. Someone posted on DriveIns.Com that there is still an old sign next to or near a Chevron station that says "Winkler Drive-In Theatre". Did you father say that he also saw that sign? Maybe someday I'll luck out and stumble across someone who has an old photo and/or some information about the Winkler.

Usually when an interstate ends it simply "blends in" with another interstate. Like I said, the last time that I was in Laredo was back in 1972. It might not be that way now.

One of you (I can't remember who) found on Ebay and posted an Uncle John's Pancakes coffee cup and ash tray. Thanks. I still hope that someone out there will find out exactly where it was located.

I don't have any pics but I sure wish that someone did. I remember Peppermint Park well. The one that I went to was in the close vicinity of Gulfgate Mall (then Gulfgate Shopping City) and the Carousel Motel. I remember its name in big visible letters on its roof. You could see it clearly from Gulf Freeway.

It's amazing how cars used to be. I showed my dad and his cousin an old photo of the Baytown-LaPorte tunnel. Both of them could identify at a mere glance the year, make, and model of all of the cars in that photo going in and coming out of the tunnel. They said that today vehicles are all so much alike that you can't distinguish one from another the way that you once could do.