Ashikaga
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There are two 30-screen theatres I'm aware of: the AMC Studio 30 on Dunvale and the AMC Gulf Pointe 30 on the Gulf Freeway at the South Belt. Both have been there for several years. I've been to Gulf Pointe once or twice, and I've been to Dunvale many, many times. Parking can be a real challenge on weekend nights.
I would think that the seating capacity in each of the 30 screens would be small, unless the building that contains all of them is big itself. I would also think that being in there would be like being in a sardine can, not being able to move around because of all of the people, etc. Am I right or wrong?
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What Houston used to advertise as its theater district.
Interior of the Metropolitan Theater.
Metropolitan Theater Exterior.
Lobby of Loew's State theater, next to the Metropolitan.
Loew's State entrance:
Majestic Theater, Rusk between Main and Travis.
Delman Theater, Main at Wheeler. This was just torn down last year after a fire.
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It's a shame that these thetres are things of the past. I thought that most theatres now were 10 and 15 screens. But in yesterday's Chronicle I saw one that had 30 (THIRTY) screens! Have any of you ever been to that one?
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It looks like a lot of people remember that candy. A quick search found some recipes in food forums:
This one is interesting. They have a Texas restaurant topic area.
Subdude can come up with just about anything. Here he came up with the recipe for the piece of candy that came with the tortilla chips at the Monterey House. To me, it really tasted just like you were putting a whole tablespoon of sugar into your mouth.
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Just right click it, then click save image (or something similar depending on browser). That will save it to your harddrive.
One of these days I hope to get over to Houston and see it myself for the first time in 42 years.
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No, it's been gone a long time now. It was very nice when it existed, though. You really should come back to Houston, you seem to miss it here an awful lot...
I remember that it had a big pond with huge goldfish in it, between 6" and one-foot long. (I read that the bigger the environment goldfish live in, the bigger they'll grow).
I also remember a free beer center. My dad got a plastic cup of Busch.
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Is the Hermann Park Zoo located in Midtown? I went there as a kid. Is it still open?
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Forgive my boosterism, but this shot is amazing
My dad said that postcards used to be called "penny postcards" because they required just a one-cent stamp to mail them. Now I think that they require somewhere between a 20 and a 30-cent stamp.
As far as my personal memory of postage stamps, I remember you could seal the envelope and mail the letter with a 5-cent stamp. You could mail a letter with a 4-cent stamp but you had to tuck in the back flap; you couldn't seal it. I can also remember the 8-cent airmail stamp. But in reality most envelopes with one of those weren't flown.
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yeah - i was really excited to see the pee and poo cleaned up around the texaco building and have it restored to its original beauty...oh well
oh - i almost forgot i took these a couple years ago!
Wouldn't the imploding dynamite process be "quicker and cleaner"?
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This looks like one of those places in the past that had "personalized" service. That kind of service is virtually non-existent in Wal-Mart Supercenters.
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Looking for info. on Greens Bayou in the 1940s. My father was living with a family, the Clay's, when he was a teenager. Mrs. Clay owned or managed a nursery (trees & plants) in the area. Mr. Clay built their house, a large log house. At the time I'm sure it was a ruarl area north west of Houston. Does anyone remember this area?
My dad said that we lived in Greens Bayou when I was about a year old. Does it still exist?
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Wow, cool pictures. It looks pretty weird seeing those pictures with practically nothing around the astrodome.
Is it true that in the Astrodomes early days there was a hotel there?
Yes, there was the AstroWorld Hotel. I remember back in the 1970s the Guiness Book of World Records had The Celestial Suite in that hotel listed as the most expensive hotel room in the world renting at $2500 a night.
I looked on HoustonFreeways.Com and saw two aerial photos, one of the land being cleared for the Astrodome, and the other of the "skelton" of it under construction. That website also had photos of the Baytown-LaPorte Tunnel being built and being demolished.
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ame='enviromain' date='Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006 @ 8:41pm' post='72641']
I used to go to the Bellaire Skating Rink with my best friend every Friday. We would eat chili-pies, play air hockey, and skate with the boys when they turned out the lights. Those were the days!
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.
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they did that on the first few seasons of the simpsons. They were putting up flyers and the simpsons phone number was KL5-8345 or something like that.
The only letter/word prefix that I remember from back in the "old" days of Houston is "NA" which stood for NATIONAL.
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thank goodness
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.!
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interesting
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.
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From 1969 Cole's Directory:
John's Pancake House
3833 O.S.T.
Houston, Texas 77025
713-747-2136
near int of 6000 Scott St.
Car Dealer Songs:
Da-vis....Chuck Davis.....Chuck Davis Chevrolet, oh yea,...Chuck Davis Chevrolet!
Buy your Chevrolet from Persia, Mike Persia Chevrolet (sung to the beat of indian drums)
This same tune was use for Joe Conte Chevrolet here also, at a later date.
I remember these songs sounding very spooky at night on the AM car radio when the signal would fade in and out. Tommy Vaughn's had an eerie echo too. It could have been all the ear infections I always had...time for a lance!
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).
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The Tommy Vaughn one I remember had a low man's voice sing "Tommy Vaughn" followed by a high female voice echoing the same...
Chuck Davis doesn't ring a bell at the moment, but I do remember "Get your Chevrolets from Persia...Mike Persia Chevrolet"
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.
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Does anyone have any pics of the old Peppermint Park? I loved that place! I remember going there for a birthday party, it was awesome!!!
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.
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YES! Great for Four Seasons, and great for Houston!
It should have a good lounge. On KTRH radio, Chris Baker's producer called up the Four Seasons to find out how much a room cost for one night: $200.
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....or a double naught spy.
Yeah, on the door of his spy agency was written: "Spying Done, Countries Saved".
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neurosurgery (well, trepanation into the skull) was performed in the stone ages!
Jethro on "The Beverly Hillbillies" couldn't decide whether he wanted to be a brain surgeon or a fry cook.
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Was brain surgery performed here?
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Don't forget Lance.
Lance who?
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A few more Rice atheletes that went pro throughout the years:
Jose Cruz Jr. (baseball)
Dicky Moegle (football...played for the 49ers and Cowboys)
Tobin Rote (football)
Bill Howton (football)
Buddy Dial (football)
Hugo Hollas (football Saints)
Ricky Pierce (NBA Bucks)
...several baseball players from Rice's nat'l championship baseball team of a couple of years ago were drafted and are in the minor league's now. Look for several to be in the majors real soon...
The only name that sounds familiar to me is Buddy Dial. Who did he play for?
Historic Houston Restaurants
in Historic Houston
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Talk about an irony. The whole time that we lived in Houston (1962-64) we never went to eat at Uncle John's Pancakes. Back then I liked their catchy-sounding jingle on their TV and radio commercials (Pancakes, pancakes, we're Uncle John's Pancakes, strawberry, blueberry, etc.). When we came to Houston to go to Astroworld for the first time we stopped there and ate breakfast. Someone else on this forum found on Ebay a coffee cup and an ashtray with the Uncle John's Pancakes logo on them.