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  1. Ashikaga
    I laughed when I read this reply. The high school that I went to was called the "pretty boy's school" by other schools. Well, I'll be honest, they didn't have a good football team to speak of at all. Back when I was in high school in the 1970s, there were usually 10 games a season. I was a junior when they won five games for the first time since it opened back in 1961.
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    Do any of you out there "own a piece of the Rock?"
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    Houston has so many malls that I wouldn't know which one to go to if I were to drive over there. But almost everyone I've talked to make it sound like the Galleria is the best one.
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    Yes, I remember going to Busch Gardens back in 1970 when I was 12 years old. We fed pieces of an apple to a baby elephant. My dad drank a free Busch Bavarian Beer in the Guest Center. I also remember ponds with huge goldfish swimming in them.
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    I found out that Milby High School is on Broadway in the area that I think is classified as The East End.
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    I graduated from high school in 1976. I found out that had I stayed in Houston, I would have attended Milby. Are you familiar with that school?
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    Well, I'm 47. I remember going to Peppermint Park by Gulfgate Shopping City (now Mall) when I lived in Houston from 1962-64. Are you saying that it went out of business fairly recently?
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    It appears that the only kind of movie theatres that will be open are ones with 10 to 20 screens. I think that I can safely say that the days of the one or two screen theatres are well in the past.
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    Probably the only curb service restaurants that are still around are Sonic Drive-Ins, which are a chain. There are several of them over here 100 miles east of Houston. Are there a lot of them over there?
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    When I was in college, I was talking to a professor who attended Cornell. I asked him why Ivy League universities didn't have bowl games. He said that it was because it interfered with academics. Do you think that Rice University would qualify as Ivy League? Then it would play only Harvard, Yale, Brown, etc.
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    Has Rice University ever played in the Cotton Bowl or in any other bowl game?
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    That's exactly what I'm saying. Rice University must have always been known for smart students. That's all that I know about that university. I graduated from Arkansas State with a 2.26 GPA, which means that I wouldn't have stood a chance of getting to go to Rice.
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    When I was in high school, when someone would say that they knew someone who went to Rice University, other people would automatically say: "He/she must be smart."
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    I've just taken an interest in Rice University. Has there ever been any year(s) that it won any championship? The only pro football player who comes to my mind who attended Rice was Tommy Kramer. When I attended the University of Arkansas from 1984-86, I remember that Rice University was in the same conference. Edit: 1891: The William M. Rice Institute for the Advancement of Literature, Science and Art filed its state charter in the Texas capital May 19, 1891. 1912: The Rice Institute. 1960: William Marsh Rice University on July 1, 1960. Present day, in short, Rice University.
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    Chris Baker on KTRH said that the city is already paying $500,000 per year simply to maintain it while it sits unoccupied and unused.
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    I remember a Peppermint Park near Gulfgate Shopping City (now Mall). Someone on the forum told me that it was on Reveille.
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    Is it still up?
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    I developed diabetes in 1998. Before that, I used to like to pour milk on a bowl of NABISCO Vanilla Wafers, let them soak, then crush them up and eat them.
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    Yes, it would be theme parkish. They said something about having some kind of a waterway and guest would ride around in some kind of a boat.
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    During the show, Chris Baker had the producer call the Four Seasons to ask about their rates. They said that a basic room cost $200 for one night.
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    Instead of turning the Astrodome into a hotel, why don't they just make both a roller and an ice skating rink? Or is that a stupid idea?
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    On radio station KTRH, they were discussing the proposal to remodel the Astrodome into a hotel. The host said that if that did happen, the nightly rate for a room would be about $375. Would any of you out there be able and/or willing to pay that amount for only one night?
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    I meant to say "filling/service" STATIONS. Just a typo.
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    How many actual "filling/service" are still around? Not many. I think that I can safely say that at least 90-95% of all Americans pump their gasoline themselves at convenience stores.
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