Earlydays

Excellent article...I graduated from St.Thomas in 1968 and my wife and I lived on West Main from 1970 to 1973.

Part of the University of St. Thomas today......

10 hours ago, HtownWxBoy said:

Late 1970s... 😲😲😲 ... can't image having to walk blocks to your car in the mid-summer heat and humidity with no trees / shade at all... nothing but baking pavement... ugh what a nightmare! 

I worked downtown in the late 60's and early 70's and I parked in underground garages and walked in air conditioned tunnels to the office buildings........

I worked in the IBM building under construction next door from 1968 to 1973, then moved to continue working with IBM around the country until 1992.

I used to go to that one a lot in 1963 and 1964.....

Nail salons and donut shops.......

On 5/21/2021 at 10:57 PM, Dave W said:

Kiddie Wonderland was the amusement park with the pony ride. Not Playland Park.

I was referring to the park "at which I got motion sickness once ", not the pony ride park.

I think the amusement park was Playland Park.

13 hours ago, hindesky said:

What I find incredible is the suits and hats that all the men wore back in those days. Must have been during the winter.

In those days men wore suits year-round.....

15 hours ago, dbigtex56 said:

Emergency clinics seem to have taken over mattress stores when it comes to oversaturating the market.

....and dentist offices

Jetton's was a great cafeteria in the Greenway Plaza area.......

My wife to-be and I went to the Charity Horse Show in 1966 on a date.......

Poster done by National Airlines.....interesting to see what they highlighted.

I believe the last Nabisco plant was further out Alameda.

West Gray

Thank you for the follow-up and confirmation.

I wonder if that is the same "Norton" that established the Norton Ditto Men's Store'

There was also a ceramics studio that was called Mo-Lee's. My wife took lessons there in the early 70's. She later became a ceramic artist when we lived in California.

"jelly fish-like" UFO's.......

You guys are so "young", I remember going to the Capitan Theater in Pasadena as a kid on Saturday afternoon and seeing a double-feature for 25 cents (circa 1955).

That's it!

Victoria Station and the Rail Head were two different restaurants in the early 1970's, in fact the Rail Head was opened first.

The Rail Head was on Richmond

18 hours ago, DanH said:

 

Yes! And I remember the rumbling! But I don't remember the name, dangit!

 

Dan

It was called the Rail Head.

Often ate lunch at Christie's on S. Main when I worked at 6900 Fannin, 1968 to 1973.