Earlydays

Non main stream,no top 40 plays.<

...all from albums....in fact these stations were also called "album rock" stations.

KFMK was one of the first in the country.

1970:Little Richard,opening act was Savoy Brown!!!!

......saw Savoy Brown with Uriah Heep in 1972 at the Music Hall

Farrell's......it's been discussed before on HAIF

Many old houses were also lost to fires....

....there were also gun implacements behind the seawall on the east end of the island. They were still there in the early '60's.

Seawall Blvd. in Galveston was realigned sometime in the late 1950's when Ft. Crockett was abandoned. There is a section of the old roadway still visible just north of the present boulevard, between Academy and the San Luis hotel. Apparently the original road veried around some seawall gun implacements.

The San Luis sits on top off the old gun implacements...they are still there.

Yes, I spelled that right. Hou-storic. Get it?! Anyway, forgive me if this is already posted somewhere...I couldn't find it...

A website I just discovered:

http://houstoricproject.com/

That's an effective technique...I found a site once that did that with European cities with super imposed photos of WWII damage.

Here's an interesting website

http://showmystreet.com/

to look at homes you've lived in.....

I thought 2001 was at the Windsor, not the Village

PS - thanks for the El Patio answer, indeed that was it.

My wife and I are trying to remrember the name of a Mexican restaurant that was in The Vilage in the late 60's...we ate there when we were first married.....it was near the theater.

I wonder if the canvass canopy is for that restaurant. It appears to be of the Prince's Drive-In vintage.

Yes, it was part of Bil William's....

Must be a theme....The Hillstone/Houston's Restaurant in Atlanta has bricks from the old Fox MovieTheater.

Here's an article from "The Islander"magazine.....

Roberta Marie Christensen in her book, “Pioneers of West Galveston Island,” says the Stewart Mansion on Galveston Island left her in awe-struck silence when she was given permission to tour the building in 1988. “The once beautiful plaster walls, the architecture of the second floor balcony, the Spanish tile work and the four bathrooms — one with marble walls and the living room walls covered with vivid, larger than life murals of pirates. Guarding the entrance way was a huge leering pirate with a three-cornered hat and saber in hand. On the opposite wall was another pirate with a bandana and sword. Looking down from the balcony were five figures, the foremost armed with a machete.”

Before she went much further into her inspection of the once proud mansion, she received one admonishment from the caretaker, “There are ghosts in [this] house. My wife and I hear doors banging and noises in the middle of the night.”

Check the internet and other similar comments pop up: “Don’t go at night…it would be way too scary, especially the bathroom.” “Things go bump in the night.” There are even rumors that the family was killed and put into the walls of the mansion by Stewart himself before he committed suicide. Pretty creepy.

Is the Stewart family encased in the walls of the mansion? Did Maco Stewart Jr. kill his family and put them into the walls of the mansion before killing himself? History doesn’t back that story up. Maybe the teller of that tale read too many Edgar Allen Poe tales. Let’s take a brief excursion back in history about the Stewart Mansion and Ranch.

At one time, the mansion was the main house on the Stewart Ranch. In addition there were two houses for the ranch hands. In 1969, the ranch, minus the mansion, was given to the State of Texas, and became what is now Galveston Island State Park. “The ranch existed on both sides of the existing state highway,” says park superintendent Trey Goodman. “There are remnants that still exist of the old cattle ranch: dip tanks, wind mills and other things scattered around the park.”

Ruth Mathews, a historian working with the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department shares more Stewart Mansion history. Galveston was like a prairie in the 1820s-30s. The Spaniards, who were the first to step onto Texas soil, weren’t too impressed with the island and its inhabitants. “The Karankawa Indians were pushed north, [driven] off the island onto the mainland and wiped out,” she says. “The Karankawa were no longer the great people they once were. Now starving and in poor condition.” Also the Spaniards didn’t appreciate the flourishing reptile population on the island, naming it “Island of Snakes.”

The first house built on Galveston Island was built by J.A. Settle in 1846. An 1851 map showed the building just west of Lake Como, labeled Settle’s Post. Colonel Warren D.C. Hall purchased the property from the most recent owner, F.S. Hook. Famed pirate Jean Lafitte was also calling Galveston Island home in the 1800s. “Unsubstantiated stories say that Hall lived within the vicinity of where the mansion would be built. Lafitte lived in what is known now as Pirate’s Cove and would take a boat and come down the bayou to visit with Hall. Legend has it that Lafitte buried his treasure on the grounds west of Colonel Hall’s home.

After a succession of owners, George Sealy bought the property in 1926 and built the mansion — a Spanish-style structure — on the same site of the Hall home that had burned down in December of 1925. Sealy sold the property to Maco Stewart in 1933.

The mansion changed hands again in 1944 when Stewart’s widow, Louise Bisbey Stewart and her son Maco Stewart Jr. donated the residence to the University of Texas Medical Branch where it was used for a number of years as a convalescent home for crippled children. In 1968 George Mitchell and Norman Dobbins purchased the house and 15 acres with the intention of developing the property into a resort complete with lodge, swimming, tennis and golf, but nothing happened. The mansion property is now owned by Stonehenge Real Estate Investment Company in Houston. Their website, www.stonehengecompany.com, says the company has plans to build condos.

Is the Stewart Mansion haunted? Is the Stonehenge Company going to hire Ghostbusters to de-ghost the mansion before they begin development? The Stewarts are not entombed in the walls of the Mansion; the Maco Stewart family cemetery, located on the property, holds the bodies of Maco Stewart, Maco Stewart Jr. and one of his sons. Galveston Island has not given up any Lafitte treasure. However, remember that the caretakers of the property did say, “There are ghosts in that house. My wife and I hear doors banging and noises in the middle of the night.”

Maybe it was just the wind. What do you think?

It's Christmas 1958 or 1959. The best place to indulge your dreams of getting accessories to your Lionel train was Foley's downtown Houston. They had a Lionel layout, catalogs, and all the stuff some young boys like myself lusted after.

I also lusted for the Lionel layout on the Captain Kangaroo show.

I remember the Foley's displays...they were always a highlight of Christmas.

I remember him also.....

Here's a useful site, Abandoned & Little Known Airfields: Texas

http://www.members.tripod.com/airfields_freeman/TX/Airfields_TX.htm

On the Border was started by a Dallas family. The entire family were flying to Santa Fe, NM when their small plane crashed killing them all. Some restaurant chain ended up with the restaurants and they are all over Texas and the southwest U.S. They have them all over the DFW metropldex.

They are now in 37 states....

Kingston Trio?

Definitely the Kingston Trio.....

The clip brings back a lot of memories!

Thank you very much.

Ditto...we lived on West Main in the early 70's and I also couldn't remember the name.

Weren't the Randall's originally Rice Supermarkets, or did Randall's just acquire the Rice chain??

Had to resurrect this topic, to draw attention to these aerial maps & photos that 57Tbird originally posted. I joined this forum years after many HAIFers, and continue to find good information. I've never seen some of these places before. Just what I needed to find the exact location for The Tidelands Moter Inn. The address on the postcard says 6500 South Main. GoogleEarth takes you further down S. Main, but it's actual location is seen in the maps. Corner of S. Main & University.

As I read in earlier posts, the inn had a third floor added later, with those '60's style arches. Was a popular place, with a nightclub, and all. Says the pool had a "wading pool with an elevated waterfall and underwater music". Cool! The style reminds me of the lanai addition to the Shamrock Hilton. Wish I could have seen these places. The Tidelands sign seems eerily familiar to me, guess I remember it from my youth.

There was also a Galveston hotel sitting on the seawall with the same color scheme, the bldg. shape was curved around a pool. Blue, yellow, orange colors come to mind.

Our family stayed at the Tidelands in the July of 1963, when we moved back to Houston after living overseas for 5 years.

...........at his long-time hangout, a bar in Montrose (the Hut) had gone "hippie"......

I remember the Hut and Montrose well....I was at the University of St. Thomas, Class of 68.

Inspired by the Westbury thread here, I googled like crazy to find photos.

Nice job....though it was much more than a "hippie" destination. It appealed to a cross-section of visitors and shoppers.

Nice memory.....I remember them both and the Majestic, as well. I went to all three many times, starting in 1954.

Inspired by the Houston monorail topic, I put together a little video.

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=drcDfyfs7IU

Nice job!