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We're wasting our time here Bruce. It's useless to try to explain things to someone who refuses to accept the fact that what he believes simply is not true. It's like trying to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of time and it just annoys the pig. We both need to find more productive ways to spend our time. I think I'll go rearrange my sock drawer. loll cue the crickets.

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Gee I'm sorry Brucie. I didn't mean to steal your thunder. Please share your "longwinded rebuttal" with us. I'm stepping aside and the floor is yours. Let us hope it will be the last word on this crock of pure you-know-what.

Speaking just for myself I really wish everybody here would just let this dumb thread die from neglect. It is painfully clear to all that PJ Proby's memory is not to be trusted on any level, and he just doesn't know what he's talking about. Maybe he really believes what he's saying, or maybe he's just lying through his teeth to get attention. Who knows. Back in 2007 I ran into a really old guy who claimed he was an ace fighter pilot who flew with the Flying Tigers in China and later on the Doolittle Raid over Japan. He was going to WWIi veterans events around the country telling that story, and I saw him at an event in Old Town Spring. He was telling everybody who would listen what it was like flying for General Chennault and the Flying Tigers, and the hell he went through on the famous Doolittle Raid. I know a lot about both those things, and there is no way he could have done both -- because they happened at more or less the same time in the same time frame. It wasn't possible for someone to have done both, but he claimed he did it and is alive to tell about it. I think he is one of those people who -- like PJ Proby -- have told a story so many times they come to really believe it, even though it can't possibly be true. I've read that there is a point in the aging process where real memories and wishful fantasies become indistinguishable. I didn't have the heart to tell the event sponsors of my suspicions, so I just kept my counsel and let the old guy enjoy being in the spotlight. I did share this story here on the HAIF, and it generated a lengthy discussion with lots of contributors. Here's a link to it: http://www.houstonarchitecture.com/haif/topic/12630-attention-wwii-history-buffs/?hl=%2Bflying+%2Btigers

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This is stupid. To say big stores like Woolworth's had different shopping areas for whites and blacks is just preposterous. At the same time, it is possible and probable that some southern racists would intimidate blacks out on the shopping aisles, but that was because the shopping aisles were not segregated. In the 50s and to some extent in the early 60s the lunch counters were segregated, but not the merchandise areas. Even the segregated lunch counters started disappearing in the early 60s, coincidental with the advent of the Civil Rights movement. They were history in most places by the mid and late 60s.

You'll have to be a bit more specific. Between the Beltway and FM 1960 there is a near continuous string of new and used car dealerships. One right after another. Some have changed hands and names several times, and several are closed and sitting empty.

Maybe you're not looking in the right places. I just Googled "serial killer, addicks dam". This is what turned up. http://www.officialcoldcaseinvestigations.com/showthread.php?t=53 It turns out A LOT of young women and girls were murdered in and around Houston in the 1970s, and some of their bodies were found near the Addicks Dam. And there is this website: http://www.unsolvedmysteries.com/usm295281.html

KPRC TV went on the air on January 1st of 1949. It took several years for it to develop local shows like Darts for Dough. It was hosted by Dick Gottlieb, who was one of Houston's most popular TV personalities then and now. I'm not sure when Darts went on the air, but I remember seeing it in 1955 and 56.

***Our band played some place in Pasadena during the mid 60s that I thought was called "Teen Hall".*** That place in Pasadena was Taylor Hall. The original Taylor Hall was in the old part of Pasadena just north of Hwy 225. They moved in the early sixties to a new place on South Richey. I may be one of the very few people who grew up in Pasadena back then and never ever went to Taylor Hall. I heard it was a lot of fun though.

The Teen Hall I remember was on Grand Blvd, several blocks north of Holcombe behind the old Sacred Heart Academy on Holcombe. My buddies and I went there in the late 50s to see and enjoy my favorite KILT and KNUZ deejays spinning records for the Friday and Saturday night "hops".

It was the Delman Theater.

Morgan's Point is named for James Morgan, who owned a large plantation there before and after the Texas Revolution. Morgan also owned a beautiful mulatto slave named Emily West, also known as Emily Morgan, the famous "Yellow Rose of Texas". Texas legends say Emily was "entertaining" General Santa Anna in his tent while Sam Houston's army of Texicans were attacking his camp at San Jacinto. It's a great story, but it's probably a myth. True or not, she has a hotel named for her in San Antonio. Transportation magnate Charles Morgan was a busy guy. In the 1870s he financed dredging of the Atchafalaya River in Louisiana to make it navigable for sea going ships. In 1874, Morgan bought the dormant Bayou Ship Channel Company in Houston and found financing to dredge Buffalo Bayou far enough inland to connect with his railroad line near Clinton Drive. He bailed out of it in the 1880s, leaving it to local people to complete the channel farther inland after the turn of the century. Here's what the Texas State Historical Historical Association website says about that: "The United States government purchased his [Charles Morgan's] improvements in 1890 and thereafter accepted primary responsibility for the channel. Houston Congressman Thomas H. Ball, after becoming a member of the Rivers and Harbors Committee in 1897, won increased appropriations for the project. Congress also approved a depth of twenty-five feet and the location of the terminus at Long Reach, now the Turning Basin. Yet, by 1909 the channel had been dredged to only 18½ feet. Impatient at the slow progress, Mayor Horace Baldwin Rice led a delegation to Washington to present the "Houston Plan," which offered to pay one-half of the cost of dredging the channel to twenty-five feet. After receiving assurances that the facilities would be publicly owned, Congress accepted the offer. Prior to Houston's offer, no substantial contributions had ever been made by local interests, but since then no project has been adopted by the national government without local contributions. The Texas legislature passed a bill enabling Harris County to establish a navigation district. The citizens then approved a bond issue of $1,250,000. Jesse H. Jones arranged for the sale of the bonds and the dredging began. It was completed on September 7, 1914." And, BTW, Texas Commerce Bancshares didn't fold in the 1980s. It merged with Chemical Bank, and four or five mergers later it became Chase Bank, then JPMorgan Chase, which it is today.

I'm afraid not. It's not possible because of the sheer physical logistics of archiving the tapes of that many years of programs. I worked at KTRH in the 1970s and 80s, and I can tell you that the tape "archives" only went back several years. They didn't have space for any more than that. And they still don't. With today's computerized audio filing systems, nobody is using tape anymore. That means current programs are archived "in the cloud", but the old programs are lost forever. Sorry.

To this day, the 1965 murders of Fred and Edwina Rogers remains Houston's bloodiest and most sensational unsolved mystery. Their bodies had been cut up into small pieces and stuffed into the refrigerator. Their grown son Charles Rogers -- who lived with them -- became the prime suspect but nobody had any idea where he was. In fact he was so reclusive that the neighbors didn't know the Rogerses even had a son. The murders happened in the Rogers' home at 1815 Driscoll St., in the Hyde Park section of the Montrose area, five blocks east of South Shepherd and three blocks south of West Gray -- behind the River Oaks Shopping Center. Check page 492-R of your handy Key Map. The Rogers house isn't there anymore. There's a townhouse there now, but the house next door has been there for a very long time. I wonder if the current residents know what happened next door to them almost 50 years ago. Countless newspaper and magazine stories and several books have been written about this case over the years. It has even spilled over into the dark netherworld of Kennedy Assassination Conspiracy Lunacy. With no shred of evidence, some of those moonbats believe Charles Rogers was one of Kennedy's assassins, from somewhere in Dealy Plaza or on the Grassy Knoll. In any event, he has never been found or heard of since the murders, and he was declared "officially" dead in 1975.

Galveston has an organization that was created to preserve local history, but their work is confined to the "old" area in and around downtown Galveston, the roughly one square mile from Broadway over to Mechanic St between 19th and 10th streets. The East End Historical District Association is esssentially a homeowners association with strong regulations and sharp teeth to enforce them. Property owners cannot do anything to change the appearance of their home or building. They can maintain it of course, but the EEHD must approve the work in advance. They can't repair storm damage unless the EEHD Board approves every iota of the work. I used to know a guy who lived in one of the old houses in that district and over time he grew to hate it. He told horror stories about the bureaucratic hoops he had to jump through just to get permission to paint his house. He needed to replace some old decaying wood on his porch, and it took several months to get the EEHD board to approve it. He finally sold the house and moved out to another area on the island. He says beautiful historic neighborhoods can be nice, for tourists, but not so much for people who live there. He said it's like living in a museum.

Larry Connors update: He's up to his ears in a very serious controversy with his TV station and the IRS over a personal rant he put on his Facebook page. Check it out. http://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/columns/joe-holleman/kmov-s-conners-off-the-air-until-further-notice-after/article_178e0d2f-163e-598a-b2fc-c50fd8d2c413.html At first he claimed he's been audited by the IRS since an interview he did last year with President Obama. The latest is that he now admits the auditing began several years before the interview. That bubbling sound you hear is his credibility circling the drain. Where's Marvin Zindler when you need him?

I wasn't defending "separate but equal", but it wasn't all bad. In perfect 20-20 hindsight, we can now see that It had the effect of upholding cohesion in the black community in ways that today's schools seem unable to do.

Here is just one of the really "counter-intuitive" things about the segregation era many people today find hard to believe. Before court-ordered desegregation of schools and almost every other aspect of our lives, whites and blacks lived in their own socially and geographically separate communities. In those times, there were more black-owned businesses, black unemployment and crime rates were very low, and the graduation rate in their separate but equal high schools was about equal to the rate in the white schools. Sociologists say it was because black kids were born into and grew up in a community that expected them to stay in school, graduate, find a job and make something of themselves. It's not that way today. There is no black "community". The black school dropout rate is astronomical, black unemployment, black on black crime rates are astronomical, and three out of every four black babies are born out of wedlock. And the list goes on and on. American blacks have become the victims in the War on Poverty. So much for the social paradise that integration was supposed to bring to pass.

The last time I heard anything about the old Sterling Mansion in La Porte was when I read that the lady who publishes The Green Sheet bought it and lives in it. That was back in the 90s though. Anybody know if she still lives there?

That was Tuffly Park, in northeast Houston. Sadly, this part of town has a very high crime rate. A lot of killings happen there, so you will have to be more specific about the one you're talking about.

As someone who worked in Houston radio and TV for 45 years I can tell you that the GHP does not buy positive media coverage. Furthermore, no news media outlet that cares about its reputation would sell positive coverage. The GHP does however buy advertisements in print and electronic media to promote itself and its members, but it does not buy news coverage. That doesn't mean the media don't cover the GHP. They certainly do, but it is to report genuine news stories about the GHP and its work in bringing new industry and companies to town, but that coverage is not "bought". That is what is known as earned" media coverage, or free media. It refers to favorable publicity a company gains through its own initiatives and promotional efforts other than paid advertising. Examples: a big developer announces plans to build a new skyscraper or a new business complex. Or a big company announces plans to expand and hire thousands of people. That's news that can be defined as "earned" media coverage.

It helps to remember the purpose of shows like this one. It's not intended to be a food "critic" show that dishes the bad with the good. The show's mission is to find the good places and show why they have that reputation. He only has half an hour -- including commercials -- and he can't waste HIS precious few minutes with places that are less than great places to eat. As for how they pick their featured restaurants, I'm guessing their production staff contacts food critics in each city well in advance to get a handle on the popular eateries and map out an itinerary. That's what I would do if I were doing this show.

On the new Travel Network show "Burger Land", host and burger gourmand Steve Motz tours the country looking for the best hamburgers. One of his shows last night (May 6) was shot in Houston. Motz went to four or five locally owned burger joints in the Houston area sampling their wares, and declared that these burgers were among the best he's ever consumed. What a job. Motz says it's because the meat is not frozen. It's ground fresh and highly seasoned on the premises and the patties are hand made. The finished burger has a lot of ingredients the burger chains would never use. One place puts batter deep-fried bacon and jalapenos on top of the beef. Another place grinds bacon up with the beef. Is your mouth watering yet? Here's a link to the Houston episode on the show's website, but the clip is only a couple of minutes long. I love the title though: Houston We Have a Burger! http://www.travelchannel.com/video/fried-bacon-jalapeno-burger Check out the photos. They'll make you want to jump in the car and go find one of those places. I live in east Texas and I can't wait for the next time I drive down to Houston. I am definitely going to get me one of those.

Anybody have any idea who the reporter was? He's seen briefly 17 seconds into the video interviewing a police officer. I was around Houston in 1963 and I watched KHOU a lot, but I cannot put a name on that face.