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  1. Firebird65
    OUCH! now that's crooked. A harsh cut, to be sure... but true!
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    Did you find that on the Titan's site? Reason is, there used to be something like that on there, but I couldn't find it earlier today. 99.6 percent in 1992. Granted, that's not 104%, but unless my math is incorrect, that's 4 tenths of a percent less than a full house. Houston supported the team. If 99.6 percent of capacity isn't good enough for an owner, then HE, not me, has a problem. In 1993, there was a justifiable backlash against the Oilers blowing the Buffalo game. In 1994, there was further backlash against them bowing meekly at home in the first round of the playoffs against KC and, add to that, the team was horrible in 1994. In 1995, Adams was openly courting Nashville. Houston supported the Oilers. Bud Adams did not support Houston. Art Modell gets villified for leaving a 60 year old decrepit stadium. Bud Adams gets a pass for putting out an inferior product and then walking away from the fans he gyped in a stadium renovated just for him not 10 years before. Go figure. LOL!
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    LOL! Yeah... folks are really going to show up for a lame duck team once the owner has announced he's moving. OF COURSE they're not going to play to capacity then. Sheesh! Use some common sense. Try the last full season BEFORE Adams started his shennanigans.
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    You need to check your facts.
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    They make announcements whenever they have news. Yes, I would consider Clemens gone, as well. Probably just as good for both Roger and the team. Our guys could never score for him anyway. 13-8 and 7-6 the last two years with the fantastic ERA he put up? That's got to be frustrating. If it was frustrating for me as a fan, imagine how hard it was for Roger. I'll miss both Roger and Andy's heart - they brought us to the World Series just like they said they would. But their constant games - are they coming back or not - wears thin after awhile. That I won't miss.
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    Oh yes he did. Last time I checked, the Astrodome was selling out to 104 percent capacity when Bottom Line Bud wandered over to Nashville. And that was with a bad team (1994) coming off one season that they laid one of the biggest eggs in sports history (1992) then followed that up by folding at home after luring the fans back with a 12-game win streak (1993). I didn't run Bud Adams off. No Oiler fan ran Bud Adams off. Bob Lanier didn't run Bud Adams off. Bud Adams ran Bud Adams off. He had the gall to hold this city hostage for a new stadium that, quite frankly, a very good number of people didn't think he or his underperforming team deserved. When your team gives the city a black eye, that ain't the time to say, "Gimme, gimme, gimme." Bob Lanier was right... you want a stadium, build your own. I can guarantee you Bob McNair isn't going to be asking for anything any time soon after his team pulled a very nice "Oiler" today.
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    If Bud had been right, he'd have gotten his stadium. Seems that if Bottom Line Bud was half the businessman he thought he was, he could have articulated his point, whatever it was, a lot better. At the very least, couldn't the idiot have at least flipped through the phone book for a PR person? LOL! He was too cheap for even that. Bottom line on Bottom Line Bud, it was a bungled attempt at holding the city hostage. Paul Tagliabue did a much better job.
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    Are you kidding?!? Bud Adams was jilted? By whom? This clown held us hostage in 1987 for an expansion to the Dome and then not 10 years later tried the same exact thing. Then he got mad when we didn't want to give in to him AGAIN. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. The nanosecond he went to Nashville I bolted for another team and why not? He showed me as a fan not one whiff of loyalty, so why should I return the favor? I suported his underperforming team through thick and mostly thin. And his response was what? "Gimme a new stadium or else I'm outta here." I wish him no good at all (at least in the football sense, not a personal sense). Two of my favorite sports memories are: 1) Carlos Beltran standing there with the bat on his shoulder to end the 2006 NLCS 2) Titans falling one yard short in the Super Bowl They got their money, but they didn't get the real payday. THAT'S karma!
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    Uh... karma for the jilted Oiler fans would have been Young stuffed at the one yard line and to see the agony on Bud Adams' face. We were loyal to the Oilers. The team left us, we didn't leave them.
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    That figures! I had a girlfriend actually complain the food came out TOO SOON! LOL! We went to a Monterrey House about 2 p.m. on a weekday afternoon, the waiter took our order, walked back to the kitchen and immediately came back with our food. Couldn't have been more than 2 minutes, tops. I was thrilled because I was starving. But of course, she didn't see it that way, moaning about how quick it came out. Can you believe it? LOL!
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    Monterrey House was good... for its time. Today's palates have grown much more sophisticated and there is so much more competition. A restaurant like Monterrey House probably doesn't have a chance anymore in a market like Houston. However, I do note you singing the praises of Casa Ole. Casa Ole isn't much different than Monterrey House. (I also like Casa Ole, BTW). It's the same Americanized Tex-Mex food. But hey, sometimes that's what I feel like eating. I don't always want the authetic Mexican experience. Casa Ole probably would have cleaned up in the 1970s, much like Monterrey House did. But now whenever I ask anyone, "want to go to Casa Ole?" they turn their noses. People have gotten more sophisticated in their Mexican food tastes. Sometimes that's good, sometimes not.
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    That site has some errors. It claims football player Jason Glenn went to Aldine High. He didn't. He went to Aldine Nimitz. It also says wrestling's Undertaker also went to Aldine. I gotta check that out. I'm dubious as to that claim. I went to Aldine at that time and I know someone in the Class of 1983, so I'll be checking my yearbook. I know he did come from Houston, he's said that before, but I'm a little doubtful that he went to my high school.
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    Finally found some information on the Gulf Coast Airport that sat on the current site of Aldine High. According to old phone books at the Texas Room, the airport was at 11165 Airline Drive (Aldine High is at 11101 Airline). Apparently it opened in 1947 (meaning at least it was in the 1947 phone book, but not in the 1946).
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    My parents had HI7-5248 for 37 years. The Hillcrest exchange came into existence in 1955. Prior to that, the Airline area had Melrose.
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    In that edition of the Post, are there any ads for Weiner's? If so, what are the locations? I'm trying to figure out when the Weiner's int he hidden Valley Shopping Center on the North Freeway was built. The shopping center itself opened in 1969, but I think the Weiner's was added a year or two later as part of an expansion.
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    Here's what I have, although it's in a different format than yours and isn't for one particular year. (Note: I don't have all the radio stations, just some of the more popular ones.) 1920s Radio Stations 920 AM – KPRC (since 1925) 1930s Radio Stations 920 AM – KPRC 1290 AM – KTRH (since 1930) 1440 AM – KXYZ (since 1930) 1940s Radio Stations – AM 740 AM – KTRH (switched frequencies mid 1940s) 790 AM – KTHT (switched frequencies 1948) 920 AM – KPRC (to mid 1940s) 950 AM – KPRC (switched frequencies mid 1940s) 1230 AM – KTHT (1944 to 1948) 1230 AM – KNUZ (from 1948) 1290 AM – KTRH (to mid 1940s) 1320 AM – KXYZ (switched frequencies mid 1940s) 1440 AM – KXYZ (to mid 1940s) 1940s Radio Stations – FM 98.5 FM -- KOPY 101.1 FM – KTRH 102.9 FM – KPRC 1950s Radio Stations – AM 610 AM – KLEE 610 AM – KLBS (to 1957) 610 AM – KILT (from 1957) 650 AM – KRCT 740 AM – KTRH 790 AM – KTHT 950 AM – KPRC 1230 AM – KNUZ 1320 AM – KXYZ 1950s Radio Stations – FM 98.5 FM – KFMK (from 1957) 101.1 FM – KTRH 102.9 FM – KPRC (to 1958) 102.9 FM – KHGM (from 1958) 104.1 FM – KRBE (from 1958)
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    How many of these can you post? I had started a thread on this once, but didn't get far. I like to see the changes in call letters.
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    I remember that station. Talk about an interesting concept.
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    I know there's a couple of posters out there interested in school district histories and I wanted to share this I found last night: Came across an October 1961 Houston Chronicle article that discussed how two homeowners in the former Addicks school district were protesting the Harris County school board's decision to assign them to the Houston ISD. The homeowners wanted to be part of Alief ISD because the tax rate was considerably lower. The story mentioned the Addicks district had been dissolved in July of that year (1961) and that the district had been split by the school board between HISD, Spring Branch, Alief and Katy. Hope this proves useful to anyone interested. I didn't know Addicks was still around in 1961. Their football team dropped off around 1947 (about the time the reservoir was built), so I just assumed that was the time the district became defunct.
  20. Firebird65
    Let's get the board going again. It's either this or work. And while work is more profitable, this board is more interesting. Let's see some posts. At this point, ANY posts will do. LOL!
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    Maybe because rather than abandon them, they can foist them off on some Carlton Sheets wannabe? LOL!
  22. Firebird65
    Notice how Airline is up near Klein along Cypress Creek? It's also the first time I've ever seen Bender on a map. I knew its approximate location from research, but I'd never seen it on a map before. Hey, and Mt. Houston is on the map too!
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    That really doesn't show the bayou, but a stop along the railroad. But it's pretty clear that's in about the right spot to be over Halls Bayou. I'm sure you're better at reading deeds than I am... is that about where A.S. Hall's land was? BTW... notice how there are two Cross Timbers?
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    This is going to sound odd, but that's a bad picture of her.
  25. Firebird65
    Channel 2 has this hot new reporter, Daniella Guzman. Anyone else seen her? Wow!
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