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I taught second grade there in the spring of 1971.

My mother grew up in the sixth ward and went to St. Joseph School. My parents were married there, and it's where I was baptized. I have pictures of the inside that were taken at their wedding in June of 1947.

LOL 1966

My high school senior picnic was at the Humble Country Club. I'm trying to find out where it was located, but can't find any information. Does anyone know about it?

Bought my senior prom dress there in 1966. Still have the dress and the yellow plastic Scheps hangers.

I took lessons there from 1972 to 1974. In the summer of 74, a tornado took off part of the roof. After it was repaired and the rink re-opened, it had new management. I resumed my lessons, but the atmosphere was entirely different. They combined my adult ice dancing class with one full of teenagers. It was not fun any more, so I quit soon after. It stayed open for a few more years, but I think they closed it down before they tore down the building to build Town & Country mall.

Where is the link to that? The only one I can find still requires the street address.

Thanks

I recently began scanning all the color slides we have, and ran across some color photos of Holt Street in Bellaire. As you can see, from one of the pictures, the house across the street closed in their front porch. The original pictures were taken in 1957, and the color slides were from late 1959. The picture of the children on the driveway is facing west - toward Post Oak.

I'm pretty sure that there was also one on the Katy Freeway, just west of the beltway. It wasn't there long and is now the Market Place flea market. We used to go there (flea market) on Sundays in the 70s when all the other stores were closed.

I think my parents went into Kennedy & Cohen once to look at TVs. They had to sit in a waiting room until a salesperson could come and take them around the store. I think they left because the waiting room was full and they didn't want to wait.

I went to Westbury (Class of 66) and I have that yearbook, plus the 64 and 66. I still have a little rebel doll (packed away) and a silver rebel charm.

I asked my dad (he's 86 and grew up in West University) if he knew what it was. He didn't remember it at all, but he told me that the building on the southwest corner of Bellaire and Stella Link was National Instruments, where he worked at the end of the war.

I agree that it looks like it's probably for auto racing, especially when you look at the large area it covers.

2)In 1978 they built a new street running north off Westheimer it was either West Belt, Kirkwood or City W. Blvd. the road had a big bend in it that turned right and at the end of that bend someone built a huge up scale Tex-mex Mexican restaurant my ex-wife and I ate there several times before we left to move to Louisiana, the food was great. It kind of reminded it being sort of like Don Pablo's in style but I know it wasn't. Anyone remember that place and the name?

I may be completely wrong, but here goes. I think the street was West Belt (now of course the SH tollway, or Beltway.) I remember the restaurant - went to a wedding reception there - but like you, I can't remember the name. My brain is trying to tell me that it was (something) de los Martinos, but I am not sure.

I am going to do a little research and I may get back to you.

Forest Park - Lawndale has a Catholic section called Garden of Gethsemane. I believe there's an area in that section called Baby Land. I found an obituary that states:

(Infant Son) was born Houston, Harris County, Texas, June 10, 1956. (Infant died June 10, 1956 Houston, Harris County, Texas, at less than one year of age. His body was interred Houston, Harris County, Texas, Garden of Gethsemane-Baby Land.

This may show my age but I have no clue what Globe is or was. I can remember there was a Dennys in that same area. It was closed by the mid 80's I think.

Sage and Globe were sort of like Walmart and Target. They had groceries and also other items. Here is a discussion about both:

There was also a Denny's nearby. I think it was right on the corner of West Belt and I-10.

I have always wondered if all the old Skylane Apartments were once owned by the same people. Also, were they ever nice? I grew up near the complex at Beltway 8 and I-10. They are really scary...why are they still there. Seems to me that they would attract people that were toatal scum.

Also what was in front of that complex. I seem to remember Town&Country Bazzar. The building stood empty for years. I think its right on the fault line.

Maybe thats why Igloo moved out west.

Any thoughts?

I worked at Sakowitz in the late 60s and those apartments were scary then. I knew someone who lived there, but she wouldn't let anyone come over to visit her.

The store that was in front of them was Sage. It was similar to Globe.

I loved that! What memories. I was 18 and had just graduated from high school. I had listened to KILT since sixth grade, but when I was 16, I switched to KNUZ. I liked Paul Berlin's morning show and would listen while I got ready for school.

I lived in Bellaire from 1950 to 1960. There are two places I attended that I would like to find out the addresses if possible. One was a nursery school. I believe it was called Playhouse. I attended it in 1952 when I was four. While I was there, they acquired an interesting playground apparatus. It consisted of several tricycles arranged on a round platform. It worked somewhat like a merry-go-round. All of the children sat on the trikes and pedaled to make it go around.

The other place was the Ann Keene Dance Studio. I attended there from 1952 to around 1955. I thought it was in the center next to First State Bank, but I don't really remember.

If anyone has access to phone directories from this time period, I'd love to see them.

Thanks

It was exactly 50 years ago today while sitting in Mrs. Tillinghast's class at Love Elementary that Jimmy Hulme shouted out, “It's snowing!” No one turned to look because Jimmy was prone to shouting that out as a joke.

But he quickly followed with, “No, it really IS snowing!” It was the very first time most of us had ever seen snow. February 12th, 1961 will always be fondly etched in my mind.

I mentioned this to my sister just about an hour ago. I was in the 6th grade at Horn Elementary in Bellaire. After school, my grandmother took my sister and me to her house in West University to spend the night. The next day we built two snowmen in her front yard.

My sister lives in Georgia and it's snowing there right now.

Here's an old pic of the Katy Freeway frontage of MCM. I have determined that this photo was snapped between September 18 and October 26, 1974.

"Gone With The Wind" was re-released in Houston on September 18, 1974, and on the MCM marquee there is an art show through October 26.

Enlarge the photo and take special note of the U.S.A.F. fighter aircraft parked in the East lot, between the mall and the Goodyear tire store. Wassup with that?

I can't seem to be able to enlarge the photo. When I click on it, the screen just goes to black.

I know that Gone With The Wind was also playing at Memorial City in the fall of 1971.

The Chronicle has an article about this today. It's the 50th anniversary of the Poe School Bombing.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6618989.html

I vaguely recall the opening of Meyerland Plaza. Must have been 1956 or 1957. There were spotlights that lit up the night sky announcing its opening. [some of the housing subdivisions in the area also used spotlights to attract home buyers.]

Meyerland was such a big deal, we took our visiting cousins from San Antonio there to show off our new shopping center. I remember one cousin buying a set of Kooties---those mix-and-match plastic parts with which you could make your own insect critter. I was envious!

Meyerland must be the place in Houston I first saw the organ grinder with a monkey.

I'm pretty sure that it opened on October 31, 1957. I remember it, but I also think I read it somewhere in this forum.

It comes on today at 1 pm.

1:00pm - 3:00pm, KUHT (8)

Houston: Remember When

Photographs and home movies help recall city landmarks and events of the 1930s, 40s and 50s including sports and entertainment venues in the downtown

So, did I get this correct: the mall opened in 1964 with Sears, Wards came in 1965, Lord & Taylor 1979, and Foley's 1967?

I would say that Wards came around 1972. We moved to that area in 1966 and there was parking in the spot that Wards later occupied. Lord and Taylor came in 1977 and Foley's in 1973.

Does anyone remember going to the Nicosia Beauty Salon in the 1930's? Mr. Nicosia's salon was in downtown Houston, but I cannot remember where. He also had a turkish bth at the same location. The Center for American History has some interior shots of the salon posted on their internet site.

I visited Mr. Nicosia's salon as a child with my mother. Supposedly he invented the first cream cold wave - a permanent wave technique.

Patricia

My family knew some Nicosias, but I don't know if they had a beauty salon.

Here's a link to a picture I found in a google search.

Nicosia Beauty Salon

For the person who posted here that wanted to know of businesses that were in the area back then, I would suggest going to Westbury High and asking to see some of their early yearbooks. I was on the staff one year and we had to go out into the community to sell ad space.

I have the 65 and 66 editions of the Citadel and they don't have any ads, but the student telephone directories from those years are full of them. When I get a chance, I'll scan a list of the ads and post some of them.