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    Back in the 60s, my dad had a friend who had a pipe organ in his garage. I think it had two or three ranks of pipes and it had traps (the drums, bells, and other percussion instruments that you could play from the organ.) We used to go there all the time and play it. I think his neighbors might have complained occasionally, because there was no way to control the volume.
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    Wasn't Paul Berlin also on KQUE? That was the 30s and 40s oldies station in the 70s through the 90s.
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    Does anyone remember this? I was in the 6th grade at Horn Elementary in September of 1959. They told us to go straight home, but would not tell us why. I knew that Kolter Elementary was named after one of the teachers who died. A few years ago I worked with a lady who was the substitute that took over Jeanne Kolter's classroom after her death. You will need to scroll down to read the part about Poe School. http://www.texasranger.org/dispatch/7/Gooding.htm
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    That really makes me sad. Westbury was only two years old when I started in 1963. I think I got a fantastic education. In the faculty section of the yearbook, it shows that a great many of the teachers had master's degrees. When I took the advanced placement English test at U of H, I was able to place out of the first semester freshman English. Later I found out that almost everyone from Westbury who took the test placed out of it. We joked that they probably made the test harder the next year.
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    I just found out from my dad - who is 81 - that he took flying lessons from Cliff Hyde back in the 40s. He said it was somewhere out on South Main, which makes me think it must have been at the Sam Houston Airport. I googled Cliff Hyde and found this link that mentions that his service operated out of the Sam Houston Airport. http://www.1940airterminal.org/houstonaviationtimeline.htm
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    I went to a restaurant in Kemah in 1969, but I don't remember the name. It might have had the word captain or club in the name, but I just can't think of it. Does anyone know?
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    That's because everywhere you go, it's the same few stores. Target, Wal-mart, Starbucks, etc. I took a ride to Kemah last January to see the boardwalk. I hadn't been there in over 10 years. With the exception of two, every restaurant out there is also in Katy or on the west side of town. Sometimes it seems like there's almost no point in going anywhere because in a way, it's like you never left home.
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    I'm a little closer to your age. I was born in 1948. My grandparents lived in the 3900 block of Coleridge. The funny thing about JMH is that they would cash checks for my grandmother and she didn't have to leave the car. She would give me the check and I would run in and give it to the person in the courtesy booth, and they would give me the cash. We live in Katy now, but took a little trip to the Village yesterday to go to the Variety 5 & 10. My favorite store was World Toy & Gift. We would go in the back door and spend forever in the back section with all the 10 and 15 cent toys. My mom and my sister and I went back in the early 90s when they were closing. Of course all of that section is gone now.
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    My grandparents lived in West University (we never called it 'West U') and my grandmother did most of her grocery shopping at either JMH or Weingarten's in Montclair Center. The Montclair Center sign had a light at the top that rotated like a lighthouse. When I would spend the night, it would shine in the back bedroom - off and on all night. I felt that it was kind of creepy.
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    At Sakowitz, the 'dings' were ways of paging people without disturbing the shoppers. Each store manager had a page. Three dings were security. Five dings meant the store was opening or closing.
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    What a great picture. It's really strange to see Westbury's water tower and no school right next to it. I lived in Marilyn Estates - the subdivision just west of Johnston. This picture must be 1959, because Kolter Elementary hasn't been built, and it was open when we moved there in October of 1960.
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    I worked at Sakowitz in Town & Country from 1967 to 1972. We didn't give out the plastic hangars with the clothes. We took small wooden hangars and wrapped them in tissue paper to give to customers. If we were putting clothes in a box or bag, we also wrapped them in tissue and put a Sakowitz sticker on the tissue to hold it closed. On nights when it wasn't busy (most nights) we would spend the time wrapping hangars.
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    I remember Goggan's very well. My dad got to know several of the employees and they would come over to our house on Sunday afternoons to play the organ and piano. You could find almost any song in their sheet music files. I think it was right across the street from Sakowitz. It was still open in the late 60s, because I bought posters of instruments and other items for my music classes at U of H.
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    I know about the new one. It looks great. I wish that the google satellite pics were more up-to-date. I'd love to see an overhead view of the campus now.
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    The original three-story classroom building was condemned a few years ago and torn down. They were going to renovate it, but when they went in to inspect it, it was so bad that they immediately shut it down. I believe it had something to do with the foundation. I don't think they even let students come in and empty their lockers. The last part may be wrong, but it's what I heard. Maybe someone else can verify it.
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    Sort of off-topic, but my brother lives two houses down from the son of the Big Bopper. He gave my brother one of his CDs. (He has a band.)
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    My grandparents lived in West University and their phone number in the 40s was M 1156. By the time I was learning to use the phone (I'm 58) the number was MA 1156. Shortly after I learned, the phone company added another digit and the number was MA3-1156. We lived about three miles away (in Bellaire) and we also had the Madison exchange.
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    Speaking of Playland Park I was going through old pictures and found this ad in a copy of the 1945 Daily Cougar (my Dad's) from U of H.
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    Thanks for your reply, Heights2Bastrop. I was beginning to think that I was imagining it :-). I was also 5 in 1953, but I don't know how old I was when I went there. I just remember that my mom said that Kiddieland was better than Playland Park for little kids.
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    KNUZ Radio

    Alpha replied to Diane's topic in Historic Houston

    I remember the American Bandstand show where Larry Kane subbed for Dick Clark. He brought the kids from his show and they completely outdanced the AB kids. I don't think they were ever invited back. The thing is that I don't think the AB kids actually took dance lessons. They just went on the show. I remember thinking that the Larry Kane kids looked a little too "show-biz" doing all their fancy dances.
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    I tell my parents that the kids were the "remote control." We usually sat on the floor in front of the TV and my dad would say, "Turn it up, turn it down, or change the channel."
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    I loved Dugan's Drugs in Bellaire. I used to make my mom take me there even after we moved out to Meyerland. I also loved Lew's Record shop. Up until a few years ago, I still had a few tokens from Lew's. I don't know what happened to them. I used to spend most of my time in Woolworth's. They had huge ice cream sandwiches. We would buy them and walk around in the outside center court of Meyerland Plaza.
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    I remember going to Kiddieland park some time in the early 50s. I was very small and don't remember much about it. It might have been on the Katy freeway - which was highway 90 then. I have tried searching Google, but can't find any mention of it anywhere.
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