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I stand corrected. That's what I get for trusting the web. Great match collection though.

From a history of Luby's: With Bob Luby as president and Charles Johnston as executive vice-president, Luby's entered the Houston market in 1965 with an upscale cafeteria which offered an expanded menu and more expensive food items. Operating under the Romano name, the cafeteria quickly became a huge money-maker. The modern structure with its rich decor served as a model for revamping efforts at existing Luby's and proved a market existed for cafeterias with a very modern style and design. Luby's growth in the Houston market was propelled, in part, by the nation's space program, initiated in the early 1960s, with its mission control headquarters in the area. In subsequent years, the oil industry and its attendant financiers in the banking and financial services industries would fuel the economy further.

I looked in the 1943 phone book instead of the City Directory: I could only get one half-way decent photo because they were glossy and a lot of glare:

HBU baskeball arena sounds like a distinct possibility from the general area described. The Rockets used to practice there back in the 70s, but that would have been before the time of someone 24 years old.

I seem to remember having a home version of this contraption, although on a much simpler scale. It came with plastic sheets which were heated and then it used a vacuum to cause the plastic to form over the mold. I don't remember what it was called, but I think as soon as we ran out of the plastic sheets we lost interest.

A bit off topic, but I did some digging on Milt Larkin. He was born in Navasota and his father was also a Milton Larkin. When his father died, his mother Ella moved to Houston. I found them in the 1920 census living at 80 Gable Street (McKee) in Frostown. It looks like this was a boading house.

I was at the library today so I looked in the directories for 1938, 1941, 1942, 1943 and I never saw "Abe and Pappy's". I looked both under the name, under bars, under restaurants, and under Dance Halls and never saw a listing. I also looked at the streets directory for the area around Fannin and Rusk and struck out there too. The only thing I saw in that area that looked like a club was the Aragon Ballroom. Apparently there are some photos from inside the place in the Milt Larkin collection. I found this after I had left the library Milt Larkin Collection

I remember those pictures and trophies. They had the same thing at Austin. Old photos of guys wearing leather helmets with no face guards. I had an English teacher named Mrs. Harris who was on the third floor NE corner room. She was quite old already and so, was probably gone by the time you got there. She was the teacher that had all of the contents of her desk dumped out the window along with everything else in the class that wasn't bolted down. Mrs. Harris got tired of reading the same stories to her various classes several times a day so she would record them on a reel-to-reel tape recorder and just play the stories back for each class. The only problem was the sound quality on the reel-to-reel was so bad that no one could understand a word of what she was saying on the tape but her. Nobody ever said anything about it though because it was a nice break. I remember one of the stories was "The Ransom of Red Chief" by O. Henry. She would sit there listening with a rapt look on her face, and would occasionally chuckle when she heard the funny parts of the story. I could understand the title and after that it was just a garbled mess of muffled sounds. Another thing I remember about her class is that boys would chew paper into paper mache and then throw the wad at a framed picture of George Washington up in the corner of the room (you know the picture). By the end of the semester the picture would be totally obscured.

Here's a bumper sticker I haven't seen on here. This is from a photograph of the sticker on a chrome bumper so the quality is all that it ever will be. I believe this sticker was from 1970.

I don't think so in this case. The settlement in the 1880 census was called Little White Oak Bayou and most of the adult male inhabitants listed their occupations as either farmer or gardener or both farm and gardener.

As you can see from this map some of the street names have changed. It looks like the "pony farm" property may still be somewhat intact. Hartwell T. Sapp was the owners name and his wife's name was Elizabeth, hence the street named "Elizabeth" where their residence shows to be. He began buying land in that area in 1879 when he bought 11+ acres from T.J. Shannon who owned 354 acres in the area. Over the years he added more small parcels which he also purchased from the Shannon family. The name "Sapp Gardens" seems to have proceeded the subdivision, which makes me wonder what he was growing. His occupation in the 1880 census said "Gardener". Their son's name was Samuel so there is another street name and they also had a daughter Lula. Elizabeth A. Sapp, the wife and mother went by Lizzie.

I was at the deed records office today for something else, but while there I did some digging on Sapp Gardens

Good eye one the sign...I was too busy looking at the building. So if you could find out when they played Cullen in 1970, you would know what day these images were taken. Here is a aerial shot of the Jeppesen Statium area from that time. Bounded by (N) Holman (E) Cullen (S) Wheeler (W) Scott. The entire area was owned by HISD until 1971 when it was sold to U of H. The road that led to Little Jeppesen is now called Cougar Place and the location of the stadium is now student housing. Unfortunately they took down most of the pine trees that you see on the east side of the stadium

Susan...do you know the name of the girl with the pixie haircut?

Anyone remember which rival school wore maroon and white?

This photo gives reference to the location of the stadium by the buildings in the background

Here's a photo of the band from that same football game. Check out the outfit that woman is wearing..the 60s weren't over for her

Thanks....I was just doing research on that very topic...so now I can stop. I couldn't remember if it was called Jeppesen Jr. or what, and so was searching for the answer, but you are right...that's where we played Jackson home games. I played football at Jackson too 10 years before you. I also ran around the Golfcrest Country Club after it closed. We used to go hunting with our pellet rifles over there. I didn't take long for it to go wild.

There may have been a previous Barnett Stadium, but the one on Fairway was opened in 1976. Butler Stadium is way out S. Main Street past Hiram Clark. Delmar Stadium is the one off 290 and Mangum. In reference to one of your previous post, when I first started going to Jackson I rode a yellow school bus to school and Mr. Marcontel was the bus driver. I guess he needed the extra money. The kids on the bus were always mean to him and he had a hard time with taking control. I don't remember the wood shop teacher, but my metal shop teacher was Mr. Morrison. I had Mrs. Law for Texas History and Drama. I had a teacher named Mr. Porter for math. He was very shy and wore thick horn-rimmed Clark Kent type glasses. He would pace back and forth behind his desk during the entire class and had worn off all the varnish on the floor. He used to write little witticisms on the board every day. He spoke so low you could hardly hear him...he was a low talker. Wasn't there another teacher named Camarata?

I was in 10th grade at Austin when those pix were taken. My running buddy Louis Trevino had asked Olga Campos to homecoming so me and another friend of mine went to the Jackson game to see Olga cheerleading. Bonnie Kruse and Kathy Seeber sound right. Donna Phillips sounds familiar, but I don't think I knew her. For homecoming we went to Valian's. It was a fun night, but I don't think Louis and Olga dated much beyond that night. I knew Adrian quite well. He was in the same class as I was. Louis Trevino

Olga Campos Then Olga Campos now

This one shows the woman a bit more:

Jackson Cheerleaders 1970 I think that's Olga Campos on the right Principal Marion B. Skains

I was a bit mischievous in jr. high so I got my share of pops. Me and a friend of mine had a contest to see who could collect the most chalk board erasers. Each of us had a bout 15 of them in our gym bags which got searched while were were lining up in our team rows. Coach Herman called us to his office and when we got there he and Coach Gross had the erasers all in a pile on their desk. He was grinning, but he still gave us swats. I remember those courtyards in the middle of the school, one was cemented in and was used to pass through from one wing to the other, but the other one had plants growing in it and was always closed off. Somebody mentioned throwing things out of the window. I had a teacher once on the third floor who got called to the principals office and, while she was gone some of the mean boys in the class (no...not me) took everything out of her desk and threw it all out the window. All of her papers were blowing down Polk street. I think she about had a nervous breakdown over that. Another thing mean boys used to do was to flush M80 firecrakers or Cherry Bombs down the toilet on the third floor in the boys room...they would travel down to the 2nd floor and then explode in the pipe, sending a geyser of water up onto whoever happened to be sitting in the 2nd floor girls bathroom stall. Coach Herman and Coach Gross

Throwback, that's the Adath Emeth Cemetery located at 1540 Sylvester Road