ADeGregori

I went there when I was young - I was probably less than 10 when it was torn down - but I remember clearly that there were always two women there. Rose sat at the cash register and her friend stood behind her and wrapped and sacked items for customers. It was always said that she was a Holocaust survivor, though I never saw a number. Maybe she moved back to Germany in the 20s or 30s. I'll ask my dad, he will know.

John Barleycorn's Memorial Pub?

Moeller's. Now on Bellaire Blvd near the RR tracks.

I remember that 3 for 1 Happy Hour - they shut that down pretty quick, I guess seeing patrons who order "two" drinks stumble out the door after 6 made them realize it wasn't a wise idea. Here's a map from 1982.

There was a bigger Jewish lady and I think it was her sister or sister-in-law, she was smaller, both I would say were in their 60s, late 60s, in the 1970s, who ran it. I don't remember their names but I can picture them like it was yesterday. They sat in chairs behind a desk next to the front door ringing things up on an old cash register and raking in the $. All I remember being told about them is that they survived the Holocaust. They closed down about the time they shuttered the movie theater.

Two wonderful old Jewish ladies, Holocaust survivors. Loved that place, they had the best doll house stuff - I remember they even had a miniature roll of toilet paper, which I of course had to have for mine. My dad probably remembers their names, though they are long dead by now. I got my Sasha dolls there - sold for hundreds on eBay a few years ago. I think they still make Hot Wheels, but not like they used to. We still have a lot of Hot Wheels, mostly older, and even the grandkids (my parents' not mine) are grown. Want to buy them? alicedegregori@outlook.com

After looking again at the map - the Bead Shop was next door to the coin shop, and in fact may still be there. I remember the Jack-in-the-Box on Rice and Kirby, and I worked at The Jalapeno Tree a couple of blocks north of that. And who can forget Moeller's Bakery, now on Bellaire at the RR tracks? University Savings was my first bank...

I believe a guy named Karl owned The Bead Shop. It was there until at least 2000, but has been a silver/gold exchange (coin store?) for a while. This drawing is Rice in 1982. I grew up a few blocks south of University, between Greenbriar and Morningside. I remember the Village Theater - saw Jaws there - and the fabulous World Toy Store next door to that, owned by grumpy Holocaust survivor ladies whom you couldn't help but love (both on University near Morningside). Baskin Robbins (aka 31 Flavors) was on the other/south side of University, I worked there when I was 13. Dairy Queen was on Rice near Greenbriar (now the revamped Hungry's). J. Rich Sports was on Rice and Morningside, British Market was across on the N side of Rice. Weingartens was on University at Kirby. This map that a friend put up on Facebook shows how it was in 1982. Oh and one more memory was Super Bowl VIII, 1974 at Rice Stadium, Miami Dolphins vs. Minnesota Vikings. I was 10 and my brothers were 8 and 5, and Greenbriar - the only street that led to the Stadium - had one lane going that direction, as it does today, although there's a middle turn lane now. Needless to say, cars were in bumper to bumper traffic for miles, conveniently passing slowly past the end of our block. Budding entrepreneurs that we were, we set up a sort of "Lemonade Stand", selling hot chocolate (it was a cold day) and snacks, that my dear mother continually replenished, until the last car went by. I want to say we made about $900 (high rollers + cute kids = big tips).

Weingarten's was in Rice Village, corner of University Blvd and Kirby.

That is the one I recall, it was gone by the mid to late 70s, just before Eckerd's became CVS. We lived a few blocks away, I was in my very early teens, pretty much all I remember is a small grocery store with a cigarette machine by the exit... These are my younger brothers in front of the store, apparently peaches were .39c /lb :)