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What is the Bob Boudreaux story? Wondered that myself.

I vaguely remember Sambos. My cousin has a better memory of it than I do. I discovered an old Sambos building on the southwest corner of 290 and Mangum. I lived in the area a few years ago and would pass by it from time to time and the building appeared to me like it might have been a restuarant once. I thought maybe a Denny's but it was the shape of the sign that threw that theory off. I later discovered after seeing a picture of an old Sambos on the internet that thats what it was. It was used as a GTE Mobilenet Store eventually Verizon Wireless. The sign is also still there. It has since closed. The picture above is the same design as the one off 290

This is a cool one. The one on Reveille is one block south of where I live. The building is still there but the front has been extended outward and there are no windows. The entire building has been painted brown. The sign is still there but has been painted over and you can see real faintly that it once read "Fried Chicken" in the place where it originally said "Hamburgers". Don't know what goes on there but it appears to be some kind of business. I've seen people go in and out of there. It looks like its been redone inside. I actually was able to get into the one on Belfort. Must have been around 82 or 83. I was on my way home from school (Hartman). I noticed that the board over one of the side doors had been pulled back. So my friends and I went in. All the windows had been broken out. There was glass everywhere. Suprisingly it was still pretty intact. All the tables and most of the chairs were still there. All of the kitchen equipment was still there. The backbar still in place with the menu over it listing the food items and prices. I tried taking the letters from it but they broke as I tried to pull them off. It looked exactly like this. We didn't stay too long because I was afraid of getting caught. I wish I had looked around more. I walked around the dining area briefly. Hopped up on the counter then over to the backbar and thats as far as I went. The kitchen area was too dark for me. Here's a link to someones Burger Chef site...... and there are links to others there. JSF's Burger Chef Page

This is not quite the same type of theater but I seem to recall going to one place back around 81-82. I was about 11 or 12 so the memory is somewhat vague. I saw The Other Side of the Mountain 2 (yawn) and Back Roads (Didn't mind that one, I had a thing for Sally Field) there with my parents. It was a twin cinema. Something tells me it was off of S. Post Oak and W Belfort ...or in that area. Anyone have any idea what place that may have been?

I get it. It does look somewhat phallic....

There is an old neon sign on MLK south of 610 that says Palm Center on it. Was it for the "mall"? Always been curious to why it was placed so far from the shopping center.

My first job was at a Mr Gatti's Pizza in the Kroger shopping center on Telephone and Belfort back in 86. Its a pawn shop now. The Del-Taco on S. Braeswood was remodeled (inside) and opened as a Shipleys Donuts in 2000. (I vaguely remember walking by the Del-Taco in 85 as I walked over to my girlfriends house) I remember Der Weinerschnitzel in Houston when I was little (during the 70s). There is still an A shaped building on Martin Luther King near Van Fleet. There's another one in Pasadena on Southmore near Pasadena blvd. Piccadilly was in Northline, Gulfgate, and Northwest mall... those I know of. There was a Wyatts Cafeteria in the Gerlands shopping center on Belfort and Dunn. (70s - mid 80s) Remember GW Jrs? Godfather's Pizza (The Pizza you cant refuse) There are several buildings around town that I've seen that are identical. That look like they might have been part of a Chinese restaurant chain. There's one on Wirt south of Longpoint. Another on Berry Rd west of Jensen. Another on Edgebrook west of Theta (a doctors office) and one on MLK south of Reed Rd (that one is a convenient store now) and another on Hiram Clark and W. Orem. Anyone know which ones I'm talking about? What were they originally?

I believe the Steak and Egg building was built into the pawn shop. A couple of months back while it was under construction. I noticed they were building around it and looked like it was going to be enclosed by the new building.

The place on Telephone near Lockwood was also a Luke's Hamburgers. I grew up in that area and went there a few times.

Tigereye, whos the chick in the avatar? Looks like Jenny McCarthy.

Cool. Thanks Midtown

Yeah cool site. A nice collection of "club tapes". Of course....I already hit him up for copies. Of course the requests to all of you for 6400 tapes still stands.

Hey I wrote that!

Yeah KRBE does the Surf Shack on Richmond and Kuykendal on Saturday nights. Its nothing like the old shows. It was all about new music. This is all mainstream.

Hey can I get some copies of your 6400 tapes?

Isn't it time to take those clocks down from City Hall and replace them with digital clocks? Atomic clocks no less so they are always right......

It was also a Spanish movie theatre during the 70s and early 80s. Saw (more like sat through) a few of them as a kid. Not voluntarily of course.

Are you talking about the place next door to Numbers? I also know there was a U-Tote-Um on Edgebrook in the little strip center just before the Arlington Place Apartments. I remember going into the office when we lived there back in 1988 to pay rent and seeing an arial photo there of the complex and in it was the U-Tote-Um. It was a Stop-n-Go when we lived there. I loved when Circle K was here. To me they were a Corpus Christi thing when I was little back in the 70s. When we started seeing the Circle Ks when we went down there to see family we knew we were getting close. It was cool being able to say "I'm going to Circle K" when they were here. When family would come to Houston they'd all be like "y'all have Circle K here??. Its the same with HEB now. I'm loving that. I hated seeing Circle K go.

Wasn't that a Sears? Are you talking about where Wal-Mart is now?

Globe (later Fed Mart then Mervyns) was where Lowes stands now. Sage was off of 45 and Monroe. The building still stands but I believe its a Houston Community College now.

What I miss on The Point is The Sunday Night Retro Revival Live from the Roxy. They played alot of the 6400 and NRG stuff. That show was awesome. Got lots of tape of that... on VHS.

I have vinyl. I want the actual broadcasts of 6400. I have a few nights on tape but I'm looking to expand that collection. Can any of you burn them to CD for me? What do you want in exchange?

In fact KRBE was the innovator of the live club broadcast from the Ocean Club in Jan of 88 but 93Q took it to next level with 6400 when it debuted May 29, 1988. It had a serious impact on the Houston nightclub scene for quite some time after. It still amazes me when I listen to my tapes and think that this stuff was actually on the radio once. Will we ever see days like that again? Oh I wish..... Hey I'm looking for tapes of the Club 6400 broadcasts. If anyone has any please email me. Willing to do trades or whatever. Lets talk.