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    The Jamail family all lived along Fairdale west of Ulrich Rd. (now Fountain View). I remeber as a child breaking my collar bone at one their backyard parties after being chased and pushed down by a couple of the Jamail girls. (they were mean).
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    It was just a few years ago that the beer & wine selections in Krogers were still refered to as and rung up at the registers as "HenPil" items. It appears that the Texas liquor license required this obscure situation to continue on for years after Kroger bought out Henke & Pilot.
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    Yes, San Jacinto ES was closed this year and Alamo ES is being considered to close next year. GISD is losing enrollment.
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    Has anyone ever sat on that concrete bench facing Fannin St. at this location? If you look underneath, it actaully serves as a ventilation for some kind of electrical gear. Real cumfy! Don't get too relaxed!
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    It sits on Hermann Park property, and not part of the hospital.
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    And what's up with those smells? Somebody in there is cooking multi-cultural something for dinner!
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    Exactly....that's why the floors don't line up.
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    My father ran the plumbing crew during the construction of this building. It was 1974-75. The plumbing contractor was the Sam P. Wallace Co. which my father worker for at that time. I remember visiting the site a few times during construction and walking around inside the unfinished units. I couldn't imagine anyone paying $67,000. to live in one of those at the time. Whow! how silly of me.
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    There was also a number you could call (think it was 999-9999 or something like that) and you could talk on the "grapevine" to total strangers. It allowed 5 or 6 people at a time to talk with each other. A service message would come on every few minutes asking you to hang up and redail, but it was real cool back then to get "on-line". This was like our 60's version of the "Internet". don't foget 78 SUnset (West Houston west of Post Oak) and 68 OVerland (Houston Heights)
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    The orphanage was probably the Burnett Bayland Orhpanage on Chimney Rock Rd. These students would have diffinently gone to Jane Long Jr. High. The old structures were torn down in the early 60's, and new buildings built on the southwest corner of the county property, Clarewood and Alder (I think). Most of the property is now county offices and park facilities. The orginal buildings were quite impressive, large spanish style dormitories, similar in look to the Ft. Crockett buildings, still standing in Galveston.
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    Now that's what I remember.....Thank you Croberts. I thought I was crazy. No one else remembers this for some reason.
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    Further out South Main at Fondren, there was an experimental monrail built with an overpass over Fondren. This was about 1960 or 61 at the latest. Fondren was a single lane shell road then. Does anyone else remember this? Curiously, the cover of the Houston"Yellow Pages" during that period showed a monorail in place at Houston International Airport (Hobby), although I never remember seeing it there. Tell me I'm not crazy!
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    No, not Moody Gardens.......it was Sea World in San Antonio!
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    This is a great link. I've scrolded through it quickly and I think I see the old Grady School house in there. It was a single story and located on the corner of Westheimer and Post Oak Rd. were Neiman Marcus now stands. For years before the Galleria was built it was used as a Purina Feed Store (that's the part I remember). The new Grady School on Sage Rd. was built in the 50's. All the snooty Tanglewood kids went there.
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    This backs up to the old Robertson Public Warehouse. The warehouse's location and the building you are talking about on the south side of Buffalo Bayou is why Southern Pacific had to build the railroad bridge across the bayou way back when. The wooden bridge was torn down not so long ago. The concrete abuttments are still visible on either side of the bayou if you look close enough. The bridge was kind of a landmark.....too bad!
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