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Paul Boesch lived bike riding distance away from us. He was good friends with a friend's parents and was very nice. My brother used to go to the wrestling matches atthe coliseum every week. i went a few times as well. did you or your relatives go to Milby? if so i'll bet you know my dad who seems to know everyone on east side.

I graduated from Milby as a Mid-termer in January of 1962 and also attended Bonner Elementary and Deady Junior High. We lived on Howard Drive in Meadowbrook from 1945 until 1962. After that I lived in various parts of Southwest Houston. I've been in the Spring area for over 30 years. We had good friends that lived both next door and accross the street from Paul Boesch. He had met his wife in Hawaii while in the service during WWII. I attended several neighborhood parties with them. They were both very nice people.

Was he a wrestler or something like that? if so it's him because there are pics of him in the restaurant on 518

Yes he was a wrestler and I got an autographed picture of him at the Mosk's Mens Store that was in the Rice Hotel Building on Main Street. This was back in the early 50's before he opened the hamburger place on Park Place. Paul Boesch of the old wrestling days in the Coliseum and B & W TV(remember that?) used to hold autograph sessions at Mosk's and have the wrestlers on hand. Danny McShane, Lou Thez(?), Prince Majava(?), and Duke Kiomoka(?). Big Humphrey had a replica of the little shack on wheels-just like in Dog Patch.

I was a third generation East End resident and still proud of it.

Isn't he on 518 in Pearland now?

If you like seafood AND are old enough, you might remember:

1. Jimmy Walkers (now Landry's in Kemah)

2. The San Jacinto Inn (near Battleship Texas)

3. Tomek's (we'll make the location a trivia question).

Tomek's was a steakhouse on Old Galveston Road (about where Loop 610 crosses over) and was in a log cabin type structure. The steaks were great and Mr. Tomek provided his own steak sauce in little pitchers(kind of like cream servers). His cousin or nephew was Pete Tomek who owned and operate Kaphan's on South Main and Kirby up until it closed. My family and relatives had many after church dinners there.

A few other restaurants now gone are:

The Las Vegas Inn on Telephone Road and Post Oak Road

Ship Ahoy on South Main

Youngblood's Fried Chicken(Numerous locations all over Texas)

Bertha's Mexican Restaurant(first in Pasadena,then South Main, McKinney(downtown)

and lastly on Montrose

Aunt Bea's Cafe on Broadway

The Clear Creek Inn in Kemah

Elliott's Steak House on Almeda

Manuel's Seafood on the Seawall at 61st St.

And many more....... my family ate our a lot.