devonhart

I may be wrong but I though it was only one caller at a time so he could do all the one-on-one razzing himself.

Correct, one caller at a time on air, but while waiting to get on the air you could talk to other who were waiting also.

Then a new DJ named Alex Bennett showed up in the morning slot, and he was completely different from "Bond".

He also had a call in night show on KILT, in the midst of Vietnam you can imagine how heated it got sometimes. My buddy and I tried to call one night, never got on, but it was like a party line where you could talk to the other callers waiting to get on, at least that's the way I remember it, no guarantee I remember it correctly.

I loved that! What memories.

I especially like the Rainbo bread ad with it's "miracle polyethylene plastic bag".

Found a July 9, 1966 broadcast, edited down to a couple minutes and added photos.

Found some snaps off a facebook page.

I wonder if children today, given all the sophisticated media they are exposed to, could be as impressed by a giant crab in front of a restaurant or a visit to Kiddie Wonderland or Peppermint Park as we were. I would like to think they would appreciate it because it is so real and different. I also wonder what proportion of children today have ridden a pony compared to those of us who grew up in the 50's and 60's.

It's funny, my parent's generation talked about how they had to use their imagination as kids when they listened to radio dramas and comedies, and that TV deprived us of picturing stories in our heads. And told us that the reason we couldn't use calculators in class was that we wouldn't learn how to do math in our heads (which is probably true, I came across cashier who couldn't figure out what change to give when her register went down.)

At 55, I'm blown away by HD TV, Xbox 360, the internet, and I do wonder if you grow up with it, does real life fall short. Not fast enough, not stimulating enough. One thing though, because I play Xbox, I have something to do with my 20 something nephews when they visit.

I imagine when Samuel B. Morse invented the telegraph, and steam locomotive started barreling down tracks at 50 mph, there was no looking back.

Nice video. However, if I'm hearing right, the big shrimp was said to be at Christie's. It was at Gaido's, not Christie's.

I actually couldn't remember, so I googled and came up with this thread

http://www.twtex.com/forums/showthread.php?p=377356

which someone remembered it at Christie's. I just search here and someone recalls the crab and shrimp as being on two sides of Guido's.

Check out this one:

Changing face of American cities

Lots of great shots of new buildings in the early 1960s.

Yeah, that's the other good one, back when folks use to dress up to work downtown. Very little casual wear back then.

Foley's shows up about 50 seconds into video.

Foley's newsreel

Check the other Houston Newsreels on the page.

The only place that was hippie-cool that I recall was Village Inn Pizza, and that was because they had folk musicians who played there.

Ah,Village Inn, that's one of two places I saw a streaker in 1974. A dude came running in stark naked, then ran out. The other time was at the Stella Link Jack-in-Box drive thru, naked guy jumps out of the car ahead of us, then jumps back in and peels away.

I am curious about the HPD officer with Kitirik, do you remember who that was? I remember Sgt Ken Garnett. HPD Motorcycle Patrol with the patch over his eye. He was one of the major influeneces for my trying to get into LE work at one time.

I remember it as Officer Ken Garnett in the mid 60s, there was a Lt. Kenneth R. Garnett in a 1974 Texas Monthly google entry, so I imagine he got promoted through the years.

kitirik

Nice job....though it was much more than a "hippie" destination. It appealed to a cross-section of visitors and shoppers.

I guess I didn't get my point across--among the ice cream, candles and hand blown glass, i.e., mainstream culture, was a counter culture shop. Which I thought was unusual as a kid, there was Montrose and downtown where the hippies were, and there was suburbia where the straight folks were. This weird mix happened at our house a couple time a year, my Dad's friends at his long-time hangout, a bar in Montrose (the Hut) had gone "hippie" and he would invite the long hairs for New Years Day to our Willow Meadows home.

Inspired by the Westbury thread here, I googled like crazy to find photos.

how can I search youtube for your other houston memory videos - i saw one today about majestic/lowes

I only have one other memory video. It's about the South Main Drive-In.

Wow!! What a trip to the past... my past. It brought back a lot of memories of the fashions and cars of that era.

I thought it was a great find when I came across it on youtube. I was born in 54, so our home movies of me as a toddler looked

a lot like these, cars and clothes, and hairstyles.

Where was the Yacht Restaurant?

I wondered the same thing, the video says South Main, but I can't remember it. Found a postcard online of it.

There's several interesting shots of 50s Houston, cars, clothes, parades, movie box office, and a quick shot of Yatch restaurant on South Main.

All the cute babes would be in their 70s now.

http://www.youtube.c...Ho8RPVxdfo&NR=1

Inspired by the Houston monorail topic, I put together a little video.

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=drcDfyfs7IU

I decided to start a new topic post a youtube video on this topic.

Hey, good stuff! I never made it to Kitirik's carousel but a friend of mine did.

And, yeah, for Houston in the 1960s that cat suit was pretty racy.

I didn't even notice Kitirik was hot at the time, it was watching the kids grabbing all the pennies they could hold that entranced me.

Whipped out a little video, stealin' internet photos, a little video from youtube.

http://www.youtube.c...u/0/jF0InneA08k