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  1. devonhart
    Man, I hadn't heard that name in over 40 years. Am I nuts, or did she have a missing finger? That's the image that popped into my mind when I read her name.
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    I can remember the tail end of the 50s '58 and 59, I was only about 4.
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    Wow that's the statue in my memory, just not where and when I pictured it. Maybe I'm only half senile. Thanks for the research.
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    As I get older (52) I get quick flashes of a memory, not sure if it really is a memory. One that keeps popping up is a statue of the Charles Dicken's character Oliver Twist holding out a bowl. I see this statue somewhere outside the Delman Theater on Main Street. Is it possible that it was a promotional item when the film "Oliver" was playing in 1968? Anyhow, anyone remember this? And if not, can you recommend a good dementia doctor.
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    I remember the golf course, us kids would look for stray golf balls along the perimeter. I remember seeing "Escape from the Planet of the Apes" at McLendon in 1971.
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    I know by 1972, they were showing what would be soft porn today. My teenaged buddies and I once climbed on top of a railcar parked on the track next to the South Main. We could seen the movie fine, but no sound. A HPD patrol car came up next to us, and we thought for sure we were going to busted for trespassing. I'm not even sure they saw us, they watched a few minutes then left.
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    I found a modern view on google maps. You'll have to click full view image or "view image" feature on your browser to read the street names. The red line is the train track that ran along side the drive-in. Willowbend was the back side of the drive-in. I remember having to bicycle through a field to reach the back gate. The entrance would have been on the south side of this photo, somewhere between the train tack and Stella Link, off of South Main, which was a simple, four lane black road back then.
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    I visited once. The figures looked like who they were suppose to, and a few of them, the eyes were lined up correctly, giving them a very life like appearance.
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    I know as a kid, the adults would buy a beer from a convience store which came in a paper bag that fit suggly around the can. They would drink from the can with the bag still on it to hide the fact that they were drinking in public, a crime at the time, I believe.
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    I don't recall any skating going on. If it was there in 65, it must have been totally separate from the pool area.
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    The postcard is what postcard collectors call a "linen" which started changing to "Chromes" (slick, glossy paper) in the mid 50s and had taken over by the early 60s. I went to the gateway in the summer of 65, and one thing I learned about the "bubble" was if you had tooth decay, the water pressure down below would sure let you know.
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    I was cub scout 64-65, and the one cool thing we did was march across the astrodome field in robot costumes. Mine was a cardboard box painted silver, with no holes for my arms. Thank God I didn't trip, I wouldn't have been able to get up.
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    I was born and raised in Houston (1954-1993) and moved up to the NYC area 14 years ago. Strangely they have 7-11 and Gulf Gasoline up here. Gulf was the station I used for my little Honda 90 motorcycle and later Gulf was the first credit card I ever got. Seems weird to have Houston memories in the tri-state area.
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    He was a TV radio personality who also served on the city council.
  15. devonhart
    It was real far away, somebody built a motel in anticipation of the completion of the airport, but apparently the airport's completion date was severly delayed, the dude went bankrupt before it opened. At least that's what my fuzzy memory recalls.
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    It must have 1966, I lived just across the bayou (Sims?) from Madison (4114 Knotty Oaks Trail), a couple kids and me walked through the site while it was still under construction. In the summer of 1966, we moved over near Meyerland, I have a faint recollection of my mother telling me about a tornado hitting South Main. I think if we had still lived by Madison, I'd have stronger memory. In the late 70s early 80s, a tornado roared by the house I was living in then, when I say roar, I mean like trains and jets roaring, something I'll never forget.
  17. devonhart
    Hmmm, I loved it myself, but could see how others wouldn't. Like convience store nachos, I know its crap, but I sure did wolf it down.
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    I remember my friend and me on our banana seat, bikes, and him asking me if I wanted to try the new drink down at the 7/11. I got the coke slurpee and remember the taste like it was yesterday, I can't remember what I had for lunch yesterday, but the taste of that 40 year old slurpee, I recall quite clearly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slurpee
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    Gooney Golf
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    I too went there from 1st to 4th grade (1961-1965), then to Hobby when it was completed in 1965. We were very aware that the school was named for a "janitor" who died in a school explosion, but never got the exact details.
  21. devonhart
    Ah, that's why it was so popular with "English as a second language" students. I remember a discussion in class with Middle Eastern students that all the unmarried women in their various countries were virgins, but all of the male students claimed not to be virgins. Obvious question I didn't ask, who'd you have sex with? Married women? Each other? Animals?
  22. devonhart
    I was there 73-75 during the change to U of H downtown. Actually, liked it there. Also liked being downtown.
  23. devonhart
    Can't remember where it was, my dad took me a few times before I was drinking age, had soda, played this game where you slide a metal puck thingie into what looked like bowling pins, instead falling down, they'd raise up when you struck below them. I came across it once on a motorcycle ride and went in for grins, even saw one of my dad's friends, but they didn't recognize me.
  24. devonhart
    "Then Jim Love moved in. [Jim Love is a Houston sculptor who had hair down over his shoulders back when long hair was the exclusive property of women " In the late 50's, we lived in Montrose on Vermont, my Dad became a regular at a bar called "The Little Hut" or "The Hut." I remember he had a friend named Jim Love and he showed us a metal sculpture. Anyway, we moved to the burbs in '61, but my white collar, Dad continued to go to "The Hut," while it gradually became a Hippie Bar during the 60s. My Dad would invite these long-haired dudes and dudettes for New Years to our suburban home. A lot of them were hardcore drinkers, pot smokers and Lord knows what else. I guess because my mom met these folks individually over the years, she had no problem with these long-haired, bearded folks. I was probably the only teenager in the neighborhood, whose Dad had friends no other parent would approve of.
  25. devonhart
    Houston held the first vice presidential debate at the Alley Theatre. Mondale and Dole 1976. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/...,918442,00.html I was working at the Alley at the time. Saw Dole once.
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