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I was just wondering if in a city that is over half Hispanic, would the people want to go to a chain restaurant that they say doesn't serve "true" Mexican food?

Are there any Taco Bell franchises in San Antonio?

What are "baubles?"

When my girl left me, I crept into the crypt and cried.

Back when I was in high school in the 1970s, Spring Branch High School had a pair of twin brothers on its football team. I don't remember their last name. I do remember one of them went on to play for the New York Giants. Maybe someone out their knows who they were.

I just found an excellent website called "texhwyman.com." Most of you probably already know about it. Maybe the person who created it is on this forum. He did a good job of explaining highways, interstates, signs, etc.

Yes, TexasFreeway.com said that the 2004 census count showed San Antonio with 26,000 more people than Dallas. I've always thought that "biggest city" or "biggest state" meant geographical size, not population, so I looked up the land area size of each city and San Antonio (as I listed in another thread in this topic) is also larger in area than Dallas. For example, Texas is the second-biggest state in the U.S. geographically. Population-wise, California is the largest.

These are five-and-dime stores I remember that are no longer around: TG&Y, Ben Franklin, Perry's. If I'm wrong tell me.

A guy told me that he spent his honeymoon in a hotel in Houston where the third floor went into the Galleria. Is this that hotel? Or am I on the wrong category?

Times have certainly changed over the years. I remember a country song back in the 1970s by Faron Young. Some radio stations refused to play it because of the opening line: "Here I am in Dallas, where in the hell are you?" Using the word "hell" went too far for some disc jockeys. My dad told me that back in the 1940s, people reacted with shock when Rhett Butler told Scarlett O'Hara: "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn!"

I know what an MSA is, but what does CSA stand for?

Here's the land area (not including water) of the three big Texas cities: Houston--579.4 square miles San Antonio--407.56 square miles Dallas--342.5 square miles This really surprises me. I thought Dallas would always be the second biggest. You may be right about most people up there living in its suburbs being the reason why its population hasn't grown as fast as Houston's and San Antonio. Population: Houston--2.1 million San Antonio--1,296,682 (2006 estimate) Dallas--1.2 million (2006 estimate)

A photo taken of the first Village Theatre in Port Arthur, Texas in the late 1940s/early 1950s:

I was surprised the last time I looked on TexasFreeway.com. I've always known that Houston has always been the biggest city in Texas. I've always naturally assumed that Dallas was the second biggest. But that site said that San Antonio surpassed Dallas a few years ago. Amazing! I thought that Dallas was growing faster than any other city in Texas, but I was wrong. What a go, Alamo City! To what do you attribute your growth?

Whatever happened to common courtesy and respect for other people? Leaving sticky gum that has been in your mouth for other people to touch spreads germs. Most people simply don't care.

Come February 2009, if cable/dish costs are ridiculous, I'll probably not watch TV period! I'll just use my TVs to watch rented movies. With the exception of football season, regular network TV is garbage. And those cable channels have far too many commercials, despite the fact that we all have to pay anyway.

If you had been born in 1993, I might be who you're looking for. That's the only time that I was ever with a "soul sister." All I remember is that her first name was Lois. And I have an Italian surname. Really, I wouldn't mind meeting a long, lost daughter.

Maybe my arithmetic is wrong. I carried the decimal point over two numbers from the right.

On the front page of today's Houston Chronicle: "Double trouble for area drivers; Added cameras and a crackdown on illegal turns fuel a 130% rise in traffic citations." It said that there were 27,000 violations last month. At $75 fine for each ticket, the city will make $20,250.

I didn't like the Batman movie which starred Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson. But I like that first Superman movie when Lois Lane was screaming for help from the top of the Daily Planet building. Clark Kent went looking for a telephone booth to change in, but all he could find were pay phones out in the open. There's something I haven't seen since at least back in the 1980s: A telephone booth. Are there any still around Houston? Because of cell phones, any kind of a pay phone anywhere is rare. I remember the three coins slots on top: quarter, dime, & nickel.

Maybe it was crumbled Blue Cheese and not salad dressing. All I remember is that the menu said "Blue Cheese Burger" and it tasted nasty!

The heat generated from the running engine will naturally make the vegetable oil hot. I guess you could go ahead and toss some onion rings and fries into your gas tank.

Every city, big and small, has rotten drivers. Why do you think Houston holds a monopoly on road ragers?

Is Green's Bayou near Channelview?

That sounds like those Econo Lodge and other motels that have rooms called "kitchenettes."