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Sunset Station at night is cool, there's also a Ruth's Chris at Sunset Station as well as other various bars and restaurants.

Yes, why do you ask?

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?

Will do ... I do not know a whole lot about San Antonio, so I will definitely check out that section.

Are there any Taco Bell franchises in San Antonio?

I was a highway man...

Along the coach roads I did ride...

With sword and pistol by my side...

Many a young maid lost her baubles to my trade...

Many a soldier shed his lifeblood on my blade...

The bastards hung me in the spring of twenty-five...

But I am still alive...

What are "baubles?"

LOL..Yep, that would probably do it..

Thats one of the few 18v toys I don't have yet..

I still use a 117v skill saw most of the time.

I've got a 18v sawsall, and a 18v chainsaw though..

Either would eventually maul those boards..

Of course, if they falter, I can whip out the ole

20 inch gas chainsaw. HPD may frown on that

a bit of they happen to notice.. :/

Actually, I'm sort of surprised it hasn't long already

been broken through by someone, but I guess

it's the location being hard to get to, and the lack

of suitable power toys to aid in mauling the boards.

I wouldn't mind running my metal detector across

that area, and also the bayou. No telling what I

would find.

MK

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

Westview just east of Campbell in Spring Valley. My grandmother used to live in the area and my two oldest sisters went there. They converted it to a magnet school, I think. Not sure if it's still there.

One semi-celebrity went there; pro wrestling great Gino Hernandez (real name, Charles Wolfe).

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.

I would like to know where some of you guys have been? SA overtook Dallas in population about 3 years ago and has been talked about to death many times on this forum and others, news, etc.

I still consider Dallas to be the larger city than S/A because Dallas has a larger skyline, larger density, larger metro, and more amentities. It just feels bigger to me. The only hope for Dallas regaining the 2nd largest Texas title is the implementation of the Port in south Dallas. That should bring more jobs to that area.

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.

Sakowitz

Weingartens

U-Tote-'M

Joske's

Best

Federated Electronics

Woolco

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.

I'll be at the Westin on Friday, I will take a look around and give a report.

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!"

^^That will change in a few years when DC-Baltimore become an MSA (are a CSA now) and the Bay Area becomes a MSA (CSA now, too). Everyone will move down two notches.

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

The City of San Antonio has more square mileage than the City of Dallas.

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)

WOW, those photos are cool! A slice of life from a world long gone by.

I remember the old Village Theater before and after it closed. If I recall correctly, it's last days open days were spent showing porn flicks in the early 1980s?

I still go down to this section of town often.

Thanks, Alpha.

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?

...and you wiping your booger was not?

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.

Weird was a local program that came on channel 13 KTRK around 10:30 PM on Saturday nights. It featured horror movies and didn't have it's own home-grown material other than the opening and closing. I seem to remember the opening showing shots of Seymour's saucer (Cadet Don's alien puppet) flying in space and Weird materializing from haze and, of course, the voice.

Maybe you're thinking of the Outer Limits or something like that? I think it had an alien face in addition to the "Do not attempt to adjust your set!" intro.

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.

Hello, I have found this website repeatedly in my internet search for parental information. I was born in the haunted hospital Jefferson Davis but I think from what I've gathered on here the one that was torn down and possibly also haunted and from what I've read plaged by staph infection during the 1950's.

I am the "love child" of a black woman and white male in the 1950's almost 60's =). I didn't grow up with either parent as she was married and was whisked away to other relatives where I ended up in SF. All that I know from my birth certificate besides the haunted hospital is that their address was 2808 Hadley street. I've heard several versions of my "biological parentage" that he owned a grocery store and that he was Italian. Another version is that he is Italian and owned a clothing store.

If anyone can help me with ANYthing I would appreciate it.

Thanks

btw: my biological mother is deceased and so is my "mom." So I'm hoping that you history buffs might have any information on stores, people anything.

Thanks

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.

add 2 zeros to that. $2,025,000

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

I found a better solution -- just gun it like hell when i see the yellow. I do this at pretty much every intersection now, just for the practice.

Before, I would just sort of "lock on" to the car in front of me and cruise through the light slowly, but that seems to be the way to lose $75.

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.

My wife showed me some of first issues of Batman.

The original Batmobile had a fin on top and Batman changed in the car!

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.

Real blue cheese burgers don't have salad dressing on them. They have crumbled blue cheese.

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!

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metrop...an/3739792.html

I didn't know this was possible. Thought it was worth mentioning since oil prices have been rising.

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.

get behind me then...i maintain 70.

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

Looking for info. on Greens Bayou in the 1940s. My father was living with a family, the Clay's, when he was a teenager. Mrs. Clay owned or managed a nursery (trees & plants) in the area. Mr. Clay built their house, a large log house. At the time I'm sure it was a ruarl area north west of Houston. Does anyone remember this area?

Is Green's Bayou near Channelview?

Many of the older homes in that immediate area are still standing (amazingly).

There is a bar/grocery store a little closer in right next to the RR tracks. Owner is named Engbrock that family owned numerous properties around Near East End for decades. His brother was our across the street neighbor over in Broadmoor. The place is alive as ever, gets quite packed by mostly the nearby residents and city workers. You will still see an old jukebox with old country stars records, Patsy Cline, Hank Williams, etc. It is clearly a step back in time to old Houston days.

PS, I know I have seen the house you asked about at the beginning of this topic. There was a little cluster of neat small white houses that were rented out to singles/couples for years. Never knew the name but were very quaint and set back from OG (Old Galveston) as it was always referred to. They are still there. I knew a girl in the early 80's that rented out a cottage there. The windows in living room could open out for breeze, like a beach house. The area had a motel/cabins in the woods kind of feel to it. Good flash backs.

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