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    The national news said not if, but when, oil will hit $100 a barrel. Who would be able to "joy ride" when that time comes?
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    Drive-ins.com has a photo of the South Main DI from the front. If you had the street address, you could enter it on GlobeExplorer.com and it might show a recent photo of the remnants, unless, like the Winkler DI, something was built all over the site (there's a Home Depot where the Winkler was).
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    I assume that that Shamrock Hotel no longer exists. If so, when was it demolished? What street was it located on?
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    On TexasFreeway.com, there are some black & white photos of the tunnel being built, the opening day in 1953, and when it was being taken apart, piece by piece. There's also some of each entrance and one on the inside. I remember the sign just before you'd enter: "No horn, no lights, no passing."
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    I found a website called "milebymile.com." Look at it sometime. It shows photos of the whole length of interstate highways. I liked the photos of the 137-mile stretch of IH-37 from Corpus Christi to San Antonio. It shows interstate photos from all states. Looking at them makes you want to travel. But the current high gasoline prices throw a wrench into that notion.
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    I remember the differences between El Chico and Monterrey House being Monterrey House was a small building located right on a busy main street. El Chico was a little fancier, located in malls, the buildings were bigger, a little more elegantly furnished than Monterrey House. El Chico mostly had waiters, Monterrey House mostly had waitresses. Now I can't remember if Monterrey in this usage (not the cities in California and Mexico) has one or two "r's." Also, you can tell by the body styles of the cars in the top photos that that was in the late 1950s/early 1960s. That building looks elegant for way back then.
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    In another topic, I think it was Subdude who posted some nice nostalgic penny picture postcards.
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    Yes, I've liked either privately-owned restaurants or local "chains" that have only about three or four restaurants in a particular area.
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    Oh, c'mon, you can do gooder than that!
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    To me, Mexican restaurants are becoming so much like pizza places: so numerous, so many chains, that the food is no longer good and unique.
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    On Cheech & Chong's "Los Cochinos" album on the "Sergeant Stadanko" track, he was speaking at "Our Lady of 114th Street School."
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    Back in the 1930s/1940s, my great-grandfather was a deputy constable in Galveston. Do any of you know of a place that might still have a record of him?
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    Less than one percent of drivers are "courteous." I heard that the city buses in Houston run 24/7. If I lived in Houston, I would seriously consider not owning a vehicle. No maintenance, no high gasoline prices, no insurance, etc.
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    I can't believe it! When I logged on, I was going to ask if Oak Farms milk is sold in Houston. I know that Borden is. This I saw this thread. It answered my question. I seem to remember a big neon Borden sign of Elsie the Cow somewhere in Houston.
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    Is Westbury High School in Class 4A or 5A? It sounds like one that's near Lamar High School.
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    There's a good article about the history of drive-in theatres in Wikipedia. It said that back in the 1940s/1950s, because a lot of young people didn't go to actually see the movie, that drive-in theatres were called "passion pits" by the parents who didn't approve of them.
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    According to Drive-ins.com, that DI in Porter is still open. I understood that the initial owner had some financial problems and now someone else owns it and changed its name.
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    The hero of The Battle of Sabine Pass in 1863, Lieutenant Dick Dowling, was a Houston saloon-keeper. His bar might have been the oldest or one of the oldest in Houston.
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    That Sheraton Hotel that Subdude posted the photos of might be on the spot where one of these buildings once stood. Or maybe the Hyatt Regency.
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    These are good collector's items. The Jewish synagogue's onion-shaped domes make it look like that St. Basil's Church in Moscow, Russia. I assume that all of these buildings are gone. I wonder what is now occupying the spots of ground where they once stood?
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    I've noticed that some names are common among theatres. The Majestic is common. On CinemaTour.com, you'll see many theatres with the same name. There is/was also a Santa Rosa, I think in California.
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    There used to be a Color Tile store on 11th Street in Beaumont. It probably fell victim to big, national home improvment chains like Home Depot and Lowe's.
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    I went to the Village Theatre in Port Arthur when I was a kid. Here's a photo of it in the 1940s. Lightning struck in it the 1960s. It was eerie driving by it and seeing that pile of rubble. It was rebuilt into another one-screen. In 1974 it was converted into a three-screen. It closed down in 1986 and was demolished. An H.E.B. Pantry now stands in that spot.
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