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    What? Was Brown Bag Houston the name of a nightclub?
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    What would irritate me would be when it would start raining. Not the rain, but the windshield fogging up, you'd have to either wipe it or turn on the defrost, and that sound combined with the sound of your flapping windshield wipers made it difficult to both see and hear the movie.
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    I'm surprised that there hasn't been at least one person on this forum who hasn't gone to the Showboat Drive-in Theatre in Hockley. I haven't heard anything about that one in Porter for quite awhile; I don't know if it's still open. If someone goes to one of them, they need to tell us how it was.
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    Who remembers the old restaurant located in the Texas Medical Center called Kansas City Steak House located at 2807 Old Spanish Trail. Tell me your memories!
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    The Brazos is still open. I receive weekly e-mails from it.
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    That sounds like one of those instances where a couple got married at a drive-thru marriage place like Kipperman's, then later went to get a divorce in the Dominican Republic.
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    I just looked at the McClendon on Drive-ins.com. Wow! That place was huge! But if you'll look at the photo of the screen where the cars parked all the way at the rear, how could those people see the screen clearly? I know that I wouldn't have been able to.That's what I remember about going to the movies when I was a kid. Things were just the opposite between a walk-in and a drive-in theatre. At a walk-in, people didn't want to sit at or close to the front rows. At a drive-in, people didn't want to park in or near the rear rows. Yes, someone posted on Red Bluff's page on Drive-ins.com that when it showed X-rated movies it had a tall fence around it so the movie couldn't be seen. But someone on this forum said that he was able to see it by poking his head underneath it. I just looked up the town of Quitaque, Texas on Drive-ins.com. That theatre is called the Midway. It has one screen, the front of which is a big, painted American flag.
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    That would have an experience to have been surrounded by three screens. Back in those days, only two drive-in theatres over here had two screens: Showtown U.S.A. in Beaumont and the Don Drive-In in Port Arthur. If you'll look them up on Drive-ins.com, you'll see photos and newspaper ads that I posted.
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    That's like here in Beaumont, there are "bad" sections of town that have high-class names. Two of them are Pear Orchard and Hollywood Village. There's no way I'd walk through either one of them at night. I don't know how they got their names.
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    Here's a photo circa 1918. It's an Italian wedding from my dad's side of the family. I wonder if it was held in a place like Kipperman's? Here's a bigger photo:
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    I personally remember Bonnie & Clyde being a big hit at drive-in theatres.
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    Airwolf

    northbeaumont replied to Ashikaga's topic in Off Topic

    Yes, there was an episode where Hawke and Dominic took Airwolf up to 80,000 feet. Dominic asked Hawke why he did it. Hawke told him that he wanted to see if it could be done. The DVD sets of Airwolf seasons 3 & 4 are now out.
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    A story in today's Chronicle is not about billboards on IH-45 but on state highway 6. On page A4 it shows a photos of a billboard that reads: "Nooky's Erotic Bakery. Naughty Cakes For Nice Occasions." Have any of you ever bought a cake or a pie from there? Or some Danish pastries? There's also an article about Houston's traffic getting worse. How come that doesn't surprise me?
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    I like those small, Levitt Town-looking houses. That street photo had to have been taken no later than the 1940s. I don't think any of those cars had any kind of computer system under their hoods.
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    With the bad things I've been hearing in the news about Home Depot, it might go out of business. If it does, then some nostalgic and benevolent investors will have it demolished, clear the land off, and build a new Winkler Drive-In for those who wish to go back to a simpler time.
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    This movie played at the Santa Rosa when it came out back in 1962:
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    Someone posted an old newspaper ad which showed that this movie was playing at the Winkler Drive-In Theatre:
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    About a year ago someone said that he drove down Winkler Drive just east of where it intersects with Telephone Road. He said that there's still an old rusty sign standing that has a arrow pointing "Winkler Drive-In Theatre." Have any of you driven down there recently and are able to verify that?
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    I found some more drive-in theatre nostalgia:
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    I thought the Winkler had only one screen. Yes, I can see how an X-rated movie can be a safety hazard for a rubbernecking driver on the freeway. I would think that the screen would have been crystal clear from the Gulf Freeway. Someone on another topic said that he remembered being able to see X-rated movies through the tall fence at the Red Bluff. If you go out and take photos of what those pieces of land look like now, you can post them on Drive-Ins.Com. Someone did that about the Telephone Road Drive-In Theatre. Then and now photos appear on the Bayou 3 Drive-In Theatre in LaMarque. Someone posted some good nostalgic photos of the Sharpstown Drive-In Theatre. The page on the IH-45 Drive-In Theatre said that it had eight screens, but the photo of the marquee shows six.
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    Here's a screen image from yesteryear.
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    Yes, those days and the 15-cent Burger Chef burgers are part of a memorable past. I just remembered a burger place we went to when I was a kid. I was placing the order, the person asked me if I wanted that burger "all the way." I had to go to the car and ask my dad what that meant. He told me that it meant a burger with everything on it. Someone from New Jersey told me that up there they'll ask you if you want your burger to be "dragged through the garden."
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    That was a stupid question for me to ask. I forgot all about electric lines. Even if landline telephones were to become obsolete, poles will still be needed for those, unless someday technology advances enough for everyone to have "wireless electricity."
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    Yes, that one was a "teenage hangout" for Milby High School students.
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    With that many schools with Cypress in their names, there's bound to be big rivalries between all of them. I'm surprised that so many people live in an area that isn't in the Houston city limits.
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