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TikiOwl

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  1. Thanks for the Rebelette picture as I dated a Rebelette all through my time at Westbury. Remember in uniform they must sit on the right hand side of the rear view mirror.

    I concur with Tana about the view most of us had when attending Johnston (named for Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston) and Westbury, though by my time (graduated in 1968) integration of HISD had begun and I think most of us realized that the school mascot was probably not a good thing.

  2. Nice to see the picture of the South Main Drive In on the video. I grew up in Willowbend in the 50's (my folks built their house in 1956) & 60's and remember going to the the Drive In many times. I also remember the controversy when the Willow Creek Little League built their new complex across South Main (Homeco Field IIRC) and the Drive In complained because of the lights for the fields bled over to their screen. They eventually raised the fence on the South Main side quite a bit higher to shut out the light. Also remember trying to get a glimpse of the movie as you drove on Willowbend as you passed the Drive In.

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  3. Spent a few New Year's Eves at Liberty Hall as well as catching Kinky Friedman and the Jewboys. Before one concert he and the Jew Boys performed a whole set on KPFT for Huey Meaux which I recorded on an old reel-to-reel that I need to find. The Kinkster spent a good amount of time kidding several Baylor Med students who showed up at the studio.

  4. I know it had a drug store, because my friend and I would ride our bikes there to get sodas - that was around 1960-61. It might have been a Dugan's.

    Trampoline centers were really popular in the summer of 1960. There was one on Beechnut close to Post Oak - across from Meyerland. I believe that the one in Westbury might have closed by the time I moved there in the fall of 1960.

    Sometime around 1959 there was a trampoline center roughly where the SP tracks cross Willowbend just west of where Mel's BBQ was several years later (Mel who owned the BBQ was ok, but his front man Bunny was a great guy) but on the north side. If I recall (and it's been a long time) it was called Jumpin Jimminy or something similar. It didn't last to long and I remember my parents didn't want me to go since the trampolines were little squares with a hard (wood or cement?) square surrounding each.

  5. In the early 60's Willow Creek Little League that had been playing behind Red Elementary was given land across South Main from the South Main Drive Inn and Homeco Field was built. Due to the lights from the baseball fields the Little League had to pay to have a large sheet metal wall built to keep the lights from disrupting the movies.

    Growing up in Willow Bend I remember driving up Willow Bend Blvd and always checking out what movie was playing on the South Main Drive Inn screen.

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