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There used to be a Panchos in Bellaire on Bissonnet (in the center where CiCi's pizza is). It was a great place for Tex-Mex.

It's definitely gone from a blue collar town to a white collar town over the last 20 years but that's what's happening to all inner loop communities.

I need to add some of those groups to my Summit web page. If you guys think of any more groups that played there, let me know. Summit venue

Couldn't agree more. CWP is a joke. Why ANYONE would pay $50-$100 to go sit on the the grass with the heat, humidity, and mosquitoes to see a concert, I'll never know. I wonder why they never have concerts at Hofheinz Pavilion anymore? Not big enough I guess.

The Summit was a great venue for concerts before it became the "Godatorium". I hated seeing Houston let it go. The acoustics in the new Toyota Center are awful. Right now Houston does not have a decent place for concerts. That's a shame.

I agree it probably was over-rated but it did have some classics like "Nightmare at 20000 Feet" with William Shatner.

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Great post. I had forgotten about that suite. I got to tour it in the 70's. Very tacky and definitely not worth the money they were asking. There were much better rooms in other Houston hotels for half the price but it was unique.

Farrells and Pipe Organ Pizza would embarrass the heck out of you. At Pipe Organ Pizza they had staff dressed as Disney characters that would make you go onstage and dance with them if it was your birthday. I'll never forget taking a good friend there for the first time on his 19th birthday and watching him unsuccessfully try to fight off Mickey and Minnie as they dragged him to the stage and made him dance to their stupid birthday song. Ahh. Good times.

Yep. Right down the street from Wienerschnitzel.

Seems to me the real "hipsters" would have been down the street at the Shamrock.

I thought the Purple Cow was on the west side of Hillcroft near Bissonnet. Or am I thinking of something else?

Never knew that about Bob Newhart. Very cool. Rice U is in the process of building it's multi-story Collaborative Research Center on that site now.

Anyone remember South Texas Junior College in the old Merchants And Manufacturers Building (M&M Building)? It was taken over by U of H in the mid 70's. Have great memories of that old place. PE was a required elective and since there were no outdoor areas available our PE was limited to playing ping pong in the basement. It was not air conditioned down there and we would raise the large roll up doors for air circulation. Train tracks ran right alongside the building and we would see the occasional hobo walking by. Can't say I received the best education there but I did become a very proficient ping pong player. I would like to get more history about the old Merchants and Manufacturers Building. All I could find was this little blurb on U of H's site. The address would have been 1 Main Street, Houston, TX 77002, or written as One Main Street. M&M

I believe they are talking about the city gym that sat on the same block as city hall and the police department. It was torn down and rebuilt about 10 years ago.

Man those are great. Makes my few posters look pretty pitiful.

Sorry. I should have clarified that. In the old days they had these framed wooden boxes hung on the wall in the actual ticket booth that held the tickets.

Rice University tore down the Village theater about 15 years ago. (Rice owns virtually all the land in the Village). I salvaged the ticket boxes from the theater as they were demolishing it. It was never a very fancy theater but still a good place to see a flick.

My dad has told me stories about an old ice house/bar near Meyer's Speedway located near South Post Oak Road near South Main Street. The ice house was called Fred's Shed. Does anyone recall this place? I'm looking for pictures. Thanks!

Since we are on the subject of this neighborhood, anyone remember the name of the club on Haviland St (behind the apartments) near the railroad tracks. Had a big outdoor area that often had live music. It was a pretty cool place in the 70's.

Sometimes the truth hurts. Unfortunately these days this seems to apply to all areas of Houston,

The first house my wife and I bought in the mid 70's was only a few blocks from that center. We watched it build up then go downhill. You have to look at the people that gradually moved into the area to see why everything in the area went downhill. In the 70's the apartments in the area were new and catered mostly to young middle class folks. Like every area in Houston dominated by apartments, things change eventually for the worse and during the 80's the whole area became a ghetto. We got the hell out in the 80's. Got way to scary, even in our formally quite peaceful neighborhood. Still wouldn't go over there without packing a weapon and wearing body armor.

Briarmeadow would have been a ways off but as I remember they would at least be in the right direction to see the screen.

And don't forget back then we had to ANSWER the phone to see who was calling. How on earth did we survive?

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