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Here's a couple of Class Photos from 1964 and 1966, respectively. Rummel Creek Elementary School. Our Culture was pervasive. We were all so the same! Miss Brigg's Class.pdf Mrs. Killough's Class.pdf

Reggae'd away many Thursdays at the Caribana in the early eighties!

My first car was also a 1959 TR-3, as a Junior at Westchester High. I named her Luseal and had personalized plates with that name. if you owned a TR, you know they leaked like crazy. Luseal was handed down from my sister after she got a new Triumph GT-6+. I truly loved that car, and since then there's been no other to compare to the fun of driving a TR-3. She spoiled me. Along the way, a fried wiring harness garaged Luseal at my Dad's house, College, work, marriage, kids, no room in my garage, etc. she slipped thru my fingers and we had to let her go. A guy in Pecan Grove took her in, did a body-off restoration, and won some car shows with her. I haven't seen one on the road in years, but I think, one day, when the kids are out of College, I might go on a quest to find another.

I'd love to have one of these. Name a price. I'll come pick it up. Gregorypropps@sbcglobal.net Thanks.

Danjo "The Panjo" managed the Town & Country Store through the last half of the Seventies, before he moved over to San Felipe. He was a great Manager, but he should'a been a Stand-Up Comic...Funniest guy I ever met. I worked a few weekends with him at San Felipe during the early eighties, but have no idea what happened to him after Panjo's closed for good. He would nearing 60 now. If you happen to know of him, tell him "Shorty" sez "HEY!"

I remember seeing it, but never went in. I wasn't a "Disco Duck". Seems like it was near Hillcroft maybe? Near The Sports Page? Dante's? Shoot, I can't remember.

Those Ice Cream Bars you crave were "Sidewalk Sundaes". I must of ate a jillion of 'em. They had a gold wrapper with a little coupon on the back, which could be combined with four of five more coupons and a couple of quarters, and when you sent it off to a P.O. Box in Englewood, NJ; then about the time you'd forget about sending it off in the first place, you'd get your Silver Photo ID Bracelet with the Twisto-Flex Memory Band, (or some such thing) back in the Mail. It would be waiting for you right there on the Kitchen Table when you got home from school. The initial excitement would soon give way to abject fear, because you bought it to give to a Girl, so maybe you and her could "Go Steady". It seemed so easy when the "Photo ID Bracelet" was just a picture on the Ice Cream Bar wrapper. I might still have one, lurking in the Attic. ''You tell 'em U-Totem." Leroy Melcher's Ad Agency

PITTSBURGH!: Go look in your personal messages.

Funny; this thread is what brought me to HAIF as well...it popped up while I was searching for something completely different. I've been to the "Blue Light Cemetery" when I was in High School...probably 1972 ... I remember it as being surrounded by a locked wrought iron fence, a couple of really big pine trees at the edges, and some marble headstones inside the fence. It wasn't too far north of Patterson Road. And west of the Bridge. I never knew about the markings until this thread. Eldridge used to wind back and forth between I-10 and Clay. When it was straightened out, the old roadbed was fenced in and left to go back to "seed". And an unusual sidebar: Back then there used to be a little "Ice House" at the south-east corner of I-10 and Highway 6. I think it was called "The Addicks Store" or something like that. They sold cold Beers, and Fishing Tackle and LIVE Minnows. Who knows what went on behind the Dam? Go talk with Walt Golbow at Golbow's Wrecker Service in Katy. I'll bet he can tell you more about the town of Addicks. His family has been in the area for years and years.

Around 1972-1974 Mountain Park really was a MotoCross track. Typically, the races were Friday Nights under the Lights. I remember going there to watch some friends of mine race.

Panjo's Town & Country: Saturday, February 24, 1974. It was my Eighteenth Birthday and I was in charge of the Pizza ovens: Cooking that Legendary Pizza for a packed house of West-Houston Suburbanites and their kids. The kitchen crew was all High School kids, and most of us were half-drunk or better. Like every Saturday, we had temporairaly rerouted the Beer lines in the Walk-in cooler from the back of the wall taps to an empty cheese canister, and siphoned off a couple of gallons of Schlitz Draught. You could just dip a cup into the barrell when you went to get more Pepperoni. Chug-a-Lug, Chug-a-Lug. The "Piano/Banjo" (Piano + Banjo = Panjo) combo that night was Paul Buskirk and Marianne. Paul and his Wife were exceptional musicians and Paul is credited with writing the song "Night Life" with Willlie Nelson. What they were doing playing at Panjo's, I'll never know, but he found out it was my birthday, and had the entire dining room crowd stand and face the kitchen to sing "Happy Birthday" to me. It's one of my favorite Panjo's memories. Towards the end of the night, I began to burn the Pizzas, and they had to call in a Relief Oven-Man. And I went to get more Pepperoni.

Mr. Barnes, you are absolutley correct. What was I thinking? Thanks for the correction.

I think you are right. Texaco would make more sense, with the Pegasus Mascot and all.

I think that Gulf slogan gave way to another involving a mule and the line "The Gas with Kick". They gave away gold plated tie-tacks fashioned like two horse-shoes...there-in the "Kick". I'm not positive about the slogan, but I am about the tie-tacks, because I still have one. This slogan came about in the early to mid sixties, probably to compete with Humble Oil's "Put a Tiger in your Tank", and the accompanying tiger tails they gave at Humble gas stations, so you could hang them out of your gas door, like you had shoved a real tiger head-first down the gas pipe. Where was PETA back then? HA!

HAIF, did you know about the Old Settlers Cemetery in Pearland at 4499 Halik Street?

I used to have a Vac-U-Form toy about the same time these Mold-A-Ramas were popping up. The Vac-U-Form really was dangerous and would burn the snot out of you if you weren't careful. Still, they were lots of fun. But not nearly as much fun as the craft/toy sets that would let you melt lead so you could cast and paint your own toy soldiers. Now that was exciting!

That's it! Mold-A-Rama! I had a couple of the Dome and one from the Humble Building, but who knows what happened to them. Thanks for the update.

Ok, this is some extreme trivia, but think hard, somebody's bound to remember: When the Astrodome first opened, in the years when the Ushers wore gold dresses and little pill-box hats, there were some machines in the lower level lobbies, that made souvenir plastic injection molded models of the Astrodome. These machines were like giant Vac-U-Form toys that would spit out a warm, two-inch tall, by five-inch diamater model of the Dome. All for probably about a Dollar. Comments? Pictures? Anybody?

I drove past the restored Tee-Pee Motel on my way to Bay City last month. They really took me by surprize. Looked Awesome!

I was a Panjite in the mid-to-late seventies. Worked at the Town & Country location while in High School and beyond. I could write a book about what went on there. We had loads of fun. Panjos was originated in Corpus Christi, TX by two men; Paul Fair and Gus Deere. (I'm not positive of the spelling of these names). Their first expansion to Houston was the Town and Country store, then they added the others. Gus passed away in the early 70's. Paul continued the business until he retired, to Rockport. There is a Panjo's there in Rockport, but I don't think Paul Fair owns it anymore.