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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.

My first car was a 1959 Triumph TR3 when I was a Senior at St Thomas HS in 1964......it was the only sports car on campus.

I'd love to have one of these. Name a price. I'll come pick it up.

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Thanks.

I worked at the Panjo's on San Felipe from 1983-1985.

I left to join the Navy for the next 5 years and never returned to Houston.

Panjo's was a great place to work, and I still have not found a place that makes a better sandwhich than the 'Brian Burger".

Speaking of Danjo, he was a great manager.

He rode a Harley before it became a status symbol, and he looked just like a freaking viking.

They could have made a sitcom from all the characters that went through that place.

I am sorry to hear that Bill died. I agree that he was probably buzzing all the way to the end.

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."

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Hey! I am also a Panjos alum - Town and Country - 1977-1980 and then San Felepe - 1983-1985. I was known as the Yankee from Pittsburgh in the 70s. Went to Memorial High - all the kids in T&C were from Westchester. What a crew! There was Dan the Manager - hard riding Harley type, Scott V - Scott turned me on to Jimmy Buffett - and I still am a huge fan, Mark "Mars" V, Dave P, Harry S - "Harry Pssy" Guru, couple of young guys that were brothers and twins - forget their names, Bill C - Who killed himself on the way home one night (ran into the back of a semi on the Katy freeway - I think he was trippen big time), many lovely gals from Westchester that worked there on and off - (Thanks Janice for attacking me in the walk-in cooler) . I have always wanted to set up a panjos alum site - this is as close as it gets - I sometimes wonder what happened to these folks - did some grow up and go to college and get real jobs? (I did .... I think ;-) ) how many are dead? In jail? There are too many stories to tell in one post with respect to the fun we had while working there. I think every bad habit I still have to this day started from Panjos!

PITTSBURGH!: Go look in your personal messages.

This thread was the one that made me a constant lurker at HAIF, so I'm really interested to get some closer. I've been out to Patterson many times (haunted bridge, tapping on the car, cemetery, all that) and I really am interested in the former Addicks town. I think it's kind of incredible that the town of Addicks is still used to describe the area when there is literally zero proof of its existence left. I too have searched online for information about it, and found next to nothing except it was abandoned to make room for the flooding. One thing I always found interesting as well is near Eldridge, almost right to it, is a side road to the left side when facing Eldridge on Patterson that goes nowhere. It's just a short piece of road right into the woods. Probably "old Eldridge" or something like that, but so odd that that track of road is still sitting there.

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.

Pegasus? Don't you mean Mobil?

Spent over 30 years at Texaco, never any Pegusus'........

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

I remember that very well. I also recall that they had a pair of horseshoe stickers that were made of a kind of orange or red foam to advertise their gas.

But, for some reason, I associate the "kick" campaign with Texaco, not Gulf.

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

Yes, it did. And there was another time when Gulf came up with a stupid, failed slogan which went something like this: "Gulf...the gas with guts."

Now admit it. Doesn't that sound just plain stupid? It's no wonder that it failed. It might have contributed to Gulf's demise.

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?

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?

Those are Mold-A-Rama machines - there used to be one on the observation deck of the Humble Building (now the Exxon Building) which I posted about previously in this thread.

There's what appears to be a comprehensive list of Mold-A-Rama figures here, and the Houston Astrodome is on the list, but I've been unable to find a picture of one anywhere on the net.

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?

VERY cool! Thanks!

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

In addition to the one there & in Rosenberg, I think I recall seeing one up in Humble and maybe one off 290 around the Cypress area. Maybe they're trying to move back toward the city at this point.

I also saw a mention of Panjo's Pizza... A friend of mine took their kid to a birthday party at a Panjo's in Rockport maybe a year or two back, so was Panjo's a chain at one point or was the place down there somewhere that just decided to use the old name?

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.

Seeing certain signs along the road also "struck a chord" with me during my childhood travels in the back seat of the car. In Houston, I think I remember seeing a big neon Levitz Furniture sign. Others on this forum said that Levitz is no more.

I also remember the old Ramada Inn sign which had the rotund innkeeper holding a long horn with a flag attached to it that said Ramada Inn. Not only is there no longer a Ramada Inn logo, their signs simply have only the word Ramada.

In Pasadena I remember a big oil storage tank with the Sinclair dinosaur logo.