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I'm very interested. Are you looking for a place to link the pictures as well as storage?

In the early 60s, my brother worked in the one @ Rice and Kirby. It was pretty much a one-man operation. Great drinks!

It's not like Rice has huge signing bonuses/scholarships for football! Best go-cart driving anywhere, and the close-in parking was FREE (damn you Astros, Oilers, Rockets, Texans!). I always went to the games to watch "The Mob" band play. Notice I didn't say "Marching" band. Best battles of the football bands were Rice vs A&M. Quite a few altercations. It was great.

Thanks for all that history! Orange Julius anyone?

I still have a full can of "JW" brand coffee.

Thanks for the info! I'll have to wait to order online. By the way, do have a link or phone number?

Hey, if God wanted us to walk around naked, we would have been born without clothes! oops....wait a minute... never mind.

I hung out at The Deputy. Great burgers. Great car hops! It was just down the street from The Jester, Byron's BBQ, Sin Alley. 2Ks was across the street from the Galleria. Heading toward Sage was the Luau with their flaming fountain and pretty good Polynesian food - right across the street from the funeral home. Sonny Looks Sir Loin Steakhouse on Westheimer (and downtown) with the knight who used to greet the customers on horseback in full knight's regalia holding a lance. I see that Brenners has taken over the restaurant Rainbow Lodge in Memorial Park. Brenners was a really good place for beef. Ye Olde College Inn on Main, Kellys on South Main. Gaidos on S. Main, Red Lion. Clubs having good food - Lakeside Country Club, Glen McCarthy's The Cork Club(and wild game dinners), The Petroleum Club, The Roundtable. The restaurant that was poolside at the Shamrock(Eggs Benedict and Mimosas @ Sunday Brunch) Thanks Glen. So many clubs and restaurants!

Coleman lanterns became famous almost overnight after coming out with an iron that didn't need a fireplace or electricity. It worked just like the lanterns in that you poured in "white gas" from a bottle and then pumped it up for an hour's use. It was cheap and a very small percentage of households had electricity after the turn of the century. BTW we now call this "camping".

Thanks for the great pictures!

I remember doing retail and had this couple I had helped, return to the store and ask for my manager. They proceeded to tell him what a great job I had done and they would be coming back based on this experience(!). They said "If you have the right to complain, you have the obligation to commend". That was over 30 years ago and I've never forgotten that experience.

There are a few other considerations than just hiding out. Air filtration, waste water, fresh water, food, those pesky zombies, etc. By the way, you can keep up your skills with a little extra practice. link to trap These are portable and cheap, just don't miss if you set it up in the living room. A new feature name may help gain acceptance such as, Zombie Excluder Device or something similar.

Yeah, you have to do the descending whistle with that one.... Mr. Fringe, I think the desks were made of "black box" material after all the testing in the classrooms. sevfiv - I think you're right about Jackwood.

If you can remember "Duck and cover" you can probably remember bomb shelters as a selling point for houses. I remember visiting a family friend's house in Bellaire (I think it was on Jack street) and touring their bomb shelter. It was fully stocked with food and medicine (he was a doctor) and thinking how lucky he was to have one. Then I thought about the scenario of being the only family to survive the nuclear holocaust and what kind of life that would be. Later, I started finding more and more shelters. The ones downtown were marked CD for Civil Defense and many buildings converted an unused room or two in the basements. You were supposed to tune your AM radio to either 640 or 1240 Mhz. If you see a 50s or 60s radio you'll see the "CD" marked at those frequencies. I remember the Friday siren tests at noon downtown. Pretty chilling thinking about it now.

I think panty hose would have been a little too progressive for us kids back then. Besides, the patent on panty hose wasn't issued until 1979. That does seem weird now...

As a kid, my first savings account was established at the First State Bank of Bellaire right on Bellaire Blvd. What was confusing was the name. What was the capitol of the State of Bellaire? Is Fin & Feather still there? I knew a kid (no, it wasn't me!) who took a warm can of vegetable soup to the balcony of the theater and then when it got dark, made some regurgitation noises, and then dumped the can over the rail. Yes, he got caught.

Guys, the only problem is that the people who own it, don't know they own it.

When one of the new tenants moved into a well established building renovation, they decided to paint over a rather large 6' X 8' original mural on the wall and cover up the only "hippie art" in the area. I'm not sure after all these years that the current owners would want it published or revealed. It's also a shame that the remodeling company didn't know who Peter Max was. Would you tell? Suggestions? Advice?

I was dream-splicing Bordens into this because you could tour the Carnation plant (in the 60s) and then buy "hand-packed" ice cream at the end of the tour, which is actually a better deal than a tour of of the Bluebell plant. Thanks for the terrific picture. I remember this one pretty vividly after the anhydrous (meaning no water) ammonia truck that super-novaed on 59 in front of the Houston Post building under the 610 overpass. As the cloud of ammonia drifted down the freeway, it sucked all the moisture out of the grass and palm trees instantly killing them and turned everything dark brown. Looked like a wide area death ray. Whew!

I thought the Bordens on Waugh(South of Allen Pkwy) was still there, no? The Bordens on Louisiana was on one of the streets Gail Borden laid out and named. Thanks for the info!

They wouldn't do anything dangerous like that to us kids, would they? .....scuse me, it's time to play with my Lawn Darts. ps: If you pulled her neck, she would dispense an egg.

Lots of Gar in Buffalo Bayou behind Kinkaid. Kids would pull in 6 and 7 footers. You need to zoom in on those teeth!

A Poll Parrot cricket? I am in awe....

My wife showed me some of first issues of Batman. The original Batmobile had a fin on top and Batman changed in the car!

Maybe it gave all who were exposed the power of superior intellect(?). Or, maybe just a good sense of humor. Krupp & Tuffy - The German Industrialist and his cat?