readam

On 5/17/2017 at 8:21 AM, FilioScotia said:

There was another afternoon kid show on Houston TV at the same time Kitirik's show was on KTRK in the mid and late 50s. Looney Town was on KPRC and the host was "Uncle Bert" Lynn. His show was just like Kitirik's - nutty fun and games with kids and Warner Bros Looney Tunes cartoons. Lynn owned a music and musical instrument store in southeast Houston and he was a skilled steel guitar player.

 

He used that talent in his show playing his "talking" steel guitar he named "Stringy". He talked to the guitar and made it respond to him with funny sounding steel guitar riffs. Another gimmick was letting kid viewers be members of 'Looney Town" by writing him a letter and asking for a membership card. Ahem. I was a card-carrying citizen of Looney Town.

 

Lynn wasn't a young man at the time, so Looney Town went off the air in the late 50s, probably because the high energy it demanded got to be too much for him. Kitirik's show outlasted it by many years.  

 

I don't remember a clown on his show. but it's probable that he had one.  A live kid show like that is extremely hard for just one person to do. The host needs a foil like a clown to help entertain the kids and keep the show moving. 

Bobby Lahr(sp) was Bert Lynn's assistant and he went on to work for Truth or Consequences out in LA.  We had Mr. Caboose on Channel 11 in the mornings in the early 60s, Milk Drop Moe in the afternoons, I don't remember the channel, Saturday mornings there was an auction program  MCed by Dick Gotlieb I think sponsored by a Dairy company

There was a Chi Chi's on Fondren south of Braeswood and North of W Bellfort, across the street from The Foundry if memory serves me.  The chain was started by Max Magee a wide receiver of the Green Bay Packers

Gulfton  was changed for a pretty important reason....Texaco's Research facility was located in that area between Post Oak ( W Loop) and S. Rice.  Tthey changed the name to Fournace running from Rice to Newcastle ( Avenue A).

Fed Mart in the Bellaire Theatre center was still in operation in the early 70s.  First one I ever saw was the one on Griggs and OST

I just realized I got my streets completely wrong in an earlier post ( Oct. 2014)  Evans Music was in a small shop on the corner of Kelvin and UNIVERSITY not Rice.  It moved across the street to the strip center on Unversity than ran from Kirby to Morningside...My Dad's American Legion Post 77 was on Kelvin near Amherst on the East side next to a Toy store...Yes the Meyer Bros was on Kirby and University that now houses HPBooks with the circular stairway...I am stuck however on the name of a large store/ building that was located between Times and Amherst, west of Kelvin.  It was located in an area that was East of the notorious Cinema West.  Can some olde timer help another ?

The Hotel/Motel  was The Royal Coach Inn

Other cafeteria chains in Houston/Bellaire...Footes and Thornhills

Seem to remember that Sonny Looks was there in the early,early 60s

The Winchester Club was on the north side of Bissonnet between Chimney Rock & Hillcroft- I forget the name of the cross street closest to it. Back when I was a young Bellaire cop working day shift in the late '70's we had a "departmental meeting" there every Friday night. ;-)

Checked a map and it could have been ALDER between Chimey Rock and Renwick.  If my mind is on it I think I remember the place being a JMH grocey store in the 60s that was converted.  There were some apartments behind the building

Forget 610 in the mornings, 790 "In the Trenches" with Greg Koch and ND Kalu takes the win

Wasn't Art Wren's restaurant in the building or part of the property where Katz's is today in the mid 60s?

Yes the  HP Books is in the old Meyer Bros store.  Evans Music was in a small frame building on Rice in the 60s then moved across the street to the strip center along Rice.  American Legion Post 77  was in the area for years, University State Bank was next door to Moeller's, then moved further North. 

Blancoexpat- it seems like the watermelon stand I remember near the Museum District...between Main and Fannin, East of Weldon's cafeteria

I loved reading about all the great old Houston restaurants like Alfred's and The Velvet Turtle. Like someone else mentioned, I sometimes wonder if I dreamed it - but does anyone remember the Treehouse Restaurant in the early 70s? I think it was on or off old Westheimer.

I believe it was Los Troncos...try this site; it's loaded with info...http://blog.chron.com/bayoucityhistory/2010/07/los-troncos-restaurant/

I thought there were only a handful too, until I checked the location map on their website. No excuse for not having a Houston location, unless they're afraid of competing with Whataburger. 

The  are not that great.  Hype prevails in some places.  I'll take Whataburger any time, any day

I saw that 1950's restaurant listed for demolition on Swamplot.  5080 O.S.T at M.L.K. (previously S.Park)...Another one bites the dust...was it renamed?

Marcus Allen...I still get my Delaware Punch fix at James Coney Island...Sun Up Ice Cream, Golden Age soda water, Weigarten's, Lewis & Coker, Fed Mart, Eagle, Midget Markets and U-Tote-ems, Bang's and Sullivan's in Bellaire, Don's Record Shop, Wee Wild West, Post Oak Drive In, Pin Oak Stables, Sheraton Lincoln Hotel, Cinder Club, Brockstein Music for my drums, ...it's getting late so I'll stop

The Salvation Army store was Sacco's Grocery Store.  Further East on Bissonnet, back toward Renwick was an Eagle grocery on the south side of Bissonnet and between Renwick and Chimney Rock on the North side of Bissonnet was a JMH store.

If memory serves me ( who knows if it will) before the Lewis and Coker was in the strip center on Westheimer there may have been one on the sw corner of Alabama and S. Rice Ave ( near what is now the Galleria and in the past, the kiddie amusement park Wee Wild West.)

Most of my time is on 790 "in the Trenches Koch and Kalu" they do get redundant however...Pallilo knows his stuff.  610 in the afternoon RARELY take calls and lots of crap non sports; Meltzer is pitiful .  Lopez is the only good thing about mornings. 1560 is dead weight. Pallilo and Lord back in the day were great BUT that was old times.  Really back in the day 740 with John O'Reilly and his buddies  like John Breen were SUPERIOR

Cellar Door Restaurant on first floor of the  old Fannin Bank Bldg Holcombe and Main don't know what it is now but there were quite a few around town on OST, Hwy6 and Westpark, Stella Link/Weslayan mostly new businesses

Don't know if this one  was mentioned earlier but the McDonalds on Richmond near Main on land behind the old Delman theatre...it's gone too

There was a Safeway then Appletree in a strip center on Eldridge and Jess Pirtle in Sugar Land in the early 80s .  Leter became a Gerlands then shut down and became a gym and now a church.

  Our band played some place in Pasadena during the mid 60s that I thought was called "Teen Hall".  We  know about memoies though!!