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  1. After sleeping on it (one of those wake up at 2 a.m. moments and yell) Cellar Door! biggrin.gif They also had one on Westheimer and another maybe a block or so off of Stella Link @ West Holocombe. Was wanting to call it Sonny Look's also but not the case....

    You are so correct Dub. Great Barbecue and even better Prime Rib. They also had a places on Highway 6 and Westpark back in the late 70s and OST near the old Chuck Davis Chevrolet.

  2. I remember Chuckwagon well, from the 60's; there was one in the Griggs/OST area.

    Wheel Burger, Hub Burger and Spoke Dogs and huge drinks!!

    Several in the Southwest part of town...one on Bellaire just west of Chimney Rock near Holy Ghost School and one near the intersection of Bissonett and Beechnut( that was still around until the late 70s. Don't get me started on Mr. Hamburger....

  3. I'm fascinated at learning that the name "Sigman Byrd" lives on, in the form of a teacher and poet at the University of Colorado. He just has to be related to Houston's Sig Byrd. The Houston Press article mentions Sig's son Sigman Byrd Junior, who was a Houston banker when the article was written in 1994. This guy in Colorado must be Sig's grandson, Sigman Byrd III. He even has his own website.

    http://sigmanbyrd.com/Site/Home.html

    The odds that two men could have the name Sigman Byrd and not be related are impossible to calculate.

    The Colorado prof's picture and Mr. Byrd's are too spookingy close ...great article in the modern Press

  4. Thanks for the wonderful pictures. They really help jog the old gray cells. A bonus for me is that my childhood Meyerland house is shown in #4. Back in the days when there were "free-range" kids, I walked the 2 blocks to MP as primary after school entertainment.

    Did Playhouse toys have a clown logo?

    Not just a logo but I think they had a clown model ( head and shoulders) sticking out of the araea above the entrance to the store. Maybe there was a record store next door as well.

  5. I never knew J.C. Penney's had a department store in downtown Houston. If I give you some clues, can you find me an address? The photo is from Historic Photos of Houston, by B. Chapman., p. 193. The photo is a downtown shot in 1961 of the Alaskan Furs Bldg. fire. In the background is the J.C. Penney's store, a midsize bldg. The bottom floor has a art moderne/ art deco style covering very similar to the Sears on S. Main., and the bldg is on a corner. Grant's is next door, I see a sign on the next bldg. "AI Life", it is a very tall high rise bldg. Malone's News Stand is seen in the foreground, before the fur company. Looks like there is a movie marquee in the foreground, as well.

    The only Penney's that I knew of downtown was in a center that was directly South of the present day Houston Community College System building on Main and Elgin-- it included a Walgreens or some type of Drug store and if I remember also a Wonder Fabrics or some such store. 60 year old brain cells sometimes go out of kilter.

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  6. Anybody remember the JMH and Eagle grocery stores on the North and South sides of Bissonnet near its intersection with Renwick? We're talking late 50s for JMH to early 70s for Eagle. Sacco's came sometime inbetween. "Mr. Sam" Sacco was always there to meet and greet. Used to take in the Monterrey House near Shipley's in the late 60s to mid 70s. Four Seas Chinese restaurant south of Beechnut and Hillcroft near the Jack in the Box was also a haunt later on in the 70s and early 80s. The Chuck Wagon on Beechnut and Bissonnet had competition for a while with another one ( before the Mc Donalds took over the site) located just north of Holy Ghost Church and School on Bellaire. Also a Mr. Hamburger on Bissonnet just west of Chimney Rock added further variety to burger gallery in the area. :rolleyes:

  7. On the East side of the Post Oak and Richmond intersection was a great steak house called The Safari. It had a model elephant outside the entrance and had an Indian motif inside. This was during the early 60s to mid 70s. Many fond memories of the Windsor Cinerama and the divided line format for How The West Was Won.

  8. Perhaps you are thinking of Mueller's Bakery in The Village? It was wonderful and only about a block south from Rice grocery store. Great to hear from a neighbor, I lived on University Blvd. in West University Place from 1941-1981, so I know it throughout at long history. Moved back in 1993, stayed til 1996 and my daughter still lives there. Any questions, will be glad to help.

    By the way, loved Timmy Chan's in Greenway, such elegant presentation of food. How about the tall, footed, pierced silver rice servers? Miss so many of the the great restaurants.

    Mueller's is now on Holcombe/Bellaire just east of the RRtracks near the Palace Bowling Lanes. It is in a building that originally was a Howard Johnson's in the 50s and early 60s. It was several other incarnations including a vet office in the years between the HoJo and Bakery.

  9. Prob. way before my time, I was born in 83'. But I would be really curious about the mini Epcot-esque place you speak of was -- anyone have a clue?

    I was teaching in the 5th ward in the early and mid 70s and there was an elementary school near the area, I believe it was Anson Jones, that had a multi-cultural center that was set up for elementary field trips for young students from all over HISD to learn about cultures from around the world. I think they also had teachers of different ethnicities there to guide and inform the students about their particular cultures. Could this be what you remember?

  10. HELP :mellow:

    Somebody needs to fill me in on dates for the Hendrix and Strawberry Alarm Clock show at the Coliseum? 68-69?

    Great early Crosby, Stills and Nash Acoustic and Electric gig at the brand new "Hayes Field House" AKA Hofheinz Pavillion

  11. I didn't know that Meyerland had a grocery store, originally.That whole bldg. is just gone...was looking at it on the historic aeriel maps site. Does anyone know what happened to it? In the early 1990's, I would shop at that open-air mall, it was like a ghost town. The mall link mentioned above is a really good one, shows the original layout of the malls. Below is a link (I've mentioned elsewhere, earlier) containing a early photo of Meyerland.

    http://www.wsbellows.com/timeline.asp?decade=1950

    click on pic for closeup.

    I think that the grocery store was either an A&P or Henke & Pilot. I may be wrong on this. It was located at the south east corner next to White's. Oh and looking at the picture on Bellow's site I remember Thornhill's Cafeteria as a spot I forgot about on old eating places

  12. There are many homes in the Sugar Lakes, Alkire Lakes, Sugar Mill areas that are VERY CLOSE to Schlumberger. These may need some upgrading or have had it done already. May be less pricey too. Also north of 90A and along Jess Pirtle and Burney near Kempner High School are some new construction areas as well. No problems with schools in any of those areas mentioned, Elementary through High School. We have been more than pleased with the area. Only problem north of 90A are the train tracks if you are coming from the south of Schlumberger.

  13. I've been in SL since 83 and unless my mind is shot I remember the powers that be stating that traffic congestion at HWY 6 and the freeway(59) would be negligible at best. What a joke. I try and avoid that area like the plague. You'd better know back ways into Town center and/or any place anywhere near that no congestion intersection. The traffic lanes on 6 are so out of whack as you come near or after the 59 underpass, I'm surprised that there are not more accidents in the area.

    Is it me or does it seem that so many "high rent" businesses come and go so quickly from the Town Square area? Does the community really respond to these high end boutiques, shops and food establishments? How many have left and given up compared to new ones coming in and staying ?

  14. The Sharpstown Drive Inn was at the Nothwest corner of Bellaire and Hillcroft. Now a shopping center. Originally across from Globe on the Northeast corner of Bellaire and Hillcroft. Remembering, as did sevfiv, that the original Post Oak Drive Inn was just north and next to the Channel 2 studio on Post Oak.

  15. Bro works there for UTTV ( UT/ Med center in-house productions) and they have already moved to the TB Pickens Tower. I had a friend whose Dad worked for Prudential back in the 60s and I had many opportunities to go to the pool at the building. It was quite a sight and place for splashing around. Great locker facilities and underwater glass for looking into the pool if I recall correctly. Hope they salvage some of the granite from the building as well as the fountain. As said before, another icon will go up in a cloud of smoke and debris

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