yams69

It featured some of the hallmarks of the other stores mentioned. A large peaked roof and expansive windows on the parking lot are the design points that come to mind immediately.

That's what I remember about our local Weingarten's (on the northeast corner of the intersection of Long Point and Wirt, in Spring Branch).

Gerland's FTW, though. Our local store was on the north side of Long Point, between Ridgecrest and Pech. It's amazing how miniscule it was compared to a typical supermarket these days, and yet I still remember it as having everything we needed. That Gerland's is the archetypal grocery store for me.

To my knowledge Spring Branch has been razed, and Westchester is in the Houston Community College system. Soooo, both are in essence gone.

The SBHS school buildings themselves are still there. There was a tax office building on the property that was razed several years ago, but that was it. It's now a magnet school for the district.

The only one I can remember going to was the one on Long Point at Antoine, but I believe there were a number of them around town.

That one was the only one I knew also, so you must be a Spring Branch native too. It must have closed down in the mid-to-late '70's.