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    I'll add a few.. Skatin Place (Murphy Rd. in Stafford) Space Invaders. This was the first place I ever saw this game, and remember how complicated the game seemed at the time. Safeway (Wilcrest & W. Belfort) Pheonix & Star Castle 7-11 (Hickory Downs & Clay) Stargate. Wish I had all the rolls of quaters I put in that game, back now! Corner food store (W. Belfort) Joust , Popeye & Donkey Kong Jr. Barney's (W. Belfort) Next door to Corner food store. Ten Yard Fight & Combat This was also the only place I ever saw a coin opperated (Video) Strip Poker game. We were too young to be in here, but nobody seemed to mind. Too bad this thread isn't - "Arcades of the 80's" Could go on about that forever.
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    token, Has your Wiki page been deleted? I've tried to view it several times, but don't get anything but a missing page message. Now about the park on 45 - If the place your remembering had pony rides, then it wasn't Malibu~Watercoaster. Cosmic made a good point, that it may have very well been a place like Pepermint park or something there like. I kinda remember one up there, but where has long been forgoten.
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    That may have been Celebration Station, but I seem to remember it being at Rankin & 45. I'm not exactly sure when that opened or when it closed though. The other park on 45 was Malibu~Watercoaster, which was the same general area, but about twenty years earlier. I have some great memories from both the Watercoaster and the Games People Play on 1960. Regards, Rhino
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    This would have been Windchime cinema back in the 80's. (??) If it's where I'm thinking of, it was at the corner of Synott in the shoping center. I remember going on a couple of dates there.
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    Pumapayam, There actualy was a bowling alley in the Galleria, back in the mid to late 70's. My father who was a comercial loan officer for Bank of the Southwest at the time, made several trips there (with me in tow) to watch the construction of it. The sad thing about it was, it stayed in operation almost as long as it took to build. It closed within just a few months, after a large number of complaints from neighboring mall tenants. However the idea didn't really take off anyway. BTW - This wasn't so much of a bowling alley, as it was a bar that had a bowling alley in it.
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    Anyone consider the impact Continental Airlines has made on this area?
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    Yeah Vert, your right that would have been the place. I remember the Wicks n' Sticks at Westwood mall back in the 70's which also had candles either carved or moulded like dragons and castles among other things. I couldn't imagine someone buying one of these, and then ever lighting it. They were not cheap! It was no Yankee Candle Company, for sure! Now if anyone else remembers Westwood...there was another store there (I think) called Pickwick records. They had so much stuff in this store! In the 70's they had records, black light posters, lava lamps, tie dyed clothing, you name it. One of the things I remember buying there was a beer can lamp. I know somebody else has to remember these. They sold them in all different colors, beer or soda cans, and they had this sort of flickering fillament in them that looked like a flame when you pluged it in. I thought it was the coolest thing in the world as a kid, but you can't find these anywhere now. Lava lamps, sure... but not those.
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    We always called them "Goat roper's", "Stoner's" , "Jock's" , "Prep's , "Punk's" and "Nerd's". Then there was the ROTC guys.... I do however remember KIKK, form back in the time KIKK and KILT were the two country stations. You also had rock stations KLOL, KSRR and KRBE (KRBE was awsome back in the day). I remember 79Q on the am dial too, before the fm 93Q.
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    Fairview and Taft would be the Hyde Park Supermarket, has been since at least the early to mid 70's. I can't place the store though...remember going in it, just can't remember where it was. Yep, that's it!
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    Would anybody by chance have any information about a Sunset Theater on McGowen? This would have been from sometime in the 40's. A picture would be great. I am not refering to the Sunset drive in, which seems to be the only result I can get for "Sunset theater". Thanks, Rhino
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    I remember Monterey House well, but aren't there still some of those around? I thought they just changed names to Monterey's TexMex cafe. I guess though, that those could be closed too now. Wasn't it Monterey House that had the chili con queso puff's, or am I thinking of Los Tios? BTW- welcome to the board slmintx
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    Does anybody else remember the traffic problems this train caused, especialy at Gessner and I-10. I used to work in this area, and it never seemed to fail that everyday around 5:30 some slow moving freight train would roll by and just screw everything up! I remember having to detour all the way back through the neighborhoods to beltway 8, just to get on I-10 west. I would be after 7:00 most days geting home. As far as the city converting this to some type of light rail - I don't think there was room for that. I-10 had to be expanded, there was no way around it! That....and the MKT right of way wasn't realy wide enough for commuter stations. There would have also been a problem with access to those stations, because people would have needed to cross what was an often very busy Old Katy Rd. just to get to them. Now out near Fry and Mason, this would have been a bit of a different story. They could have set up some type of Park and ride operation, but then again they already had the HOV lanes. So.....ehhh. It's gone now.
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    Best I can tell, yes it was. I found that road on many old maps, but never a name on it. Does anyboby know if KHOU ever did a follow up report on this?
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    http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=U...029259495555472 Maybe 2008 N. Eldridge Parkway.
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    I had to go pull the vending machine out of this place, some time after it closed. (would have been year 2000"ish") The place was infested with rat's, and not much to look at inside. I had to get the rats out of the machine before I could load it on the truck!
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    How bad can one persons memory be? I found out earlier today from my mother, that most of the drive-in memories I have were actualy the Sharpstown drive-in?!? Even though we lived right around the corner from both of these, back in the early 70's. Anyone remember a Sharpstown drive-in? BTW- HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!
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    Another DOOOOHH!! I thought that was the one we were talking about?!?! I didn't realize there were two, so close together. They were just a couple of blocks apart.
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    We never went out there. The kids thought the whole idea just sounded stupid, and wanted nothing to do with it! Sit in the car........ Watch a movie.........IN THE CAR! We have theaters now you know! The wife and I are going to one day, but it won't be with the kids.
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    Just a thought..... Could this have possibly been an early attempt at aquaculture?
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    GREASER, I glad you started this thread! I started to bring the old one back up about a week ago, then decided not after considering the amount of flack anyone would recieve for doing so. I think this does prove at least, that this formation wasn't made by a bunch of hippies in the 60's. I've done all the research one can do from the internet, and the best guess I can make is that this used to be the location of the Bear Creek German Methodist church. Like I said though, thats only a guess. Nothing else makes any sence. Yet I have to wonder..... Are we all looking at this the wrong way? Is this an "X" or a cross? An X marking the spot of something burried for years. I'm not suggesting that there would be treasure there, but maybe a tank used as a dump by the corp durring constuction of the dam. Regards, Rhino
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    Hunter, I know you've already recieved many thanks for this, but I've got to add mine to the list here. This site has answered so many questions I've had about a great many things, not only about Houston and the neighborhood I grew up in, but also several other areas of the country. I do wish the functionality of the site were a little better, but all in all great site! Thanks again, Rhino
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    If you zoom and rotate, you can still see the go kart track and batting cages too. I remember about 10 years ago passing by there, and thinking how strange it was that it was still there. I'm amazed to see it's STILL there! Lot's of good times there, wish we still had something like this now. Regards, Rhino
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    DOOHH! I'm taking the kids to see Bolt Friday night, now! Not a one of them has any idea what a drive-in even is, this will be too cool. Thanks for the tip. How long has it been there?
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    Good memories here! When I was little we lived in Townwood for a few years, and went here almost every weekend. It wasn't such a big deal back then, it was either there or Meyerland if you wanted to see a show. My parents not wanting to put up with a squirmy kid in a theater, normaly choose the drive-in. As we were driving in, I would hide under a quilt in the back the old Ford station wagon we had. I never stayed well hidden, I know he saw me several times but never seemed to care. The last movie I remember actually watching was Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid, but know we went to see countless others. I was always too busy playing with the neighbors kids, who we would often go to the show with. BTW- There is still a drive-in open! It's just a few miles south of Dallas on I45, I've passed by it many times. Regards, Rhino
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    Fotomat

    RhinoVP replied to Paul1956's topic in Historic Houston

    I can name a few. Fotomat - In front of the Eckerd drugs/Safeway (now Foodarama)at West Belfort and Wilcrest. In front of Gerlands on Eldridge and Jess Pirttle (SP) In the Belaire Triangle parking lot. In front of the old K-mart on South Main. and there was one in front of whatever grocery store was at the corner of Bissonette and Leawood Dr. This has been a Bingo place for years now. Fox Photo - In front of what was Randall's and TG&Y at 59s and Murphy Rd. I wonder how many people still have old family photo's from Fox Photo, with the little red fox on the border of the picture? I know I've got albums full of them! There was a Fox Photo till about ten years ago at Fry Rd. and I 10. I think the Photomat's closed long before that. Regards, Rhino
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