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Ron's Krispy Fried Chicken was owned by my grandfather, Ron Woodall. He'll be thrilled to know that someone remembers his restaurant!

As for me, I'm simply jealous. I was too young to even get to taste the chicken! I've heard it was delicious, though.

Sorry to bump an old thread, but oh my I used to love Ron's. I also frequented the one in Sagemont. And it was pretty close to Stuchberry Elementary/Thompson Intermediate school, where my little league baseball team had practice for a couple of years. I would swear on a bible that Ron's purposely wafted the smell of that chicken in the air to get all the people on those fields to come in for dinner.

I worked in the mall 1989-1990. Around that time, Memorial City was just like any other mall rat hang out- nothing fancy or special about it, but not too run down either. Retail was struggling at that time. I was on summer break from college in June of 1989 walking thru the mall when I got a job with Fame City, which was mentioned earlier had a location on Beechnut near Hwy6. That main location was an arcade/water park. They were opening up a new arcade location in Memorial City Mall. I was cash control manager, so I would stay late emptying coins from machines, etc. It was great having the mall to myself after hours, and sometimes staying until midnight playing video games all by myself. There was an arcade area in the food court, with an escalator that lead to an upstairs play area for kids that had some kiddie rides and was a good place to have kids bday partys, etc. Then on the other end of the mall was a skating rink along with another arcade area. Fame City eventually sold out to Jungle Jim's, who I think had a main location next to Sharpstown Mall. But they didn't own it long before selling to the Memorial City Mall Management (Metro National Coro or MNC or something like that- the same company that owns a LOT of property in the Memorial City/Gessner area). They were running it when I left. (They offered me a job in the corporate accounting department since I was studying accounting, but I was going back to college at Sam Houston so I turned them down- I wonder where I'd be now in my career if I'd have taken that job). A couple of stores I remember from my time in Memorial City Mall- I think there was a Pipe Pub on the corner of the food court area. And I was there when the movie theater opened up down near Sears. There was a cafeteria (Picadilly I guess) but it was on the end of the mall with Monty Wards and there was really nothing else on that side of the mall- so if you weren't going to Wards or the cafeteria, you'd never wander over there.