JRH_1948

Does anyone remember Stroud motor co downtown? It was there from the 50s to 1973,does anyone have any pics?

I remember that there was a Stroud Motor Co. downtown but that is about all. No pix, sorry.

Talking about old car dealerships, no one mentioned Frizelle Pontiac. They had a plane fly slowly over the city with a loudspeaker proclaiming, ""You'll get a whale of a deal at Frizelle Pontiac."

I remember one of the kids in my neighorhood ran home and told his parents that he heard God telling everyone to buy a Pontiac. He was crying because his father only bought Fords and he was afraid they were all going to hell.

I remember a lot of skywriting too. I don't remember what they were selling.

ISTR DeMontrond Buick used a speaker plane sometimes. In 1964, I was dating a girl whose father was Service Manager at DeMondtrond.

Just J, I never realized that was Satterwhite's on 6th and Yale. Didn't they also have a place on North Shepherd somewhere?

I have wondered if that car was still up there. If I remember, wasn't a 52 Ford?

I never knew about a shop on N. Shepherd. David and I ran around together and spent a quite a few Saturdays at the Yale shop rebuilding an old James motercycle. I think I would have heard about a 2nd shop. OTOH, they may have moved there after I left Houston...or may have been on N. Shepherd before moving to 6th & Yale.

Yes, the call was a 52 Ford, sectioned down the middle.

Google maps shows 6th and Yale Paint & Body at 6th and Yale (of all places). When I lived in Houston, this was Satterwhite's Garage (I went to school with the owner's son). The car on the pole went up in the mid-50's so if it is still there, that car has been sitting on that pole for over 50 years.

I didn't see the sling before, but now I do. And I can remember now you had broken it and couldn't participate.

Just so as not to exclude any others from the post, the boy next to JRH in the photo we are talking about is Kenneth Williams who has/had the veterinary office in the 1400 block of Shepherd. He was in practice with Dr. Fickes, and then had the clinic by himself for a while. Don't know if he is still there or not. Some of you old Heights people may remember him.

So as not to exclude anyone, pic is attached

I finally found the photo I was looking for. It was an 8X10 glossy photo of me and my Cub Scout troop at the Coliseum making necktie rings for some Scout function being held there.

I am sitting at the end of the table, and guess who is standing right behind me?

LOL! I think I have the same pic. If the kid has his left arm in a sling, that would be me. I had a bad accident with a picket fence while roller skating and it took over 150 stitches to close the wound.

YEAR DATE Inches

1949 30-Jan 2.6

1958 12-Feb Trace

1960 12-Feb 4.4

1961 25-Jan Trace

1961 13-Dec Trace

1963 14-Jan Trace

1963 12-Feb Trace

1964 21-Feb Trace

The weather center may have recorded a trace in 1958, but I distinctly remember 4 inches on our picnic table. And the pics I have of 1949 (attached) look like 6 inches or more on the ground. In fact, my mother's note says 5-6 inches. Also, she dates the snowfall as Jan 31 - Feb 1, not Jan 30.

Don't need any link because that day is etched in my memory. I was in Mrs. Tillinghast's 6th grade class at Love Elementary on Shepherd at W 13th. It was a Friday, not long after lunch when it started snowing. We didn't even get out of class early, and the wait until the 3 o'clock bell was excruciating.

As I recall, I was in 7th grade at Hamilton Jr. High. (When I was at Love, I had Mrs. Tillinghast for 5th Grade and Mrs. Bernard for 6th.)

I recall it snowing 2 or 3 years earlier as well. It was about 4 inches but melted quickly. And somewhere I have some real neat pix of the show in 1949, That was a pretty big one.

Does anyone remember this? I was in the 6th grade at Horn Elementary in September of 1959. They told us to go straight home, but would not tell us why.

I knew that Kolter Elementary was named after one of the teachers who died. A few years ago I worked with a lady who was the substitute that took over Jeanne Kolter's classroom after her death.

You will need to scroll down to read the part about Poe School.

http://www.texasranger.org/dispatch/7/Gooding.htm

I remember it. The "Juanita Weidner" referenced in the story was my cousin.

I was born in Houston in 1948, grew up in the Heights and Timbergrove before we moved to Dallas in 1965. These are some of the places I remember:

Hamburger House. (2 locations in the Heights, 1 was on 11th a few blocks east of Heights Blvd. I think the other was on 20th)

Prince's Hamburgers on N. Shepherd @ 14th?

Pig Stand on N.Shepherd

Kaphan's (once a year on my parent's anniversary)

Christie's on S.Main (Fired Shrimp!!!)

Albritton's Cafeteria

Clear Creek Inn in Kemah

Doyle's Delicatessan on 34th near Waltrip High. (still the best pizza I ever had)

John's Shephard Drive BBQ. (He closed every year to go to the World Series)

The Enchanted Cup. (A coffe house on Westheimer)

Rettig's Ice Cream Shops

Somebody mentioned J&J Barbecue on Herkimer and 11th. The BBQ was good and one year we had them smoke a turkey for us. Some idiot used pine!!. Have you ever had a turkey that tasted like Pine-Sol?