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Yeah, Johnny Nash, the same guy that sang "Secret Agent Man".

I loved Hercules. Remeber Zeus, Daedalus, Wilhemina, and Newton? That's me! That's me! Another Trans-Lux cartoon was my all-time after school favorite, Speed Racer. It came on at 3:00, and I remember running home every day (we got out at 2:50) to watch it. I had a crush on a cartoon character!

& wasn't Hercules summoned by something called "the moonstone beam" an amulet that looks a great deal like todays compact disks.

Cooters! What a name for a night club. Where was Uncle Sam's?

Uncle Sam's was on the east side of Fondren about a block or so south of Westhiemer.

Does anyone remember a hamburger joint on S. Gessner between Harwin and Bellaire? 1983-84 time frame, seems like it was called "Things" but not sure about the name.

I seem to recall a burger joint in the center of a strip center (no drive thru) near there called Toby's Old Fashion hambugers.

I was a Westbury Steer for 4 years, players came mostly from Anderson Elementary. As for the televised games, I believe they were shown Saturday afternoons on channel 39 through the 1969 season. I think Fun Stadium is now used as a soccer stadium, big surprise. However the stadium was used in the mid 80s as the home training facility for the Houston Gamblers of the short lived (USFL) United States Football League.

I remember the glass shop, where you could usually watch a glass blower making all manner of fragile things, and Gramophonics, the record store where I bought the Moving Sidewalks' first album, "Flash." A great little record store, run by a guy named Rob Miller, I think. They would sell Fillmore and Avalon concert posters. I still have the tattered remains of one. By the early 1970s, Gramaphonics had moved to the Village in West U. Also, I thought a Pier 1 store was out there. Or am I thinking about Cargo Houston?

Howdy folks,

I believe the store you are confusing with Pier 1 was called Pasha Imports and was located across the plaza from Cargo Houston, they sold the same type of bent bamboo items as Pier 1.