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  1. Dave W
    That's a misspelling. I don't care how many organizations or real estate companies misspelled it, it's Tatar. Look up the history of Pasadena. Consult a city historian. Look up the Herbert Tatar Lumber Company, which he established well before WWII. See what the city says about Herbert Tatar Park https://www.pasadenatx.gov/facilities/facility/details/Tatar-Herbert-Park-79 . Look up the ethnic origin of the name Tatar. Herbert Tatar's son Curtis was a classmate of mine for several years. I know the street was named after his father, and I know how the family spelled their name. EDITED TO ADD: go to https://www.oldmapsonline.org/map/usgs/5491873 then view the 1982-83 map (or any of the other 3 historic street maps), enlarge in the area of City Hall and Town Square, and you will see Tatar St.
  2. Dave W
    "Kirkendall" is the correct pronunciation of Kuykendall. It's a Dutch thing, not a Houston oddity.
  3. Dave W
    The street was Tatar, not Tarter. It was named for developer Herbert Tatar.
  4. Dave W
    Her name was Rose Behar. I remember her from the Almeda Road store. I found this:https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10336374/rose-behar and this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/373907237120?hash=item570e9ba900:g:WWUAAOSwRoth9Clg
  5. Dave W
    I remember your father from the Oilers, and the Aggies before that.
  6. Dave W
    This thread is about the building at 3736, which was a Stables restaurant at one time. Not related to the riding stables which IIRC was west of Fondren.
  7. Dave W
    M. Herrick was the original bookstore in Westbury Square back in the early 60s. It was later called Westbury Square Books. But I was gone from Houston by 1979-80 so I don't know about the store you're referring to.
  8. Dave W
    I remember M. Herrick Books in Westbury Square.
  9. Dave W
    The store on Mykawa was a FedMart, not a Sage. The only Sage in southeast Houston was at 8555 Gulf Freeway. There was never a "Jesus saved at Sage" billboard. Never happened.
  10. Dave W
    It was located on the southeast corner of Beechnut at Post Oak (later 610). Post Oak was the west border.
  11. Dave W
    Kiddie Wonderland was the amusement park with the pony ride. Not Playland Park.
  12. Dave W
    The Green Parrot on MacGregor Way. It was opened in the early 1950s.
  13. Dave W
    The MacDonald's on Main at Gray was a carhop drive-in. It was there at least as early as 1955, because we ate there at least that early. The family that owned it and the other two local carhop MacDonald's couldn't have opened it to extort money from the national McDonalds, because in 1955 the McDonalds we know today was a small regional chain that Ray Kroc hadn't even bought yet.
  14. Dave W
    https://www.flickr.com/photos/slaidblade/3871451920 See the comment below the photo from the person who uploaded it.
  15. Dave W
    Have you seen this one? It's from the Pine Grove Press photostream, same guy who has the Wired For Sound blog. https://flic.kr/p/kSLC5
  16. Dave W
    Anchor Fence, which was founded in Michigan, was making and installing chain link fencing a good 40 years before Hurricane Fence was founded.
  17. Dave W
    Price's Hamburgers was the brainchild of Price Lovelady. According to a newspaper story way back when, he was financed by one of the Klebergs of King Ranch fame in exchange for 50% of the profits. For a short time he sponsored and appeared on a local kiddie show called Uncle Price's Party. This would have been in the early 60s. He seemed uncomfortable around the kids.
  18. Dave W
    That looks like the store on Westheimer in front of Tanglewood.
  19. Dave W
    Lewis & Coker stores were around long before Kmart. As a teenager I worked at the Holcombe at Greenbrier and Palm Center stores, and later at the store adjoiining the Kmart on Van Fleet off South Park.
  20. Dave W
    Uncle John's Pancake House was a California-based franchise restaurant chain. I don't doubt the one on O.S.T. was locally owned but it was definitely part of a franchise operation. There was a One's A Meal in the Braeswood Center on Holcombe at Greenbriar, we used to eat there often when I was growing up in the 50s. The Chuck Davis jingle came from an old ragtime song, Ja-Da (Ja-Da Jing Jing Jing).
  21. Dave W
    Bruce, your memory of Bert's house later being a restaurant jogged my memory. I believe the restaurant was Jamil's. Edit: 1953 image of the Bert Wheeler mansion located at the present-day Bethany United Methodist Church. By 1957 the mansion was demolished and the church can be seen:
  22. Dave W
    ^^^ Landa Park is very old but it's just a large city park, not an amusement park. Does have a miniature train though. The park at Main & Kirby was Kiddie Wonderland, not Kiddieland. There's a similar but even older park of the same type still operating in San Antonio, Kiddie Park. It's on Broadway at Mulberry on the southeast edge of Brackenridge Park. Another old Houston kiddie amusement park was Wee Wild West on Post Oak. Playland Park was owned by the Slusky brothers, Sam and Louis. After Sam was killed in the racetrack accident in 1959, Louis lost interest and closed it. IIRC Louis never lived in Houston, Sam was active in running the park and track.
  23. Dave W
    I suppose I should clarify then. Whatever it may have been later, it was built by Bert Wheeler as his private residence.
  24. Dave W
    The name was Gateway Crystal Pool. Most people just called it Gateway. I'm absolutely certain it opened before 1958 or 1959. The pool and rink were both already open when my folks moved to the area in 1950. I took my first swimming lessons from Les Oldfield in the early 1950s. The slide and bubble canopy weren't added until about 1955. I heard Les Oldfield tell my dad that he would shut the pool before he would ever integrate it. I remember him as a nice man, but he was a man of his time in what was a segregated city.
  25. Dave W
    That was Bert Wheeler's house. It was never a club.
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