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    Anyone remember Chez Lounge At 10308 South Main Street?
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    A couple of very nice restaurants, that I doubt any here would remember, were Hebert's (pronounced A-bear's) and the Green Parrot. I'm talking 40's - 50's time-frame. Hebert's was in an old house, built in 1904, and was located at the southeast corner of San Jacinto and McGowen. Hebert's food specialty was French, New Orleans style cooking, along with excellent steaks and fresh seafood prepared a variety of ways. The Green Parrot was also in an old house located a few blocks east of Almeda in the MacGregor/Riverside area. Its specialty was southern style, home-cooking. They served delicious fried chicken, cat fish, shrimp, meat loaf, etc., along with beans, green beans, turnip greens, and salads. Dessert fare was homemade pies and cakes.
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    Thought this was an interesting approach to blending existing, historic building architecture into a miixed-usage development. This from today's Austin newspaper. The former Seaholm Power Plant overlooking Town Lake could be crackling with new energy by mid-2008. Work on the transformation of the decommissioned 1950s power plant into a mixed-use project with housing, entertainment and cultural attractions could start as early as June, said John Rosato, managing partner of Seaholm Power LLC, which the City of Austin tapped last year as its partner for redeveloping the site along West Cesar Chavez Street. A grand opening for at least part of the project is set for July 4, 2008, Rosato said. The timetable is ambitious for the 110,000-square-foot public-private venture slated to become a major anchor of downtown Austin's western edge. But with downtown rapidly changing
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    Potted meat sandwiches and peanut butter/jelly sandwiches were standard fare for me in my school, sack lunches loooooooong ago. I had Spam when I didn't have potted meat. Strangely, I liked both of them. Glad I didn't know what was in the potted meat. I guess that was before the ingredients had to be posted on the can. Please don't tell me what's in Spam. I still like it.
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    Cain was the first murderer, according to biblical accounts. If you make trouble you are raising the spirit of Cain.
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    Wecome, sprintcar! From your comments, it's good to see there is someone on this forum that appears to be almost as old as I am...maybe older. From previous posts of mine, you can see that I went to many races at Playland and then to Meyer, when it opened. I always thought Playland was a 1/4 mile track, but you should know better than I. Did you read in a previous post of mine that I was very close to Blackie Lothringer's car when it came flying over the fence/wall that night? Were you there that night? Thanks for posting more names of the drivers of that era. I remember them. One you left out was Norm Pierce. He and Billy Wade had many close races to the finish line at Playland. A close friend of mine, Ben Bishop, raced at Meyer when it first opened. He was a rookie and only raced for a year or two. He ran in a '57 Chevy. Know him? Did you ever race at the old Arrowhead Park Speedway? I saw A. J. Foyt race there in midgets a few times when he was just starting out.
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    I think, probably, they didn't know how to spell "Necklace".
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    My dad told me many years ago (before there was a TV station in Houston) that the radio station, KPRC, call letters stood for Kotton Port Railroad Center. Don't know where that came from, but I remember him telling me. I saw my first TV broadcast in Houston on that January 1, 1949, at a friend's house. They were broadcasting the Cotton Bowl game that day. SMU was one of the teams...with Doak Walker and Kyle Rote. Don't recall the other team. There was a problem with the TV that no one knew how to fix. The picture kept rolling from bottom to top. I bet we looked funny as we kept nodding our heads to follow the picture. Of course, no one there knew that there was a simple adjustment called the Vertical Hold that could have fixed the problem. Since TV's were a new technology, no one wanted to attempt to turn any knobs for fear that it might self-destruct.
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    Don't recall any drive-in called the Post Oak II, or any, that far north on Post Oak. Doesn't mean there wasn't one though. sevfiv confirmed the location of the one I used to go to.
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    sevfiv.... Thanks for verifying what I had stated. I always envied the people who lived in the houses on Willowbend, right behind that drive-in. They could sit on their front porches and watch the movies...with no sound though. I remember parking my car on Willowbend and watching what must have been one of the first closed-circuit television broadcasts of a world champion heavyweight boxing match between Floyd Patterson and Roy Harris, who was from the small East Texas, piney woods town of Cut-and-Shoot. I think that was in the late 50's. There was a facility by the name of Brochstein's that was just south, across the railroad tracks, from the drive-in. They had a big light shining on their sign that was distracting if you parked in a particular area to watch the movie. Wonder if it's still there. Since you have a 1955 directory, how about looking up the address of the old Post Oak Drive-in that was on Post Oak about where the Galleria is now. That was another drive-in I went to regularly. I think it was still in operation in 1955. The old KPRC-TV studios were in the same area.
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    I do remember a multi-screen drive-in at the southeast corner of the intersection of South Main (90A) and Hiram Clarke. I think maybe built in the 60's.
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    Sorry! You're wrong! South Main and the South Main Drive-in theater were my habitats from the day I got my driver's license in 1950 on into the 60's. I know what I'm talking about here. South Main, in my era, started at about the Sears and Delman theater location and went on out way past Post Oak. It may not have officially been South Main out that far, but we would take our cars out "South Main" to about where Hiram Clarke was and race between there and Post Oak.
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    Gaido's was on the west side of South Main...right across from Playland. Have no idea why they used the same address. The Playland ad is 1947 time-frame.
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    I believe this address places it about where South Main and Murworth now intersect.
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    The South Main Drive-in was just west of the Stella Link and South Main intersection. If I remember correctly, the street just north of it was Willowbend. Went there many times in my youth.
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    Seems like I remember a lot of that programming being pre-empted for coverage of the aftermath of JFK's assassination. I was watching the next day as Jack Ruby shot Oswald on live TV. Couldn't believe it.
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    PC... thanks for the HFBC url! I really liked those old photos. Sorry the 30's and 40's weren't in there. I did see my uncle's picture several places in the 20's pix. I don't think some of those 20's pictures outside the church were taken at the Lamar location though. The church had no ornate stone doorways/exterior as shown. My parents and I are probably somewhere in the back of the congregation shown in the 1950 pictures. I'll have to check with my siblings to see if they have some 30's-'40s photos we can donate to the HFBC history album.
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    I thought Judge Hofheinz might have had something to do with that hotel suite. He had similar accommodations for himself in the Astrodome.
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    I checked my "Library" and found a 1977 copy of Guiness... Good memory, Ashi!
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    If I read the date correctly, I'd say he saved it from the Kennedy assassination, like I did. I'll have to go back and check out some of those ads. I also saved newspapers and magazines from the first moon landing.
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    Try The Center for American History There was no concession stand in the balcony area that I can remember from the mid 40's - early 60's.
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    Speaking of blimps... This thread reminded me of a gigantic structure I remember seeing as a very young boy when my parents would take me to Galveston in the mid-40's. It was a landmark I always looked for in the distance on the way there and back. Don't know if any of you might remember it. It had an interesting history... HITCHCOCK NAVAL AIR STATION. Hitchcock Naval Air Station was a World War II naval air station for lighter-than-air craft
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    Name of the street was Buffalo Drive. When I was a kid, I played baseball, in a teen league, against a team they sponsored... The Townhouse Buffaloes.
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    You're right! I had forgotten about that one. I saw it, so must have been at the Windsor. I don't think the Windsor Theater was built until the early 60's, though. I know the Windsor shopping center was under construction in the mid-50's because we had impromptu drag races on several Sunday afternoons in the parking lot, which was completed while the shopping center buildings were still under contruction.
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    The screen was about a 90 degree arc/segment of a circle, if I remember correctly. I know the first Cinerama movies that came out used three cameras/lenses to shoot the action on three different reels. The three film reels were then placed in projectors that were synchronized to shoot in one-third sections on the screen, so that the motion/action would move from one section to another in a continuous motion to theoretically appear as shot with a single camera/lens. However, there was always a distinct separation/overlap between the sections that was, at times, very distracting. The best seats were at the center of the arc. I guess you could say it was a very rough version of today's IMAX, but the screen was not nearly as high. This is all from memory, so the details may not be exact, but it gives you a general idea of how the system worked. I think the first Cinerama movies debuted in the early 60's. That's when I saw my first one.
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