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  1. 57Tbird
    I took our our copy of Blood and Money off the bookshelf and found that that it was published in 1976, the first year it came out. It is well worn from being passed around to friends and relatves. That speaks for its popularity. My wife commented that she went to high school (San Jacinto) with Thompson's wife, Joyce.
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    Yes. It was across Elgin on the NE corner of Main and Elgin. It faced toward Main. There was a D'Arcy's on the SW corner and a Gulf station, I think it was, on the NW Corner. I lived between that Mobil station and another big, old house that was on the NW corner of Fannin and Elgin.
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    I came across a picture at http://www.sloanegallery.com/ of the Rettig's that I mentioned in my earlier post above. I lived next to the Mobilgas station, whose sign you see in the background,
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    There was a Rettig's ice cream parlor on the southeast corner of Main and Elgin in the early-mid 40's. I lived across the street from it on Elgin in that time-frame. It had a soda fountain, tables, and booths. A single dip cone was 5 cents, a double dip was 10 cents. A banana split was 35 cents. You could get a pint of factory-packed ice cream for 25 cents. Hand-packed would set you back 35 cents. Unbeknownst to my parents, I would sometimes spend my weekly 25 cent allowance on a pint, sneak it back to my hiding place under the house and consume the entire pint.
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    It's been awhile since I've vistied the forum and this topic caught my eye for a reply. My first car was a '51 Chevy that I bought in 1953, using as a down payment, money I had saved from summer jobs at City National Bank and Great Southern Life Insurance. My dad financed the remainder for me. Being a "cool" teenager at the time, I had to get dual exhausts on it, along with blue dot taillights, chrome wheel rim covers, half-moon chrome headlight covers, and whitewall tires, I have attached a picture of it. My next car was a '56 Ford Victoria hardtop, purchased used, in late 1956. It was turquoise and white. I have no picture of it. A brief story here of the one I'm most proud of. In 1999, I was diagnosed with cancer. I had surgery, but didn't know at the time how much time I had left. On my bucket list was a car that I had drooled over in the mid-50's.... the Ford Thunderbirds. So I set out to find a fully restored one, since I didn't want to waste what time I might have left restoring one. My wife and I drove all over Texas looking for one. I finally found a beauty. I drove it everywhere and really enjoyed the looks and nice comments I received about it. After several years, my cancer was in total remission. I am a tall person, and my T'bird was getting harder to get under and to the places I needed to get to to keep it in tip-top shape. It was also not real comfortable to drive. It was definitely not made for someone well over six feet tall. It was also becoming expensive and hard to find replacement parts for it, so I decided to sell it. No problem finding a buyer. Now you know what's behind my forum name. I have attached a picture of it also.
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    Here is a Historical Aerials shot of that area from 1957. I've noted what I think is the location of that '58 Chevy in the photo above with an arrow on this image.
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    Filio... My wife lived just off Grand Blvd, between Holcombe and Dixie Dr, in the early-mid 50's when we were dating. She does not remember a "Teen Hall" in the area at that time. What we both remember is a private club on Grand Blvd, between Dixie Dr and MacGregor. If I remember correctly, it was known as the Como Club, or something like that. It had a swimming pool behind the building. It may be the same facility that you mention and later became the Teen Hall that you remember from the late 50's. I guess Paul Berlin (KNUZ) was one of the deejays you saw there.
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    Looks like it. Here's another picture from the late 30's. You can see some of it here. I lived about 5 blocks from the Delman when I was a kid in the mid-40's. I walked to the kid shows there on Saturday mornings. I sure don't remember it being that close to Richmond, as shown in the Google Maps shot. I remember a Walgreens, I think it was, and maybe another place between the Delman location and Richmond. I think Richmond was only two lanes then. Maybe it was widened toward the Delman location.
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    Here is some info on the Sterling mansion and camp from the Sloane Gallery website. It says it was patterned after the White House.
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    Went that way recently in Temple and snapped pictures of those two across the street from each other. The one on the bottom was previously a Mobil station, as mentioned.
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    Here's another photo of that building from the Bob Bailey archives that says it was at 506 Lamar.
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    My wife knows Don Ellis's wife, so I contacted her about your comments. She replied as shown below... The name of the bowling center on North Shepherd was Merchants Park . They bought it in 1968, bought the Palace in 1973, built another one named Diamond on the far North, on 1960, in 1977 and another one named Emerald in 1978. In 1983, they built another one named Copperfield on the west side. He had two partners, Pete Treybig and Bill Lillard. Don and Bill are in the National Hall of Fame, State and Local. Pete is in the State and Local.
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    More. I graduated in 1953 and would hate to see any of the original go, of course. Maybe it won't.
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    You're probably right on the genealogy research time-frame. If you can access the Ancestry.com website, their 1940 census application is much faster than the government website I noted. You can pick a certain page, if desired, without having to leaf through the whole document to get to it.
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    After 72 years, the 1940 census records are now available.You can look into it at this website. It doesn't have name listings for location purposes, but if you know the address or area (maps are available), you can find the enumeration district (ED) and look through all the images to find your address with its inhabitants' names listed. It's very interesting and extremely handy for anyone doing genealogical research. And it's free.
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    El Patio is correct and the Village theater was still open. I saw The Exorcist there in 1973.
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    FilioScotia... Is this the photo you mentioned? It's not the entire Westbury-Meyerland area, but it has some of it, and it's from 1960.
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    The first two photos are of Glenn McCarthy's place. The driveway entrance is on Kelving, to the right. Kirby is at the left side and Underwood at the top. His address was 7500 Kelving.
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    Yes. SW corner of Main and Texas, I believe it was.
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    Here are a couple of Woolworth pictures from the Bailey collection... 1939 1951 Here's a menu from the lunch counter/soda fountain. I don't have a date, but I would guess about early 50's.
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    Mine was, and still is,.. Lamar Redskins. Would be hard to convert to Lamar Native Americans.
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    Playland Baby, There was a poster here several years ago by the name of Sparky, who lived at Playland in the 50's. Here is a link to the start of her posts in Old Houston Amusement Parks... You can look through a lot more of her posts in that time-frame and pick up some interesting memorabilia from her recollections of Playland and the Playland surroundings in that era.
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    I don't remember seeing any pick-up races there in the mid-50's. Just about everything else though... Powder-puffs, figure 8's, demolitions, and the regular stock and modifieds.
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    Try this Texas Auto Racing website. They have a "Where are they now?" forum, and others that might help you in your search.
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