capt. kirk

HEY CAROL.........THERE IS AN OBSERVATION FLOOR AT THE WILLIAMS TOWER............YOU SHOULD GO UP THERE SOMEDAY................ALSO THERE IS A 75 STORY BUILDING IN DOWNTOWN HOUSTON THAT HAS AN OBSERVATION FLOOR TOO, GREAT VIEWS............AND THE EL CAPITAN IS PART OF THE HISTORY OF PASADENA............THE OLDER PART, RIGHT AND CAROL...............THEY HAVE TUNNELS UNDERNEATH DOWNTOWN HOUSTON JUST FULL OF STORES AND EATERIES............YOU CAN WALK THE ENTIRE LENGTH OF TOWN.............ITS REALLY NEAT UNDER THERE...............YOU SHOULD TRY THAT SOMETIME TOO

GLENN MCCARTHY AND SOME OF HIS OTHER OIL MEN FRIENDS CONTRIBUTED LOTS OF MONEY FOR THE SHAMROCK TO BE BUILT..........ITS ASHAME THAT MR. MCCARTHY HASNT BEEN REMEMBERED IN HOUSTON HISTORY READ CORDUROY ROW....THE LIFE AND TIMES OF GLEN MCCARTHY................HE WAS ONCE KNOWN AS THE BEST WILDCATTER IN THE OIL BUSINESS, ALL IN TEXAS

GLENN MCCARTHY AND SOME OF HIS OTHER OIL MEN FRIENDS CONTRIBUTED LOTS OF MONEY FOR THE SHAMROCK TO BE BUILT..........ITS ASHAME THAT MR. MCCARTHY HASNT BEEN REMEMBERED IN HOUSTON HISTORY

THERE DEFINITELY WAS A MEYERS SPEEDWAY...........IT WAS A LITTLE BEHIND PLAYLAND PARK, DONT REMEMBER THE CROSS STREETS. USE TO GO ALL THE TIME WHEN I WAS LITTLE THE FOOTBALL STADIUM IS BUTLER..................IT WASNT THAT FAR DOWN SOUTHMAIN...............BETWEEN WHAT IS NOW 610 AND HOLMES RD AREA

THE MAJESTIC AND THE METROPOLITAN THEATERS WERE LOCATED IN DOWNTOWN HOUSTON........THE SEATS WERE ON A SLANT FROM TOP TO BOTTOM AND THEY HAD A BALCONY....ALSO MINI BALCONIES BUT NO ONE SAT IN THOSE..........VERY OLD ARCHITECTURE BUT TORN TOWN FOR PARKING LOTS. LOWES, ALABAMA, FORGOT THE REST

BILL WILLIAMS RESTAURANT WAS A GREAT PLACE TO EAT AND I ALSO REMEMBER THE FORTUNE TELLER................AS FOR AS THE REASON THAT YOU CANT REMEMBER FROM ONE ROOM TO THE NEXT.............HMMMM..........................IT'S CALLED GETTING OLDER AND I TO HAVE THAT SAME PROBLEM.

PLAYLAND PARK WAS NO WHERE NEAR PEARLAND...........IT WAS IN THE AREA JUST BEHIND WHERE THEY BUILT ASTROWORLD................PEARLAND IS SOUTH OF HOUSTON

IT OPENED IN 1957, THE SAME YEAR MY SISTER WAS BORN--LIKE ONE POSTER SAID--IT WAS REDONE BY THE SAME PEOPLE THAT REFURBISH MEYERLAND GULFGATE IS BORDERED BY WOODRIDGE, I-45 AND 610 AND STILL EXISTS THERE--------MEYERLAND IS ON 610 AND BISSONET I THINK, NEAR THE GALLERIA-----------TWO DIFFERENT SHOPPING MALLS

THERE WAS ALSO KITTIRICK ON CHAN 13....UTAH CARL FROM ALVIN....UNCLE BERT LYNN AND HIS KIDDIE SHOW....MILK DROP MO FOR FOREMOST MILK.... ALSO CURLY FOX AND TEXAS RUBY

WILL ALL THESE PLACES THAT YOU MENTIONED YOU CANT BE VERY OLD......ON SOUTH MAIN, BETWEEN BRAESWOOD AND 610 THERE STILL IS OR WAS A PLACE CALLED KIDDIE LAND--IT HAD RIDES OF ALL KINDS, PEDAL CARS THAT YOU PROPELLED WITH YOUR HANDS, PONIES TO RIDE, ETC.............WAY BEFORE ASTRO WORLD, THERE WAS PLAYLAND PARK--IN IT'S HEYDAY IT WAS THE ONLY PLAY TO GO--IT WAS LOCATED JUST WEST OF WHERE ASTRO WORLD WAS--RIGHT BEHIND PLAYLAND PARK THERE WAS A RACE TRACK FOR DIRT TRACKERS CALLED MEYER SPEEDWAY, OH THOSE GOOD OLD CARS COULD RUN--THEN CAME COLT 45'S STADIUM (AN OUTSIDE STADIUM) FOR BASEBALL, SOMEWHERE AROUND 61/62--THEN THEY BUILD ASTROWORLD, A PRETTY DECENT PART OF TOWN THEN--THE BASEBALL GAMES WERE ABOUT $3 AND I THINK ASTROWORLD AROUND $5, YOU COULD DO TICKETS BY YOUR WEIGHT, COKE CANS,ETC--AN ALL OF THE OLD DRIVE IN THEATERS HAD PLAYGROUNDS RIGHT UNDER THE SCREENS FOR THE KIDS SO THE PARENTS COULD WATCH THE MOVIES--$1 DOLLAR A CAR LOAD OR YOU COULD SNEAK PEOPLE IN BY PUTTING THEM IN THE TRUNK OF YOUR CARS OR DRIVING THROUGH THE EXIT--THE OWNERS FIXED THAT PROBLEM WITH THE SPIKES, WHEN YOU WENT OVER THEM BACKWARDS KAPOW WENT YOUR TIRES--THEY HAD THE OLD BUSCH STADIUM ON CULLEN (MLK) AT I-45, TICKETS WERE CHEAP--HOT WELLS WAS A RPIVATELY RUN CLUB, HORSEBACK RIDING, SWIMMING AND THE SUCH--WE EITHER WENT SWIMMING AT CRYSTAL POOL ON SOUTH MAIN...IT HAD 3 DIVING BOARDS, A WATER SLIDE, A BUBBLE IN THE DEEP END WHERE YOU COULD GO ABOUT 12FT DOWN AND BREATH AIR, HOCKEY, TRAMPOLINES AND THE SUCH--IF ME AND GUYS WERE OUT FOR FUN WE USUALLY TRIED ALL THE WATER HAZARDS AT GOLFCREST COUNTRY CLUB...WE GOT TONS OF GOLFBALLS LIKE THAT--OR WE WOULD HIT ALL THE POOLS AT THE MOTELS FROM PARKPLACE TO COLLEGE AVE. AND PRETEND WE WERE VISITING, THAT IS UNTIL THEY CAUGHT ON--AND THERE WAS ALWAYS PUTT PUTT GOLF (MINATURE) --OR CRUISE THROUGH PRINCE DRIVE INS---IN OUR DAY WE COULD ALWAYS FIND SOMETHING TO DO

SOME REALLY GREAT PICTURES BUT SOME OF THESE SCHOOLS STILL EXIST AND ARE STILL BEING USED.

OLD SAM HOUSTON (CLAY ST DOWNTOWN) WAS MOVED TO IT'S CURRENT LOCATION ON BAUMAN---SAN JACINTO HIGH SCHOOL DOWNTOWN IS NOW THE MAIN CAMPUS FOR H.C.C.---CARVER HIGH SCHOOL BUT IM NOT SURE, THERE MAY HAVE BEEN TWO, ONE IN ALDINE AND ONE IN HOUSTON--WESTCHESTER AND SPRING BRANCH IN SBISD---FIDELITY MANOR HIGH SCHOOL, GALENA PARK ISD.

THE LAST CLASS TO GRADUATE FROM SAN JACINTO WAS 1969. IT SAT VACANT FOR SEVERAL YEARS UNTIL H.C.C. CAME ALONG. IT'S NOW THE MAIN CAMPUS

I BELIEVE THE OLD SPRING BRANCH IS WHERE THE ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES ARE. WESTCHESTER IS NOW SOME KIND OF COLLEGE CAMPUS, NOT SURE WHAT KIND THO

MIZE'S BAKERY AT GULFGATE MALL, THE RANCH HOUSE ON TELEPHONE RD. NEAR HOBBY, DUCHO'S ON SHEPERD-THIS ONE MIGHT STILL BE THERE JUST NOT SURE, GOGI'S PIZZA AT PARK PLACE AND BROADWAY, THE COPPER KETTLE--FORGOT THE LOCATION, PICADILLY CAFETERIA AT GULFGATE, THE CHUCK WAGON/TASTE FREEZE ON BROADWAY IN PARK PLACE, THE ORIGINAL JAMES COONEY ISLAND IN DOWNTOWN HOUSTON WITH THE UPSTAIRS,

from one ex-buffalo to another, class of 65, the school has never looked better and she looks good for 80. my whole family went to milby from 33-75. i might know some of you

i dont remember the name of the hamburger place next to waltrip, i just remember it being in the same parking lot. pretty cool that you could leave the school grounds for lunch. also i remember waltrip as having a jukebox in the cafeteria. our school got one in 64.

the original mcdonals was located on wayside drive. as you come from I-10 take the wayside exit and go south. as you pass all the train tracks on your left you will come to an overpass. as you come down the other side wayside makes a slight turn. the old hamburger stand was on your right very close to the old army/navy surplus store. before the (big) mcdonalds came, they had to change or get naming rights. the old hamburger stand that i am referring too was there in the 40's, maybe before. as for as the dates and times that it lost its name, i have no idea now, im old and i have forgotten a lot of stuff lol another old buffalo, class of 65

i am from the east side of houston around the ship channel area, harrisburg and broadway. the best i remember is that westbury square was new in the early 60's. most of the pictures in the yearbooks were taken in 65 so the square wasnt that old. maybe an ice cream shop, a candle shop and a restuarant or two. and even westbury h.s. was fairly new. i havent been by the square in about 35 years. there is no telling what it looks like now. i am from the east side of houston around the ship channel area, harrisburg and broadway. the best i remember is that westbury square was new in the early 60's. most of the pictures in the yearbooks were taken in 65 so the square wasnt that old. maybe an ice cream shop, a candle shop and a restuarant or two. and even westbury h.s. was fairly new. i havent been by the square in about 35 years. there is no telling what it looks like now. westbury to us was the rich side of town in those days