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KFC and Burger King were a little more difficult to map..

KFC (of the 31 listed, 5 are still KFC)

227 W 20th St.

1473 E 40th St.

4320 Almeda Rd. (currently Green Seed Vegan)

5322 Antoine Dr. (currently La Seafood and Wings)

8595 Beechnut St.

5945 Bellaire Blvd. (strip center?)

11570 Bellaire Blvd. (currently dental office)

10708 W Bellfort St. (currently auto garage; rebuilt 1980?)

4022 S Braeswood Blvd. (unknown - 3 Brothers Bakery?)

203 E Crosstimbers St. (demolished?)

10518 Eastex Freeway (unknown - next door to Dairy Queen above?)

841 Edgebrook Dr.

3330 Ella Blvd. (currently El Rey)

11200 Fuqua St. (demolished)

4410 W Fuqua St. (currently Shipley's Donuts)

7058 Lawndale St.

7800 Long Point Rd.

10085 Long Point Rd. (currently El Norteno)

5913 Lyons Ave. 

10565 S Post Oak Rd.

5320 N Shepherd Dr. (demolished - currently COH OEM)

7202 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. (currently vacant? formerly Timmy Chan's)

2502 University Blvd. (now Village Arcade?)

16608 El Camino Real (currently Colosseum Italian Restaurant)

3207 Spencer Highway - Pasadena (currently TitleMax, rebuilt 1986)

Burger King (of the 36 listed, 15 are still Burger King)

4001 Bellaire Blvd. (demolished)

5757 Bellaire Blvd. (demolished?)

7817 Bellfort St.

9605 Dyersdale Rd. (?)

1731 Federal Rd.

7007 Fondren Rd.

4905 Griggs Rd.

12606 Hillcroft St. (currently Greater Houston Tax Service)

4638 Irvington Blvd.

9970 Kleckley Dr. (currently vacant?)

5820 Lockwood Dr. (demolished - sign still there)

1801 Mangum Rd. (currently Pizza Inn)

14529 Memorial Dr. (demolished - currently Leibman's Wine and Fine Foods)

10601 S Post Oak Rd. (currently Cici's Pizza)

4401 Telephone Rd. (currently Texas Car Title and Pay Day Loan)

554 Town and Country Village

5913 Westheimer Rd. (demolished - currently Slick Willie's)

1626 Wheeler Ave.

13415 Wood Forest Blvd.

1211 Spencer Highway - South Houston (currently oil change place?)

More from 1976 Houston area - Taco Bell, Wendy's, Dairy Queen, and TGI Fridays (KFC and Burger King are up next but more extensive)

Taco Bell (of the 6 listed, only one still is a Taco Bell)

1803 W 43rd St. (#1010, sold 1996, currently a Prudential Office)

9066 Long Point Rd. (#957, sold 1987, currently Auto Concepts)

5210 Bissonnet St. (#142, sold 1994, currently Roadster Grill)

6523 Westheimer Rd. (#238, demolished? currently strip mall)

330 S 69th St. (#313 - not sure about this one, can't really figure out where this should be unless it's actually Wayside Dr.)

Wendy's (of the 6 listed, 4 are still Wendy's)

2231 S. Voss Rd. (currently Mancuso's Italian Table, property once owned by Leroy Melcher)

2300 Westheimer Rd. (currently 60 Degrees, extensively remodeled)

Dairy Queen (of the 23 listed, 9 are still Dairy Queen)

6031 Airline Dr. (currently Pan-American OB/GYN)

8394 Bellaire Blvd. (unknown)

7215 Bellfort St. (currently El Compita Tire Shop)

8430 Boone Rd. (currently Serrano's Events)

10516 Eastex Freeway (demolished?)

6649 Harrisburg Blvd. (remodeled?)

9155 Irvington Blvd. (currently Abiding Love Baptist Church)

5590 North Freeway (possibly current Frenchy's)

8808 Panair St. (currently vacant, was Dairy Queen training and commissary - for HOU I assume)

470 Parker (unknown) still standing - convenience store (credit to Purpledevil below)

6516 Westheimer Rd. (unknown)

1702 Yale St. (demolished?)

6919 Spencer Highway - Pasadena (current Jiffy Lube?)

1318 Ave H. - Rosenberg (current Flamingo Snow Cones?)

26904 I-45 - Spring (current Crow's Nest liquor store?)

TGI Fridays

5010 Richmond Ave.

From the 1976 directory for Houston six of the seventeen listed McDonalds are gone now:

6610 Harwin Dr.: must have been somewhere in this office complex?

7702 N. Shepherd: McDonalds sold in 1994, currently looks vacant, remodeled as a veterinary clinic - sign post still there (this is the one mentioned above)

6333 Martin Luther King Blvd.: McDonalds sold in 1991, currently gas station (remodeled)

1022 Wirt Rd.: must have been somewhere in this strip center? Currently owned by Weingarten

1842 Wirt Rd.: McDonalds sold in 1991 - currently a car lot but building remains

407 W Southmore Ave. (Pasadena): McDonalds sold in 2004, likely demolished at that time

Wow very cool - I love mini time travels like that!

And yeah, at the beginning (about :17) you can see them passing by Atchafalaya River Cafe which back then was at 8816 Westheimer (currently Landry's, originally Night Hawk) and then at 4:02 they go through Barryknoll St. on the south side of the mall - so it looks like the route was Westheimer to Gessner straight north to the mall.

Oh, and it was posted on the 25th anniversary of the video! (July 20, 1989/2014)

That small scale caricature of the dome in the center. Come on! 

Just a Dollar .19! (used to be Just a Dollar...lol) - and the remnants:

http://arch-ive.org/archive/krupp-tuffly/

This is excellent...thanks!

Yeah, Snelling Motor Co. was at 2955 Kirby which is now Whole Foods (new building). It was also Plaza Lincoln Mercury in the mid 1970s.

^I still have my beat up little banner (I think the Chronicle gave them out?) from the championship party!

^That sounds about right. On 1953 aerials you can see those new neighborhoods and where South Park was pretty new and "merged" with Holmes right at the drive-in theater (that you can still see the ghost of today on 610/MLK)

There's a Pancho's sort of near me (Almeda Mall area) - I went there a few months ago and it hasn't changed for decades, for better or worse..

All I an do is give a list, but the Village area in the mid 1970s had Cobler Books (2517 Times Blvd.), Detering Book Gallery (2311 Bissonnet), Brazos (2314 Bissonnet), and Kendrick Books (2429 Rice Blvd.).

Other random ones:

Montrose had the Libran Book Shop (3700 Yoakum) and Montrose Book Shop (719 Hawthorne).

Southeast - Bellfort Book Store (7143 Bellfort), Palms Book Store (2113 Telephone), and the already mentioned Colleen's (6880 Telephone). Oh, and of course, Mr. Peepers at 5200 Telephone (lol).

The rink is the Polar Wave...it was just east of downtown.

Hmm! Learn something new every day! 

http://www.sloanegallery.com/polar_wave_ice_palace.htm

I came across a neat advertisement for Meyerland from 1958 - it blasts Houston's no zoning and warns of "mongrel neighborhoods" and "stately magnificent homes mingled with neon signs hawking insurance agencies, beauty parlors, funeral homes and apartment buildings – melancholy reminders that Houston has no zoning law"

http://arch-ive.org/archive/meyerland-houston/

I love me some Lana del Rey and Katy Perry..

Bumping an ooooold topic, but Red Carpet Inn, adjacent to the now defunct Happy Days, is on fire

http://www.click2houston.com/news/crews-battle-fire-at-red-carpet-inn-in-southeast-houston/26151094

Rice Urban Lofts? Is that necessary? (the urban addition)..

It was originally Grocers Supply (about 1940-late 50s/early 60s) before it moved out on Holcombe near 288 (and Thermal Supply moved in).

Wow - thanks for the above picture of the Canal location! Is it from Houston magazine? I had driven by that location a lot and finally snapped some pictures a while back:

http://arch-ive.org/archive/national-biscuit-co/

Noo! Not the skinny Rusk side building! Oh well.

Great news! I just passed by Stowers earlier today and noticed it was still vacant. And yeah, it's the only building that was left on the square block to make room for BG Group/MainPlace (Montagu Hotel, West Building, Bond Building, among others were torn down).

The Houston Symphony League Bay Area’s “Day by the Bay” home tour will feature some of the most beautiful and historical homes in the Clear lake Area. Scheduled for March 22-23, the home tour showstopper is the magnificent Italian Renaissance revival style home located at the corner of NASA Parkway and Space Center Blvd.

 

http://www.yourhoustonnews.com/bay_area/living/houston-symphony-league-bay-to-host-day-by-the-bay/article_44b627ec-2579-51d9-ba6c-b439cb69159b.html

How did you get this computerized printout of the various business types? I would love to search a few different places around town with that kind of information!

I have quite a few city directories - some in print (that I can scan/photograph) and some pdf (like that one). Houston Public has a lot of early directories online now but I think the interface isn't user friendly..

Oh, and looks like you're both right about Crown:

Funny, I happened to have an old package of nails from Handy Dan right here!