mkultra25 Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 Does anyone remember the Airline Drive-In Theater across from Northline Mall? Didn't see it in the photosI remember it clearly from when I was a kid. I haven't run across too many photos of it, but there's a nice color one I had never seen before here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vertigo58 Posted February 19, 2008 Share Posted February 19, 2008 I remember it clearly from when I was a kid. I haven't run across too many photos of it, but there's a nice color one I had never seen before here. That was a really cool link! I never knew lightning had stuck one of the drive ins! Oops I think this topic has spiraled into a drive in topic not Gulfgate of 1950's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
northbeaumont Posted February 19, 2008 Share Posted February 19, 2008 That was a really cool link! I never knew lightning had stuck one of the drive ins! Oops I think this topic has spiraled into a drive in topic not Gulfgate of 1950's. The Winkler Drive-In Theatre was right by Gulfgate on the corner of Winkler Drive and Flowers Street. I wish someone had a photo of it. No way,They would shoot out the screens and tag all over them. Society is no longer civilized. No Drive-In's could ever be the way they used to be. Insurance would be too expensive then owners would have to hire security (like Fort Knox). People are just too insane. Maybe that's what could be done with the Astrodome. Inside, nobody could vandalize it. And it could stay open year-round. I remember most people didn't want to go to a drive-in theatre in the winter time or when it would rain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vertigo58 Posted February 19, 2008 Share Posted February 19, 2008 Maybe that's what could be done with the Astrodome. Inside, nobody could vandalize it. And it could stay open year-round. I remember most people didn't want to go to a drive-in theatre in the winter time or when it would rain. Imagine automobiles driving into the center of the old dome and watching a movie? May as well park your car in the garage close the garage doors and leave car runnning. Cough!, cough! Hee Hee just kidding! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
northbeaumont Posted February 19, 2008 Share Posted February 19, 2008 Imagine automobiles driving into the center of the old dome and watching a movie? May as well park your car in the garage close the garage doors and leave car runnning. Cough!, cough! Hee Hee just kidding! Yes, if someone wanted to commit suicide, they would simply go watch a movie and leave the windows up and the engine running. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vertigo58 Posted February 19, 2008 Share Posted February 19, 2008 Yes, if someone wanted to commit suicide, they would simply go watch a movie and leave the windows up and the engine running. or just go see a Pauly Shore film...Now that's suicide! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
northbeaumont Posted February 22, 2008 Share Posted February 22, 2008 or just go see a Pauly Shore film...Now that's suicide! Who's Pauly Shore? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vertigo58 Posted February 22, 2008 Share Posted February 22, 2008 Who's Pauly Shore?Truly pathetic. He does seem like someone you might see at Gulfgate too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
northbeaumont Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 Truly pathetic. He does seem like someone you might see at Gulfgate too. Somewhat like Tiny Tim? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkultra25 Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 Somewhat like Tiny Tim? Yeah, but without the talent. Sorry, someone had to say it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 Getting way, way off topic... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
northbeaumont Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 Getting way, way off topic...OK, back on topic. How is business at Gulfgate today? Is it now a place that's slowly but surely becoming a ghost town? I've read postings on this forum of people talking about a lot of its stores having closed down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicman Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 OK, back on topic. How is business at Gulfgate today? Is it now a place that's slowly but surely becoming a ghost town? I've read postings on this forum of people talking about a lot of its stores having closed down.that's the old gulfgate which was dozed about 2000 or so. the new gulfgate is holding its own currently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark F. Barnes Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 quite sure the show boat has shut down due to lack of intrestNot a chance, it's pretty packed most of the time, the wife and I use it for date night, we use to go to the drive in years ago. When the Showboat popped up we were thrilled. Nice place, well taken care of. Great location, 30 minute drive and we are there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakdad Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 http://oldfortyfives.com/TakeMeBackToTheFifties.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJones Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 Let's see, you got 57T-bird, FilioScotia, H2B, and Redscare............ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimberlySayWhat Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 I do in my heart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FilioScotia Posted May 1, 2008 Share Posted May 1, 2008 Let's see, you got 57T-bird, FilioScotia, H2B, and Redscare............ You rang? Oh do I remember the 50s. So many memories. So little time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
infinite_jim Posted May 1, 2008 Share Posted May 1, 2008 you people can't die fast enoughedit: w/ the exception of RedScare, I enjoy his sense of humor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devonhart Posted May 1, 2008 Share Posted May 1, 2008 I can remember the tail end of the 50s '58 and 59, I was only about 4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverartfox Posted May 1, 2008 Share Posted May 1, 2008 Yes, I remember the 50's! Native Houstonian, attended HISD schools, received degrees from Texas universities. Lived and worked here most of my life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fortbendtomontrose Posted May 3, 2008 Share Posted May 3, 2008 Born in 1955 near OST and LaSalette. Lived in Timbergrove Manor and then SW Houston.No distinct memories of the 50's but I'm pretty good from say 1961 on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NenaE Posted May 3, 2008 Share Posted May 3, 2008 Heard all about it from mom & dad. Especially the music. They were young parents...mom says it was a neat period to grow up in. My dad and uncle had 57 chevys. Always talked about how fast those V8 engines were. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
57Tbird Posted May 3, 2008 Share Posted May 3, 2008 Let's see, you got 57T-bird, FilioScotia, H2B, and Redscare............ Well... I'm going to my 55th HS reunion down there this November, so that will give you a clue as to my relation to that period. It was an absolutely wonderful period to "come of age" in. Wouldn't trade it for any decade since. My first car was a '51 Chevy, then a '56 Ford, and, most recently... what else but a '57 T'bird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plumber2 Posted May 3, 2008 Share Posted May 3, 2008 1955, St. Joseph's Hospital. I can remember climbing a tree in our front yard with my older brothers and sister in the late 1950's just as the sun was setting just to watch the cartoons showing at the Post Oak Drive-In. Our house was west of Chimney Rock, but we still had an unobstructed view. Does that count as "far enough back"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retama Posted May 5, 2008 Share Posted May 5, 2008 God bless Joe McCarthy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nm5k Posted May 7, 2008 Share Posted May 7, 2008 I still remember watching Ike and his bald head on TV quite a bit..Being I'm a 56'er, the tail end is all I remember. I rememberquite a few of the TV shows of the late 50's. Capt Kangaroo,77 Sunset Strip, Gunsmoke, Wagon Train, etc, ad nausium..I remember the beginnings of the space program pretty well.I can remember watching Mercury launches and flights during the day, with my baby sitter usually ironing clothes while I watched... :/Course, that was in the early 60's. I was in school by the time JFKwas shot. I didn't really keep up with music much in the 50's, but I rememberour record player would spit out Les Paul and Mary Ford, and some of the big band stuff like Glenn Miller, etc.. I still rememberthe album covers, and I can remember Glenn Millers "In the Mood"playing quite a bit. I didn't know the name then, but hearing it againin later years, I recognized it and found out what it was I heard backthen.. :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earlydays Posted May 7, 2008 Share Posted May 7, 2008 http://oldfortyfives.com/TakeMeBackToTheFifties.htm My wife and I remember the 50's well....she was born in Houston in 1946 and I came to Houston in 1953 at the age of 7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pdmalek Posted May 29, 2008 Share Posted May 29, 2008 Fed Mart moved in after Globe closed. That would have been around 1970 or 71? After Fed Mart closed they tore down the building and built a Mervyns.I think Globe was there till around the mid 70's. I remember going to the store as a child. Fed Mart I think was around 78-79 because I remember buying 1979 Topps Baseball Cards there. I had a box still with the sticker on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NenaE Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 I to saw that aerial photo and noticed the same thing, I lived in the Gulfgate Village Apartments from around 1961 to 1978, my Dad took slides back then and somewhere I have a slide of me at the crawling age before I could walk, and the Globe store is on fire in the background. There were some old fire trucks, and the firemen spraying water on the building, my mom use to tell me it almost burnt to the ground. So that was sometime around January 1962.That Gulfgate Village Apt. complex had some beautiful old trees, last I saw, they were still there, behind the Wendys. Huge trees like those were very common throughout Pecan Park. The street before that, that the *bank is on, had a strip mall in the 1950's-60's, with a Olan Mills Portraits Studio, & a carpet store with a sign out front, (round, space age w/blinking? sticks), very 60's.* I forgot, there are alot of banks around there now, the one I am talking about is maybe 4 stories, looks like an office bldg, st. is directly west of where the apts. & Globe were. Plum Creek runs through there somewhere, and across Gulfgate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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