Gone but not forgotten- Old Corpus Christi (Waco, Sweetwater: sale, live)

[wehotex]

[quote=tjet7109;15908737]I was a bus boy at Buccaneer Bowl from 81 to 83. Lot's of stories, lot's of memories. I was sixteen, my buddy was the porter on the lanes, he was from Laos his name was THONG, pronounced "Tong". We both went to King. We would cut through Sharon Street to Alemeda to get to work. I'm 45 now, was in the first Desert Storm, on second marriage but Thank God I found her, I Love her very much and "No I'm not whipped LOL. Well if any of you remeber, lay down some lines, and I'll check back once in a while. Does anyone remember a ice cream parlor on Staples called Sugar Daddy's across from Mission Theatre. TJF[/QUOT

I also attended King High around that time. I graduated in 1981. You worked there in the last days of Buc Bowl. They tore it down to make what was then to become a mega-HEB. They closed our neighborhood HEBs @ cullen mall and town & country to make this huge mammoth one, (or so we thought at the time). the ice cream parlor "sugar daddy's" was across from the mann national twin in the 70s. I remember more "swensen's" in the 80s, which was next door to the gallagher's steak house. Did you go to that club behind T & C in the early 80s? It was either called "mars" or "iron horse".

[Marlow]

[quote=wehotex;15916444]

Originally Posted by tjet7109

I was a bus boy at Buccaneer Bowl from 81 to 83. Lot's of stories, lot's of memories. I was sixteen, my buddy was the porter on the lanes, he was from Laos his name was THONG, pronounced "Tong". We both went to King. We would cut through Sharon Street to Alemeda to get to work. I'm 45 now, was in the first Desert Storm, on second marriage but Thank God I found her, I Love her very much and "No I'm not whipped LOL. Well if any of you remeber, lay down some lines, and I'll check back once in a while. Does anyone remember a ice cream parlor on Staples called Sugar Daddy's across from Mission Theatre. TJF[/QUOT

I also attended King High around that time. I graduated in 1981. You worked there in the last days of Buc Bowl. They tore it down to make what was then to become a mega-HEB. They closed our neighborhood HEBs @ cullen mall and town & country to make this huge mammoth one, (or so we thought at the time). the ice cream parlor "sugar daddy's" was across from the mann national twin in the 70s. I remember more "swensen's" in the 80s, which was next door to the gallagher's steak house. Did you go to that club behind T & C in the early 80s? It was either called "mars" or "iron horse".

I don't remember the name of the club, but the band that played there all the time was Little Ducks from Mars.

I remember Sugar Daddy's too. My brother worked there for a while.

[wehotex]

[quote=Marlow;15921156]

Originally Posted by wehotex

I don't remember the name of the club, but the band that played there all the time was Little Ducks from Mars.

I remember Sugar Daddy's too. My brother worked there for a while.

good memory, thanks marlow.

[panthercityhorn]

Great times at Buc Bowl back in the sixties. Ginger was at the desk and knew your name and shoe size when you walked in. Three games for a dollar and the upstairs pool hall with lots of tables. The pinball machines were always kept in good working order as well and I got to know the guy who came out to service them and collect the money. He would ring up ten games and you could play all afternoon.

[Curt Gunz]

Originally Posted by feudoj

my name is John Feudo, Helen and Joe Feudo were my Great Grandparents. I know that if they were alive today they would thank you all for the wonderful comments and great memories from back in the day. It was their lifes work to create and maintain those stores. They lived by the motto, do unto others and, you will love each other. I feels really great that the people of Corpus Christi remember my grandparents and the things they accomplished with the stores.

Are you the Johnny Feudo who lived on Cambridge Dr.?

My family lived on Brentwood Dr. If you are the one I am thinking of you were friends with Roger Gunz and Missy Gunz and went to Sam Houston Elementary School. Is that right?

[Curt Gunz]

Originally Posted by tjet7109

Does anyone remember a ice cream parlor on Staples called Sugar Daddy's across from Mission Theatre. TJF

They had some big ice-cream thing with a bunch of scoops of ice-cream and if you ate it all you got it free.

[wehotex]

Originally Posted by Curt Gunz

They had some big ice-cream thing with a bunch of scoops of ice-cream and if you ate it all you got it free.

Their banana split was called the "howard huge". LOL

[lflores11]

Does any one remember if there was a cave uptown that had stores in it? It was somewhere near the Cathedral.

[kf5wd]

There could have been a store under the bluff along there somewhere but I lived there from 1936 until 1960 and I don't remember a cave there.

[wehotex]

Originally Posted by lflores11

Does any one remember if there was a cave uptown that had stores in it? It was somewhere near the Cathedral.

Haha, I've never heard it referred to as a "cave" You are referring to the "tunnel" that ran behind the old downtown library that has been torn down for many years. (mesquite & schatzell, i think) you can see the bluff fountain over where the one of the tunnel entrances used to be. the entrance is barricaded now, but open in the early 70s when my grandfather would take us walking down there. even then, i think that the stores were long gone. the other entrance was either at the foot of the white bldg or nixon bldg. businessppl would shop at the tunnel stores or make their way to DT without fear of being runned over. my grandmother was in a radio show in the 1930s called "la hora femenina" at KGFI, the city's only radio station at the time, which was located in that tunnel.
I remember seeing a posted sign there that said "fallout shelter" and asked grandpa what that was. I'm not sure if they still have those or not. One of those out of sight, out of mind things.