Remembering the late 60's and early 70's in Houston

[latetotheparty]

Originally Posted by feg

I remember Britains Broiler Burger on Westhimer and 2K's that had the best sundaes. In the 70's there was Genesis disco, Judges, Picies, Cowboy, After Dark, and Park Avenue. Clubs were different back then and lots of fun. Also, when Astroworld opened, it was THE place to go. Oh and girls everywhere had to have Pappagallo shoes from the store at Post Oak. Remember when all the drugstores like Walgreens had soda fountains in the back? And Across the Street restaurant on Westheimer where you ordered on a phone at your table and they would ring you back when your order was ready. Loved Houston back then.

Cowboy was the snooty C&W cub / bar...... The ONE time I ever went there, came out to find the trunk of my car splattered with blood..... apparently, there had been a fight in the parking lot and my car was a convenient place for someone to bust up someone else.......


The rest of us all went to San Antonio Rose.....


I will NEVER forget the bathroom attendant there hollering at all of us girls to "buckle up outside, ladies!! Buckle up outside!!" Meaning to finish tucking in our shirts or blouses and zipping and buckling up our jeans and belts outside of the bathroom stall so the next one could get in and recycle her beer.....

Originally Posted by Vansan871

I grew up near Channel 13 off of Wesleyan. I attended Will Rogers, Lanier and Pershing Jr highs and Lamar. The old Will Rogers site is now a Costco. I remember the old Michael Pollock commercials. He had a large bill board with featuring his face just inside the 610 Loop across from the Galleria. Some pre med Rice students I knew climbed the bill board one night and set off a black powder bomb that blackened Pollock’s smile. It stayed that way for a few weeks. All three guys went on to med school and have had successful careers as MDs. Well one did have to leave Houston to attend a different medical school after a party we threw at his house got way, way out of control. Sorry about that Raymond.

Pollock’s sizable development is now a third world ghetto run by the SW Chulo’s.

what years were you at Will Rogers and Lanier??



I started Will Rogers in 2nd grade, so that would have been fall, 1967, I think??



My mother was a teacher at the Jack n Jill preschool - kindergarten - 1st grade on Renwick, just off of Rice.... boy howdy, Renwick was a washboard, potholed, dirt and very poorly paved road back then.....


Started Lanier in 7th grade, fall of 1972..... then got yanked away from friends going on to Lamar because my parents decided I needed more religious education ..... started Marian as a sophomore, fall of 1975......

[hchan2350]

This thread may be super dead but I have to try!
My dad grew up in Houston (born 1955) and he talks all the time about his time bartending in the mid to late 70s. He thinks he worked at Bonaparte's Retreat but he knows the Orchard club rings a big bell. He talks about having an apartment at the Napolean Squaure apartments that the staff would use for after parties, pretty much when they got off of work.
I have been looking absolutely everywhere trying to find pictures or even just some stories from that time at those bars.
My dad loves going down memory lane from his time back then so I would love to be able to show him some fun things from then. If anyone has anything to contribute I would be so grateful!!

[AcresHomes44]

My parents remember when Houston was a sleepy town in the 60's and 70's. Before Acres Homes was annexed into the city of Houston, it was the largest unincorporated black community in the South. The 70's was when crime started to increase in Houston.

[hbcu]

Communities all had things in itself then as we were self sufficient

If you left it was cause you wanted something unique you couldn’t get at home.

[Lady Susan]

Hello, your Mom was a teacher at Jack and Jill? I went there and so did my brother! Small world. I have not been able to find anything about that little school. I have some questions and am wondering if you are available to talk sometime?

[astrohip]

Originally Posted by latetotheparty

My mother was a teacher at the Jack n Jill preschool - kindergarten - 1st grade on Renwick, just off of Rice.... boy howdy, Renwick was a washboard, potholed, dirt and very poorly paved road back then.....

Blast from the past. I also went to Jack & Jill. My parents wanted me in school, and my birthday was just past the cutoff (October), so they put me in J&J for K & 1. I moved to Lovett starting in 2nd grade.

I don't remember much. Vaguely recall a play yard outside, mostly dirt, had some chickens maybe?

[latetotheparty]

Originally Posted by astrohip

Blast from the past. I also went to Jack & Jill. My parents wanted me in school, and my birthday was just past the cutoff (October), so they put me in J&J for K & 1. I moved to Lovett starting in 2nd grade.

I don't remember much. Vaguely recall a play yard outside, mostly dirt, had some chickens maybe?

I remember ducks and geese..... and Suzette the goat who would occasionally get out of her pen. She chased my mom around the big field that separated the Kindergarten - 1st grade building from the pre-k building.



My brother and I attended school there while my mom taught. Once I graduated first grade, I moved to Will Rogers at Wesleyan and Richmond and my brother went on to a pre-k at a school I don't recall. Our mom went on to teach in the HISD for the next 20 or so years. Jack N Jill was her first job back to work after my brother and I came along.

[Houston Area Man]

Originally Posted by micmac99

I live in Westchase area now. (I an 42 and grew up in Northern California, been in Houston two years.) Any of y'all remember that area 40 years ago? My understanding was that it was open farmland right up until the early 1970s. I am told Gessner only went as far south as Richmond back then??? I have seen photos of the Sam Houston Tollway under construction in the 80s. Trippy!

What city in the bay?

[ValBrick]

I've looked all over for information about Jack and Jill! Went to the preschool, then summer and after school care. My brother attended kindergarten andf first grade there because he was a few weeks past the cutoff. I have very good memories of it. Wishing I could find some photos!