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10-09-2007, 01:36 PM
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The statue across from Incarnate word has no glamourous tale to go with it. It was a statue ordered from a catalog and the head was lost in transit. The owner put it up anyway.
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10-09-2007, 02:39 PM
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Last edited by Fujifrontier; 10-09-2007 at 02:48 PM..
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10-09-2007, 03:18 PM
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Here's a questions for the forum, does any body know the relationship between Murf's Better Burger and Burger Boy on St. Mary's? I've heard that both where descended from the original Whopper Burger. I know Burger Boy is for sure, it's owned by the Bates family who owned Whopper Burger. They still have a Bates special there. I took my wife there for lunch today and asked the lady behind the counter if they had any association with Murf's and she said no, they were two seperate companies. The food is essentialy the same at both places and all of them are in old Whopper Burger restaurants. I sm just curious what the story is behind them. Let me know, thanks!
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10-09-2007, 03:33 PM
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TCS: yes the frost bank time is still around. Funny, I call it when the power goes out and I need to reset my clocks.
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10-09-2007, 03:36 PM
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Originally Posted by mimimomx3
Also there was an all-ages club out near the Northside Stadium that I used to go to after the games - I can't remember its name though.
Why do I think it was called the 'teen canteen'? Great place.
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Teen Canteen was next to the Northeast stadium by 281 and Bitters. ZZ Top played there way back as a road band. |
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10-09-2007, 05:41 PM
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I want to meet the Frost Bank Time Lady, does anyone know who she really is?
(edit: I KNOW it's an automated system... but the voice is a real lady...)
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10-09-2007, 09:05 PM
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There are more missing....
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Originally Posted by GWhopper
That's a great list. I should know, I was the guy on the other side of the cube. There's a few there even I forgot.
Speaking of things that don't exist anymore:
US Long Distance, Billing Concepts, Billserve, and freakin' Aptis Software (that last one, I try hard to forget!)
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Builders Square was headquartered in the old Datapoint building off of Wurzbach and I-10...they are all gone.
Going back a ways....Ben Franklin 5 & Dime across the street from Ben Franklin Elementary on West Ave. We used to get our school supplies there.
Across the street from that was Parker's Drug Store that had a soda fountain and other great stuff for a kid to spend a $0.50 allowance on. Around the corner on Olmos Dr. was Olmos Grocery with a screen door with the Rainbow Bread ad painted on the front....there was a meat market in the very back. The old couple who owned it would give me bones for my dog...all gone! |
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10-09-2007, 09:11 PM
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Piggly Wiggly #132
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Originally Posted by GWhopper
I know there was defintely one on 4-10 near Marbach, on the left side of the road if you were driving to Lackland. We used to go out to church on base when I was a kid and we drove by that store (sometimes stopped) every Sunday.
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I worked at the Piggly Wiggly at 1950 Bandera Rd. from 1970 - 1975...It stayed open for another year after I left, but lost business to the new Albertson's store that opened at Bandera and 410 (now gone!). It closed about the same time as all of the others. I have photos of the inside and out of that store...the building was turned into a church at one time, but is empty now. There was another one further down Bandera towards town...forgot the intersection. |
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10-09-2007, 11:12 PM
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Originally Posted by MJMullins
I worked at the Piggly Wiggly at 1950 Bandera Rd. from 1970 - 1975...It stayed open for another year after I left, but lost business to the new Albertson's store that opened at Bandera and 410 (now gone!). It closed about the same time as all of the others. I have photos of the inside and out of that store...the building was turned into a church at one time, but is empty now. There was another one further down Bandera towards town...forgot the intersection.
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WOW,
Can you post the pictures that you have?
Hopefully,
Maxus |
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10-10-2007, 01:29 AM
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Remember when the nuns laid down in front of the buldozers to stop 281 from going through Incarnate Word? It made Walter Cronkite that night.
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I assume that it didn't work as 281 runs between ICU and ICHS. I'm trying to picture what it would have been like before that. Some kind of giant hill between the schools? |
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