Gone But Not Forgotten in San Antonio! - Part I (Lackland AFB: area code, telephone)

[Primo]

In honor of GW Whopper and all his efforts......let us take a moment to recall all the locations of Whopper Burger and GW Jrs? I know this isn't all of them

Whopper Burger:
I-10 Wurzbach (HEB parking lot)
Callaghan and Fredricksburg
410 and Bandera
Wonderland Mall
San Pedro( near Maggies, present day Arbys)
St. Mary's strip (Present day Burger Boy)
West Ave near Basse (present day Murfs)
San Pedro (Between N. Star and Oblate, present day Murfs)

GW Jr. :
Wurzbach and Blumel
Broadway & 410
Wonderland Mall

[Primo]

Do not continue this thread...I just wanted to answer the phone number question and put it to rest since it is off topic.

The letters come from the central offices. The phone company has names for each central office. For example in San antonio...you probably remember CA-#### for CA = Capital. Why was it done? Nobody knows....it made sense to someone that was a decision maker. Why is a phone keypad and a calculator keypad arranged opposite? Nobody knows....it sounded good to someone.

[munerider]

Primo...thanx for the memory jogger...the time/temp at Broadway Bank was CA6-???? 2323, maybe? As for me I was OL8-3126 (OL=olive, Olive8 I remember my folks and theirfriends calling it...UC area). I'm 48 and remember that until early 70s.

[munerider]

There was a GW Jr on Pat Booker as well.

[SnappyBob]

The two letters also were an indication of what area the phone number was located. When I was growing up on the South East side of town we were in the Lehigh exchange. Now those numbers are all 53 prefixes. My dad, who is 84, still has the same phone number that he had when I was born and even before that and I'm 54. We even moved once and still kept that same number. A few years ago I found an old piece of wood that was being used as a shelf support in an old house that I owned and was renovating for sale. It's original use was an end piece for a tomato crate. It has the name of a tomato distibuting company out of Houston on it with a phone number that has a 2 letter prefix and only 4 numbers. I wonder how long it's been since Houston only used six characters for phone numbers?

[Willsatx]

Originally Posted by Primo

In honor of GW Whopper and all his efforts......let us take a moment to recall all the locations of Whopper Burger and GW Jrs? I know this isn't all of them

Whopper Burger:
I-10 Wurzbach (HEB parking lot)
Callaghan and Fredricksburg
410 and Bandera
Wonderland Mall
San Pedro( near Maggies, present day Arbys)
St. Mary's strip (Present day Burger Boy)
West Ave near Basse (present day Murfs)
San Pedro (Between N. Star and Oblate, present day Murfs)

GW Jr. :
Wurzbach and Blumel
Broadway & 410
Wonderland Mall

GW Jr's were also located at S. Alamo and 35 (Original building is still there), San Pedro near sac, Bandera and Heubner (Next to church's).

[GWhopper]

Originally Posted by Willsatx

GW Jr's were also located at S. Alamo and 35 (Original building is still there), San Pedro near sac, Bandera and Heubner (Next to church's).

I think there was a Whopper burger on Bandera and Wurzbach near 4-10. I think it might be a Schlotsky's now, or at least had been the last time I was near there. It was between the McDonalds and Aunt Julie's Kitchen (now Henry's Puffy Taco). There also used to be a Sizzler near there.

[GWhopper]

Now that I think of it, does anybody remember a Cajun restaurant on Bandera, on the other side of Wurzbach? I think it was called the Bayou's. I always wondered if they were related to the Bayou's on the riverwalk (where Landry's is now). This was in the 1980's.

[Primo]

Remember Pear Apple County Fair...it was an amusement park off 410 near Ingram mall. I think it is a church now? That wasn't open very long...I bet some investors lost their pants on that place. I never went to it...I heard it was a nice venue, but it was nothing but gangsters that hung out there.

[GWhopper]

Another cool site for us urban nostalgia buffs....

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