Gone But Not Forgotten in San Antonio! - Part I (Austin: businesses, studios)

[Merovee]

Nigh-osa sounds way better and makes more sense.

[irnag]

Knee-osa? Isn't that a city in Wisconsin?

[tcs]

Late 70s maybe early 80s they started the Kens Ksat and dont forget Kmol. I wish in DFW they would drop all of the name for highways and call them what they really are.
You can drive 5 miles on an interstate and the GPS will mention 2 or 3 different names.
AND dont start saying THE 410 or THE 10 or THE 35.
And also be thankfull it is still San Pedro and not SAN PEEDROW (roll the r)

[BrianW]

Originally Posted by tcs

And also be thankfull it is still San Pedro and not SAN PEEDROW (roll the r)

I know what you mean - I've lived in Houston over 20 years, and still can't get used to San PHIL-i-pee for San Felipe!

[irnag]

Many of you may be interested in this. These are some scanned pages of an old program that welcomes back the Missions in 1968. Nice story about bringing baseball back to SA.



I included some ads that used the prefixes for everyone that enjoyed the phone discussion about 50 pages ago.

[irnag]

Whoops! the attached thumb on the bottom was meant for another post. As you see yet another dino post, but what is curious is if you look above the first dino, there is a sign for Jorries. Jorries, I believe was the furniture store across from Wonderland that was later Levitz and is currently?

[tcs]

Thanks for the post with pictures, yes and another look with you at Wonderland.

I remember the baseball days and even though we did not get to them, my dad and I would pitch the ball around in the back yard. Hey the ads were cool to look at also. I am surprised to see the telephone names still in use in the late 60s. Our old phone number in the house on Rock Creek Run was a 344 prefix that we moved into in 1966.
And Butter Crust Bread. That takes me back to the mandatory book covers that you would have to put on the public school text books. They were always Butter Crust Ads on the cover. As the school year went on the Butter Crust changed into Butt rust. Oh we were so young and thought that was so cool.

[Primo]

Originally Posted by tcs

Thanks for the post with pictures, yes and another look with you at Wonderland.
And Butter Crust Bread. That takes me back to the mandatory book covers that you would have to put on the public school text books. They were always Butter Crust Ads on the cover. As the school year went on the Butter Crust changed into Butt rust. Oh we were so young and thought that was so cool.

I remember those and I remember the rare Big Red book covers...they were white and had a recipe for a Big Red float. That used to make me so thirsty in school...I would run home and make me one. (And we still didn't have a bunch of obese kids then!)

[munerider]

Missions in '68? That yr or the next I got the autographs on my glove of future big leagers Oscar Gamble and Brock Davis...and Indian HoF-er Bob Feller (of course my dang Great Dane ate the glove when my kids took it outside to use and left it!!!)

We were poor when we got married, so my first wife and I honeymooned here and we went to a Missions game at St Mary's...and golfed...and ate at Hung Fong's when they were remodeling and had picnic tables inside...STILL can't figure out why that marriage didn't last!

Oh...Butt rust and Big Red book covers..we also had the Guadalupe Valley Electrical Co-Op, I think...out in Schertz.

[Merovee]

Mmm the one field trip to Butter Krust. Everyone got the pencil, the ruler, and that one freshly baked slice of bread. I still remember the smell of the bread every time I would drive by the factory. Tis a shame they finally took out that mechanical billboard sign where the bread would fall out of the loaf.