Gone but not forgotten in San Antonio! (Fredericksburg, Fresno: gasoline, lizard)

[mudpuddle]

Originally Posted by gy2020

Morris Jaffe built Central Park Mall.

Correct.

I helped build it in 1967 I believe it was.

Grew up with jr.

At that time they lived in the mansion
at the top of the hill in Olmos Park.
Alameda Circle.

Lotsa stories. ha..ha........
those were strange times in the sixties.

I'd like to go back, knowing what I know now.
Or, not knowing.

mud

[mudpuddle]

Originally Posted by Cookiemeister

Which couple is your Mother/Father?




I guess the sailor in the white.

cook - wrong.

That snapshot, and the two below are my dad in 1947,
before and shortly after his service.
He woulda been about 19 years old - 1928.
Gone sixteen years ago on April 8. RIP....

First below is in San Antonio, on Wilkens Ave,
second is on the beach in San Diego, he was Shore Patrol.
None of these young ladies are my mother,
I was another year down the road.
You can see the gleam in his eye though.

mud

[Cookiemeister]

Great pictures Mud... and your father was very cute!

[mudpuddle]

Originally Posted by Cookiemeister

I have to add "deforkinglicious" to my vocabulary along with arrestmeblack!

I didn't know that the Waffle House was associated with the Siesta.
I have not heard any stories.

Which came first... Northwest Plaza or Wonderland?

I prefered the lemonade but the limeade was good too.

The Church's Chicken was better back then too.

We lived in the Jefferson area when I was a toodler and moved to BLANK in the mid 50's.

My mother used to shop downtown, then Fred Rd and Northwest Plaza until Wonderland Mall opened.

I didn't know that Jaffe bought that land. Which neighborhood did he build?

What is that house they moved to Blanco now?

Morris Jaffe built North Star Mall... right?

I met MJ once when he already had prostate ca.

He seemed like a very nice man.

Whew.... that's a lot of territory to cover cookie.

Today, Siesta Motel is the oldest business in Balcones Heights.
Siesta Waffle House is long gone,
I ate a few million waffles there,
and not a one of them ever sobered me up.

Chicken or the egg????
I think it was Wonderland,.... maybe not.

lemonade......
limonade.......
potato...
tomato...
don't matter, they both were real good.

Church's Chicken??? - I think chickens were bigger
back in those daze.
Maybe I was just smaller.

I do know where the Jefferson area is,
never heard of BLANK.

Jaffe built Dellview, and the farmhouse was moved south on Blanco Rd.
Can't tell you the name of the intersection,
but I can point it out to you.

(sidenote - Morris Jaffe bought the estate of Billie Sol Estes.
also entangled in the Clinton/Cisneros/LindaMedlar affair,
etc etc)

At one time, (1938-1973)
Morris Jaffe's mother owned the Havana Hotel
at Navarro St and the San Antonio River,
my grandfather had a service station across the street.
Navarro Street is named after my gggGrandFather.

cook, What is a DB question??

mud

[Primo]

As far as I know.....Jaffes built North Star Mall, but the Barshops own it. I believe the Jaffe's owned Central park mall (and still do).

[49 Olds]

mudpuddle-great pictures of your dad and the bikes. My dad spent 8 yrs. navy. raidoman, and first class of enlisted pilots (non officer) flew PBY's, first squadron nonstop to Panama from San Diego. Service years 1932 til 1940. He worked for Senator John Mccain's father in Panama. My brother just had a pencil sketch from a picture of mom and dad in their navy uniforms. Mom made her a uniform to match him. He talked about riding motorcycles which was an acceptable form of transportation before it became outlaw mode.
Below is a link to the U.S. Navy memorial site. My dad joined and placed his service time at this site about 10 ago. It only shows RM1. The very last things we discussed was his Navy ship and flying time. He left in 2003. Great guy.

You may have already signed the sight.

United States Navy Memorial

[Snowglobe]

Originally Posted by GWhopper

Does anybody remember when the Chopsticks buffet on 4-10 was a seafood restaurant called Joe Kelly's? This is back when Lohmann's Village actually had a store called Lohmann's in it. It later became an Alcapulco Sam's before becoming the Chinese buffet.

I remember Joe Kelly's. I think it was there around the late '80s and early '90s. At the bar they used to have all-you-could-eat boiled shrimp on Monday evenings. We would sit there for hours eating that shrimp.

I remember the area before Lohmann's Village was built. The streets behind Lohmann's Village and Home Depot were put in years before they built any of the stores. I used to ride my bicycle around there all the time and pick flowers for my Mom in the open fields. My friends and I called them "the new roads".

[blabride]

Originally Posted by GWhopper

I completely forgot about this place on the corner of San Pedro and Jackson-Keller! I remember driving by this place in the 1970's as my parents would drive over to visit friends on the other side of Oblate. I think in the 1980's it was converted to a kind of strip mall. Anybody have any better memories of it?

Wasn't this place on the corner of Oblate and San Pedro right across San Pedro from the shopping center anchored by Handy Andy. I remember going to wedding rehearsal dinner in their banquet room. I think there is a neighborhood at the corner of JK and San Pedro. I am going by the angle of the complex in the postcard, it would had to have been on the NW corner of the lot it sat in. I passed by this place many times going to Nimitz and Lee as well ad church near Lee.

[Cookiemeister]

Originally Posted by mudpuddle

Whew.... that's a lot of territory to cover cookie.

Today, Siesta Motel is the oldest business in Balcones Heights.
Siesta Waffle House is long gone,
I ate a few million waffles there,
and not a one of them ever sobered me up.

Chicken or the egg????
I think it was Wonderland,.... maybe not.

lemonade......
limonade.......
potato...
tomato...
don't matter, they both were real good.

Church's Chicken??? - I think chickens were bigger
back in those daze.
Maybe I was just smaller.

I do know where the Jefferson area is,
never heard of BLANK.

Jaffe built Dellview, and the farmhouse was moved south on Blanco Rd.
Can't tell you the name of the intersection,
but I can point it out to you.

(sidenote - Morris Jaffe bought the estate of Billie Sol Estes.
also entangled in the Clinton/Cisneros/LindaMedlar affair,
etc etc)

At one time, (1938-1973)
Morris Jaffe's mother owned the Havana Hotel
at Navarro St and the San Antonio River,
my grandfather had a service station across the street.
Navarro Street is named after my gggGrandFather.

cook, What is a DB question??

mud

Are you saying that your gggGrandfather was Jose Antonio Navarro!? Wow!

[gy2020]

49 Olds, Mud, Cookiemeister and all you other GBNF's, just started a new thread, San Antonio Saloons, 1870's-1910.