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[rob5]

There was also another Royal Burger on Callaghan and Culebra. It later became "Burger Time" and is a Mexican Food place now.

[SnappyBob]

Royal Burger on Culebra and Callahan.....I used to hate that place. During the Royal Burger era I worked down the street working a rotating shift so me and my co-workers ate out a lot. We got so tired of all the area eaterey's that we devised a way to make our nightly or dailey selection a little more interesting. We took a square box or cube about 6 inches on all sides like a dice and wrote area resteraunt names on the sides instead of numbers. Each day when deciding where we were going to go to get our to go lunches from (we always sent one person to pick up for all), we would roll the die and let it make the selection. The side that said Royal Buger had a disclaimer....Good for one more roll! If it landed on royal Burger twice in a row we had to eat there. This was back in the 70's and ther weren't many choices in the area. None of us liked Royal Buger. They were just nasty.

[Dwangle]

I think Royal Burger was an attempt to get a Burger King chain into San Antonio. Burger King couldn't move here because of Whopper Burger. Do you get the connection in the names? Also Royal Burger had the ROYAL not the whopper. It was a bad idea from the start. Then Burger King bought out Whopper Burger and moved in anyway.

[Dwangle]

I thought of some things that believe it or not, have not been mentioned yet. Captain K in the KTSA safty bird, The Cloverleaf Lounge, The Great Gatsby's Sandwich Shop, Sandwich Garden, Poorboy Pantry. How about the first time you rented a Video tape. I used to race Slot cars on friday nights for prizes. There was a slot car shop in the strip center at Vance Jackson and Latch. Dell Village I think. I raced there and Wonderland too. How about Cano's mexican food and Chicken Haven.

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Originally Posted by Dwangle

I thought of some things that believe it or not, have not been mentioned yet. Captain K in the KTSA safty bird, The Cloverleaf Lounge, The Great Gatsby's Sandwich Shop, Sandwich Garden, Poorboy Pantry. How about the first time you rented a Video tape. I used to race Slot cars on friday nights for prizes. There was a slot car shop in the strip center at Vance Jackson and Latch. Dell Village I think. I raced there and Wonderland too. How about Cano's mexican food and Chicken Haven.

Cano's!! I used to go there when I was a kid regularly.. great enchaladas. I ate at Sandwich Garden two weeks ago.. still good.

[Dwangle]

I remember the Lighthouse..My Dad built his house in 1959..He still lives there..I remember getting lumber at a place on Fred road. near Dewhurst or Gill ..they seem to me to be the same. Straight road ..no IH 10 at all. I remember playing on these huge hills that would become I 10..I remember when Wonderland opened..Northwest center was first then Northstar mall then Wonderland. The Betty and Glen Dance Studio was the only thing down stairs. I don't know why I was there but my Mom and Dad had some reason to be at the Town Hall.. My Sister got married there years later. I remember a glass window before Rhodes was built. There was a YO YO contest and I think the guy that won ended up on " TO TELL THE TRUTH" I think his name was Jimmy Lucas and he lived just down the street. I could be totally wrong about this stuff..I was just a kid.

[Dwangle]

I am so glad that Sandwich Garden is still there..I almost just drove down there to see.

[Dwangle]

My parents grew up across town from where I grew up. My earliest memory is a house near Basse and West ave. 238 Cliffwood Drive. To visit Grandma and Grampa we would drive down West ave to Basse and then through Olmos park to Hildebrand. We would take Hildebrand past Brackenridge park and Earl Ables and take a right on New Braunfels. We would drive through Fort Sam Houston and over the old railroad bridge. My mom's parents were on Houston street not far from the Colleseum. My dad's parents were further down at the corner of New Braunfels and Virginia .

[Patsycline]

Originally Posted by legendaryest

Does anyone remember the name of the old burger shop on pleasanton and hutchin? its not longer there and cant remember the name of that burger joint.

It was Skees Burgers!

[49 Olds]

Dwangle-there was a sandwich shop on San Pedro a couple blocks north of SAC and I think it was the Poorboy Pantry. The shop had a great muffuletta sandwich. They had a large train going around the ceiling perimeter of the shop. I think they also opened a second store on Babcock road in the first block west of Hillcrest in the old Lone Star icehouse. I use to hang out in (1964) at the Cloverleaf lounge on Main ave. east of SAC until a friend of mine was stabbed in the stomach.