Gone but not forgotten in San Antonio! (Fredericksburg, Medina: hunting, limit)

[Dwangle]

ok I can't sleep so here is more. My dad found this lot in Dellview and decided to build a house on it. There were a couple of neighbor kids who had built a fort on this lot and claimed it as theirs. When my dad's house was finished they would still come around. Thats how I met them and we have been friends ever since. We never had any money. Our income was soda pop bottles and maybe some change from cigarettes or A loaf of bread or something. We would sit on the floor at Handy Andy or the Lone Star Ice house and read comic books till they threw us out. We would read all the comic books and buy the best one. Mike liked the JLA, Justice Leage of America, because it had everyone in it. I like Worlds Finest Comics because it had Superman and Batman together. They were my favorites. We would ride the bus down town and watch the monster movies at the Texas Theater. We would hang around down town and sometimes we would go to one of the stores that had a fountain and order a Pine Float. It was a glass of water with a toothpick in it. It was free. Most of the time they didn't care and we thought it was cool.

[49 Olds]

Dwangle- Thanks for the reminder. We too had the soda pop bottle income stream at 12 yrs old. Besides our 50-cent per week allowance, we took all the bottles from home to Model Market for a payday at .02 each. It was a double dip, but my dad liked not having the clutter of bottles at the house. When we were older and could drive we found a "bottle house" storeroom behind the motel on Oblate and San Pedro and "borrowed" a load of bottles for gas money, before we earned our Arizona Credit Card (rubber hose) for the only construction equipment that used gasonline which was the multi rubber tired road compactor that used a small gasoline engine for the water pump. Teen hoodlums.

[Dwangle]

yes My sister married the Grandson of guy who was building those multi tired road compactors

[gy2020]

49 Olds and others that have requested I reduce the size of my images, I have created a new thread, LOW RES IMAGES: TOWNS AROUND SAN ANTONIO. Enjoy!

[49 Olds]

Final confession- (1960) taking gasoline was not considered theft in our wee minds. It was a right of passage. The other thing we did was to "TRADE" batteries with construction equipment (install our battery in their equipment). The center dump scrapers used a 6 volt battery to operate a solenoid and the small farm tractors with front end loaders like A/C and Deer used 6 volt batteries. The problem was the next morning your "traded battery" had a crack in the case and the acid would be leaking out. The road and paving contractors west of 410 off Evers rd., Callaghan (Oak Hills) and Babcock won the game.

[Paka]

I remember, as a kid...we would take two straws and build them by sticking on into the other so the straw was two times as long...then take a bottle opener and we use to hang over the soda machine in the back of the gas stations (the old line, chest type of machine where you put your 6 cents in, pull the lever handle and move your coke to the far left side to slide down and pull out) and pop the tops and drink them right from the machine.

ALSO remember the whippin' we got when we got caught!!!

[bds9487]

We lived in San Antonio from 1958-1963. The last few years was on Fulton a couple blocks west of Blanco. I went to Agnes Cotten for 2nd, 3rd & 4th grades. I remember walking with my dad and brother to a BBQ place near Fulton and Fredericksburg. It was the first place my brother and I ever had BBQ and we loved it. Any body remember a BBQ joint there and what the name of it was?

[mr mike]

Back to heb i worked there for 17 years 1987-2004...the store on bandera and huebner closed in august of 85 and reopened and babcock and huebner. the bandera and hilcrest and babcock and callaghan stores bothe closed in 91 to reopen as heb marketplace on bandera and 410

[Dwangle]

I am sorry but I don't remember the Barbecue place. Does anyone remember Mrs. Mikes Hamburgers. They were around west ave and vance jackson. Somebody mentioned Shaefers (or something like that) Barbecue on San Pedro near Jackson Keller. My

[Dwangle]

I am sorry but I don't remember the Barbecue place. Does anyone remember Mrs. Mikes Hamburgers. They were around west ave and vance jackson. Somebody mentioned Shaefers (or something like that) Barbecue on San Pedro near Jackson Keller. My dad used to buy Barbecue there on sunday. Everything like beans and sauce was in those little square cardboard boxes with the wire handle. It was good stuff