Gone but not forgotten in San Antonio! (Mission, Fredericksburg: shops, money)

[super-FISH-ial]

I do not know about in the late 70's but when I was in high school (Marshall '85) it was a "teen club" called Pappy's. Was just accross the street from the parking lot - south side of the parking lot I think.

[munerider]

ok, a few more...
*concerts at hemisfair and municipal...one great one was black sabbath, moxy, boston before they were big...another was zz top AND willie nelson (8 dollar tickets...5th row!).
*local bands...Heyoka from SA, Too Smooth from Austin (opened for Aerosmith's Toys in the Attic stop), OzKnoz from Houston.
*Was it Par-Tee House, the target par three course on N35 near O'connor?
*Caves of White Top (you wouldn't understand..itsa NE thang)
*99 cent 6 packs (save your lunch money, kiddos!)
*22 rifles in your gun rack, your truck unlocked, and it was OK AND still there after school
*Michelino's on the river...Michelob and great pizza...hold it...wasn't that what I said about Gatti's on Naco-Perrin...starting to see a pattern in my life...hmmmm
*15 yr old strippers...and it wasn't wierd (sorry guys...that's how it was...and as a father of a 15 yr old girl now, it creeps me out)
*the KLRN auction
*Kiss Me, I'm (Irish, Polish, German...pick your own) buttons for parties and celebrations
*Dr Pepper and Coke Basketball tourneys
*Base Line Bums...with seats on the baseline! GAWD, they were fantastic!
*The golf resort...was it the Inn at Turtle Creek...around where Rackspace is now and used to be Datapoint? First time I broke 90 was there.
*ok, help me out on this one...mexican restaurant, advertised heavily on KISS/KMAC during mid-70s...chimichangas were their big deal...near StMU, maybe?
*Flaming pitchers of Death at THREE-for happy hours at Chelsea Street at Windsor Park Mall...good place to meet Roosevelt and Judson chicks!
*Iceman's poster...still the finest...well, next to Farrah's...

[Dube665]

Anyone remember a little magic/costume store that was located on Military Dr. It was right next to what use to Dillards (which is now Family Fitness). This shop was where Sallys Beauty Supply is now. I think it also may have been a porn shop cause there was a section in the back for 18 and over only. It was there I would say early early 80s.

[ArizonaTexan]

Originally Posted by Dube665

Anyone remember a little magic/costume store that was located on Military Dr. It was right next to what use to Dillards (which is now Family Fitness). This shop was where Sallys Beauty Supply is now. I think it also may have been a porn shop cause there was a section in the back for 18 and over only. It was there I would say early early 80s.

Wow!!! I completely forgot about that place. My uncle rented a gorilla outfit for Halloween one year from that place. Must've been 1982 or somewhere around that time. Thanks for reminding me of that place!

[southsideMAN]

Originally Posted by john559

What was the name of the ice cream company that had the vehicles with an open cab in the front and the cooler in the back? I have never seen any vehicles since then - they usually look like the ice cream truck/van like the one driven by Borat in the movie. Was it Tiner's Ice Cream? My neighborhood was so tough, that they used to race through the streets at 45 MPH - I was never able to get a fudgicle.

As another has already noted, there were two main ice cream trucks; Tiner's and Red Wing. Most of the kids in my neighborhood liked Tiner's better than Red Wing. We would always settle for Red Wing if we thought Tiner's was not coming by while we still had the money to buy or one of the kid's generous parent was still in the mood.

Every kid over the age of six could easily tell which truck was coming by the song each company played. We could also tell how far away the truck was and estimate how soon it would be driving by by the sound of the song. In some cases we could even tell which particular truck by the flaws in its P.A. system, the clicks, buzzes, and whines.

One summer day when I was ten or eleven my mother and I were standing on the big front porch of our house. Suddenly, the sounds of an ice cream truck could be heard a couple of blocks away (side street block). I called out "Red Wing" just as I might have among my friends, sort of like calling out "slug bug" when you first spot a VW.

My mother, who had a fine boarding school education and knew much about music, art, and culture, looked at me in true amazement and asked how did I know that? She was so impressed that I knew the name of the tune I couldn't confess that I didn't even realize the tune had a name. I mumbled some like "I don't know how, I just know."

Since my mother never bought me or any of my brothers ice cream from either company, she had no idea it was the theme song for one of the trucks that drove around. I got her back in the house before the truck drove by and my new found musical genius was exposed.

[FastFerrari]

gone only 4 days and SA is still free in my mind...livin in PhX and boy they hate the Spurs...to bad we're playing and not the Suns....lol

[ArizonaTexan]

Originally Posted by FastFerrari

gone only 4 days and SA is still free in my mind...livin in PhX and boy they hate the Spurs...to bad we're playing and not the Suns....lol

That makes two of us Spurs fans here in Phoenix. Go Spurs Go!

[OzzyRules]

Originally Posted by munerider

ACTUALLY, I think it was on Naco-Perrin where the damn strip club is...but hard to tell now...it was out in BFE...

That's cool. For years now I've been thinking it was further out, like where Thousand Oaks intersects Perrin Beitel (like if you went all the way from Nacogd to Thous Oaks, and turned right towards PB). Everything seems much farther away when you are young.

But I can see it being on Naco-Perrin. I wasn't familiar with that part of town for years, though, so what do I know. I know there is a great used bookstore there now. Is that roughly where the Gatti's was?

[OzzyRules]

Does anyone remember Po' Folks restaurant on Fredericksburg, inside 410 just a few blocks north of flea market / plaza? It was hugely popular in the mid 80's. It seems like my family would eat there about once a week for a while. You would see people lined up outside just waiting to get in. That seemed like a nicer part of town back then too.

I'm also curious if there was another location for Po' Folks. Like a smaller cafe style. Or just a different layout.

[ArizonaTexan]

There used to be a Po'Folks by McCreless Mall that we'd go eat at.