Gone But Not Forgotten in San Antonio! - Part I (Howe: going out of business, 2008)

[Cibolo Rider]

Originally Posted by satx56

Heh!! Hi CR, I don't recall the Champions name at all. All the years of my recollection "Silver Saddle" was at the corner of 181 S. & 410. Seems like I may recall it being changed to SS or to something else from SS later on! Champions only rings bells as a present time sports bar I think I've been to!! Hilltop a little further out 181 just before the Elmendorf cutoff! Hill Top was legendary..it was around a long time! I don't recall ever actually going to either for dancing. Me and a buddy did drop some girls off at Hill Top. It was after the "Pleasanton Cowboy Homecoming" big street dance. That was around 1972 and Mel Tillis was there! We came back from the coast just in time for the dance. Myself and three buddies! Don't recall what time we got out of there. There was another Big barn looking building inside 410 on Presa(181) about a third of the way towards Military Dr. Don't recall what that was at one time!! Golden Stallion on Ackerman was my principal hangout. Although I went to "Randy's" occasionally. I also went pretty regular to dances in Castroville and Quihi!! Those were the days!!

I remember the big barn building on s. presa but I can't recall the name. I went there a couple of times. I was at the Golden Stallion on grand opening night. Willie Nelson was the headliner.

[Dwangle]

I remember the Lone Star longneck era. The bars as I remember them were The Longneck, The Golden Stallion, Kicker Palace (in Poteet), Wild fire, Cooter Browns, Corn Shack, Crazy Darrels, Crystal Pistol, lots more..The bands -Augie Meyers Western Head Band, Heyoka, Crossover, Dogtooth Violet, Balcones Fault, Mystic Cowboys, George Chambers and the Country Gentlemen, The Buckboard Boogie Boys ,the Royal Jesters lots more all in the San Antonio area in the early seventies.

[hhwolfman]

Originally Posted by PoliceCaptain

In 1971, I drove a Tiner's truck the summer after my junior year at Highlands High School. It was a kind of a pickup with a freezer in back, no doors. Blue and white and my truck played "3 Blind Mice" over and over. Every morning we'd pick up our trucks at Tiners (somewhere around W. Commerce), sign out for the boxes of ice cream and head for our neighborhoods. My route was in Highland Hills. It seems like I cleared around $20 -$30 on a good day.

WE had the Red Wing, I think it was, Ice Cream Truck on Petaluma, Back in the 60's and 70's.

[hhwolfman]

Originally Posted by scythempress

I was 11 when my school went to Hemisfare 68. I remember the girls in the paper dresses, the Ford pavilion, the monorail, God Im old.

I saw Sid and Marty Krofts Kaleidoscope, Which was an actual Live Puf-n-Stuf. This was a few Years before, It was turned in to the Saturday Morning, TV Show. I Rode all the Rides Many times and went up in the Tower. I also Saw Red Skeleton Live there.

[hhwolfman]

Originally Posted by satx56

Yes, Pleasanton & Formosa. It's still there.

Remember the new Winn's across the street from this Handy Andy about half a block north of it? Remember Ben Franklin's next door to the HA?

Ahhh yes. but do you remember when That Handy Any Was a Pigley Wigley.

[wCat]

Originally Posted by hhwolfman

Ahhh yes. but do you remember when That Handy Any Was a Pigley Wigley.

I'm sure there is a quick search I could do (to add to my list of other things I'm researching ), but I just toss it out here anyway. Anyone know who owned or started Handy Andy? I'm drawing a blank right now....and I even had my very first job there! Was it a San Antonio company? I ran across a local individual from the 20's or 30's named Handy Anderson. It just made me wonder.... Probably too much of a coinky dink!

[SATX56]

Originally Posted by hhwolfman

Ahhh yes. but do you remember when That Handy Any Was a Pigley Wigley.

Yes, and there was another at Southcross and Pleasanton!!

[SATX56]

Originally Posted by hhwolfman

WE had the Red Wing, I think it was, Ice Cream Truck on Petaluma, Back in the 60's and 70's.

Earliest trucks I recall in 50's were blue and white "Cravy" trucks!! Later red and white "Tiners" trucks!!

[Deep Forest]

Originally Posted by Sweetie Pie

Noooooo!!! Do tell!!!

I know nutthink !!!

[GWhopper]

Originally Posted by 8635angelvalley

And something about that place resonated with me and has stuck in my mind all this time. That one time, I could FEEL a history speaking to me. It wasn’t ghosts, it was a Sense of Place dying. As a teenager, I used to fantasize about opening my own restaurant. I used to imagine the menu. It wasn’t until I started doing all this research into the Wolfe’s Inn that I realized the layout of the menu, the font, the entrées, and the look and feel of the restaurant I used to imagine….. that was all from the Wolfe’s Inn.


That is totally fascinating! I will look forward to hearing more about The Wolfe Inn.

There are still remains of the famous garden spot. I posted some pictures of them in the late evening, but haven't had the chance to shoot them during the day. Too many responsibilities for now, but I will get to it by the year's end. To see what's there now, a payday loan place and a Hooter's, and a 2nd rate office complex, (not originally) just gives people (people like us) a sense of loss.