Businesses (Other than Restaurants) Closed In SA (San Antonio, Laredo: prices, shoppers)

[wCat]

[sniff] at remembering Frost Bros....bought my wedding gown there!

Anyone remember the Four Season's Steakhouse (can't remember where it was ....near North side somewhere.

Broadway Theater

The Shoe Box

Cookies dress shop? where was that? San Pedro and Hildebrand?

The Pin Cushion fabric shop on N. New Braunfels

King Wah Chinese Restaurant

The "Raven Room" club on Ft Sam (60's and 70's)

The Tee Pee Steakhouse on Austin Hwy.

BIG Hipps Bubble Room (someone mentioned Little Hipps)

O'Krents downtown at Main and McCullough (I know they have a new location)

The Sheraton Inn Hotel (Later the 7 Oaks)...now scraped off the planet and being replaced by apartments.

Dan Cook's Sports Bar

Walden Books

(who said Dillards is leaving? The one at North Star has been completely remodeled in the last couple of years and is giving Macy's and Saks a run for their money.)

Mouse's BBQ up 281 WAAAAYY past 1604

Luigi's on San Pedro

The "HOT TUB CLUB" (not sure of the name, but where Maggies used to be or Culpeppers....or along there somewhere)

[ashbeeigh]

Originally Posted by sapphire

Fajita Junction was good. I remember it. I guess they couldn't keep up with Taco Cabana back when Taco Cabana was actually pretty good.

I remember my parents always saying it was good. I just ate it because at the time Mexican food was so new to me (we moved here in '89). There was another Taco Cabana like place that I loved when I was younger called Sombrero Rosa that had sombreros all over the ceiling. I can't for the life of me remember where it was (a few places come to mind, but I don't want to say with it probably being wrong). My little sister (7 years younger) would just sit and stare at the hats when she was a baby. I'm pretty the Sombrero Rosas were bought or turned into Taco Cabanas because they were so similar.

[sapphire]

I think there was a Sombrero Rosa on Wurzbach near 10 on the Tiffany's stretch of the road--or closer to IHOP and Jack in the Box. It's a Taco C now--if I am not just making all this up!

[rexkwandosatx]

Originally Posted by ashbeeigh

A few days ago I took Huebner to Babcock on the way home because I saw there was an accident on 10 heading towards 1604...on my way towards Babcock it made me think of this place called "Fajita Junction" that my parents would get mexican food when De Zavala/10 was out in the boonies and we had to go to the medical center for anything. That was gone pretty quick though. Does anyone remember that place? It was past the HEB on Babcock. Oh and there used to be a Burger King in front of HEB...that was a happening place for a first grader in 1991. i don't recall what that is anymore. lol. I actually think the big sign for the Fajita Junction is still there...it's a big blank sign.

i remember that Fajita Junction, i used to eat there, as well as a few around town. and i remember how LONG that signage was up after its closing because a friend of mine and i were driving around, saw the sign, got all excited only to see that it was closed. lol. talk about disappointed. i remember that Burger King as well and i think it was that up until the early 00's.

[rexkwandosatx]

Originally Posted by sapphire

I think there was a Sombrero Rosa on Wurzbach near 10 on the Tiffany's stretch of the road--or closer to IHOP and Jack in the Box. It's a Taco C now--if I am not just making all this up!

isn't that Taco C now a middle eastern themed restaurant? i may be wrong though. lol

[sapphire]

Originally Posted by rexkwandosatx

isn't that Taco C now a middle eastern themed restaurant? i may be wrong though. lol

Probably! I don't go over that way much anymore. I am just going off some fuzzy memories of yesteryear.

[wehotex]

Originally Posted by Steel Man

Add Meryn's to a long list of stores that have closed here in SA. I'll start a list and others can add to it.

Here goes:

K-Mart
Albertson's
Kroger's
Handy Dan
HQ (Formerly Builder's Square)
Montgomery Wards

was there a taco cabana-like place called "two pesos"? i remember all of the taco cabana-like places in the mid-80s. there were taco cabanas, tacasitas, alfonso's, sombrero rosa & i think "two pesos".

[Steel Man]

Originally Posted by wehotex

was there a taco cabana-like place called "two pesos"? i remember all of the taco cabana-like places in the mid-80s. there were taco cabanas, tacasitas, alfonso's, sombrero rosa & i think "two pesos".

There is a chain called "Two Pesos;" however, it started in Houston and there was never one in San Antonio. They copied Taco Cabanas concept and were sued by TC and lost (all the way up to the Supreme Court) in 1992. Taco Cabana then bought out TP in 1993.

Taco Cabana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[wCat]

Anyone remember Karotikin's Furniture stores?

Or Metzger's dairy and milk? I know they were local....but are they still around?

[Juan45]

Dirty Salleys at conner of Austin hwy and Esinhower