Gone But Not Forgotten in San Antonio! - Part II (Spring: managers, conditions)

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Originally Posted by huckster

I am not sure, but this GBNF thread is almost always here with someone adding something....even when this threads' popularity wanes a little, Basse Bud will post anything just to keep it alive. It can be an interesting thread, stirring the muck up off some peoples' recollections, sometimes from fifty years gone even.
Nearly a million entries, in the second version of Gone but not Forgotten.
Kudos.
Got any more ideas?

Not sure I can top that! I have seen that there are other GBNF threads in different cities. That's a nice compliment.

[Basse Bud]

Yep, I can, and do, for that exact purpose.... your turn !

[Basse Bud]

Huckster,

There was a Jim Keaveny associated with the Kerrville Folk Festival. Same person?

[SATX56]

Even though Floyd has been gone from Floyd’s Dairy Bar since 1970, and new owners have kept the home of the five-burger special going for another couple of generations, the end of an era on the South Side may be coming soon.

Time-tested burgers may soon be no more - San Antonio Express-News

[ranchodrive]

I recall Bolner's Store on South Flores and W. Mitchell when the entrance was on the front corner.
It was a grocery store. This was when I was a kid and lived nearby on Flato St. & W.Mitchell.

Later there was a diner around the side entrance. They served delicious bar-be-cue sandwiches.
Family owned. If I'm not mistaken,there was a lady by the name of Blanca working there.
I spent many times eating at that location when I worked at KWEX downtown on Durango street.

[huckster]

No. Thanks Bud. Mr. Keveany is not Keating, but I am sure Mr. Keaveny knew Kim.
Kim was a great talent- now gone and fittingly, is inducted into the Bandera Country Music Hall of Fame.
An enormously talented musician he was Bud, who made more than a few missteps as a kid, as many of us have, now dead from blunt force trauma to the head.
Murdered by two men in Jan. of 2016 on a street corner in Kerrville. .

Originally Posted by Basse Bud

Huckster,

There was a Jim Keaveny associated with the Kerrville Folk Festival. Same person?

[huckster]

A Southsider recollection. Yea, SATX, Dad, used to take us to Floyd's all of the time. There were three pretty good places to eat at that three way intersection back in the fifties and sixties on the southeast side of the City.
Floyd's had five pretty good hamburgers on sale for one dollar.
That very first Bill Millers B-B-Q place and the Taco Hut also. How could I forget these ?
I don't know if you or someone else can also remember Richies Fish Fry on Roosevelt Rd., on Roosvelt just across from Roosevelt Park?

However I never knew this about Floyd's dairy bar-, I never knew who Floyd himself was? Floyd was that skinny, lanky fellow that always seemed to be working inside the place?

Originally Posted by SATX56

Even though Floyd has been gone from Floyd’s Dairy Bar since 1970, and new owners have kept the home of the five-burger special going for another couple of generations, the end of an era on the South Side may be coming soon.

Time-tested burgers may soon be no more - San Antonio Express-News

[SATX56]

Originally Posted by ranchodrive

I recall Bolner's Store on South Flores and W. Mitchell when the entrance was on the front corner.
It was a grocery store. This was when I was a kid and lived nearby on Flato St. & W.Mitchell.

Later there was a diner around the side entrance. They served delicious bar-be-cue sandwiches.
Family owned. If I'm not mistaken,there was a lady by the name of Blanca working there.
I spent many times eating at that location when I worked at KWEX downtown on Durango street.

That was the original entrance on the corner of Mitchell and S.Flores. We passed it all the time back in the 50's and 60's and can't recall when I first saw it. Photos inside show how it use to be before windows and doors were covered. We have given them a lot of business over the years. Try their new Lime Pepper.

[SATX56]

Originally Posted by huckster

A Southsider recollection. Yea, SATX, Dad, used to take us to Floyd's all of the time. There were three pretty good places to eat at that three way intersection back in the fifties and sixties on the southeast side of the City.
Floyd's had five pretty good hamburgers on sale for one dollar.
That very first Bill Millers B-B-Q place and the Taco Hut also. How could I forget these ?
I don't know if you or someone else can also remember Richies Fish Fry on Roosevelt Rd., on Roosvelt just across from Roosevelt Park?

However I never knew this about Floyd's dairy bar-, I never knew who Floyd himself was? Floyd was that skinny, lanky fellow that always seemed to be working inside the place?

We frequented the pool in Roosevelt park in the 50's. I don't recall any place to eat around it. The area across from the park reminds me of Fredericksburg and Michigan St. and the little line of shops there. There were several little businesses around the park I just can't recall any. Roosevelt splits around the park and rejoins north of the RR tracks at St. Mary's. There has been an old monument business back in there forever.

Back to Floyd's. The first Bill Miller's and a Shakey's out in front of the old Park-air Drive in. BTW, for those interested the old Cap't Jim's Fish and chicken from Roosevelt has moved to Pleasanton Rd. They're just a couple blocks north of S.W.Military Dr. I think they moved into a Church's that went out of business. I'll recheck that next time I'm over that way.

Parkaire Drive-In in San Antonio, TX - Cinema Treasures

[huckster]

Interesting tip about Cap'n Jim's new location.
It was strange to see the Parkaire drive in picture.

Where's the Giant Southside cement pig sit now?

Originally Posted by SATX56

We frequented the pool in Roosevelt park in the 50's. I don't recall any place to eat around it. The area across from the park reminds me of Fredericksburg and Michigan St. and the little line of shops there. There were several little businesses around the park I just can't recall any. Roosevelt splits around the park and rejoins north of the RR tracks at St. Mary's. There has been an old monument business back in there forever.

Back to Floyd's. The first Bill Miller's and a Shakey's out in front of the old Park-air Drive in. BTW, for those interested the old Cap't Jim's Fish and chicken from Roosevelt has moved to Pleasanton Rd. They're just a couple blocks north of S.W.Military Dr. I think they moved into a Church's that went out of business. I'll recheck that next time I'm over that way.

Parkaire Drive-In in San Antonio, TX - Cinema Treasures