Gone But Not Forgotten in San Antonio! - Part I (Alamo: dental, high quality)

[GWhopper]

I am sure some of you have already found this site. For those of you haven't, I apologize in advance for all the hours you will probably be spending away from your families. It's got a lot of content, but as a child in the late 1070's, you will understand why I chose this particular content to link to. While not local, most of these did run on our airwaves here in SA and are now Gone but Not Forgotten. Have fun exploring!

http://www.retrojunk.com/details_commercial/2346/

If this doesn't bring back memories....

[GWhopper]

Okay now this fast food joint did have a location here, I think it was by Lackand

http://www.retrojunk.com/details_commercial/584/

[Willsatx]

I loved Burger Chef.

[munerider]

GWhop...Moxy? That's why I'm Munerider! Got a buddy who has a house full of memorabilia...see what I can find for ya! Legs? How 'bout Budgie?

[Paka]

Originally Posted by GWhopper

Okay now this fast food joint did have a location here, I think it was by Lackand

http://www.retrojunk.com/details_commercial/584/

There was a Burger Chef on Gen McMullen just as you went into the Kelly Base housing...just before Winston Elementry school on the same side of the road...think it is a taco place now. Don't remember one near Lackland at all...could you have been thinking Kelly???

[sapphire]

Burger Chef was the best when you were a picky kid. I only ate plain hamburgers. It took about 20 minutes to get a plain hamburger at McDonalds, so my family hated me. Thank God, they built a Burger Chef in my town that just had the "topping/condiment" bar (way before Fuddruckers ) so they handed you a plain, dry burger on a bun, wrapped in a foil bag. It was the first time that I actually got started eating before everyone else in my family.

[SATEX38]

Originally Posted by Banditos41

Hey guys & gals. I just found this forum and have some old memories about SA & some questions.

I lived in SA twice. Once in 1979 while I was stationed over at Security Hill, on Kelly. And again in 1995 when the company I was working for then moved me from Dallas to San Antonio. Both times I remember how I though SA was a great place to raise a family but just wasn't a whole lotta fun for a single fellow. But I have great memories of both times.

One question that I had prying at me for years I think has been answered on this forum. What was the covered shopping center west of Fredricksburg Road and south of 410? It looked like an outdoor shopping center that had been roofed over as an early attempt at a Mall. Was this the Wonderland Mall I keep reading about? I remember buying a bike there to get me around the Kelly/Lackland area without burning gas (soldier's pay you know.)

I was depressed to see the condition of South Military Pkwy when I moved back in 95. All the lovely trees were gone and there stood an ugly and derelict mall that would close a few months later. The first failed mall I ever saw.

Does anyone remember the little drive-in movie theater on South Military that by the late 70's was showing porn movies? To meet local censorship laws, they had a fellow stand in from of the projection booth with a couple of long handled paddles. The idea was this guy would "black out" the area of the screen where the genitalia were with the paddles. A bunch of us from Kelly would take a couple pickups over, guys and girls alike, to see the show. We didn't care about the dirty movie. But watching the guy go through his moves trying to keep the black spots in their proper place on the screen was great! He was an older fellow that had moved that disco dancer would have envied. And when he missed one, we would all moan.

I was heart broken when I heard Abel's was being torn down. I hope the lower end of Broadway hasn't changed much. Who cares about the Alamo. Save the Pig Stand!

it was the trail drive in

[SATEX38]

Originally Posted by Primo

Here are some more pics:

[SIZE=2]Capitan Drive-In Theatre , Old Highway 90 at 36th St., opened in 1949 and closed in 1979. [/SIZE]



[SIZE=2]The original name for this theatre was the Bluebonnet Drive-In Theatre and it carried this name from 1949-1951. It was the Capitan from 1951-1979.[/SIZE]





Inside of Fred Road Drive in (I always remember those super high walls of corregated tin...I dont know how they ever made it through wind storms.)



Starlite drive-in was in operation from 1978 until 1980. In the nineties it was a used car lot. It was on the McQueeny Hiway just east of Universal City


[SIZE=2][/SIZE]
[SIZE=2][SIZE=2]The Trail Drive-In Theatre, 1030 S. E. Military Drive, was opened in 1946. It was owned by Louis and John Santikos and was the second drive-in in San Antonio. It was located on Loop 13, near the Mission Drive-In Theatre. It was razed in November, 1984. One distinction I remember is a monkey exhibit out in front of the theatre in the 1950's.[/SIZE]
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Varsity Drive-In Theatre opened July 11, 1949 and closed 1980. It was built by Mul Den Theatres. It was later purchased by John Santikos. It was located at Culebra Av. and Bandera Road. An H.E.B. sits on the site.

does any one have a pic of the drive in that was on Goliad RD
the name does not come to me right now( i think it was Park Air) They use to have picture of it at
Floyd's ( and Floyd's is still there)

[GWhopper]

Originally Posted by munerider

GWhop...Moxy? That's why I'm Munerider! Got a buddy who has a house full of memorabilia...see what I can find for ya! Legs? How 'bout Budgie?

I forgot all about Budgie!!!
Does anybody have any of Legs', Moxy's, or Budgie's songs in digital format? I only their albums on cassette tape when I was younger and they are long gone now.

The idea of listening to Moxy on an iPod.......that just seems cool to me.

[GWhopper]

Everybody whose read my posts on this thread know I have been trying to find any info I can on Wolfe's Inn and how it relates to the history of the area I grew up in between Fredricksberg Road and Vance Jackson. I think I exhausted every resource on the net and all I came up with was that postcard I bought off ebay and this quote: "It used to be "wild country," she recalled, out near Wolff's Inn on Fredericksburg Road, whose patrons rode horses, buggies or Model Ts from the city to enjoy Sunday afternoon meals under the giant oaks. Her father - she still calls him 'Papa' - gave the city a tract of land between what's now Colonies North, where their family farm used to be, and Fredericksburg Road."

Today, though, I got lucky, and found an offline source that has given me a tremendous amount of info about the area in question.

As I suspected Hamilton Wolfe road and the Wolfe's Inn were connected. Wolfe's Inn was started by a man named Worthy Wolfe. He owned the land where Fredricksberg meets Wurzbach, where Hooter's is now. A then famous horsewoman named Hamilton owned land where Hamilton Wolfe road meets Babcock, thus the origin of the street name, it was named after the owners of the two large properties on either end.

Now, I mentioned in a previous posting that Colonies North, where I grew up, was originally the Wurzbach family farm. Primo, myself, and others mentioned the stone gates that still stand in front of the Baptist Church on Wurzbach and Vance Jackson, and I assumed that these were the entry to the Wurzbach farm. Primo even found an old farm house in the middle of the neighborhood that we assumed was the original farm house.

We were wrong.

In 1880 a man named Napoleon Bonaparte Igo married a woman named Alice Taylor. She then inherited land that stretched from Wurzbach almost to Huebner road, all along Vance Jackson and up to where I-10 is today. This land eventually became the Summit at Colonies North and Shenandoah sub-divisions. So this land was directly across Wurzbach from the Wurzbach family farm. The house that Primo found was probably the Igo-Taylor house. The Wurzbach farm house actually sat where the HEB is today at Wurzbach and I-10.

Alice and Napoleon's daughter married a man named Grover Cleveland Crandell who in turn donated some of the land to what is now Oak Hills Baptist church. Inside the Summit at Colonies North, there is a street called Igo drive. Now this part is interesting: When the children of Alice Taylor decided to sell the property for development , the children stipulated in the sales contract that a street should be named for each of their parents. Igo drive was easy to name, but there were already streets named Alice and Taylor in San Antonio, so the children took her initials and last name, A. T. Igo, and created an anagram to use to name the street in honor of their mother. Those of us who grew up in the area, and some of us on this thread who once lived on the actual street, now know that street as Tioga drive, which crosses Wurzbach from Colonies North to the Summit of Colonies North.