and Military was the first ever built ? Aside from the original downtown that is? They started out that location operating out of a trailer. Did you know the little Church's Fried Chicken at the corner of Somerset Rd. Man I must have been in a daze back then or i'm just to old. I do remember when they started showing XXX movies there, though! *lol* Yes, but Lackland was not in the Harlandale area. I remember because I worked there when I was 19. Globe (my dad worked there for a while) was where K-Mart was, next to Chuck E. Spartan Atlantic was on the corner of Roosevelt and Military. I'm giving Melvin a run for his money on lengthy postings. Best thousand island dressing/iceberg wedge salad ever to this day. Christie's on Broadway was payday Friday place once a month where we dined out with family friends. The original Pan American was the best Mexican Food date night place in school. Pub at SP Mall - and a couple of 'funerals' - the stuff toilet hugging is make of. Had my first beer ever at Pizza Hut on Military the year the drinking age changed to 18 as I had just turned 18. HA! Wonder what he'd think of young folks' music/musicians today! I remember watching every appearance on the Ed Sullivan show on our only tiny black and white tv, and my dad dissing their long hair. She was a health nut way before it was trendy to be.īought my very first Beatle's LP at FedMart. What an interesting place! My great gramma used to take the train from Castroville to go there when she was young - I have a couple of post cards she wrote home from there. I remember going to have a beer at Hot Well's Hotel bar when it was already fire damaged and only one stinky sulphur pool was left (late 70's). Teresa's on Presa K - 7th grade then changed to the newly opened Kingsborough Middle school which was tiny at the time. Mom was a homemaker (aka 'housewife' back in the day), when people could afford to live comfortably on one income. Remember the train that would take you from the parking lot to the store?ĭad worked at Kelly AFB. Christmastime also meant going to Joske's Fantasyland - I think it was called. We'd skate so long our legs would wobble after we put shoes back on. Bud Jones' is still there, corner of Commercial and Military across from where FlipSide and Colonna's used to be.Īnother Saturday treat was making the trip to St. My godmother lived on Military Drive - hard to imagine that now. There was a Ben Franklin store, too, but where? was where the new county offices are? And where the Post Office was on Pleasanton? Wasn't it in the shopping center just north of Kiddie City? I am having serious senior moments and you'll be settling an argument. We'd also walk the railroad tracks to what I think is called Canvas Back Lake (probably wrong) south of 410.Ĭan someone tell me if the Piggly Wiggly on Pleasanton Rd. Riding bikes all over the hood which was so 'country' back then was fun. The cool part was having a horse which I treated like a big dog, after all, would you want someone riding on your back? We used to swim at Patton Heights Pool off Zarzamora every day all summer long. I grew up near loop 410 between Zarzamora and Commercial and envied all my friends who lived north and could walk to each other's houses since we were so far south, we had to have our folks take us to visit friends. Going there was a Saturday evening treat. It was behind the old FlipSide Record Store.

It was near Barrett Industries where my aunt was a secretary. Does anyone remember the place that had in-ground trampolines on Military across from FedMart near the rr tracks? It didn't last long - someone probably got hurt. We went there in hi school - I remember a gravestone with Asian folks' photo on a cameo on it and what I imagine is inscription in Chinese. There actually is/was a Chinese graveyard.

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