san antonio, texas history contest

[Jimcs50]

No not tel, that is not a good name for a respectable area of town CC.

The answer is Granada Royal Hotel. I worked there in 1982 as a waiter.

[Jimcs50]

CC, funny story about that San Pedro Drive in. My wife's mom and daughter in law took my wife and her two neices to that drive in when they were 9, 5 and 3 to go see what they thought was a kids movie. It was Called Grimm's Fairey Tales for Adults and was R rated with a lot of nudity. After a few minutes of adult fairey tales, they realized their mistake and left red faced as fast as possible. Her mom used to talk about that story years later and always wondered what the people at the entrance thought of them for taking little kids to that dirty movie.

I wonder if the tales were led something like Little Jack Horny, Peter Peter Pussy Eater, Jack be nimble Jack be (not too)quick, etc...

[SAmikeyp]

yes...between it being the Granada Royal and the Embassy Suites, it was briefly called the "Hometel" you were a waiter their in '82 Jim? Then we probably met....I was one of the neighborhood kids who would sneak in and eat off the buffet!

[Jimcs50]

Mikey, actually the buffet was separate from the restaurant dining room, which was where I worked. The restaurant was an upscale dining room with a pricey menu...we did not let kids in there.

[SAmikeyp]

ahh...you was one of them their fancy-fied waiters! :p

[Jimcs50]

You betcha Mikey.

I used to make good money there, but also had a great time working there. I used to go into the walkin freezer and smoke weed with couple of waitresses after it slowed down in the night. It was a great way to mellow out at the end of the workshift....also it probably made the steaks taste better after being "smoked" in their frozen state.

[SAmikeyp]

Handy Andy used to have one of the first "interactive" contests. Remember the name?

[Spurminator]

Does the Wendy's on Bandera near 410 still have the caboose?

Fading childhood memories...

[Alamo Spurs Fan]

Handy Andy used to have one of the first "interactive" contests. Remember the name?

Would that be the aciously entertaining "Let's Go To The Races"?

We won quite a bit of Handy Andy's cash once we figured out that if you were in a checkout line 30 minutes before the show aired, they handed out BIG FAT STACKS of the game cards just to get rid of them.

After that, they came out with an equally entertaining game based on Monday Night Football...

[CosmicCowboyXXX]

What was the Hotters across I35 from Retama Racetrack originally?

[Jimcs50]

Hotters or Hooters?

Are you talking about the Selma police station?

[Jimcs50]

What disco nightclub was the original tenant of the building where Baby O strip club is now, on Loop 410 near Perrin Beitel?

[Spurminator]

What was the mall that had the two-story water fountain?

(I don't know the answer, I'm really asking... I got separated from my parents in that mall as a kid.)

[Jimcs50]

What was the name of the disco that preceeded The Palace Strip club on 410 betw Starcrest and Perrin Beitel?

[CosmicCowboyXXX]

North Star Mall had a big fountain at one time.

[Samurai Jane]

That Wendy's closed a long time ago, but last time I saw it, the Caboose was still there.. still attached to the vacated building..

[Jimcs50]

Windsor Park had a shooting fountain that shot up to the 2nd floor.

[Samurai Jane]

CC - was that some kind of City Hall or something?

[Spurminator]

Windsor Park... That's the one.

All those malls had cool water fountains.

[CosmicCowboyXXX]

Jim already got it...it was the Selma police station/courthouse...

[Spurminator]

That Wendy's closed a long time ago, but last time I saw it, the Caboose was still there.. still attached to the vacated building..

Aww...

[Jimcs50]

CC. had to go to that freaking station a couple of times. Selma used to be a freaking speed trap you would not believe.

[Samurai Jane]

Sorry Spurminator.. I used to go there all the time, our church was right around the corner from there..

[SAmikeyp]

Let's go to the races is correct!

Anyone remember Puffin' Billy's?

[CosmicCowboyXXX]

CC. had to go to that freaking station a couple of times. Selma used to be a freaking speed trap you would not believe.

Jim, I KNEW better than to speed in Selma...it was famous NATIONWIDE for its speedtraps...they worked I-35 24/7 and would nail people for even a mile over the limit...AAA had warnings out about it...Playboy had an article about it...it was just obscene...for years Selma didn't have any city tax of any kind because of all the revenue they got from their little scam...It finally got to be such a nationwide embarrassment that the State finally shut them down...as I heard it they threatened them with TEXDOT closing all the I-35 entrances/exits to Selma....