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Ghost tracks...
Yea, he stole cotton candy and candy apples but NEVER ate the apple.Did she know TPark?
Ghost tracks...
Legend of The Donkey Lady...
I met the Donkey lady she was a real ass!
When I first got my driver's license, I took a girl out to the ghost tracks, thinking it would be fun to scare her. My car ended up running out of gas near Southon road. I made it to the parking lot of a gas station that it turned out was out of business. All of a sudden a couple of banditos pulled in and asked me what I was doing there. It was 10 or 11 at night. I was scared as , but they ended up actually being nice guys and helped get my car running again.
I graduated with the lead singer and drummer from Passing Strangers.Stole these from another site
-before going outside you call 226-3232 to see what the temperature is instead of opening a door or a window to find out.
-The Max played your highschool prom. (or Big Deal or Passing Strangers).
-you hung out at Mr. G's, Illusions, or even better.....Pappys.
And Pappy's was the going concern when I was in high school. I think I only ever went inside once, the main action was always in the BAC parking lot.
Few others:
Seeing the original releases of Star Wars and Jaws at the Wonderland theater.
Seeing Tron at the Central park Fox theater.
Shakey's and Beef Baron in Central Park mall.
Playing Little Leagus ball where the Babies R Us now stands over by 410/281.
Sitting on the roof of my folks old house to watch movies at the San Pedro drive-in.
Camping and running trap lines on the Salado creek off Coker Loop Road.
No A/C and radiator heat at Coker elementary.
"Duck and Cover" nuke drills in elementary school.
All the elementary classes sitting in the hall to watch a Disney educational movie.
Being able to buy 100 low lead for our cars that burned regular gas from Bear Oil.
Watching Project Terror on Friday nights @ 10:30 on Channel 5..
When Loop 410 was just 2 lanes on either side..
When a student green fee at a municipal golf course was just $1..
Kiddie City & Three Bears Hamburger Stand..
And in the summertime...basically getting on my bike in the morning and not coming back home until it was almost dark because you could back then.
I remember seeing two pretty bad movies (Battlestar Galactica and They Went Thata Way (or something like that)) at the Central Park Fox theater.
I have a lot of old memories of the Northwest side, but not surprisingly perhaps, most of those involve old fields that have become something else in modernity. When I was a kid, we practiced soccer in a field that is now covered by the Bandera Bowl megaplex.
And the Max did play my prom and just about every other middle school/high school dance that I ever attended.
Ahhh yes, the joys of growing old and reminiscing about the olden days!
I remember riding my bike the Jefferson Village on allowance day to blow it all at Winn's! My mom shopped at the Piggly Wiggly there and she'd give me a quarter and send me down to either Winn's or Sommers Drugs to keep me busy while she got groceries. And I always knew Christmas was coming when they'd put Santa and his sled up on the roof! Rudolph's nose was a big bright red bulb.
I also remember when Crossroads Mall was Wonderland Mall. There was this cool gazebo like structure (for lack of a better description) in the middle with a pond and fountain and benches you could sit on. Again, I knew Christmas was near when Rhodes put the Santa Claus on top of the elevator. And across the street, about where Luby's is, was Indian Village (?) with Tee Pees and stuff.
Griff's Burger Bar. The Original Donut Hut. Whopper Burger. Wolfe's Inn. El Ezteca. Bruner's. Gibson's. Solo Serve. Fredericksburg Rd Drive Inn. Midget Mansion.
I also remember going "out of town" to buy fireworks and thinking it was sooo far. It was about where Henry's Puffy Taco on Bandera Rd is.
I, too, have had a blast on this website, in particular this thread:
http://www.city-data.com/forum/san-a...tonio-328.html
Wow. You people are old.
Growing up in the 90's ... we still had the Donkey Lady. And we went to the tracks once or twice.
We also used to go to Midget Mountain alot.
Anyone remember The Thief of Baghdad? (not the movie) I think he was a rapist or something who would hide in homes and attack women.
No, but I do remember Fred Gomez Carrasco..
Speaking of Carrasco, how about Joe King playing at Arenson theater and getting in the river while singing "Party Weekend"?
Yep. I remember constantly hearing that name on TV, radio, etc.
DG...seeing your comment about hopping on your bike and not coming home till dark made me smile. My friends and I would ride all over our neighborhood together in the summer! We'd go to this place called Jiffy Mart on Donaldson Ave., ride up to the YMCA and spend HOURS in the pool and as long as we checked in now and then, we could stay out until the streetlights came on.
You always knew who's house everyone was by the pile of bikes on the front lawn.
In Kirby, we had a Lone Star ice house that we always seemed to end up at at some point during the day to buy a Nehi Blue or Orange Crush and eat a Chic-O-Stic. Then sit outside and drink it, then take the bottle back inside the store for the deposit which was just enough to be able to buy some gum. Then we went on our merry way.
We had a Stop-N-Go that was the same to us. It was on the corner of Vance Jackson and Jackson Keller. Green apple Jolly Ranchers and playing Donkey Kong and Defender.
Good times.
Lone Star Ice House FTW !!!
A few places we would go in the summer to hang out was the pool at either Roosevelt Park or San Pedro Park. Cool Crest mini-golf on Fredricksburg Rd. was the mecca of all mini-golf courses. Playland Park on Broadway, too.
We ate at places like the Malt House on the west side, El Rancho downtown, the Bonanza on Broadway and Shakey's Pizza.
Winn's and Bruner's (bought my first record there) kicked ass but Shoppers World was where it was at. It was Target ahead of it's time.
For some reason, all of the mentions of Shakey's has called to my mind Fargo's Pizza (on Wurzbach and Evers) and its in-house movie theater playing loops of cartoons and the Three Stooges. What better way was there to enjoy really bad pizza?
As an adult now, I can see that it must have been absolute bliss for our parents to just send us away to an enclosed room where we'd all be transfixed by whatever happened to be showing.
In high school I drove for Fargo's off of Brookhollow/281. Stooges were always good, Little Rascal's just as much.
I grew up in the 80's and I wish I could turn back time!
Ah yes...........Fred Gomez Carrasco. Bad ass!
still waiting on the " WEST SIDERS ".....
1) The Brown Derby on Old Hwy 90
2) Paul Maries on Zarzamora
3) EL PATIO ON THE LUZ.........
The first Saturday of each month, you could get in to see a movie, cartoon, and possibly win a prize all for only SIX PEPSI BOTTLE CAPS at the Texas Theatre.....
Fargo's kicked ass.
puffin bills was the only place to eat back in the day man..
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