don't think it was, actually a water park, wasn't it simply a giant slide, and all the teenagers would do was to pay for a chance to slide down this enormous slide?How about this one. What was the name of the water park that used to be located at San Pedro and McAllister Freeway?
i remember this because i used to work at leonard's furniture, and on one saturday, a young man came up to the loading dock hollering at us to call the police, that he had found the body of a young teenage girl !
here's one that will test you memory as well as your age ...
what was the name of the initial multi-club nightspot, ala the atrium, graham central station (speaking of which, where was the original g.c.s. ?) and that club in central park mall, park place ?
this nightspot was inside loop 410, on Fredericksburg Rd @ Gardendale, or in the northwest shopping center, at the far south/southeast corner, and it was in business from the latter part of the 70s to the mid 80s ?
what was the name of the initial multi-club nightspot,
atrium = Bronco Bills
@ central park mall = Broad Street
Sorry, read that wrong....the club that was originally built in the location that the Atrium now occupies was Bronco Bills...that was one gigantic club.
Oh, and Park Place used to be Broad Street a long time ago....damn, I'm going to bed.
Wasn't Park Place the first multi-club? hmmm....
Broad Street used to be Houlihans.
...clubs at central park mall
*shrugs*
Actually CC, that mansion was rumored to be one of the many locations of "Midget Mansion" at least it was when I was in high school.
Now I'm kicking myself for not remembering the girls' name whose parents owned it. I went to Ed White with her and she was absolutely HOT.I don't remember the name of the pet store, but I remember going in there all the time when I was getting my watch(s) fixed at Adrienne's--the jewelry shop next door to it.
But the store in question was called Fin 'N' Feather.
wasn't that waterpark called "supertube" or something like that?
The #2 Taco Cabana was indeed at Bandera and Wurzbach...but it's not the current TC at Bandera and Wurzbach.
The "original #2" was on the other side, across from Ancira-Winton and behind the Diamond Shamrock. When the brothers split the company into TC and Tacasita (yes, that one was correct too), the #2 store became Tacasita.
Not long afterward...the TC franchise built a store at its present location, across from (what was then) Kelly Field Bank. (Obviously the feud between the brothers was not particularly gentlemanly...
since we are into taco Cabana trivia...
there was yet another mexican food chain that was started by a couple of ex-lubys guys that competed with Taco Cabana but was eventually bought out by TC...the first restaurant was on Wurzbach and the second was at Blanco and West Avenue.
What was the name of this chain and what was distinctive about it?
Well, the building resembled a big assed pink sombrero, but for the life of me I can't remember the name (And I went to Churchill just down the street from it)!What was the name of this chain and what was distinctive about it?
And the golf course/country club off Blanco wasn't SACC? Well , now that bugs me that I can't remember either names.
That would be (obviously) Sombrero Rosa.
I thought you were talking about Alfonso's and I was going to say what was distinctive about it was that the food sucked ass...
Although the Alfonso's on Rittiman (which is now TC) never carded my then under 21 self. EVER!
Sombrero Rosa is correct...
give up?And the golf course/country club off Blanco wasn't SACC? Well , now that bugs me that I can't remember either names.
Yea, I do. You'd think I'd remember as that area was my old stomping ground when I was growing up.
Canyon Creek CC
Was up in Durango Colorado last week and one of the shop owners found out I was from San Antonio. He wanted me to move there and open a Taco Cabana franchise. He knows they don't have authentic mexican food there. I think before doing that, I would contact Louis Barrios about opening a Los Barrios up there. It would make a mint.:wink
There used to be a TC in Boulder CO...
OK...back to questions...
On the Alamo Cement property that is now the quarry, golf course and a lot more (while it was still operating as Alamo Cement) there was a residential area where some employees lived...
what was the name of this residential area?
Many of the awful traffic congestion problems with McAllister freeway and 410 and 1604 trace back to the original construction. Construction started on the new freeway and a local group sued in Federal court to stop construction because they didn't like the route (through Olmos Park and Alamo Heights). After many years of delay in Federal court the city and state finally decided to finish the highway without federal funds since the suit was still not settled. Because of theis, the feds would not let them tie into 410 or 1604.
What was the name of the primary group that sued to stop the construction? for bonus points what was the name of the group that joined the suit?
dang you guys suck...
ok...slowpitch...
at one time San Antonio had two major newspapers.
They eventually merged and the Express/News name survived.
what was the name of the other paper?
sheesh!
OK...for many years the premier "head shop" was located on Hildebrand between Blanco and San Pedro.
what was the name of this head shop?
Was that the River Road group?
The San Antonio Light was the other paper...they used to give NISD teams a fair shake.
nopeWas that the River Road group?
and if you never knew why traffic is so ed up at 281/410 and 281/1604 it will really piss you off when you find out...
and the San Antonio Light is correct...
hehehe...what a group...
After asking an extensive series of questions covering a broad range of San Antonio related topics it is pretty clear that all most of you know anything about is cheap mexican food...
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