T Durden said:

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Did you play football and baseball in AYA?

We moved in to Mission Bend in 1982 on the Ft. Bend side but played in AYA and Alief little league growing up.

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Talmbout AYA fields then Bissonet Pizza Hut

We had a high dive until I was a teenager. Started diving off it around 7.

bigjag19 said:

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We had a high dive until I was a teenager. Started diving off it around 7.

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That was about the age I tried to build up the courage, but couldn't...around 6 or 7.

To be fair, I had witnessed some nasty landings and I once saw a teenager get injured pretty badly (they had to call ambulance)...pretty sure that was bouncin around in my noggin.

It was yet another ambulance call that ended that high dive. I'm sure the insurance was getting ridiculous.

scd88 said:

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Not too long ago it was straight 7 digit dialing and everything was 713. We lost our **** when we had to add 713 or, gasp, 281.

Damn cell phones...

(Man states as he replies via his cell phone...)

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My first area code was 409, then whenever they broke up the region into the 3 or 4 different area codes ours changed to 979. Took a while to get used to that, now it is kinda hard to remember before since it's been 979 for 20 something years now. Maybe 30.

But I remember not having to dial area codes unless you were dialing long distance. Way back in the old days.

NoahAg said:

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Moved here in 2003, the one Texas town I never wanted to live in. Still haven't gotten out.

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You have my permission to leave. El Paso is waiting.

I had friends that lived in Oak Creek (I think that's the name of the subdivision) off of 1960, close to Champion Forest. I want to say that pool had a high dive.

Man, all I saw was the bottom of the pool. Terrifying. I did it once and that was it.

MelvinUdall said:

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T Durden said:

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Did you play football and baseball in AYA?

We moved in to Mission Bend in 1982 on the Ft. Bend side but played in AYA and Alief little league growing up.

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Played AYA till age 14 and then Alief Little League for summer once in HS.

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One of my first jobs was with the fledgling Alief YMCA, which had no facilities of its own. I was probably in sixth grade or so?

My job was handing out baseball equipment to the coaches from a trailer in the parking lot of a church on Bellaire. The practices and games were at the Quillian Memorial Center (now Alief Community Park). Then, after practice, the coaches would drive back to the trailer and drop off the gear and we'd check it in.

Imagine youth baseball where every team had two batting helmets and a couple of bats. No $400 bats and $110 sliding gloves.

I later moved up to umpire and referee baseball, flag football and street hockey.

HtownAg92 said:

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Born in Alvin in '69. Lived in Spring Branch area, played ball at SBMSA. Went to 6th Grade at old Westchester JH.

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Hellya...I believe a lot of this movie was shot there. That whole area and then east to Brittmoore was our stomping grounds. Didn't realize how good we had it with OG Sam's Deli on our side of the tracks back then.

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AgLA06 said:

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Born in Spring Branch Medical Center in 1983.

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Was that near Long Point and Campbell?

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Yes. Ish.

EclipseAg said:

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MelvinUdall said:

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T Durden said:

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Did you play football and baseball in AYA?

We moved in to Mission Bend in 1982 on the Ft. Bend side but played in AYA and Alief little league growing up.

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Played AYA till age 14 and then Alief Little League for summer once in HS.

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One of my first jobs was with the fledgling Alief YMCA, which had no facilities of its own. I was probably in sixth grade or so?

My job was handing out baseball equipment to the coaches from a trailer in the parking lot of a church on Bellaire. The practices and games were at the Quillian Memorial Center (now Alief Community Park). Then, after practice, the coaches would drive back to the trailer and drop off the gear and we'd check it in.

Imagine youth baseball where every team had two batting helmets and a couple of bats. No $400 bats and $110 sliding gloves.

I later moved up to umpire and referee baseball, flag football and street hockey.

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Ha! So true on the baseball equipment for youth baseball back in the day…I actually worked at Quinlan during the summer as a youth counselor along 4 or 5 other baseball players that we playing summer league for Alief Little League, we got the job because our coach ran Quinlan.

My mom's side of the family immigrated from Germany. They built a store in Westfield in 1846 but landed a few years before on a ship called the Henriette that landed in NYC from Hamburg sometimen the late 1830s.. We know he was born in Eibenstock and was a farmer who came over with his sons.

My grandfather/Mother's Father (born 1898). Was county commissioner of Harris County during WWII and got most of the spring/klein/aldine/tomball boys out of the draft on a farming exemption for dairy or produce.

My folks moved to Houston in the early 70s. Mom owed a rental property in OF, wishes she'd never sold it. I grew up off HWY 6/Westheimer before the mall was built. Ate many a meal at the original Lupe Tortilla. Moved to Tomball in the late 80s, moved into midtown after A&M in time for the construction boom in 2004.

I never got to experience the Bill Mraz dancehall on 34th but would have probably lived there every night if given the chance.
https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth952493/m1/1/high_res/

I also would've liked to have seen Willie Nelson as part of the house band at the Esquire Ballroom before he made it big, but that was before my time.

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I also would've liked to have seen Willie Nelson as part of the house band at the Esquire Ballroom before he made it big, but that was before my time.

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I was excited to learn that the Esquire Ballroom building is still there, but then some people explained to me that Jim it ain't our kind of place.

P.H. Dexippus said:

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My folks moved to Houston in the early 70s. Mom owed a rental property in OF, wishes she'd never sold it. I grew up off HWY 6/Westheimer before the mall was built. Ate many a meal at the original Lupe Tortilla. Moved to Tomball in the late 80s, moved into midtown after A&M in time for the construction boom in 2004.

I never got to experience the Bill Mraz dancehall on 34th but would have probably lived there every night if given the chance.
https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth952493/m1/1/high_res/

I also would've liked to have seen Willie Nelson as part of the house band at the Esquire Ballroom before he made it big, but that was before my time.

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We used to go out to the "country" in the late '70's to Charlie's Hamburger Joint on 6. Parents would sit and drink beer while the kids ran wild around the place. Good time had by all.

We would also go to eat Mexican somewhere in Richmond / Rosenberg that boasted "World's Best Enchiladas". Can't remember the name of it. Larry's?

And another fun trip was to Good Time Charlie's at Sharpstown Mall. First food court that I recall.

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We would also go to eat Mexican somewhere in Richmond / Rosenberg that boasted "World's Best Enchiladas". Can't remember the name of it. Larry's?

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Larry's Original Mexican Restaurant is still there on 90. Their sign is almost the same as the old
Felix's Mexican in Houston, I guess made by the same company and maybe had some kind of connection to Felix, so it kind of sticks out.

Jugstore Cowboy said:

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We would also go to eat Mexican somewhere in Richmond / Rosenberg that boasted "World's Best Enchiladas". Can't remember the name of it. Larry's?

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Larry's Original Mexican Restaurant is still there on 90. Their sign is almost the same as the old
Felix's Mexican in Houston, I guess made by the same company and maybe had some kind of connection to Felix, so it kind of sticks out.

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Gotta be where we went. Just did a quick history search for Larry's, and this came up:

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Guerrero started working in his family's restaurants when he was about 14 or 15 years old. His grandfather, Eberardo Guerrero Sr., opened Larry's in 1960 with the help of Felix Tijerina, who some say started the Tex-Mex empire in Houston, and "Mama Ninfa" or Maria Ninfa Rodriguez Laurenzo, the founder of Ninfa's. Tijerina shared his recipes with Guerrero Sr. while Mama Ninfa helped set up the kitchen.

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Dang. I don't often wish I still lived in Houston, but I would take the fam to eat there tonight if I did.

HtownAg92 said:

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P.H. Dexippus said:

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My folks moved to Houston in the early 70s. Mom owed a rental property in OF, wishes she'd never sold it. I grew up off HWY 6/Westheimer before the mall was built. Ate many a meal at the original Lupe Tortilla. Moved to Tomball in the late 80s, moved into midtown after A&M in time for the construction boom in 2004.

I never got to experience the Bill Mraz dancehall on 34th but would have probably lived there every night if given the chance.
https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth952493/m1/1/high_res/

I also would've liked to have seen Willie Nelson as part of the house band at the Esquire Ballroom before he made it big, but that was before my time.

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We used to go out to the "country" in the late '70's to Charlie's Hamburger Joint on 6. Parents would sit and drink beer while the kids ran wild around the place. Good time had by all.

We would also go to eat Mexican somewhere in Richmond / Rosenberg that boasted "World's Best Enchiladas". Can't remember the name of it. Larry's?

And another fun trip was to Good Time Charlie's at Sharpstown Mall. First food court that I recall.

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Charlie's Hamburger joint and Good Times Charlie's are blasts from my past.

A few years after I graduated from A&M, I bought a house in Pecan Grove, and soon thereafter discovered Larry's. That place was my goto for years. I can likely trace several of the pounds I have put on since leaving A&M directly to those enchiladas. On occasion, my wife will suggest a trip to Larry's as we are just up 99 a few miles in Cinco Ranch.

late 1920s. East Texas & West Texas prior to that. Alabama / Mississippi prior to that.

Unfortunately my family elected to keep moving outward instead of holding on to some of what turned out to be very valuable real estate ITL.

Man, I haven't been to Larry's since the mid-'80s. I guess it's time for a return visit!

Might have to check this Larry's place out. How bad could a place like this be?

While it is a free-standing building, I always considered it a hole-in-the-wall establishment. A bit dark and dingy inside, tiny restrooms that look like they were only added because some city inspector said they had to be there.

Be advised that the salsa they put on the table is not consistent in terms of one day it might be quite mild, and the next day you're leaving this place feeling like you have a sudden case of radioactive breath, and nearby Pecan Grove looks like a might fine stomping ground (Godzilla reference).

sts7049 said:

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our first phone number had a 713 area code

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Our first one, second one, and third one did: we lived in Baytown, Galveston, and Caldwell. That doesn't mean that much.