Well, well look at all of these Houston boys all in one thread ... I didn't know we had so many.
I moved to Houston from Waco, Texas in 1959 and there was no 610 loop yet ... just old Post Oak Road, no Galleria shopping center yet either.
I think Hwy 59 was just being built then too, because I remember getting stopped for speeding over on Richmond Rd and the policeman said, "You boys should take your drag racing on over to that new Highway 59".
I lived behind the Catholic high school I think it was called Marion near Bellaire. I attended Bellaire high school till my family moved and then I finished up at Lamar Highschool.
Served nine years in the Navy and came right back home to Houston in 1971, worked for Southwest Security installing security alarms and trouble shooting problems with the quick stop stores in Houston that got robbed everyday.
Then I lucked out got a job down in Seabrook next to the Kema drawbridge at Southwest Marine (the big green building at the entrance to the Seabrook Shipyard. Worked there for four years and then I left for sunny California in 1977, but I came back three years later and got a job at Astro World as a photographer and then I lucked out again and got a great job at Four Seasons on the Gulf down in Galveston.
Moved back to sunny California in 1982 ... I will always remember my roots.
Love everything there except the humidity ... I worked outside for years there and I would need another shower by noon everyday.
Hope I can get back for the subsim meeting and stand the smells of fresh gasoline being made down in Pasadena, Deer Park, Channel view area.
Which only bothers you if you have to live or drive through those areas.
Pearland was nice when I left that is ... Hope to see ya'll there
