This is a photo of a 1910 postcard of the Club House of The Houston Country Club.

From:   info.lib.uh.edu/sca/digital/texpost/houpark.htm

The May 10, 1963 Westbury High School Prom was held at The Houston Executive Club.  After much research, I believe that I have figured out that the name was changed from The Houston Country Club  to The Houston Executive Club when The Houston Country Club moved to Tanglewood in 1957.

From:  www.houstonparksboard.org/projects/documents/GWCBrochure2color.pdf

From the same source is  a photo of a 1918 postcard of the Houston Country Club, simply called The Country Club. 

The old golf course/club was the Houston Executive Club until 1972 when the City of Houston purchased the facility and renamed it in honor of Houston Country Club member and insurance magnate, Gus Wortham.  [I seem to remember our prom site looking like this old building.  If anyone can correct me, please do.]

From:  www.houstonparksboard.org/projects/documents/GWCBrochure2color.pdf

A newspaper listing of showings at Houston Drive-In Theatres in 1965.  The South Main was showing Carol Baker in Harlow with the second feature as Jack Lemmon in Under the Yum Yum Tree.

From:  www.cinemahouston.info/driveins.shtml

The most interesting information about the South Main Drive-in can be found at: 
http://www.cinemahouston.info/driveins.shtml
"Houston’s first outdoor theatre, originally known as the Drive-in Theatre, opened on June 7, 1940. The generic name gave way to the Texas Drive-in, and later, its better-known name of the South Main Drive-In."  All the hours that I spent at the South Main, I never knew it was such a piece of local history

The original Post Oak Drive-in theatre.
Photo courtesy Carroll Lewis
From:  http://www.cinemahouston.info/driveins.shtml_

The Post Oak Drive-In has quite a story behind it. Its original location at 2900 Post Oak Road opened at 7:00 p.m. on March 14, 1951. The opening night double feature was “Pretty Baby” with Dennis Morgan and Betsy Drake, plus “The Grass Is Always Greener” with Chill Wills.
The story goes that in early-1960, the land on which the drive-in stood was sold to developers. The drive-in was dismantled, moved by house movers, and rebuilt at 1255 North Post Oak Road. Billed as the "New Post Oak Drive-In," it reopened on June 16, 1960. The opening night double feature  (this time)  was “Please Don't Eat the Daisies” with Doris Day and David Niven, and “Man on a String” with Ernest Borgnine and Kerwin Mathews.  Contributed by Bob Machann
From:  http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/30688
This move and re-construction took about seven months to complete.  Dinky Duck was on the original theatre and Bambi was on the new one.  The second owner, Carroll Lewis, Jr. put in a miniature golf course with each hole representing a famous movie.  Movieland Golf opened March 22, 1962.  Later, Lewis added a four-story giant slide to the site.  Lewis sold the drive-in in 1970 and the last time that it is listed in the phone book is 1974. 
In 1952, the Post Oak Drive-in was located in the area that was to become the Transco, then Williams, Tower and near the new Channel 2 studios.

From:  http://books.google.com/books?id=R6XDCyvuGSkC&pg=PA211&lpg=PA211&dq=Carroll+Lewis+Post+Oak&source=bl&ots=Jy4zRZFpX3&sig=Gar6CZOLwYO2hbTpME5phcdPv7U&hl=en&ei=BjPmS73fIobYM5GZ3asM&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CDUQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q&f=false

This picture and the following three are from  s259.photobucket.com/albums/hh304/oldschooltoo/Westbury%20Square/  [At this site are 21 pictures, beginning with a few from 2007 that show the decay of today.  But also several more from  "our time" are located at the site.]

This, of course, is  "The Fountain"  at Westbury Square without soap bubbles in it.  All four of these pictures are from the 1960s.

Cromwell's Men's Store is fondly remembered by our friend JT Chapin.  It had wooden floors, walnut paneling, valance lighting, and top-name clothing.  So many of the shops in Westbury Square were special and were a treat to enter and to browse, and to buy special items.

The scene just before bubbles?

  THE PLACE for ice cream at Westbury Square.

A visitor to the site, Bill Pelham  (Bellaire '68)  worked at The Candle Shop at 632 Westbury Square when he was a teenager.  He said that working there was a wonderful experience for him.
From:  http://www.cardcow.com/106022/candle-shop-632-westbury-square-houston-texas/

Bill said that Christmas time was particularly busy and particularly fun.  This is a candle tree on the patio of The Candle Shop.
From:  http://www.cardcow.com/221425/christmas-candle-tree-houston-texas/

Employees and a customer are showing off the inside of the shop where the candles were handmade and quite beautiful.  It is believed by several former employees that the man on the right is store manager Paul Campos.
From:  http://sighswhispers.blogspot.com/2009/11/photo-of-day-candle-shop.html

It really seems to me that there should be room for Westbury Square in Houston.  It was a unique and enjoyble shopping experience.  But, history tells us that as soon as The Galleria opened, WS started failing.  Of course, several efforts were made to revive it, but to no avail.  What a shame that it came to an end.  But I am glad that it lives in our collective memories.

An early picture of Sears on South Main.  I remember this grander early look and so much prefer it over the next picture which was taken after Sears  "modernized"  the exterior in the sixties.

  From:  http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2035728941778&set=o.107646629279272&type=1&theater&pid=2245754&id=1500842745

The Delman Theatre was located at 4412 South Main Street.  "Coney Island"  premiered in 1943; therefore, that is probably the year of this picture.  Betty Grable played Kate Farley and George Montgomery played Eddie Johnson.  Cesar Romero was also in this movie  (see IMDb.com for this and more information).

Bill McCurdy  (http://bill37mccurdy.wordpress.com/2010/08/30/weldons-best-chicken-n-dumplings-in-houston/) felt the way I did about rice and gravy; only for him is was chicken and dumplings.  But more important, I learned from him that  "almost completely hidden on the south side by a gas station that had been constructed on the south side of the old Weldon’s building, the old building classic survived, either by accident or divine plan. During the years the building served as home to Massey’s Business College, from the early 1970s into the 1990s; the vaulted interior ceiling was hidden by a dropped false ceiling at nine-feet – and the classic exterior lines were hidden by the gas station that has since been razed."

Thank goodness for the divine intervention, or whatever it was.  At least as of 2010, this is Weldon's Cafeteria!  "When Ray & Hollington Architects then restored the building to its original facade and interior design features in 1999, they also moved in to use the place as their home office and design studio. For their grand effort, the Houston Preservation Alliance congratulated Ray & Hollington with an important Gold Brick for their restoration efforts."  This is a perfect example of why we need to support the preservation of our buildings.  Too many are already gone.
Numerous beautiful photographs of the restoration can be found at http://www.rharchitects.com/index.php?/project/rayhollington-offices/.  Ray and Hollington have moved to new offices, but hopefully, their restoration of Weldon's will last a long time.
This is their description of the restoration project:  "This project is an adaptive reuse and renovation of a former two-story cafeteria into RHA’s office and studio. Located on Main Street in Houston’s Museum District, the building, which was originally designed by MacKie and Kamrath Architects in 1949, suffered numerous poorly designed interior modifications before becoming a derelict property in the early 1990s. RHA was faced with the challenge of creating the new office space while preserving the rich architectural history of the existing building. The design strategy revolved around updating and supplementing the interior spaces while restoring the exterior to its original state."

  Inside Weldon Cafeteria sometime after its opening in 1949.  It looked just like this when I would go there in the 1950s and I always begged my mother to eat upstairs.

From: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2033346322214&set=o.107646629279272&type=1&theater&pid=2242954&id=1500842745

Many of us grew up going to the Bellaire Theatre located at the corner of Bellaire Blvd and Stella Link.  This was a wonderful neighborhood theater that used to feature Saturday morning kid programs with local personality Don Mahoney. The interior boasted murals by local artist Nione Carlson, who also designed the marquee. The first floor seated 800, while the balcony sat 400.

 Information from:  cinematreasures.org/theater/9910/

Photo from:  www.cinemahouston.info/independents.shtml

This is another beautiful watercolor by Jim Koehn that can be purchased.  
From:  www.hollywoodframegallery.com/koehn/theater16.jpg.

With the philosophy of "have what people want at a price they can afford to pay," the T.G.& Y. corporation opened its first variety store in Norman, Oklahoma in 1936 and expanded to 930 outlets nationwide by the 1980s.  TG&Y stores were firmly embedded in southern culture as modern-day general stores with a bit of everything, and often called by the moniker, "Toys, Guns, and YoYos."  My first job was at the candy counter of the T.G.& Y. on S. Post Oak near Willow Bend Blvd. where I learned how to make popcorn in a big commercial popper.  I was too young to drive so my mother drove me to my job each day.

From: digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/T/TG001.html  and  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TG%26Y

This picture is of a postcard of early Crystal pool.  The water slide must have been added later.  In these early days it was called  "Gateway Swim & Skate."  Note the location of 8510  (South Main).

From:  http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1483814180482&set=o.107646629279272&type=1&theater

The Gateway Skating Rink had a mirrored theater ball and wooden floors. At least a generation of young Houstonians learned the Hokey Pokey, the Bunny Hop, skating backwards and other tricks on those floors.  It is believed that the complex was there from the mid-1950s until the mid-1970s.  This information that has been so hard to find is from www.examiner.com/history-in-houston/the-gateway-swimming-pool-on-south-main.

Another pool that was very popular during our generation and in our location was Evergreen Pool in Bellaire.  This rare photo is from:   http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?op=1&view=global&subj=107646629279272&pid=178003&id=100000390669928&oid=107646629279272&fbid=122036211152734

In our day, home high school football games were played at one of two places:  Jeppesen or Delmar Stadium.

Current picture of Delmar Field House with stadium to the right of it.  It is located at 2020 Mangum Road and opened in 1957 for HISD schools to use. 



From:  www.flickr.com/photos/47359227@N00/389162122.

Aerial Photo of Delmar  [Dyer]  Stadium. 
From  www.google.com/imgres.

This 1967 photo of Gulfgate is from: http://blog.chron.com/bayoucityhistory/2009/06/gulfgate-mall-in-pictures/

Actually, back when it opened, it was called Gulfgate Shopping City. And it was an open-air shopping center, a new concept in those days.  Gulfgate opened on Sept. 20, 1956. By 1964, the shopping center had 70 stores, 5,500 parking spots and covered 802,770 square feet.

At the time of its opening, a Houston Chronicle article called it the largest shopping center in the South. More than 150,000 turned out on its first day of business.  The new mall opened with Joske's, Sakowitz, Weingarten's, J.J. Newberry and W.T. Grant.
From:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulfgate_Mall

What it looked like in the early days -- September 1958 -- as an open-air mall. 
From:  http://blog.chron.com/bayoucityhistory/2009/06/gulfgate-mall-in-pictures/

This early color photo of Gufgate is from:   http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2032095530945&set=o.107646629279272&type=1&theater&pid=2241593&id=1500842745

There were Weingarten's Grocery Stores all over Houston, of course.  This one is Store # 14 at 1100 Quitman.  The architect was Joseph Finger and it was completed in 1938.  It was demolished in 1970.

This photo and information are from:   http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1602991352440&set=o.107646629279272&type=1&theater&pid=31393981&id=1165786065

But I found that this photo and information belong to:   Greater Houston Preservation Alliance, Copyright 2010.

The original photo is from:
Bob Bailey Studio Photographic Archive, Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.

Other stores may be viewed at:  http://www.houstondeco.org/1930s/weingarten.html

Joseph Weingarten was a grocery-store owner and promoter of world peace who was born at Galicia, Poland, on October 8, 1884.  As a child he moved to the United States with his parents. The family lived first in Richmond, Texas, and then in Houston. Weingarten attended public schools and Massey Business College and in 1901, with his father, opened a grocery store in downtown Houston. In 1914 he formed J. Weingarten, Incorporated, and in 1920 he opened a second store. Weingarten married Malvina Kessler on May 6, 1923; they had two sons and a daughter. Advertising "Better Food for Less," he pioneered in self-service and cash-and-carry shopping. His chain of stores in Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana grew by 1926 to six; by 1938 to twelve; by 1951, twenty-five; and by 1967-the year of his death-seventy. The corporation sold its stores to Grand Union in 1980.
From:  http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fwe15

This is the south-end store at 2800 Travis in November, 1939.
In 1872 a young grocer named Henry Henke took a short vacation from New Orleans to visit Galveston in the hopes of forming a partnership with a fellow grocer who had just started a business there.
When that didn’t pan out, Henke came to Houston. The city wasn’t lacking in grocers back then, but he decided to make a run at it anyway and use his connections in New Orleans to his advantage.
Success didn’t come easy, as this Sept. 14, 1922, Houston Chronicle article indicates.
Mr. Henke had many hard struggles to go through in order to continue his business, and at times things looked hopeless, but with determination, knowledge of the business and knowing how to treat his customers, success came. This success was very hard to attain, because the founder had but very small means. [...] Another handicap was that he was in a strange city, knew no one and had no parents or friends to advise him in critical moments.
In 1882, Henke asked Camille G. Pillot to take charge of the company’s books. A few years later, Pillot became a full partner. Thus was born the Henke & Pillot name.
As Houston grew, so did the company.
A 1925 Southwestern Bell telephone book lists two locations, the main store at 302 Milam and a second at 2800 Travis. Both buildings have since been demolished, the South End (aka Midtown) store coming down in 2008.
From:  http://blog.chron.com/bayoucityhistory/2010/10/houstons-own-henke-pillot/

As we all know, the Golden Age of Music, that is of Rock and Roll, occurred during the 1950's and 1960's.  And in those days, we loved our radios.  That is where we heard all of the latest songs.   The radio station was all-powerful and the disc jockeys were stars.  Without them, we would be lost.  Of course, some music programs, such as Your Hit Parade and later American Bandstand, were on early television.  But still we relied mostly on radio at home and in our cars for  our music entertainment.

KILT was THE popular music station in the late fifties and on through the sixties in Houston.  Gordon McLendon started KILT in 1957.
There were all kinds of contests being offered during those years.  I personally remember the tanning contest one summer.  The contestants were to get their backs tanned with the letters K I L T taped off so that they would show on the person's back.  I don't remember the prize, but I do remember my mother telling me  "no, you will not get a tan with the letters of a radio station taped off."

From: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?op=1&view=global&subj=107646629279272&pid=5726985&id=694809831&oid=107646629279272&fbid=445821074831

The two photos above would indicate some kind of an advertising gimmick for KILT.  I suspected that the DJs were broadcasting from atop the tower in our summer heat and lots of folks came out to see it.  But, thanks to Bruce at the wonderful blog http://houstonradiohistory.blogspot.com/2008/11/kilt-historical-photos.html, we now know exactly what was going on and where it was happening:
". . . apparently the most attention getting promotion, even garnering national news notice, was the flagpole sitter, who was none other than program director and afternoon drive DJ Don Keyes. Keyes was to work for McLendon for years, serving as National Program Director of the McLendon group after graduating from KILT. Soon after taking over KILT, McLendon had ordered Keyes up on a flagpole positioned in the parking lot of the new Gulfgate Mall which also happened to be situated next to the first freeway in Houston, the Gulf Freeway, now I-45 South. Keyes was to stay there until KILT beat KNUZ."
These images are from:  http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=0c720fb55a16c067
and http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=5293a53720a5ec96

A photo of a paper flyer from KILT.
From:  http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=115061625227384&set=o.107646629279272&type=1&theater&pid=79588&id=100001706404883

A December 1963  "Top 50"  list with the familiar faces of the staff at KNUZ.
From:   http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?op=1&view=global&subj=107646629279272&pid=31202962&id=1060813582&oid=107646629279272&fbid=1400790054035

Broadcasting Yearbook gives the year of origin of KIKK-AM as 1957, reflecting the move to Pasadena.  This was an early country music station and continued to be so for many years.

Bumper stickers and information from:  http://houstonradiohistory.blogspot.com/2008/01/gallery-iii-memorabilia.html  and  http://houstonradiohistory.blogspot.com/2007/06/60-years-on-650.html

This picture of Russ Knight is from:  http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?op=1&view=global&subj=107646629279272&pid=2036177&id=1246810349&oid=107646629279272&fbid=1479757594374

Russ Knight, the  "Weird Beard,"  was actually Russel Lee Moore who moved to Houston from Dallas in 1964.  He had a degree in drama from SMU and was a huge nighttime success on the radio in Dallas  at KLIF  (another Gordon McLendon station).  He was, according to Lee Michael Withers, the first  "night jock showman,"  entertaining listeners as much as the music did.  Knight left Houston in 1966, but remained in the memories of many of our generation.  He is one of the original ninety members of the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame.

From: http://leemichaelwithers.tripod.com/cruisin62.htm  and  http://www.texasradiohalloffame.com/biographies2003.htm

In 1956, we were very excited to receive a gift like any of the items above.
From:  http://www.vintageadbrowser.com/electronics-ads-1950s/6

From:  http://mall-hall-of-fame.blogspot.com/   (Photo from the Milwaukee Journal)
According to this website, the very first 45 rpm record was Eddy Arnold's  "Texarkana Baby in March 1949.

This is probably the first of a very long line of items that I would want from Neiman-Marcus, a 1959 Hitachi TRANSISTOR radio. 
From:  http://www.vintageadbrowser.com/electronics-ads-1950s/6

In 1964, many of our families were adding a unit like this Motorola hi-fi/stereo.    It would have had a radio as well as a turntable and was a piece of furniture because of the cabinet.
From:  http://www.vintageadbrowser.com/electronics-ads-1960s/18

Clock radios came out in the early fifties and made great gifts.
From:  http://www.vintageadbrowser.com/electronics-ads-1950s/2

And in 1960, RCA offerred many choices of style in radios.
From:  http://www.vintageadbrowser.com/electronics-ads-1960s/5

KILT brought the Beatles to the Sam Houston Colliseum . . . what a big event!

From:  http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1485428931785&set=o.107646629279272&&theater&pid=31154534&id=1115745867
 http://www.completepicturesinc.com/vintage-houston-photographs.htm

My friend Vicki Graham attended a party in high school at which Kenny Rogers played and sang.  That reminded me to include him on this site.  Rogers was born in Houston in 1938 and graduated from Jefferson Davis High School, the first member of his family to graduate.  His first group was called  "The Scholars"  and at age nineteen  (1957)  he recorded his first song for Carlton Records, a small Houston recording company.  His career started with this recording of  "That Crazy Feeling."  He then joined  "The Bobby Doyle Trio"  which was a very popular Texas band.   In late 1966, he joined  "The New Christy Minstrels,"  a hugely popular folk group, but he did not stay with them long.

This album photo is from:
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.mickeyjones.com/edition.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.mickeyjones.com/mjindex.htm&h=394&w=500&sz=25&tbnid=5C_Ecw-0GT831M:&tbnh=91&tbnw=115&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dkenny%2Brogers%2Bearly%2Bphoto%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=kenny+rogers+early+photo&docid=3zP7ot4v39MkbM&sa=X&ei=crO1ToGRM-nCsQKt5uX6Aw&ved=0CD8Q9QEwCg&dur=2241

After his  short time with  "The New Christy Minstrels,"  Rogers and friends formed  "The First Edition"  in 1967.  They were very successful as well and it became  "Kenny Rogers and the First Edition." Beginning in 1976, Rogers went completely solo and has been a hit ever since.

This album photo is from:
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NDUmkclAxjY/TTMoQCS2_JI/AAAAAAAAH0o/ITGGFkXOXqo/s1600/Kenny%2BRogers%2BFirst%2BEdition.jpg&imgrefurl=http://patsdailyrant.blogspot.com/2011/01/sunday-song-from-my-vietnam-year1969-70.html&h=268&w=328&sz=16&tbnid=d5hQRlRAoWzT8M:&tbnh=85&tbnw=104&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dkenny%2Brogers%2Bearly%2Bphoto%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=kenny+rogers+early+photo&docid=xDhCVYhtbAtjCM&sa=X&ei=crO1ToGRM-nCsQKt5uX6Aw&ved=0CCgQ9QEwAw&dur=202

Sources for text of Kenny Rogers:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0737006/bio
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_Rogers

Even though the following print advertisements are not directly related to Houston, they are certainly directly related to our generation.  We saw these on a daily basis when we were growing up.

Is it any wonder that many of us started smoking at an early age?
From:  http://www.businesspundit.com/13-most-evil-vintage-ads-in-history/

Doctors did it; Santa did it; Mickey Mantle did it; and, dentists recommended it.  It is a wonder that anyone in our generation did not smoke.  Good for those of you who didn't!  All four of these ads are from the fifties.
The last three photos of ads are from: 
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1848212_1777641,00.html
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1848212_1777642,00.html
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1848212_1777646,00.html

It is always said that Americans have a love affair with their cars.  Mine began with the very first car that I can remember that my family owned.  It was a 1949 Ford that we had bought in California the last year that my dad was in the Navy.  We drove it back to Houston that year and sold it when I was in Kindergarten during the school-year 1950-51.  I remember crying as I looked out the window the morning that my father drove that car away for the last time.  I have remembered every car that we (and later I)  had ever since that one.  Here are a few of them for your enjoyment.

Our 1949 Ford looked like this one, except it was maroon.
From:  http://www.vintageadbrowser.com/cars-ads-1940s/11

As a family we had several other cars over the years, but the first one that I considered mine was a 1955 Oldsmobile 88 that I drove in high school and in my first year of college.  It was not two-toned though, but rather solid green, and had room for many girls inside and several in the trunk for getting in the drive-in the cheap way.  This big and heavy car was air-conditioned and wonderfully fun to drive.

My Oldsmobile was the same color as this Lincoln.
Olds picture from:  http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.picturearchive.co.za/Images/large_1955%2BOldsmobile%2B88%2B4-door%2Bsedan%2Bfl3q%253Dritz%253D.JPG&imgrefurl=http://www.picturearchive.co.za/index.php/cms/contentview/action/view/frmContentId/124994/image/1/name/Re:%25201955%2520Oldsmobile%252088%2520HT%2520-%2520white%2520over%2520turquoise%2520-%2520fvl/&h=413&w=550&sz=79&tbnid=sinEebWWPO_-KM:&tbnh=87&tbnw=116&prev=/search%3Fq%3D55%2BOldsmobile%2B88%2Bsedan%2Bphoto%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=55+Oldsmobile+88+sedan+photo&docid=ypogtdWCRtN4fM&sa=X&ei=IFbATofJOKSNsALatZy3BA&ved=0CEYQ9QEwAw&dur=87
Green Lincoln picture from:  http://www.vintageadbrowser.com/cars-ads-1950s/3

For a while in college I drove a wonderful car that was similar to this one.

It was a 1965 Chevrolet Impala SS that was silver instead of red.  The 327 engine and
four-in-the-floor transmission made this Impala a "muscle car."  I loved driving it!
From:  http://www.superchevy.com/features/0208sc_1965_impala_ss/photo_02.html

What fun it would be to have it today, but I am sure that I could not afford the gasoline to operate it.
From:  http://www.dukesauto.net/1965_impala_super_sport.htm

In between the Impala SS and my final car of the 50s and 60s I drove a 1953 bare-bones light blue Chevrolet.  No power brakes or steering, no radio, no air conditioning and a heater that didn't work made this car a challenge to drive.  It had NO extras, no amenities, except for the Powerglide transmission which was a two-speed automatic.  My paternal grandfather had to quit driving because of age and loss of vision, so I was relegated to driving his car.  This Chevy got me to class and back, but it wouldn't start in the morning unless I put a towel over certain parts, especially the distributor cap, under the hood so that they would not get damp in the night.  Do you think maybe I was being punished for something?  I was.

I WISH my old Chevy had looked like this 1953 Chevy, but it did not, with none of the extra chrome, and the single color of dull flat pale blue instead of the two-toned shiny bright yellow.  But the basic body style was the same and it was roomy inside.
From:  http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.scottymoore.net/images/photos/53belair/53chevy.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.scottymoore.net/53chevy.html&h=337&w=449&sz=38&tbnid=y03eNZsocVn-CM:&tbnh=91&tbnw=121&prev=/search%3Fq%3D1953%2Bchevy%2Bphotos%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=1953+chevy+photos&docid=f2nPxJ1RKBAE7M&sa=X&ei=WD_ATvq6BMn-sQLRloDjBA&ved=0CEgQ9QEwCg&dur=354

From the fall of 1967 until about 1974, I drove a 1968 Camaro Super Sport that was a dark gray/green  (officially the color was named gun-metal gray).  What a car!  And what fun I had in it!  I started teaching that fall and my students thought that I was the  "coolest"  of all possible teachers because I was twenty-one years old and drove this car.

This Camaro reminds me more of mine because I did not have the white paint around the front-end.

I chose to feature some of the cars with which I was directly familiar during the 1950s and 1960s because, of course, too many wonderful cars existed during that time to try to show all of them in this website.  Those were the days of cars that were designed for speed and for fun.  I hope that this small selection will jog some memories for visitors to this website.

First Camaro Photo From:  http://www.clients.automanager.com/013639/vehicle-details/3887e0ed6e0148c8b412feac632ac5f4/1968+chevrolet+camaro+ss+shows++28k+miles+2-door+coupe.html

Photo of Black Restored Camaro From:  http://www.newmusclecar.blogspot.com/2011/08/legend-of-muscle-car-1968-camaro.html

You Can Find a Number of Print Ads At:  http://www.vintageadbrowser.com/cars-ads-1960s/17
[Anyone who is interested in reminiscing about our times of growing up, would enjoy this website which has thousands of print ads.]

This is obviously way before our time, but I included it in honor of my paternal grandfather who was a conductor on the Interurban.  According to family stories, he was conductor on the last train that got out successfully as the 1915 Galveston Hurricane was arriving.  Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries, Historic Texas Postcards from the George Fuermann Texas and Houston Collection. 

[Nabisco made Uneeda Biscuits from 1898 until 2009.]

Contact me at:   tana@tanasreminisce.com