History of area near Babcock/Huebner pre-2000's? (church)

[Fraptree]

On the corner of Babcock and Huebner. The SE Corner there was a diversions game room back in the ninties. Had a strategy game kinda like GO or Othello. Only reason I went to that part of town in those years. Sucked when they closed the Diversions. Owner never transported the game to any of his other locations. Assumed he just sold it off.

[GWhopper]

Originally Posted by Willsatx

The one next to Pizza Hut was a fast food chinese place, dont remember the name. They also had one at Blanco-West Ave which is now a dr. office.

It was called Quick-Wok and it was owned by Pillsbury, back when Pillsbury owned Burger King. Once they bought out the original Whopper Burger chain and where allowed to enter the San Antonio market with Burger King, they brought in the Quick-Wok sometime in the 1980's.

[Willsatx]

Man G I have been going crazy trying to remember the name, thanks.

[The Black Irish]

I remember that game room and that chinese place. Wasn't Diversions in the same shopping center as the current Babcock Bar?

[makiten]

The idea of fast chinese food (other than Panda Express) feels like such a foreign concept to me.

[Willsatx]

I ate there a handful of times, I remember thinking there were mainly hispanic cooks. I am hispanic and thought it was cool, but after eating it I was like not as authentic.

[Vector28]

Originally Posted by makiten

Also, was Marshall HS open then?

Oh yeah, and had been around for awhile before that. The Jr. High used to be on the same property. I went to 7th grade there but was zoned to the newly built Pat Neff JH the next year. Then back to the HS for the next four years, graduating in '66.

I believe it was originally called Northside HS. Some say the name change came about because newscasters would use the term northside when reporting some youngster's misdeeds. Of course they were using the term to describe what part of town they were reporting but some people must have thought Northside HS sure had a lot of troublemakers.

And yes, we were way out of town, and known as a "kicker" school. Looking back, it was a lot of fun. Don't know exactly where it's boundaries were then but some kids came from way out west along FM 471 and FM 1957. Some of them qualified for special driving permits that allowed them to drive to and from school before they were old enough for a regular license.

Back then, as you drove north on Babcock things began thinning out rapidly once you passed Wurzbach and by the time you got to Hamilton Wolfe Rd. the country was mostly farm & ranch. Even then there was some sort of store or mom & pop place at the Babcock/Huebner/Whitby intersection. Eckhert Rd. deadended into Huebner SW of that intersection instead of crossing like it does now. Somewhere about that time the Methodist hospital complex began to take form and Medical drive came to be.

[txtea]

That little "mom and pop place" on the corner where Churches chicken is now, was called Al's Corner. It was a little hole in the wall neighborhood bar. My dad spent plenty of time there...lol. They had horseshoes and a bbq pit out back...I remember having a lot of fun there as a kid. That was the only building on that corner then.

The original Martha's cafe was in a little white building off of Huebner....it is now the "Pyshcic Reader" place. I remember going there with my grandmother and my two siblings back in the early 70's one time....we walked in, sat down at one of their 4 tables and were drooling over the aroma from the kitchen. My grandmother took one look at the menu and told us to get in the car. She refused to pay $1.50 for 3 enchiladas, rice, beans and tortillas. She was let's say...frugal.

Marshall High School has been around since 1949. Back then it was called Northside High School...because it was the only high school on the northside. My parents went there back in the 50's!

I have some pics here somewhere my dad took from atop the Methodist Hospital when they were building it. He shot a few pics of the area north of the hospital towards our house on Prue. Nothing but fields and dairy farms. I'll post them if I can find them.

I need a time machine.

[Vector28]

Al's Corner, shoulda' remembered that. And we ate at Martha's in the little white building many times.
On the property where Methodist Hospital is now there were two or three large concrete silos (grain maybe), no longer in use, that had to be demolished before the hospital went up. I'm thinking there were some bad goings on - a murder or body dumped shortly before the silos came down. Other than those structures that was just plain pasture land.

[Dwangle]

Originally Posted by txtea

That little "mom and pop place" on the corner where Churches chicken is now, was called Al's Corner. It was a little hole in the wall neighborhood bar. My dad spent plenty of time there...lol. They had horseshoes and a bbq pit out back...I remember having a lot of fun there as a kid. That was the only building on that corner then.

The original Martha's cafe was in a little white building off of Huebner....it is now the "Pyshcic Reader" place. I remember going there with my grandmother and my two siblings back in the early 70's one time....we walked in, sat down at one of their 4 tables and were drooling over the aroma from the kitchen. My grandmother took one look at the menu and told us to get in the car. She refused to pay $1.50 for 3 enchiladas, rice, beans and tortillas. She was let's say...frugal.

Marshall High School has been around since 1949. Back then it was called Northside High School...because it was the only high school on the northside. My parents went there back in the 50's!

I have some pics here somewhere my dad took from atop the Methodist Hospital when they were building it. He shot a few pics of the area north of the hospital towards our house on Prue. Nothing but fields and dairy farms. I'll post them if I can find them.

I need a time machine.

That reminds me. I flew a model airplane with an 8mm camera on it. I filmed the corner of 1604 and Culebra around 1980. Before Clark was built. I gotta look for it. You can see the home made airstrip in HISTORIC AERIALS web site.