Gone But Not Forgotten in San Antonio! - Part I (Austin: stations, electricity)

[Willsatx]

Originally Posted by rob5

Thanks Rob those are awesome.

[Willsatx]

Originally Posted by Nix54

Coney Island was the best hangout for St. Mary's School Panthers. Back in the late 60's hot dogs and bottled sodas were 15 cents each. The juke box would give you 3 songs for a Quarter.

Having attended St. Mary's School, there was no turnover in employees at the Coney. All the employees knew the students on a first name basis.

If you were an altarboy at St. Mary's and you served the 8AM daily student Mass that had a funeral, you could sneak over to the Coney and spend your tip that the funeral directors would give, then off to school.

Before Friday night Boy Scout meetings held in the basement of St. Mary's Church many of us would meet at the Coney Island.

Too bad Coney Island is gone.

I also remember a short lived hot dog place called "Poor Pierre's," located in back of Walgreens on College street.

There is a place i went to eat in Houston called James Coney Island, is this the same one? It says they have been around since 1923. The hotdogs were awesome and they sell deleware punch.

[Nix54]

I doubt if the Coney Island in Houston is connected to the one that was downtown San Antonio on St. Mary's street. I recall a sign in the SA Coney that stated something like "Since 1920's."

SA Coney used to serve Delaware Punch in bottles in the 60's also.

I recall sometime later maybe in the late 70's or early 80's the Coney Island moved to Broadway street across from Brackenridge Park. They did not last long there.

I wish I had a brown bag of a couple of steaming SA Coneys right now!

[Willsatx]

Originally Posted by Nix54

I doubt if the Coney Island in Houston is connected to the one that was downtown San Antonio on St. Mary's street. I recall a sign in the SA Coney that stated something like "Since 1920's."

SA Coney used to serve Delaware Punch in bottles in the 60's also.

I recall sometime later maybe in the late 70's or early 80's the Coney Island moved to Broadway street across from Brackenridge Park. They did not last long there.

I wish I had a brown bag of a couple of steaming SA Coneys right now!

I will email the corporate office and see if it is them, the hotdogs were awesome and the delware punch was great.

On the way back stopped at a place in Luling called Bucees its a big travel gift gasoline store and on the fountain drinks they had Frostie root beer. Anyone remember that.

[Ruth McCallum]

Don't feel like the Lone Ranger! I still remember Joske's theme song, heard it so often over the radio!

Ruth M., S.A.

[irnag]

Originally Posted by Memories Galore

Ozzy - tell me more about this underground passage. I didn't know it existed and if it's still accessible, I think I'd like to give it a try.

I think he speaks of the riverwalk extension built for hemisphere in '68. It used to terminate at the convention center but I think now it goes beyond that.

[irnag]

I was talking about the hot dog stand Der Wienerschnitzel. I didn't think they were in the mall. Seems kinda classy for a hot dog stand. They had steep A frame roofs much like old Whataburger stands. They still exist, but I don't know if the A frames are probably gone.

[OzzyRules]

Originally Posted by irnag

I think he speaks of the riverwalk extension built for hemisphere in '68. It used to terminate at the convention center but I think now it goes beyond that.

Yes. That's probably the same one. It's actually not a major walk or anything as I implied earlier. But basically, starting from the Rivercenter, take the left sidewalk, turn left with river. It will take you straight there.

I guess it's been there a long time, but I just didn't know about it until I recently discovered it.

[01Snake]

Originally Posted by spaceage007

Yes I do. I was owner by the guy who owned Bob's Bikes, on the NW side next to where the Alamo draft house is now. He was the only guy for a while who had a skate shop on that side of town (before Team Bruce's Skate Shop) he made a small fortune. There was a small crew of us who hung out there everyday, next to where Ledgens is now was a ditch (still there and still used by skates) where we would skate all the time. Bob built that park and let us all skate there before it opened to the public. It wasnt all that because it was all concrete, (not like todays parks) but we still had fun. Now the community park near my house has a skate park. We would have killed for that, the skaters now a days dont know how we pathed the way for them. We use to were that "Skateborading is not a CRIME" T-shirts lol, people would treat us like a gang when all we were doing was trying to skate.

I use to go there quite a bit as well. The concrete "bowl" they had was hilarious. The transitions were so bad it was barely usable. It was better than nothing I guess.

I started skating again a few months ago when my buddy drug me out to Lady Bird. Forgot how much fun it is. I wish there were some free standing halfpipes in town. Busting your rear in the cement bowl hurts big time!

[jamesgreg]

Does anybody remember floyd's dairy bar or highland hills pharmacy on the southside? I do remember going to luby's on sunday at mccrelles mall and getting the "fried fish square" coverd with tartar sauce. we then moved to the ne side and i grad. from roosevelt in '78. Any body remember going out to robard's and hunting and seeing "Donkey Lady" and her husband who took care of the old donkeys?