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Old 05-13-2008, 08:57 PM
 
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VickieL... You are obviously MUCH younger than I. There was a kiddie park around what is now Southcross and Roosevelt, and of course, the world's oldest and most beat up kiddie park around Mulberry and Broadway. Memories of childhood are memories regardless of the time frame. San Antonio, even with its blemishes, was not a bad place to grow up in for a big city. I recently purchased a 1957 S.A. telephone book. Its total pages equals what is now only the white pages of the new books. The last fifty years of growth has been phenomenal. Fredricksburg Rd. , San Pedro, I10 and I35 were nothing compared to today. I really loved those "sparse" years.
That is amazing that you found a phone book from 1957. I was born in the early 60's so I have seen alot of change throughout San Antonio also, some good, some bad. The Kiddie Park I went to was the one on Mulberry and Broadway, which is STILL there, after all these years. I have pictures of my mother when she was a little girl at the same Kiddie Park. They had nickel Wednesdays, which was the most popular day to go. I wonder if they still have them?

 
Old 05-14-2008, 04:09 PM
 
Location: Universal City, Texas
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Old 05-14-2008, 06:30 PM
 
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VickieL... You are obviously MUCH younger than I. There was a kiddie park around what is now Southcross and Roosevelt, and of course, the world's oldest and most beat up kiddie park around Mulberry and Broadway. Memories of childhood are memories regardless of the time frame. San Antonio, even with its blemishes, was not a bad place to grow up in for a big city. I recently purchased a 1957 S.A. telephone book. Its total pages equals what is now only the white pages of the new books. The last fifty years of growth has been phenomenal. Fredricksburg Rd. , San Pedro, I10 and I35 were nothing compared to today. I really loved those "sparse" years.
Reading back on some of the quotes I assume we may be close to the same age...or not but I remember my phone number from the late 40s and early 50s as being a single letter prefix "L" in our case. Also when the expressway ended at Fredericksburg Rd. right near Woodlawn. I think it went all the way to Alamo St. south. I could be wrong on that one because I was too young to drive. I didn't start till I was eleven. Dan G
 
Old 05-15-2008, 07:04 AM
 
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Dan G... My earliest recollections of phone numbers had two letters. Anything with an "L" would probably have been "Lehigh" or "LE". The 1957 phone book is all two letters. I could always remember my home phone, and it started with "WAlnut". I don't know when they started using two instead of just one letter. Yes, I rremember the expressway ending at Fred and Woodlawn area. Isn't it amazing how much things have changed just within our liffetimes?
 
Old 05-15-2008, 10:58 AM
 
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Dan G... My earliest recollections of phone numbers had two letters. Anything with an "L" would probably have been "Lehigh" or "LE". The 1957 phone book is all two letters. I could always remember my home phone, and it started with "WAlnut". I don't know when they started using two instead of just one letter. Yes, I rremember the expressway ending at Fred and Woodlawn area. Isn't it amazing how much things have changed just within our liffetimes?
Blanco joe- Yes it is really amazing the changes that have taken place in the last 50 years. Our phone number when I was in Robert B. Green elementary school was L37052 which was Lehigh later on. I started school in 1950, graduated from Page in 1960 and Highlands in 1963 to give a little brief history. During the 6 years between 1957 and 1963 I actually attended 6 different schools including Watts in L.A. which was Thomas Edison Junior High and Southgate Junior High then Western High and Magnolia High in Anaheim for 2 years of high school. Was moved around quite a bit between mother and father between San Antonio and California.
Getting back to San Antonio, we spent a lot of time down on the river behind Lone Star Brewery and around the railroad trestles just being kids and never getting into any serious trouble just serious mischief. We used to enter the drainage culvert behind Brackenridge which was large enough to drive a car into and follow the thing for miles occasionally looking out where the street drains were to try to guess where we were. Sometimes downtown and sometimes behind the Boys Club. We could always entertain ourselves. More later...Dan G
 
Old 05-15-2008, 01:08 PM
 
Location: Universal City, Texas
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Dan G.: Can't believe I've found someone else that went to Robt B. Green. I attended 1st grade in Robt. B. Green. 2nd & 3rd in Riverside, 4th in Laura Steele, 5th in McQueeny and Fenwick on Northside, 6th in Fenwick, 7-9 in Horace Mann Jr. Hi and went to Jeff. grad in 1961. Just a year ahead of you.
 
Old 05-15-2008, 01:12 PM
 
Location: Universal City, Texas
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My parents loved to move around. I was on Schley Ave and then Becker while attending RBG, and on Chicago at Riverside, Steves Ave for Laura Steele and then back to Lake Placid for McQueeny and moved to north side of sa on W. Craig Pl for the duration. We had LEhigh and PErshing phone exchanges.
 
Old 05-15-2008, 01:28 PM
 
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Dan G.: Can't believe I've found someone else that went to Robt B. Green. I attended 1st grade in Robt. B. Green. 2nd & 3rd in Riverside, 4th in Laura Steele, 5th in McQueeny and Fenwick on Northside, 6th in Fenwick, 7-9 in Horace Mann Jr. Hi and went to Jeff. grad in 1961. Just a year ahead of you.
gy2020-Speaking of Robert B. Green I saw a spot on Texas Country Reporter one Sunday where a man named Roy Bellows was highlighted for his craft and living in Fredericksburg where my wife and I were getting ready to move to. It was a guy I was in the 3rd grade with at Green so I looked him up. It turns out it was the same guy and he was actually skipped to the next grade and ended up graduating the year before I did from Highlands. Now I live in Fredericksburg so I'm just sharing ancient times with anyone I happen to contact. Many of the people I went to Green with are still around including my best friend from elementary school who happened to become the principal of the high school that four of my kids graduated from. I actually graduated in 63. Dan G
 
Old 05-15-2008, 01:49 PM
 
Location: Universal City, Texas
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Dan:
I moved around so much that I didn't have any friends until I reached Fenwick on the northside. I did have some neighbor friends but they attended Catholic School at St. Cecilia near Fair Ave. (or it could be St. Teresa). I know there was one of those Catholic Schools near RBG. Their parents still live on Chicago Blvd as of 1990's. Could be passed by now.
I was starting Riverside when you started at RBG, if you started in the fall of 50. My second grade teacher died during the school year of cancer or such. It was very traumatic for the class. Everyone loved that teacher. She was very young, in her early twenties.
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