Gone But Not Forgotten in San Antonio! - Part I (Jefferson: commercials, drug)

[gy2020]

Dan:
Did you attend the Hi-Ho or Highland Park theatre?
Old pic of Hi-Ho:
http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/g...71117_0242.jpg

Old pics of Highland Park:

http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/g...nd_theatre.jpg

http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/g...d_theatre2.jpg

[Dan G]

Originally Posted by gy2020

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.

gy2020- my 1st grade teacher was Ms Mcclellan then Ms Beadle I think Ms warren was 5th grade because she was patrol sponsor and the the famous Mrs Jacobson 6th grade. Very old, very kind and whipped with a little red rubber hose which we all feared. Never had to experience it. Ms Longwith was the music teacher, and I'll never forget the spring flower shows where the halls were filled with flowers for the open house. Ms Warren forever cured me of eating beets because she made me eat mine one lunch and to this day I tell my wife they taste like dirt. Got in big trouble because one day we found a severed thumb from a hobo that got run over by a train on S.Presa and Jimmy Yantis carried it around in a matchbox for a good while. It was a real show and tell object. Such memories!

[Dan G]

By the way St Cecelias is directly across the street from RBG. I think St Teresa is at Fair and Presa, or was. I don't know now. Dan G

[Blanco Joe]

Dan G and GY2020..... I Went to Gerald Elementary on what was then Tennessee. That started in fall of 1953. Later went to Harlandale Jr. High and felt I was in San Quentin.
Tough school. We moved to Blanco in Jan 1961 where I became a farm boy. Looking at the Hi-Ho theater....do you guys remember an old beer joint at Presa and Dauchy RD (now a continuation of Southcross)? Next door an old Staffels feed store? Those were owned by my father and we had to put up with a lot of junk because of those places.The feed store was o.k. but the beer joint was a problem.

[Dan G]

Originally Posted by gy2020

Dan:
Did you attend the Hi-Ho or Highland Park theatre?
Old pic of Hi-Ho:
http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/g...71117_0242.jpg

Old pics of Highland Park:

http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/g...nd_theatre.jpg

http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/g...d_theatre2.jpg

Friend named Thumper whose parents managed the HI-HO theatre took me after school one day and we had a private showing of "Lady and the Tramp". Got to sit in the projection room. Great fun. Dan G

[gy2020]

Dan G.

The Hi-Ho is still there. It is part of Southern Folger Company. The company makes prison bars and locks.

http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/g...11-09-0716.jpg

http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/g...atregoogle.jpg

The Highland Park was torn down and has been replaced by I-10 overpass at Hackberry.

The owner of the Hi-Ho, Gidney Talley, also owned a theatre in Pleasanton, Texas. His son, runs a multiplex in Pleasanton. He is probably the friend that invited you for a private showing.

The Hi-Ho was in operation from 1947 until 1955. Afterward it became a country dance hall. It might have been one of the businesses that caused you problems.

[Dan G]

Originally Posted by Blanco Joe

Dan G and GY2020..... I Went to Gerald Elementary on what was then Tennessee. That started in fall of 1953. Later went to Harlandale Jr. High and felt I was in San Quentin.
Tough school. We moved to Blanco in Jan 1961 where I became a farm boy. Looking at the Hi-Ho theater....do you guys remember an old beer joint at Presa and Dauchy RD (now a continuation of Southcross)? Next door an old Staffels feed store? Those were owned by my father and we had to put up with a lot of junk because of those places.The feed store was o.k. but the beer joint was a problem.

Blanco Joe- Now that's really stirring up the old grey matter for me because I have to say I hadn't heard Dauchy Rd for over 50 years. After my mom and dad divorced I lived on Hermitage Ct. which is a few blocks south of what is now Southcross Blvd. Had to take the bus to and from Robert B. Green or ride my bike and risk my life. That was about 1955 or 56.

[Dan G]

Originally Posted by gy2020

Dan G.

The Hi-Ho is still there. It is part of Southern Folger Company. The company makes prison bars and locks.

http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/g...11-09-0716.jpg

http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/g...atregoogle.jpg

The Highland Park was torn down and has been replaced by I-10 overpass at Hackberry.

The owner of the Hi-Ho, Gidney Talley, also owned a theatre in Pleasanton, Texas. His son, runs a multiplex in Pleasanton. He is probably the friend that invited you for a private showing.

The Hi-Ho was in operation from 1947 until 1955. Afterward it became a country dance hall. It might have been one of the businesses that caused you problems.

gy2020- Yeah I remember it as the Highland theatre at Hackberry and Rigsby where we spent many a Saturday morning. Seems like it was 25cents to get in but I may be wrong. You're probably right about the name Talley because for some reason it does ring a rusty bell.

[gy2020]

Jimmy Yantis is probably a cousin of mine. I'm Gary Yantis. Mrs. Longwith was my first grade teacher in 49-50. Twice I was running to the restroom after recess and twice this same guy pushed me into a concrete corner going up the steps and both times I slashed my forehead. Never forget it. Had the scars to prove it. Did a school play and I forgot my single line. Embarrassing. I think those falls effected my short term memories, plus getting hit in the head with a bowling ball when I was five years old didn't help either.

Mrs. Longwith's daughter taught drama at Jefferson High School when I attended there. She was Miss Longwith.

I also had cousins that lived on Hermitage Ct.

[gy2020]

Dan G. what street did you live on? I was on Becker, about a 1/2 block off S. Presa. We had the railroad tracks behind us and my parents bought a Philco tv console. we were the first people in the neighborhood to have a tv and everyone came over to watch the test patterns. My favorite shows were Life of Riley, Stu Erwin show with Willie the black yardman. Saturday mornings we would watch Buster Brown show. "I'm Buster Brown, I live in a shoe, Bark! Bark!, That's my dog Tide, he does too."
Many old favorites, Lone Ranger, hated Roy, loved Gene Autry and I saw Hopilong Cassidy in person, as guest host of the River Parade. I also like Sky King and Penny.
The big radio show was "So You Want to Be a Cop!"
We would go down to the old jail house and watch the paddy wagons bring in the drunks and prostitutes. Such fun!!

And when I lived on Chicago Blvd. we use to play a game called "Prison Break" where a person with a flash light would shine it on another person and then that person was caught.