Gone But Not Forgotten in San Antonio! - Part II (New Braunfels: movie theaters, manufactured)

[ranchodrive]

Originally Posted by Dwangle

I remember reading about the locomotive engine on display in the park ( I know where it was but not where it is now) had sunk into the ground. They had a picture of it kind of crooked. I loved my train set and I couldn't believe it. APRIL FOOL!

If you're referring to the locomotive engine on display in the park @
Broadway St, I believe it has been relocated downtown towards the east
side of Commerce St. where the train depot used to be ! Not sure if that's
the one you're referring to.

[Labamigo]

Where was Pookys on Bandera Road? What was it?

[Dwangle]

Originally Posted by ranchodrive

If you're referring to the locomotive engine on display in the park @
Broadway St, I believe it has been relocated downtown towards the east
side of Commerce St. where the train depot used to be ! Not sure if that's
the one you're referring to.

That has to be it. How many Locomotive Engines has San Antonio had?? I think the Pontiac indian used to be there too! Just a little north. I have never climbed up on it. Will they let you do that now? The Engine not the Indian!

[SATX56]

Old Engine 794 used to sit in the middle of the little park at Jones and Broadway. All the years I was growing up. I think they just moved it after SP RR station/Sunset Station was restored.



I wish they'd take all that crap strings of lights off of it. ....and what's with the whitewalls?



They were letting people in the control area when the Amtrak Museum was there.



You can see the engine through the left arch of the SP Depot



Looking out the back of the Amtrak Museum!

[gy2020]

Originally Posted by Labamigo

Where was Pookys on Bandera Road? What was it?

pookie's was located about a block north of woodlawn and bandera rd on bandera. It was a lounge owned by some unseemly elements. It was involved in a murder out at medina dam back in the 60's. I went to the trial. It was located across the street from my high school girl friend. I never went in but I was always hearing stories about it.

[gy2020]

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Originally Posted by ranchodrive

I just wanted to say....some of you guys are talking about things that were around in the 80's and 90's like it was ancient history....making me feel like an old man, so stop it!!

Don't feel too bad!!!!
My first job was "package boy" @ HEB on Nogalitos & Park Pl. @$1.29 hr.
Next job…..camera dept. @ Joske's downtown for Mr. Rudy Filipone , $1.69
Now this was before there was no "malls" in San Antonio….now ….that is
ancient history !!![/quote]

I got you both beat. My first job was bagging at handy Andy and they paid me 35 cents an hour. That was the summer of 1959.

[Merovee]

Originally Posted by gy2020

Don't feel too bad!!!!Now this was before there was no "malls" in San Antonio….now ….that is
ancient history !!!

When people used to go downtown a lot to conduct business, pay bills, shop, etc..; I still remember my mother taking me on the bus but I was so small, not even in school, I could not begin to say what we did. My wife who is nearly my ago also had the same experience. We always wonder if we ever saw each other then...

The malls killed downtown. The big boxes killed the mall. Something will eventually kill the big boxes....

[Willsatx]

Originally Posted by gy2020

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Don't feel too bad!!!!
My first job was "package boy" @ HEB on Nogalitos & Park Pl. @$1.29 hr.
Next job…..camera dept. @ Joske's downtown for Mr. Rudy Filipone , $1.69
Now this was before there was no "malls" in San Antonio….now ….that is
ancient history !!!

I got you both beat. My first job was bagging at handy Andy and they paid me 35 cents an hour. That was the summer of 1959.[/quote]

When I was little I always wanted to work at Joske's, its a shame they were gone by the time i got my first job.

[huckster]

Online purchase of electronics is taking a big bite out of Best Buy business.
This was on 60 minutes just the other day and it said, they closed a number of locations during an interview with the CEO. Overseas moreso than here.
Yep, downtown was all there was years before Best Buy. It is what I remember distinctly also- from my childhood in San Antonio.. On Weekends, Consumers went downtown all except for groceries or Sears, gas stations or auto repair.
I too, with mom, went to downtown to walk all over and shop, via the bus.
Unless dad took us all in the car, it was an outing with mom. Shopping, and she took us to La Fiesta. A lot of people were going down there , people did this for many years until began the department stores on the edges of town, freeways and the rearrangement of downtown. Those new department stores
were a novelty.
Downtown -We would eat lunch on stools at the five and dime counter, go to the movies, etc. It was fun.
There are the portraits of parents and grandparents striding the downtown
sidewalks where photographers would offer to take one's picture there
for a fee. Snow cones were sold by pushcart vendors.
It was so safe in downtown S.A. back then- that when I was only twelve or so, I can't remember exactly, my dad would drop me and my brother
( 9 yrs.) off at the YMCA at nine a.m. on Saturdays. There were a lot of kids there, trampolines , archery, a pool etc.and then a sack would be served at noon.
Afterwards, city blocks away, at one p.m. we would Walk, unescorted,
pass the Hertzberg clock, and enter the Majestic to see the Matinee for that day.
The interior walls of those theaters is really something too remember.
Dad had done this same thing as a young boy too, downtown, and used to sell
copies of the Newspapers on street corners during the depression.
The city center hasn't changed much barring Hemisfair grounds,
but the times of that "small town feel " that many speak about on this forum is
certainly less of a small town feel than used to be.
This is still a great city to live in.

Originally Posted by Merovee

When people used to go downtown a lot to conduct business, pay bills, shop, etc..; I still remember my mother taking me on the bus but I was so small, not even in school, I could not begin to say what we did. My wife who is nearly my ago also had the same experience. We always wonder if we ever saw each other then...

The malls killed downtown. The big boxes killed the mall. Something will eventually kill the big boxes....

[Dwangle]

When I was growing up in the sixties you had to decide what you wanted. Every TV every radio every Stereo or record player every guitar every washer was made by a different manufacturer. You also needed a store that would provide you with service and parts and repairs. Now days everything is made in the same factories with the same parts and most are not worth repairing. The technology is mostly unrepairable anyway. Buying online works because you don't have to evaluate your decision before buying. All you need is the cheapest price. I miss the old day's. I liked listening to stereos and looking at color TV's. Talking shop with the guy's that repaired them. The only place left is desk top computers and I fear their days are numbered too. Gone but not Forgotten!