WHERE ARE WE NOW !!!!
Some of you may remember this place. At least one or two of you had a parent or two working there.
This was in our neighborhood. Recognize it????
Courtesy of Ms Jane (Hemelstrand) Begy. Let us know if this looks familiar and tell us what kind of memories it brings, if any................. if none, try this..........
Scroll to the bottom of this page and click on the link. You'll find a lot of pictures of Amarillo in the 60's mostly but some before that. Take a look and let me know if you would like me to post any other pictures. I just took a guess which ones would be meaningful to you........Enjoy !
2 comments:
All these pictures have me drowning in nostalgia.
Dragging Polk Street on Friday and Saturday nights was the highlight of every teen's life in the early '60s. I didn't have a car, but some of my friends did, so I could always get a ride.
None of my friends had fancy cars, but one of them did have an Edsel, the ill-fated Ford product with a push-button transmission. I suppose that was my favorite "borrowed" ride. (I've always liked the odd-ball cars. I think I was one of the first in Amarillo to buy the new American Motors Gremlin in 1970. Brand new off the showroom floor it cost me $2,400 cash. Kept it for 5 years.)
One of the photos shows a Texaco service station at the corner of Wolflin and Georgia. I believe the owner was Homer Duval. His wife, Evangeline, was my second-grade teacher at the old Summit Elementary School in the 1952-53 school year.
When I was in the ninth grade at Sam Houston I managed to get an after-school job downtown at Pioneer Bakery, which was on Lincoln Street directly across from the old Municipal Auditorium. For the handsome sum of $8 a week, I worked about 2 hours after school and about 4 hours on Sundays hand-wrapping sweet rolls, dinner rolls, and hickory-pit barbecue buns. The city wanted to buy the bakery for the new Civic Center, the owner refused to sell, so the city condemned the place. But I was already in the Air Force by then.
Those pictures of Amarillo Air Force Base brought back memories, too. I was stationed there twice, once in 1963 for technical school, and once for 3-month temporary duty as an instructor in 1966.
Whenever I see pictures like the ones here, I think what a shame it is that young people today don't have some of the more simple things to do.
We really did have fun in those days, and I think most of us remember that time very fondly. Afterall, we can still hear "our songs" on the radio, and can probably still hear them if live to be 150.
Poor young people today -- everything is a passing fad, and that can't keep up with it all. Thirty years down the road, there won't be a radio station on the planet still playing the likes of Britney Spears or Amy Winehouse, or anyone else on the charts today. Very sad.
So much for editorializing.
I know there'll never anything like the late '50s, or the '60s again, so thanks, Jake, for helping keep the memories alive.
Now I'm hungry for one of those 15-cent Griff's hamburgers, and a tank full of that 28-cent gasoline. Dang!
Ben,
I'm glad the pictures have helped bring back old memories. I feel the same way. I can be going on with my merry life and hear a song from when I was young and it instantly takes me back to that time, feelings and all. It's amazing!!
Jake
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