Glad to see how many people mentioned Marvin Zindler. I left Houston in 1991, but I'll always remember him. "Good golf, good tennis, or whatever makes you happy!"
In the 60's,my uncle worked for NASA,so he generously gave my grandma & me his 2 free tickets to see Neil Armstrong honored at the Astrodome. We saw him & Frank Sinatra sang"Fly me to the Moon"! He voice soared in the gigantic place. An incredible memory to treasure. Thankx for this. I grew up in Baytown,so this was our station too.
Loved chanel 13. I spent my childhood years in Houston. And miss the chili cook offs at the Astrodome. And the livestock show and rodeo. What a much simpler time for us to have grown in.
@@hanc37 lol they were always on the side of the road because they'd get tangled up inside the player and people would just chunk them out the window out of frustration
Yes, we used to shop at the one off I-45 and FM 1960. The building is still there. There was also one at Airline and I-45 which later became a Fiesta. They closed in 1987 or so.
Marvin did a live news report about a tiger that was left in a apartment. I was the kid he interviewed. I had climbed on top of the coke machine to watch it all. An he walked up camaras rolling silver hair an big ole sunglasses. Cant remember the date it was early 80s but i remember him.
Channel 2 used to have a short program on at midnight on Saturdays. It came on right before Monty Python. In the credits, the name of one of the crew was 'Nearly Normal Jimmy'. I have never been able to find out who that was. Thanks again.
Sahira Diaz ..Mattress Mac. He is still in business and does alot for Houston, and Rodeo, he worked his way up. Good guy. My son buys all of his furniture at his store. Mac's motto, " Buy it today, get it today,"
TC Jester I'd been to all three. Kroger and the movie theater,many times. The last movie I'd saw when it was a dollar movie,What Love Got to Do With It in 1993. I have to movie from Houston to live in the country.
@@iluvhou Bicycles from Western Auto. I distinctly recall that childhood memory and as my family lived in that area (Aldine Mail Rt.) in the early to mid-70s. Likely one of the first bikes I rode (maybe tricycle) came from Western Auto. 🙂
OMG, you are not from this era unless you remember the Dallas hate. Back in fifth grade some new girl from Michigan wore a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders t-shirt to fit in. OMG was this a big mistake. Back from 1977-1983 we called my area of the NW suburbs "South Detroit". Every new kid was from around there because we had heavy industry jobs.
😂 Not like the Lions did anything. Too much hate. Where I came from we looked at Dallas as southern Oklahoma, and the sentiment still stands today depending on the person. DFW folks are a different type of Texan compared to someone living in the same depictions of “flyover” country. Just 2 neighboring major cities trying to run the roost. Texans love the big and wide open spaces. That’s why the cities haven’t overrun the majority for now.
In all honesty I have been to Dallas and Fort Worth MANY times. Didn’t impress me more than my own city. Attractions, restaurants, shopping, it’s no different. Just tons of it everywhere you go. You get a DFW person running their mouths here, 😂 at least my city highways make some easier sense than old cattle trails.
The home behind reporter Judd McIlvain bears a resemblance to the Hill mansion on Kirby Dr in River Oaks. His suit doesn't quite fit the period during the alleged society murder everyone whispered about, but the film Murder in Texas did come out in the mid 70's. Wonder what the story was that day.
@@ATMAtim I grew up in Houston in the Heights. I saw my first murder 3 houses down but it was not my last. A lady had her face blown off with a shot gun. I was 13 years old. Next was the man shot in the stomach through a screen door. He was screaming and writhing in pain rolling around in a front yard. I think he lived, not sure. I saw, shootings, people killed in car wrecks, and so much violence I moved out of that hell hole at 17 years of age. Is it much better now..? You tell me. I moved to Spring Texas in 1978. I'll be God Damned if the city didn't catch up to me there. Ok...Now I'm 140 miles from the frickin place. Try to find me.
As a young teen I had such a crush on Nancy Paul. Was so sad to hear of her passing years back.
Glad to see how many people mentioned Marvin Zindler. I left Houston in 1991, but I'll always remember him. "Good golf, good tennis, or whatever makes you happy!"
Everyone was sad when he passed
I.m Mexican BUt I LOvED MARBIN l MISSED HIM AND DAVE GUARD .
SLIME IN THE ICE MACHINE!!!
Takes me back to my middle school n high school days. I still remember Ron Stone at Ch 2, Steve Smith at Ch 11, & Dave Ward at Ch 13!!
Home sweet home. Played little league baseball near the Pfarm on Makawa road. Kings Center drive in on OST. My memories from growing up a Houstonian
Ron Stone he was one of the greats of houston!
In the 60's,my uncle worked for NASA,so he generously gave my grandma & me his 2 free tickets to see Neil Armstrong honored at the Astrodome. We saw him & Frank Sinatra sang"Fly me to the Moon"! He voice soared in the gigantic place. An incredible memory to treasure. Thankx for this. I grew up in Baytown,so this was our station too.
Loved chanel 13. I spent my childhood years in Houston. And miss the chili cook offs at the Astrodome. And the livestock show and rodeo. What a much simpler time for us to have grown in.
Lots of great memories packed in this little video! Kitirik you are still my favorite!
_"What do we have? All together, gang!"_
- Marvin Zindler (RIP)
Great memories
Lots of memories
"SLIME in the ice machine!"
I remember the song they remixed on tv and radio with that famous line
Great presentation. It was such a better time then..
Loved Astroworld!
8 track stereo cartridges.... from Woolworth. Wow, better times back then... much better times.
I hated 8 Tracks. Had to listen to a whole crappy album for one good song...
@@hanc37 lol they were always on the side of the road because they'd get tangled up inside the player and people would just chunk them out the window out of frustration
My childhood commercial song...buy your chevrolet from persia, mike persia chevrolet, repeat ×1
interesting, fingers furniture closed and foley's is now macy's, good old memories houston!
ahhh memories of a much better time, thanks i needed that. Television today is smut, no more andy griffith, leave it to beaver sad very sad
And now you have to pay money to have nothing to watch!
I can't belive the fingers furniture commercial in the 60's and also the gallery furniture commercial in the 80's
They really needed to show Mattress Mac when he was young.
Sopapias were the best at " Pancho's"...all you had to do was raise the little Mexican Flag. So good.
The best Panchos of all was in Bellaire near the intersection of Bellaire @ Bissonnet.
"Sopapillas"
@@keithkimmel6638 the best Pancho's was in Corpus Christi on Ayers Street
Don’t forget Jack Cato channel 2 news
PS: And, lets not for get, Marvin Zindler, Eye witness news! What a sweetie! Still have his autograph! Went to school with his sons! Great guys!
R.I.P. Astroworld.
WOOLCO, Kiddie Wonderland on Main at OST.. worked at Astroworld and danced at the Boogie Fog Disco then Uncle Sam's..
Kiddie Wonderland survived into the1990's That whole South Main area was like a trip back into the early sixties.
Does anyone remember that store GEMCO around this time, also?
I remember Gemco. one use to be on Airport blvd and I45
Yes, we used to shop at the one off I-45 and FM 1960. The building is still there. There was also one at Airline and I-45 which later became a Fiesta. They closed in 1987 or so.
And Sage and Battlestein's and Woolworth's and Weingarten's and a Globe on West Belt and Katy fw across from T&C mall.
Super Kyle I'd forgotten about Weingarten!
@@johnrenteria75 Yes, we had a Gemco on I-10 near Federal rd, It was the Sam's wholesale of the 1970's
Marvin did a live news report about a tiger that was left in a apartment. I was the kid he interviewed. I had climbed on top of the coke machine to watch it all. An he walked up camaras rolling silver hair an big ole sunglasses. Cant remember the date it was early 80s but i remember him.
Thank you!
the guy from Gallery Furniture is still doing the same kind of commercials.only he's a lot older.
Channel 2 used to have a short program on at midnight on Saturdays. It came on right before Monty Python. In the credits, the name of one of the crew was 'Nearly Normal Jimmy'. I have never been able to find out who that was. Thanks again.
Seems like a million years ago.
Folders and fingers I didn't even notice that they were closed
I've seen the USA in a Chevrolet, but there's no place like Houston.
that guy of gallerie furniture was soooo young lol!!!
Sahira Diaz ..Mattress Mac.
He is still in business and does alot for Houston, and Rodeo, he worked his way up. Good guy.
My son buys all of his furniture at his store. Mac's motto, " Buy it today, get it today,"
Ol' Marrrrvin Zindler of Eyyyyye Witness News died several years go. July 29, 2007 to be exact.
Western Auto anyone on little york and one off of aldine mail route? they close their doors in 1997.
+Bella Morales I remember that place! That's also the year I got my Primeco phone!!
It was next to Kroger’s across the street from the movie theater and Fajita junction on Mail Route.
TC Jester I'd been to all three. Kroger and the movie theater,many times. The last movie I'd saw when it was a dollar movie,What Love Got to Do With It in 1993. I have to movie from Houston to live in the country.
Western Auto on N. Shepherd. 😀 My first major purchase as a teen with my own money from a real job was a bicycle from this Western Auto.
@@iluvhou Bicycles from Western Auto. I distinctly recall that childhood memory and as my family lived in that area (Aldine Mail Rt.) in the early to mid-70s. Likely one of the first bikes I rode (maybe tricycle) came from Western Auto. 🙂
Uh oh! We got a Dallas snob disliking the video.
OMG, you are not from this era unless you remember the Dallas hate. Back in fifth grade some new girl from Michigan wore a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders t-shirt to fit in. OMG was this a big mistake.
Back from 1977-1983 we called my area of the NW suburbs "South Detroit". Every new kid was from around there because we had heavy industry jobs.
😂 Not like the Lions did anything. Too much hate. Where I came from we looked at Dallas as southern Oklahoma, and the sentiment still stands today depending on the person. DFW folks are a different type of Texan compared to someone living in the same depictions of “flyover” country. Just 2 neighboring major cities trying to run the roost. Texans love the big and wide open spaces. That’s why the cities haven’t overrun the majority for now.
In all honesty I have been to Dallas and Fort Worth MANY times. Didn’t impress me more than my own city. Attractions, restaurants, shopping, it’s no different. Just tons of it everywhere you go. You get a DFW person running their mouths here, 😂 at least my city highways make some easier sense than old cattle trails.
Ah mid south wrestling with Paul boesh, those were the days at the mid south Coliseum
My cousin was scared of Marvin Zindler when she was little, lol!
Did she plan to have slime in her ice machine? If so, she should be afraid.
Literally I've been watching Panic at the disco audio's of too weird to live to rare to die and I've decided to search this up lol
The home behind reporter Judd McIlvain bears a resemblance to the Hill mansion on Kirby Dr in River Oaks. His suit doesn't quite fit the period during the alleged society murder everyone whispered about, but the film Murder in Texas did come out in the mid 70's. Wonder what the story was that day.
hehelol oh sweet nostalgia! :-)
Cool
Lol the gallery furniture savesu money guy lol was so young
Jessica Savage (great name btw) was friggin' hot!
It was actually spelled Savitch. However, Savage would have been a more interesting name
assaultislove If my last name was Savage I fell like I could do pretty much anything.
The street I stay at is called woolworth
Remember the Nancy Ames show in the 70s?
Foleys and fingers
Thank you.
Foley's sponsored the 10PM Big 2 News.
He's at the 2 minute mark.
devroshart hows life after 6 years
Loved The Houston Post. Chronicle sucks
White news casters ! Man those were the good ole days!!
call mr. norman
Marvin Meddler....EYE Bulging News... Haha. Great memories.
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The Houston Comical is a joke now
This was very enjoyable until I saw Dan Rather. No further comment.
Is this the Same A-Hole oh left earlier?
I couldn't get out of that city fast enough.
Bye
@@ATMAtim I grew up in Houston in the Heights. I saw my first murder 3 houses down but it was not my last. A lady had her face blown off with a shot gun. I was 13 years old. Next was the man shot in the stomach through a screen door. He was screaming and writhing in pain rolling around in a front yard. I think he lived, not sure. I saw, shootings, people killed in car wrecks, and so much violence I moved out of that hell hole at 17 years of age. Is it much better now..? You tell me. I moved to Spring Texas in 1978. I'll be God Damned if the city didn't catch up to me there. Ok...Now I'm 140 miles from the frickin place. Try to find me.
I remember Woolworth.
When.elvis.passed.away.l.toòk.my.kids.to.woolworth.and.bougth.records..the.45rpm.