The Old Sugar Land Club House

This is a blog for old timers, plus their friends and families, who are linked by memories of Sugar Land and its schools or have an avid interest in the history of Sugar Land.

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Sunday, August 16, 2009

Sugar Land Express, 1909

(UPDATE) I got a note from Bettye Anhaiser recently giving some information on the girls in this picture. Here's what she said, " ...

Imperial & Sugarland Industries Employees Honored at Employee Dinner in November, 1947

(UPDATE) I got a note from Jackie James a few days ago. She pointed out something I realized when I found this picture on the Internet, but...

Monday, August 10, 2009

Pictures from Sugar Land High School Reunion in June, 2009

Randy Kozlovsky (DHS '66) took photographs at the most recent SLHS reunion at The Swinging Door. Here's a link. (Move your cursor ...

Saturday, August 8, 2009

Sid Lasher Comes To Town

(Update) I've enlarged the photos & put them in this photo album for those viewers who want to read the captions . Some of yo...

Video of Old Sugar Land Shopping Center

Here's a clip from the Laird Family home movies Tommy posted on YouTube. It shows several things, which Tommy explains in the comments ...

Video Of Riding Around The Shopping Center With Santa At Christmas

I'd forgotten that Tommy Laird (DHS '67) had posted some his family's home movies on YouTube. Here's a clip of riding with ...

Monday, August 3, 2009

Albert Grohman, Santa's Little Helper

I'm sure everyone remembers this Sugar Land institution: riding through the shopping center parking lot in the old fire truck with Sant...

'Loopy' Rodriguez, 1969

I scanned this from the June, 1969 issue of The Crown, Imperial Sugar's company bulletin. I wonder if anyone ever called Lupe 'Loop...

No Child Left Behind, Early 1960s

Bruce found a batch of pictures our grandmother clipped from the Fort Bend Mirror. This was one of them. The clipping doesn't show the...

Thursday, July 30, 2009

1947 SLHS Year Book

This is the first Sugar Land High School Gator. The school took pictures of students, teachers, groups, and activities before 1947, but the...

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

San Jacinto Inn

I don't know if anyone else watches the program 'Postcards from Texas' on Channel 55 here in Houston. They have some good stor...

Lakeview PTA Follies, early 1960s

I wish I had the exact date on this. It's sometime between 1962 and '64. I think Janice Jenkins Girard (DHS '68) gave me these...

Sunday, July 26, 2009

A Couple of Old TV Beer Ads

Does anyone else remember these beer ads? I do. I think Hamm's was a late-comer to our market. It seems like I first saw these ads in...

Downtown Sugar Land in the 1920s

This photo shows the commercial district in front of the refinery. Highway 90A is on the right. It's not paved yet, so this photo was ...

Sugar Land Elementary School Playground, 1959/60

Linda Hagler Mosk lent me these pictures several years ago. They were taken on the playground in the second circle in front of the gym. Ap...

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Catfish Caught in Oyster Creek Off Main Street in 1942

Bruce received this picture from Ida Marie Seitz Plokuda. She and her brother are pictured with a large catfish caught in Oyster Creek beh...

"Tomboy And The Champ" with Jerry Naill (1961)

Well, I found it. I wish I could make it easier to play, but for now, click on the link below, then start the clip. Good stuff. Video Clip...

A Modern-Day Fishing Picture

I figured I should post a current fishing picture . Bruce caught this Bull Red over at Crystal Beach a couple of years ago. I think they ...

Monday, July 20, 2009

Noodling

I don't know if any of you have been noodling, but my family is a bunch of noodlers from way back. I'm talking about catching giant...

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Curly Fox & Texas Ruby

I remember watching a local afternoon television show on KPRC back in the mid to late 50s. It was called "Matinee" and Dick Gottl...

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