Anybody live in Plainview? Just curious. Wife's hometown and MIL still lives there.

Grew up in Hale Center, still have friends and relatives in the area.

Born, raised, and currently living in Plainview.

Marse and Sons, Raglands, Far East, Old Mexico, El Jardin, Ya'll Come Back, Congress Inn.

Big Red Nuff Said.

I spent way too much time in Plainview during my youth growing up in Hart.

EDIT: And the Trio Rebel. Not telling how much fat I ingested over the years from their fried foods.

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Interesting. I enjoy going back there to visit. It's a nice laid back town with some great places to eat like Fieldhouse, Leal's, and some little shack that made awesome breakfast burritos.

Anyone else old enough to remember the "train" drive in on the south side of 5th street? It was about 1/2 block east of the Chevy house, with a mini golf course on the west and a water park on the east.

It had some "train" name (like Rail Road Crossing or Caboose) was built in a circle, with little window-level tracks radiating out to the parking slots and speakers where you parked and ordered. You placed you order and put your money in a little "train car" about a foot square and 18" long.

You pushed a button and sent the car down the tracks into the drive-in. They put your food and change back on it and sent it back to you.

EDIT: Looks like the building is still there. I have no idea what is in it now.

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Canyon,

I missed that burger joint on my trip down memory lane. I loved that place. As a young child, the trains were too cool. You are right, the name of it was something "Crossing".

Just east of there, there was a restaurant with a very large chicken on the roof. Its name escapes me.

And just east of that was the famous "Sambo's". I do not think many of those exist anymore.

Yep...two Aggies and their kiddo here in the big ole' burg of P-View!

Sadly, of the above "old favorites" mentioned, the only one still around is Old Mexico, I believe. This town just can't keep anything open long-term, it seems like. Wish there was a drive-in here. My husband says going to the movies here is like watching a big-screen TV!

As for me, growing up in the 80s and coming here to visit relatives, I miss Family Fun Park!

Oh, and the shack with the delish breakfast burritos could be Nena's...it's our favorite and is right at the entrance to Wayland. Mmmm...

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My husband says going to the movies here is like watching a big-screen TV!

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The biggest architectural atrocity ever committed in Plainview is when they took the grand old Spanish style Granada theater and split it into a twin screen. It was an amazing place with fake stars in the ceiling and stonework, ivy and painting on the walls that made you feel like you were in an old European ruin. Ask your mom, Hale Center usually sent kids up there for a film at the end-of-school picnic.

I've heard stories that there used to be an airplane that flew around the ceiling on some sort of track or wire, but it had "crashed" before I was old enough to see it.

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Nena's sounds right; yes, right around the entrance to Wayland. Amazing breakfast tacos. For Mexican we go up to the El Camino in Tulia.

My dad '76 grew up there and I still have an uncle and aunt there working for Wayland. My wife, mom, and grandma all went to Wayland. Also have a cousin up there in selling real estate.

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My dad '76 grew up there

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Was he a BQ for a while? Or was he the farmer from Kress?

Neither. Grandpa was a chiropractor in Plainview, and dad was a non-reg marketing major, never went back there to live after army/college.

Just a couple of wild guesses regarding two of the Ags '76 I knew from the area.

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If you're in or from Plainview, there's a good chance you know or know of my uncle Danny though.

Grandparents and some cousins live there. I head out that way a couple of times a year to hunt, see family, and eat at Leal's

Uncle Danny? Andrews???

Just guessing.

Uncle Danny? Andrews???

Just guessing.

Yep, that's him.

So if you're related to Danny Andrews....are you also related to Anna Fuson?

Danny went into the Panhandle Press Hall of Fame this year with my Aunt from Clarendon.

Not closely related, but through marriage, as the Fusons are my aunt's side of the family, and Danny is my dad's older brother. We spent several Christmases with Opel and Anna at Danny and Carolyn's house growing up.

I spent my youth reading his column in the Herald. Then turning to the back page and reading Lewis Grizzard.

Old memories.

So funny how everybody knows everybody (or is related to everybody) in these towns! Ms. Fuson lives on the street behind us and came to visit shortly after we moved in, just to see who we "young-uns" were! She was so sweet!

Then you live 2-3 blocks south of where my grandparents lived on SE 10th when they were alive. You're also just around the corner from McDonald's Trading Post and Evalene's Imports, where we always had to stop and visit every trip up there. Danny used to live right around there, too, but I think he got a new place on the other side of 27 now.

My grandparents live on Kirkwood and go to the local Lutheran church (St Paul's) perhaps some of you know them.

I had to spend TOO many hours in Evelyn's when I was young. I can still remember the smell of that place with all the different merchandise.

I would look across at McDonald's and want to go see all the neat stuff. But my mother would make me stay with her. What torture for a young boy!!!!

We used to have to stay out in the car while mom shopped. Not in the store above though.

I think my dad used to work summers at McDonalds sorting nails and whatnot. We would always stand there and talk to Pete and Evalene forever, wandering off to explore when we could get away with it. We stayed in their guest house across the street one time. I remember it had a bunch of cool fitness/chiropractic equipment in there.

I used to walk over to the rodeo grounds (off of Date? Street) with my grandpa and look for loose change under the bleachers. On days where there was no money to be found, grandpa would throw down a dime when I wasn't looking.

I'm from Plainview, raised and graduated high school there.

The two eating places mentioned previous that nobody could remember are the Burger Train and the White Rooster.

I live in Lubbock now, but Mom still lives in Plainview so I go back often. Man, ya'll are making me nostalgic...I guarantee we all know each other.

Now, who's up for a drag down 5th...turning around at the Space Station and the Spudnut Shop while drinking our Cherry Lime Dr. Peppers from Mr. Burger?

Ummmmm, Mr. Burger....

My aunt and uncle used to live in the last house on the south end (east side) of Broadway, right before the railroad tracks. Sometimes we'd watch the drive-in movies being shown on the screen just to the southwest at the V formed by Broadway and Columbia. Sit on the hoods of our parent's cars and try to imagine the dialogue.

Pete McDonald was a certified character. The funny thing to me was that he had reasonable prices on his new stuff. But his military surplus was always about 4X what it was worth. Stuff would sit on his lot for decades.

In the early 80s, I saw him buy an Armored Personnel Carrier from the Potter County Sheriff's Department at an auction. He paid around $8000 for it, and one side (track) had a bad engine, the other a bad transmission. Don't know how he got that thing back to Plainview.

It sat on his lot for years. Then some teenager was farting around with it at night, and managed to get the back door/ramp open. It feel on him and crushed him to death.

I heard Pete welded the door shut, and it seems the APC finally disappeared.

GranMaq, yes, we're just south of there. These older neighborhoods are hit and miss these days, but we'd much rather live in an older, bigger home than a new crackerbox! And I actually saw your Uncle Danny twice this week out and around town. He doesn't know me so I didn't speak to him, but my whole family knows him and I recognize him from Wayland things.

CanyonAg, we're just a coupla' houses north of your aunt and uncle's old place. Gotta love being that close to the train tracks! I was worried about the trains waking my daugher up when we brought her home from the hospital last summer, but she sleeps on through like a champ.

Somebody mentioned the rodeo grounds off Date Street...the rodeo was last weekend! We didn't go b/c it was so hot, but we did sit out on our patio eating homemade ice cream and could hear the announcer from our backyard!

Canyon, one more thing...my mom is here visiting this week and I said something to her about your aunt and uncle living just a few houses south of us. She told me your Aunt June was one of my grandmother's best friends and actually remembers stopping in with her mom to visit when they lived there. Again...smallllll world!

We lost my uncle Orbin (WWII bomber crewman) way back in 1984. It's only been a little over a year since June passed on. Both services were at Date Street Baptist in your neighborhood.

When I was a kid, they owned a German Shepherd they called "Sarge". He would howl back at the trains as they blew the whistle.

I probably knew that your grandmother and June were friends, but forgot it. June and Orbin lived on a farm south of Hale Center from 1950 to 1959. I think your granddad's place was south-southwest of Hale Center. So they farmed in the same general area and went to FBC-HC together.

A side story on your grandparents. Cecil loved to listen to Bible study tapes, this was in the early to mid 1970s. The tractor cabs were pretty dirty (not well sealed) back then, but he proudly showed me how he would put a cassette player in a plastic bag and use headphones to listen.

Kathleen came to A&M for a nursing conference or something similar during my time at A&M. She drove her gold 1967 Chevrolet. I remember because my grandparents had one in green. I took her to eat in the dining room on top of Rudder Tower. This was when it was open to all, not just a faculty club. I remember showing her the buildings through the windows (much cooler than a walking tour) and the 52 trees around the main drill field, one for each Aggie who died in WWI.

Since then, they added 3 trees for other deaths discovered in the records, so no one give me a hard time about my memory.

She seemed to enjoy the visit, and I enjoyed a visit from friends from home. She probably couldn't have imagined back then that any of her grand-kids would go to school there....or any place but Wayland.




Edited for correct world conflict.


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me a hard time about my memory.

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was it WW1 or WW2?