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I was born in 67 and watching this reminded me how much simpler life was back then.

We were eight years since the first Moon landing and only two years since Vietnam. What an amazing journey back.

Loved those corn dogs

This video brings back a lot of memories, and a couple of tears. I am in my late 50's now, but remember having coke floats in the Foley's restaurant with my cousins as a child while the adults went shopping. Things were better back then, less people, less crime (notice that there were no locks on the bikes), no cell phones or personal computers. You had to carry some pocket change, 10 cents I believe, and use payphones to call for a ride home. Going to the mall to buy an album at the record store, or concert tickets for your favorite band, was all done in person. Most people dressed nicer back then too when in public. Even getting on an airplane was a dressy event. Some things have gotten better, but in general things have slowly declined in my opinion.

almeda mall is so cheap now and lonley

As a kid Alameda mall was great. Today it's a ghetto POS. Shame. Everything that was once beautiful in Houston is now destroyed and ugly and built over.

R.I.P. Palais Royal -- They gave me my first credit card. Palais Royal originated in 1921 in Downtown Houston. The Almeda Mall location opened in 1968 and remained opened until the company went out of business in 2020.

Wow and the memories come flooding back ya almost got me! Dang near brought a tear! Sure do miss that Houston

Thanks for the memories.

I remember going to the Big Bonus redemption center with my mom. I don't remember what we got but we got the BB stamps at Weingarten's Grocery stores. The only place I remember segregated bathrooms and water fountains.

Lived by Hobby airport on Radio Road for 55 years now living in Montana. I must have drove up and down I-45 over a million times Growing up in living the majority of my life in Houston never could get used to the humidity & the mosquitoes though.. .

Happy 4th July wdw 🎉🎉🎉

Texas Commerce Bank, Foley's , Weingarten's, so many places gone forever! Thank you for the memories! 😊

Dropped a lot of quarters at that Gold Mine! Smartest store name in retail.

I love these images of the highway signs of the Houston area of Texas in 1970! This is part of our history and of Texas history as well.

I remember playing on that ship as a child!!!!!!!!!

Those new home and gas prices are about ten times less than today.

8:04 Could flights from Galveston to Houston (IAH) still be feasible today? Granted Texas International pulled out of Scholes Field a couple of years after this was shot, but another airline (Metro) took over the route.

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Nice Christmas ever

How about the Polar Bear at Slade Travel across from Fingers in the Glass Building at night?

I remember playing on the ship in the kids shoe department.....a lot.....real vivid memories! I can close my eyes and remember it like yesterday....that was almost 50 years ago 😪

Happy birthday Mulan 🎉🎈🎊🎂🎁🥳

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"Well that looks just like me" ❤😂😂😂😅 when she spotted herself the drawing she's too funny 😂😂😂 Obviously Adele who else would it be lmaoo

I like how she embraces children in the beginning with the T-shirt guns 😂😂😂😂😅❤ so sweet making her feel welcome like a small person so cute 😁😁 saying "your very cute" I'm like you are too for being kind and patient ❤😍 with her

Hi thank you for sharing your video. May I ask what sec/row is this pls thanks again ❤

Thank you so much 😊

My drawing 🥹

Wow, does this bring back memories. Having grown up in Clear Lake in the 70s, was so cool to see the old signs that I remember

No spiked ball across from gulfgate mall😢

As a southeast sider I remember most of these. Good stuff!

This is back in days 2000 and 2002 u have good Christmas 🎄 🎉

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my grandmother was controller of fingers for 16 years.

this was so cool,i was born on feb 6th 1970 we lived on the good ole north side of houston haha and we had a beach house in jamaica beach galveston and every weekend we went there and during the summers,so i saw all of these signs,wow GREAT VIDEO FOR ME,

Shopped at that Foley's and Palais Royal many times! Especially Christmas 🎄

Omgosh Tori! This is amazing!!! Thank you for all you do to ensure that we have a great time! ❤U

Those days are no more. Gulf Frwy is not the same. I miss all those well known stores, auto dealers, when Gulfgate was popular, and when Almeda Mall grew. Oh and Gulfway drive in. 😢

28 cents for regular gas.

How times have changed.

Having started my Houston mall experience as a baby going to Gulfgate (no memory), to Sharpstown (mom shopped at the attached grocery store, there!), Northwest Mall, Memorial City & The Galleria (last 2 were the main malls throughout my school years), I finished out my Houston life, as an adult with a family, with Almeda Mall. I so loved its human scale which I knew was a twin of Northwest Mall. It was not overwhelming. Baybrook Mall was another adulthood one, but it was not charming like Almeda. Thank you for this wonderful record of a fabulous place.

Really would like to see a video in the 70s of the North Freeway from 610 to Greenspoint.

We lived off the Gulf freeway in 1977 Villa Monterrey Apts

Great show, wish they would put a full video together for it.

I worked at that Marco’s and was also in Dobie’s marching band….ahh…memories. Great video!

This was the decade when we used to go to this mall. My mom worked at the Foley’s anchor store for a while. We would spend hours in the mall, theaters, and library that was in the same parking lot as kids. Kinda cool to see images I haven’t even thought about in 35 years.

Thanks for posting this! I haven't lived in Houston for a long time now, and when I do go, I hardly recognize it. This was a nice trip down memory lane. I worked for three summers at AstroWorld and it still breaks my heart to see the signs and know what happened to it.

My mother worked at Vogue Shoes in downtown Houston her senior year of high school! I remember a lot of those signs, especially Fingers Furniture!!