Oh, you already answered the question I just spent a post asking, lol.
Mading's? Not Interurban? Remember Rettig's ice cream parlor in that same strip center on Holcombe? That was a loonnnggg time ago. [Never mind - that was further down towards the Shamrock.] Mading's is the health food grocery store now, I think (not Whole Foods, an indy). Maybe it was a Rice Food Market at one time, too.
Behind the Episcopal Church? Oh, on Stella Link maybe? I just can't picture it.
My family ate at that Cellar Door all the time! A friend of my mom's was one of the owners. It was a boring place to me at the time, so I can't recall the food very well, but in general, in later years, I liked other Cellar Door's food.
And that BR 31 was *my* Baskin-Robbins, lol. I didn't know Randy Quaid worked there. He went to my elementary school. If you remember a stupid chick who brought her *dog* in one time for ice cream, that was *moi.*
No, wait, you mean the BR on Bellaire, right? I was thinking Westheimer at Chimney Rock. Oh, the Bellaire one is my BR *now*! I haven't brought my dog into the one. She died. Different dog, too.
Anyway, deals were struck with both the donut and pizza guys.
I was on hand for opening day at the Astrodome and saw Mickey Mantle hit the first homerun in the Dome. I then got a job with Harry Martin Catering selling popcorn and I kept that job all thru high school.
My younger brother also went to St. Vincent De Paul and he was a classmate of Eric Hilton, Paris's uncle. The Hiltons were living atop the Shamrock back then and my brother was invited to hang out there with Eric and friends and torment the chefs and jewelers.
It was great to grow up in Houston and I have many friends still there. I don't miss the traffic. It gets just as hot or hotter here in Tulsa than Houston and I miss the Gulf.
But, it's always a quick Southwest flight away and I'm making plans for a baseball/fishing trip for later this summer.