Posted on 12/08/2007 6:28:40 AM PST by T-Bird45
Lazy ceiling fans rearranged the 80-degree air Friday as a Christmas songster crackled out of patio speakers about snowy scenes and Yuletide bliss. But the two-fisted diners slouched around tables littered with napkins pulled from beer-carton dispensers and half-empty hot sauce bottles, paid the cultural amenities no mind.
This was Otto's Barbeque and Hamburgers, and these guys — and maybe a few gals — had come to eat.
To eat and, perhaps, to mourn.
Otto's, famed as former President George Bush's favorite barbecue eatery, is heading for the last roundup.
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One for the foodies...ping at ya!
What a shame. There’s nothing like good barbeque.
You familiar with this one?
Oh hell yeah!
Great food and only five or six miles from the house. A bunch of us FReepers and friends had dinner there a few years ago. I’ll need to try to find the pics but have a gun show calling my name.
Go to the gun show. Eat later when you're fully armed.
Enjoy the show. There’s one here today, but they’re lame.
Good BBQ giving way before tofu and granola. Sad.
My husband has gone there for years and years. They give him scraps for his Beagle. Really good people. But I guess everyone deserves a rest.
Otto’s is on Memorial Dr. inside loop 610 and west of Shepherd.
I actually got to say hello to the elder Bush there one evening many years ago. He went through the line like anyone else and was very friendly.
We saw the elder President Bush at Fuzzy’s Pizza a few weeks ago. He was just being a regular guy. My grandson had a hissy fit (a quiet one) just sitting at the table next to an ex-president. I wish now I had told my g.son to go over and introduce himself. I know Mr. Bush would have been very gracious.
Otto’s BBQ is very good, but I go there for their delicious cheeseburgers with mayo. The Best!
The hamburger section is loud, crowded, no ceremony or instructions on where to order, where to pay, etc. But everybody figures it out!
My next favorite hamburger joint is Southwells (one on San Felipe and one on Holcombe). Their blue-cheese hamburger is to die for!
Sorry to hear that! Every time I come back to Houston from California for a visit, it seems like my hometown (including my native Heights and my stompin’ grounds around Westheimer and Kirby) is disappearing, even after just a few years.
In 1962, my mother packed 5 kids up in a station wagon (I was oldest at 14) and drove from Boston to Whittier,Ca. to visit her dying brother.
I can't begin to describe the adventure and education that summer was ... but this story reminded me of old Rt. 66 and the wonderful memories of unique buildings and clever entrepreneural experiments in marketing.
I've looked for a link to what I remember, but I can't find one that is just right for my memories ... but when I became an adult, and slowed down to do some remembering .. I realized what a national treasure old 66 was.
I'm a sucker for things that used to be, but are no longer .. for whatever reason.
(sighhh)
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