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A time to eat — and mourn: Otto's Barbeque (Houston) is calling it quits
Houston Chronicle ^
| 12/8/07
| Allan Turner
Posted on 12/08/2007 6:28:40 AM PST by T-Bird45
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And another classic diner/dive goes away...
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posted on
12/08/2007 6:28:42 AM PST
by
T-Bird45
To: T-Bird45; HungarianGypsy
One for the foodies...ping at ya!
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posted on
12/08/2007 6:29:23 AM PST
by
T-Bird45
(It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
To: T-Bird45
What a shame. There’s nothing like good barbeque.
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posted on
12/08/2007 6:29:33 AM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: Eaker; Xenalyte
You familiar with this one?
To: Tijeras_Slim; TheMom; dix; TexasCowboy; Flyer; humblegunner; Allegra; Xenalyte; thackney; ...
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.
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posted on
12/08/2007 6:36:17 AM PST
by
Eaker
(If illegal immigrants were so great for an economy; Mexico would be building a wall to keep them in)
To: Eaker
Ill 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.
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posted on
12/08/2007 6:37:56 AM PST
by
rogue yam
To: Eaker
Enjoy the show. There’s one here today, but they’re lame.
To: Eaker
Where was Ottos? I'm from Katy and worked just west of the Galleria (Fountainview), but I don't recall this one. Was it one of the many Westheimer restaurants?
I (obviously) wasn't an inner-loopy groupie . . .LOL!
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posted on
12/08/2007 6:40:06 AM PST
by
jeffc
(They're coming to take me away! Ha-ha, he-he, ho-ho!)
To: T-Bird45
Good BBQ giving way before tofu and granola. Sad.
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posted on
12/08/2007 6:42:25 AM PST
by
NaughtiusMaximus
(Eschew the shrew! Defeat Hillary in 2007!)
To: T-Bird45
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.
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posted on
12/08/2007 6:42:35 AM PST
by
BeckB
To: Eaker
Everyone has priorities. As I have suggested many times; Take a Kid to a Gun Show.
Its contagious.
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posted on
12/08/2007 6:43:37 AM PST
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(ENERGY CRISIS made in Washington D. C.)
To: jeffc
Otto’s is on Memorial Dr. inside loop 610 and west of Shepherd.
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posted on
12/08/2007 6:44:39 AM PST
by
Ditter
To: T-Bird45
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.
To: JustaDumbBlonde
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.
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posted on
12/08/2007 6:53:20 AM PST
by
Ditter
To: T-Bird45
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!
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posted on
12/08/2007 7:00:59 AM PST
by
i_dont_chat
(Your choice if you take offense.)
To: T-Bird45
For twenty-one years I worked about six blocks east down Memorial Drive from Otto's. Probably the only place I ate lunch more than there was at Memorial Park. Yes I did see POTUS 41 and POTUS 43 there on several occasions although W. wasn't yet 43.
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posted on
12/08/2007 7:01:07 AM PST
by
sinclair
(Government grows, expands, feeds, and keeps on growing, until it starts to kill its host.)
To: i_dont_chat
One of my favourite meals is a bacon cheeseburger. Medium rare, please.
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posted on
12/08/2007 7:05:44 AM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: T-Bird45
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.
To: T-Bird45
Only in my mind is this a related story ...
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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posted on
12/08/2007 7:26:20 AM PST
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
To: T-Bird45
Out in LA. we still have ....
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posted on
12/08/2007 7:31:14 AM PST
by
ARE SOLE
(Agents Ramos and Campean are in prison at this very moment.. (A "Concerned Citizen".)
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