This column was originally published on June 29, 1955. The "House of Horrors" was a hotel for seamen at 7506 Navigation. It is long gone.
(It is our custom, on the last day of June, to turn out for the delight and edification of our many enthusiastic readers our one and only gossip column of the year. Because June 30 falls on a Thursday this year, and on Thursdays the editor cuts us down to two short takes, we are running our annual gossip essay today. Aren’t you glad you bought a paper today?)
Dots and dashes. Buckethead Sprague the tankerman checked in at the House of Horrors, on Navigation, last week...Lean Linda, recently a waitress at the Careless Cafe on McCarty, now driving a White Top Cab...Down on Chenevert St., where a highly respectable firm does $18,000,000 worth of biz a year, Big Annie and Mustache Jim used to run a 22-room hotel that was the most notorious resort in Houston at the century’s turn...Annie kept a decanter of knockout drops on the buffet in the hotel dining room....Quote of the week in Heavenly Houston, by Street Evangelist Robert L. Stone: “Saloons are incubators of iniquity, immorality and insanity.”
TEA PARTY
What’s Doing Among Our Juvenile Delinquents...Bug-juice Tupper and Root Square Ruby in charge of arrangements for the Independence Day reefer party honoring the memory of Clyde Barrow...Goose Creek Goldie sprung from detention with the withdrawal of an aggravated assault complaint by Hotrod Polk…
Bulletin. Diamond merchants come and go over the years, but Uncle Tony D’Amico is still the King of Diamonds. Railroad man D’Amico has given away more sparklers than any millionaire in Texas. He buys and sells diamonds while others just talk about it. Now we learn he has just closed a deal with Joe Gallo of Gallo’s Italian Restaurant to furnish the gems to be stuffed from time to time in Joe’s meatballs...Add Diamonds... Bulldog Brown, able seaman, back on the beach after a voyage that took him to Walvis Bay, Southwest Africa, on Diamond Day. “That’s the one day in the year,” explains Bulldog, “when they open the diamond fields to the public, and you can pick up all the ice you can find lying on top of the ground.” Bulldog found something shiny, took it to a Walvis Bay jeweler for identification. It was a piece of busted gin bottle.
PIG HOUND
Hunting and Fishing News…’Stumps Starnes the waterfront policeman claims he knows a man who trained a razorback hog to hunt coons: says the hog won first tree in a San Jacinto County hunt last year...Uncle Charley Brown of Morgan’s Point says conditions for crabbing around the Point have been unfavorable for the past 20 years...Jiggs Jaeggli the Preston Ave. cleaner hunting for the cat who left a zuit suit to be cleaned a month ago and never came back for it.
Here and There Around the Town...Mrs. Jerry Marsel, who runs the cigar stand in the Hermann Bldg., has given up pipe smoking...I. Greenfield remodeling his two-story building, N.E. corner Catfish Feef and Puh-ray-a-ree Ave., closing Shamrock Casanova’s famous shoeshine parlor...Overheard on a local afternoon news program at 950 kilocycles: “The mayor said it was him who began the investigation of the scandal.”
CABANA SET
Exclusive Reports of Vacationing Houstonians...Hamburger Phil off via the Intracoastal Canal for Duquesne and Chicago as cook on the tug Seneca...Nick Sandov, who lived on the gallery of the Noble Mansion until the recent fire, taking a summer course in agriculture at the municipal prison farm...Stan the Franklin Ave. opportunist beachcombing and crabbing at Galvez Town.
Second Person Plural Dept….Last week Junior had a birthday. So we bought Junior an electric train. Junior is smart. Like us. When he goes to bed he takes his electric train to bed with him, to keep us from playing with it. You see, we never had an electric train when we were a little boy. Heck, we didn’t even have electricity. Anyway, this was quite frustrating, and our psychiatrist says this is the main reason we had such a frustrated youth and ended up being a newspaper writer. But we aren’t really as dumb as this copy might make you think. Next fall when Junior starts back to school, we are going to stay at home one day and play with Junior’s electric train.
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