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Gonzales</a></p>   It's September 1985. The hapless Oilers are back and the so-so Astros are about to finish another season in third place in the National League West. Maybe 1986 will be the year for the guys in striped ...  </div> </li> </ul> </div>   </div>  <div class="hide-rss-link hdnce-e hdnce-collection-46951-premium_headlinelist_illus">   <div class="collection prem-hl-illus list-sec"> <div class="header"> </div>  <div class="prem-hl-item portrait"> <h2 class="headline"> <a href="/web/20150925060752/http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/bayou-city-history/article/Sleeping-in-a-theater-That-ll-be-100-6481299.php">Sleeping in a theater? That'll be $100</a> </h2> <div class="img-wrap">  <a class="without_u " href="/web/20150925060752/http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/bayou-city-history/article/Sleeping-in-a-theater-That-ll-be-100-6481299.php"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150925060752im_/http://ww1.hdnux.com/photos/40/54/56/8571824/7/135x0.jpg" alt="Houston Press illustration, 1930." border="0"/> </a>  </div> <p class="blurb">  <span>  For a few weeks around September 1930, the Houston Press clued Houstonians in to a few of the more obscure city ordinances on the books. These weren't necessarily crazy laws. Some actually make sense ...  </span> </p> </div> <div class="prem-hl-item portrait"> <h2 class="headline"> <a href="/web/20150925060752/http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/bayou-city-history/article/The-Oscar-winner-and-the-Karankawas-6468233.php">The Oscar winner and the Karankawas</a> </h2> <div class="img-wrap">  <a class="without_u " href="/web/20150925060752/http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/bayou-city-history/article/The-Oscar-winner-and-the-Karankawas-6468233.php"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150925060752im_/http://ww4.hdnux.com/photos/40/45/53/8542943/5/135x0.jpg" alt="01/1987 - Houston Post High School Natural Science Essay Contest winners - (L-R) 1st place: Paul Poirot, Baytown Lee HS junior; 3rd place: Renee Kathleen Zellweger, Katy HS senior; 2nd place: Mark Beeley, The Kinkaid School sophomore." border="0"/> </a>  </div> <p class="blurb">  <span>  It may not be as cool as winning an Oscar or a Golden Globe, I guess, but I would think taking third place in the first ever Houston Post High School Natural Science Essay Contest ranks somewhere up there. ...  </span> </p> </div> <div class="prem-hl-item "> <h2 class="headline"> <a href="/web/20150925060752/http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/bayou-city-history/article/30-years-ago-Concorde-drops-by-Derrick-Dolls-6441544.php">30 years ago: Concorde drops by, Derrick Dolls' new duds, Marvin and Dave</a> </h2> <div class="img-wrap">  <a class="without_u " href="/web/20150925060752/http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/bayou-city-history/article/30-years-ago-Concorde-drops-by-Derrick-Dolls-6441544.php"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150925060752im_/http://ww3.hdnux.com/photos/40/21/47/8460758/3/135x0.jpg" alt="British Airlines' Concorde arrives at Houston Intercontinental Airport, Aug. 21, 1985" border="0"/> </a>  </div> <p class="blurb">  <span>  August is generally a lousy month. The worst month of the year probably. Summer – to many youngsters – is coming to an end, back-to-school sales are in full swing, the football games are meaningless ...  </span> </p> </div> <div class="prem-hl-item portrait"> <h2 class="headline"> <a href="/web/20150925060752/http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/bayou-city-history/article/Wartime-romance-meets-tragic-end-in-Houston-hotel-6430468.php">Wartime romance meets tragic end in Houston hotel lobby</a> </h2> <div class="img-wrap">  <a class="without_u " href="/web/20150925060752/http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/bayou-city-history/article/Wartime-romance-meets-tragic-end-in-Houston-hotel-6430468.php"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150925060752im_/http://ww2.hdnux.com/photos/40/11/64/8428813/3/135x0.jpg" alt="Aug. 6, 1945 Houston Chronicle" border="0"/> </a>  </div> <p class="blurb">  <span>  This was supposed to be about how the local papers covered the 70th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. However -- as always -- I got sidetracked during my research. Across eight ...  </span> </p> </div> <div class="prem-hl-item "> <h2 class="headline"> <a href="/web/20150925060752/http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/bayou-city-history/article/The-terrifying-way-Houston-kids-learned-bicycle-6408211.php">The terrifying way Houston kids learned bicycle safety</a> </h2> <div class="img-wrap">  <a class="without_u " href="/web/20150925060752/http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/bayou-city-history/article/The-terrifying-way-Houston-kids-learned-bicycle-6408211.php"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150925060752im_/http://ww2.hdnux.com/photos/37/75/24/8377633/3/135x0.jpg" alt="A Houston police officer teaches bicycle safety to two local youths, Sept., 1959." border="0"/> </a>  </div> <p class="blurb">  <span>  Admit it. As a kid, you never wore a helmet while riding a bike. Judging by the photos above, hardly anyone did. And why not? It wasn't even an afterthought back then. It was a different time. While ...  </span> </p> </div> <div class="prem-hl-item "> <h2 class="headline"> <a href="/web/20150925060752/http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/bayou-city-history/article/1937-map-shows-what-was-Houston-s-Civic-Center-6386637.php">1937 map shows what was Houston's Civic Center</a> </h2> <div class="img-wrap">  <a class="without_u " href="/web/20150925060752/http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/bayou-city-history/article/1937-map-shows-what-was-Houston-s-Civic-Center-6386637.php"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150925060752im_/http://ww2.hdnux.com/photos/37/56/02/8315061/3/135x0.jpg" alt="Houston City Hall, at Bagby and McKinney, towers above neighboring buildings" border="0"/> </a>  </div> <p class="blurb">  <span>  I found the map below, originally published in 1937 in the Houston Press. In it, it lays out the then-current state of the city's civic center, long a dream by city officials. With help from Thinglink ...  </span> </p> </div> <div class="prem-hl-item portrait"> <h2 class="headline"> <a href="/web/20150925060752/http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/bayou-city-history/article/Zindler-didn-t-have-to-go-to-the-Ponderosa-to-6362341.php">Zindler didn't go to the Ponderosa to serve this subpoena</a> </h2> <div class="img-wrap">  <a class="without_u " href="/web/20150925060752/http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/bayou-city-history/article/Zindler-didn-t-have-to-go-to-the-Ponderosa-to-6362341.php"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150925060752im_/http://ww4.hdnux.com/photos/37/42/76/8269743/3/135x0.jpg" alt="Harris County Sheriff's Deputy Marvin Zindler serves a subpoena on "Bonanza" actor Michael Landon at the Rice Hotel, February 1968." border="0"/> </a>  </div> <p class="blurb">  <span>  Just when I think I've seen all the photos of Marvin Zindler here at the paper, along comes this gem from February 1968. Here, Zindler, a Harris County sheriff's deputy, is serving a subpoena at the ...  </span> </p> </div> <div class="prem-hl-item "> <h2 class="headline"> <a href="/web/20150925060752/http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/bayou-city-history/article/30-years-ago-Houston-newspapers-review-Back-to-6362349.php">30 years ago: Houston newspapers review 'Back to the Future'</a> </h2> <div class="img-wrap">  <a class="without_u " href="/web/20150925060752/http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/bayou-city-history/article/30-years-ago-Houston-newspapers-review-Back-to-6362349.php"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150925060752im_/http://ww3.hdnux.com/photos/37/35/41/8247366/3/135x0.jpg" alt="This photo released by Universal Pictures shows, Michael J. Fox, left, as Marty McFly, and Christopher Lloyd as Dr. Emmett Brown, in a scene from the 1985 film, "Back to the Future." Co-stars Lea Thompson, Lloyd and others gather on Tuesday, June 30, 2015, for a special screening of the 1985 Michael J. Fox time-travel blockbuster, to be presented on the massive Hollywood Bowl screen with musical score performed live and orchestra conducted by the original composer, Alan Silvestri. (Universal Pictures via AP)" border="0"/> </a>  </div> <p class="blurb">  <span>  It's the July Fourth weekend in 1985, you have $2.50 burning a hole in your pocket and it's been weeks since you've been to the theater. What are you going to see? Maybe you already saw "The Goonies," ...  </span> </p> </div> <div class="prem-hl-item portrait"> <h2 class="headline"> <a href="/web/20150925060752/http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/bayou-city-history/article/Hollywood-starlet-kidnapped-upon-arrival-in-6331806.php">Hollywood starlet 'kidnapped' upon arrival in Houston</a> </h2> <div class="img-wrap">  <a class="without_u " href="/web/20150925060752/http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/bayou-city-history/article/Hollywood-starlet-kidnapped-upon-arrival-in-6331806.php"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150925060752im_/http://ww2.hdnux.com/photos/37/11/20/8164397/5/135x0.jpg" alt="Actress Cleo Moore in a publicity photo from the film "Hold Back Tomorrow" 1955." border="0"/> </a>  </div> <p class="blurb">  <span>  The three bearded men created somewhat of a sensation when they ambled into Houston's Southern Pacific Station off Washington Avenue.  Clad in blue jeans and black hats and toting guns, the trio -- ...  </span> </p> </div> <div class="prem-hl-item "> <h2 class="headline"> <a href="/web/20150925060752/http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/bayou-city-history/article/Lessons-in-journalism-from-the-1950-Houston-Post-6317117.php">Lessons in journalism from the 1950 Houston Post stylebook</a> </h2> <div class="img-wrap">  <a class="without_u " href="/web/20150925060752/http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/bayou-city-history/article/Lessons-in-journalism-from-the-1950-Houston-Post-6317117.php"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150925060752im_/http://ww4.hdnux.com/photos/37/01/20/8131607/3/135x0.jpg" alt="01/06/1955 - entrance to The Houston Post at 2410 Polk and Dowling." border="0"/> </a>  </div> <p class="blurb">  <span>  What's the difference between the Sam Houston Tollway and Beltway 8? Is it Tranquillity Park or Tranquility Park? Don't know? This is when a stylebook comes in handy. A stylebook is a guide to word ...  </span> </p> </div> <div class="prem-hl-item portrait"> <h2 class="headline"> <a href="/web/20150925060752/http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/bayou-city-history/article/Houston-s-devastating-flood-of-1935-6293100.php">Houston's devastating flood of 1935</a> </h2> <div class="img-wrap">  <a class="without_u " href="/web/20150925060752/http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/bayou-city-history/article/Houston-s-devastating-flood-of-1935-6293100.php"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150925060752im_/http://ww2.hdnux.com/photos/36/60/43/8063209/3/135x0.jpg" alt="Dec. 9, 1935 Houston Chronicle" border="0"/> </a>  </div> <p class="blurb">  <span>  The residents of Shady Acres, west of Shepherd and north of White Oak Bayou, were desperate. Rains had caused the bayou to rise before, but this was a disaster in the making. For three families living ...  </span> </p> </div> <div class="prem-hl-item "> <h2 class="headline"> <a href="/web/20150925060752/http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/bayou-city-history/article/The-time-David-Letterman-dropped-by-KHOU-6273644.php">The time David Letterman dropped by KHOU</a> </h2> <div class="img-wrap">  <a class="without_u " href="/web/20150925060752/http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/bayou-city-history/article/The-time-David-Letterman-dropped-by-KHOU-6273644.php"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150925060752im_/http://ww2.hdnux.com/photos/36/43/57/8010697/3/135x0.jpg" alt="David Letterman at KHOU studios, March 9, 1993." border="0"/> </a>  </div> <p class="blurb">  <span>  That had to be an awkward visit. David Letterman dropped by Houston on March 9, 1993, as part of a brief goodwill stop at the Houston station that would soon carry his late-night show after a long run ...  </span> </p> </div> <div class="prem-hl-item "> <h2 class="headline"> <a href="/web/20150925060752/http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/bayou-city-history/article/Our-only-photo-of-William-Holden-in-Houston-6264081.php">William Holden, Gloria Swanson and 'Sunset Boulevard' at the Metropolitan</a> </h2> <div class="img-wrap">  <a class="without_u " href="/web/20150925060752/http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/bayou-city-history/article/Our-only-photo-of-William-Holden-in-Houston-6264081.php"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150925060752im_/http://ww4.hdnux.com/photos/36/34/33/7980771/3/135x0.jpg" alt="Gloria Swanson and William Holden in "Sunset Boulevard," 1950" border="0"/> </a>  </div> <p class="blurb">  <span>  Have you checked out the Movies channel? It's one of those stations that can be picked up via antenna, on 20.2. If you have Comcast it's channel 308. Lots of old movies on there, some famous, some obscure. ...  </span> </p> </div> <div class="prem-hl-item portrait"> <h2 class="headline"> <a href="/web/20150925060752/http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/bayou-city-history/article/30-years-ago-Madonna-at-Hofheinz-Pavilion-6240026.php">30 years ago: Madonna at Hofheinz Pavilion</a> </h2> <div class="img-wrap">  <a class="without_u " href="/web/20150925060752/http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/bayou-city-history/article/30-years-ago-Madonna-at-Hofheinz-Pavilion-6240026.php"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150925060752im_/http://ww3.hdnux.com/photos/36/15/76/7921582/3/135x0.jpg" alt="Madonna in concert at Hofheinz Pavilion, May 4, 1985." border="0"/> </a>  </div> <p class="blurb">  <span>  If you had cable TV back in 1985, and if you were young enough to have baby boomers for parents, you knew who Madonna was. All you had to do was watch just a few minutes of MTV. But no matter what you ...  </span> </p> </div> <div class="prem-hl-item portrait"> <h2 class="headline"> <a href="/web/20150925060752/http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/bayou-city-history/article/Then-Now-Before-Cullen-Center-6237707.php">Then & Now: Before Cullen Center</a> </h2> <div class="img-wrap">  <a class="without_u " href="/web/20150925060752/http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/bayou-city-history/article/Then-Now-Before-Cullen-Center-6237707.php"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150925060752im_/http://ww2.hdnux.com/photos/36/00/61/7867493/3/135x0.jpg" alt="Landscaped triangle, Polk, Clay and Smith, June 1963" border="0"/> </a>  </div> <p class="blurb">  <span>  These photos from the late 1950s and early 1960s show a section of downtown on the cusp of change. The first photo shows the unrecognizable corner of Jefferson and Smith around 1959, looking southwest. ...  </span> </p> </div> <div class="prem-hl-item "> <h2 class="headline"> <a href="/web/20150925060752/http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/bayou-city-history/article/30-years-later-Morganna-the-Kissing-Bandit-the-6197108.php">30 years ago: Morganna the Kissing Bandit, the Dome’s 20th and Stevie Ray Vaughan</a> </h2> <div class="img-wrap">  <a class="without_u " href="/web/20150925060752/http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/bayou-city-history/article/30-years-later-Morganna-the-Kissing-Bandit-the-6197108.php"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150925060752im_/http://ww3.hdnux.com/photos/35/64/61/7818326/3/135x0.jpg" alt="Morganna Roberts makes a dash for Astros pitcher Nolan Ryan, April 9, 1985." border="0"/> </a>  </div> <p class="blurb">  <span>  Lost in the 50th anniversary celebration of the Astrodome's opening was a different, more bizarre Dome-related anniversary from 1985. To ring in the Astrodome's 20th year you had Mickey Mantle, who had ...  </span> </p> </div> <div class="prem-hl-item "> <h2 class="headline"> <a href="/web/20150925060752/http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/bayou-city-history/article/Dome-memories-return-with-the-help-of-a-former-6194482.php">Dome memories return with the help of former Astros outfielder</a> </h2> <div class="img-wrap">  <a class="without_u " href="/web/20150925060752/http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/bayou-city-history/article/Dome-memories-return-with-the-help-of-a-former-6194482.php"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150925060752im_/http://ww4.hdnux.com/photos/35/57/13/7795451/3/135x0.jpg" alt="Jose Cruz, center former Houston Astro, at the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Harris County Domed Stadium, better known as the Astrodome, during a free, fun birthday festivities Thursday, April 9, 2015, in Houston, Texas." border="0"/> </a>  </div> <p class="blurb">  <span>  At 7:25 p.m. Thursday in the Astrodome, time travel was proven to exist. You only had to close your eyes to experience it. It couldn't have happened without former Astros outfielder Jose Cruz. As he ...  </span> </p> </div> <div class="prem-hl-item "> <h2 class="headline"> <a href="/web/20150925060752/http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/bayou-city-history/article/Dene-Hofheinz-Anton-A-life-in-pictures-6184554.php">Dene Hofheinz Anton: A life in pictures</a> </h2> <div class="img-wrap">  <a class="without_u " href="/web/20150925060752/http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/bayou-city-history/article/Dene-Hofheinz-Anton-A-life-in-pictures-6184554.php"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150925060752im_/http://ww2.hdnux.com/photos/35/53/44/7780637/3/135x0.jpg" alt="11/05/1952 - (L-R) Fred Hofheinz, Dene Hofheinz; Houston mayoral candidate Roy Hofheinz; Irene Hofheinz; Roy Hofheinz Jr." border="0"/> </a>  </div> <p class="blurb">  <span>  The daughter of former Houston mayor and Astrodome creator Roy Hofheinz talks with us and looks over family photos from the Houston Chronicle and Houston Post archives .  </span> </p> </div> <div class="prem-hl-item portrait"> <h2 class="headline"> <a href="/web/20150925060752/http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/bayou-city-history/article/14-offbeat-stories-from-the-Astrodome-s-heyday-6159240.php">14 offbeat stories from the Astrodome's heyday</a> </h2> <div class="img-wrap">  <a class="without_u " href="/web/20150925060752/http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/bayou-city-history/article/14-offbeat-stories-from-the-Astrodome-s-heyday-6159240.php"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150925060752im_/http://ww3.hdnux.com/photos/35/35/14/7721778/4/135x0.jpg" alt="" border="0"/> </a>  </div> <p class="blurb">  <span>  Were you there the time it "rained" in the Astrodome? Or were you worried the Dome roof would collapse during the last day of the 1966 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo? In the last 50 years, ...  </span> </p> </div> <div class="prem-hl-item last"> <h2 class="headline"> <a href="/web/20150925060752/http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/bayou-city-history/article/What-if-voters-rejected-the-Dome-s-1962-bond-6162307.php">What if voters rejected the Dome's 1962 bond referendum?</a> </h2> <div class="img-wrap">  <a class="without_u " href="/web/20150925060752/http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/bayou-city-history/article/What-if-voters-rejected-the-Dome-s-1962-bond-6162307.php"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150925060752im_/http://ww3.hdnux.com/photos/35/34/26/7718330/3/135x0.jpg" alt="Houston Sports Association executives R.E. "Bob" Smith, left, and Roy Hofheinz, early 1960s." border="0"/> </a>  </div> <p class="blurb">  <span>  Finding the money to build the Astrodome proved to be just as big a challenge as constructing it. In the latest "What If" regarding Houston's history, author and architect James Gast looks at a crucial ...  </span> </p> </div>  </div>   </div>  </div> <div id="placeholder_768"></div> <div class="zone zone-3"> </div> <div class="zone zone-4"> </div> </div> <div class="right-rail"> <div class="zone zone-5">   <div class="hst-freeform hdnce-e hdnce-item-35132"> <iframe src="//web.archive.org/web/20150925060752if_/http://texasdaybyday.com/export/?limit=370&font-size=14&width=300" scrolling="no" height="270" frameborder="no"></iframe> </div>   <div class="hst-freeform hdnce-e hdnce-item-35133"> <a class="twitter-timeline" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150925060752/https://twitter.com/BayouCtyHistory" data-widget-id="535539147184689152">Tweets by @BayouCtyHistory</a> <script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+"://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");</script> </div> </div> <div class="ad-middle"> <div class="ad-inner ad-smallBP"> <div id="AP300" class="ad_deferrable"><script type="text/javascript">/*<![CDATA[*/ hearstPlaceAd("AP300"); /*]]>*/ </script></div> </div> </div> <div class="zone zone-6"> </div> </div> </div> <div class="ad-bottom"> <div class="ad-inner"> <div id="BP300" class="ad_deferrable"><script type="text/javascript">/*<![CDATA[*/ hearstPlaceAd("BP300"); /*]]>*/</script></div> </div> </div> </div>    <script> // This must be correctly defined before Viafoura is called // or else we run the risk of tainting the comments for a particular url $('meta[property="og:url"]').attr('content', location.href); (function (v, s) { v.type = 'text/javascript'; v.async = !0; v.src = location.protocol !== 'https:' ? 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