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I remember watching my first
Old Baytown had one movie theater, Baytown Oilers team, and going to
the Wind” in 1939. I remember that
emerging in a new venue in Baytown film in particular because I wasn’t al-
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tankers stirring under-currents in
the ship channel. No one had store-
larger Texan Theater featured the enough to remember swimming at
latest releases, including “Gone with Hog Island, undaunted by the huge
I remember the Palace when its
name was the Deluxe Theater on
Texas Avenue. Up the street, the
classes on its own terrain in the fall
semester of ’51, separated at last
from the night schedule at Robert E.
Lee High School.
I’m so old I remember Henke
& Pillot, an old grocery business
After noting I’m so old that I re-
member the very first big Foley’s de-
partment store in Houston, I started
thinking about other age-old memo-
ries.
Here we go:
I’m so old I remember when We-
ingarten’s was Grenader’s.
I remember Baytown’s last Weing-
arten store, located on West Texas at
Lee Drive. A next-door neighbor of
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“Once the storm is over, you won t remember how
you made it through, how you managed to survive. You
won t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But
one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm,
you won't be the same person who walked in. “
- Haruki Murakami
The butterflies need you
The butterflies are coming! As we begin to renew and
refresh our yards and gardens, we need to think about our
pollinator friends.
Migrating Monarch butterflies, whose numbers have
been in decline for the last couple of decades, need milk-
weed to lay their eggs, and other wildflowers as food
sources. It is, at this point, unknown as to how the hurri-
cane and deep freeze may have hurt butterflies and bees’
nectar and nursery sources.
Let’s give them an assist and fill up our yards and gar-
dens with beautiful native flowers, native milkweeds, tiny
puddles of water, and places for them to rest. Local inde-
pendent plant nurseries are excellent resources for help in
deciding what plants to include in butterfly gardens.
Wild flower seeds are available at the “big box” gar-
den centers. I have installed two 4’x4’ raised beds in my
back yard as “wildflower meadows” to help lure the bees
and butterflies to my tomatoes, peppers and other veggies.
It’s a win/win situation! And bonus! I get to watch one of
nature’s most magical phenomenons, the life cycle of the
Monarch butterfly!
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restore Monarch butterflies? Consider volunteering with
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my first Gander football game at
Elms Field. I tagged along with the
Bass kids, Tammy, Shirley, Rose
Ann and Bob, and their mother,
Edah May, on a short walk to the
football stadium from their home in
Lee Heights.
Regarding recreation, I’m old
Also, I’m so old baseball game at the Humble base-
I remember when ball park, home of the semi-pro
we stop, nobody knows.”
I remember Woolworth five &
dime on Texas Avenue and its local-
ly owned counterpart, Wainscott’s in
Old Baytown. Wainscott customers
could enter or exit through doors
werejustforme.Notthatlwas stin- that, surreptitiously, on a few oc-
gy, understand, but at the time Wife casions I’ve used Life Savers as a
Margie and I had no grandchildren tool to curb talking and wiggling in
facing Market and Minnesota. The and checking out books in the lit- com, Attention: Wanda Orton.
drove confused drivers to cry out: Baby”) in 1949. Rufus Honeycutt
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Baytown, Weingarten’s stood south the Arcadia, where I first met Tarzan,
of the new Lee College campus. Roy Rogers and Shirley Temple on
Everything seemed to glow with screen. A heavy maroon curtain di-
a bright, fresh shine in the 1950s, vided the main theater from the lob-
including Lee College which began by and concession counter.
or great-grandchildren. church. I’m thinking the Big Editor editor of The Sun. He can be reached
Life was about to change. In The Sky doesn’t mind. at viewpoints@baytownsun.com,
First came grandbabies Katie and Not that I’m suggesting that eat- Attention: Jim Finley.
Many of us still get anxious when it rains a little too
hard or too long. One half year after Hurricane Harvey,
the storm’s imprint - like a tattoo - remains and likely
always will.
We experienced a flood that is a greater than once-
in-1,000 year event, the highest-level flood experts cal-
culate. In Greater Baytown, we logged between 4 and
5 feet of rain.
So massive was the flooding it was impossible for
first responders to deal with all the emergency evacu-
ations that needed to happen in so many areas at the
same time.
Officially, the mother of all rainstorms killed 68 (36
in Harris County) and caused $125 billion in damage.
Hurricane Harvey made landfall as a Category 4
storm on Aug. 25. Baytown assessed Harvey’s impact
at about 5,300 homes affected in some way but about
4,300 suffered some flood damage. In Chambers Coun-
ty, more than 6,000 homes were affected.
Six months after Hurricane Harvey, most streets look
normal but there are many debris mounds that still dot
pockets of Baytown and surrounding areas.
Displacement, homelessness, financial worries, in-
surance fights, FEMA fights mark the ongoing recov-
ery. Some people still face months, even more, before a
contractor can restore their home.
It’s coming along. Baby steps, but it’s coming.
Harvey remains a harsh reminder that natural disas-
ters can claim anyone’s life and reduce homes and pos-
sessions to garbage. Treasured keepsakes and memo-
ries from people’s homes forever swept away.
Left are ongoing, seemingly monumental repairs,
living in RVs, financial worries and battles for govern-
ment aid and with insurance companies.
Take heart, though. If Greater Baytown can survive
Harvey — and we did — we can certainly handle the
anything else that comes our way.
It’s clear that no matter the severity of the storm, the
people of Greater Bay town will be there for each other.
We hope the altruism continues.
Looking to help? Check out the United Way of Great-
er Baytown and Chambers County. Call 281-424-5922
in the Fifties, catty-comer across the lowed to see it until years later when bought floats; we just drifted along
road from Weingarten’s. it was re-released at the Bay Theater, on old tires. A good thing, wasn’t it,
Busy, busy — where Texas Ave- Anyway, I had the paper dolls. that the city’s first swimming pool
nue met Market and Decker Drive. I remember going to the first mov- opened at Roseland Park in 1949 -
Amid such heavy activity, gener- ie at the Bay (“Rings on Her Fin- before a huge tanker swept us under,
ated by commerce and the college, gers”) in 1942 and to the first movie By the way, I’m so old I can’t re-
a newly constructed traffic circle at the Brunson (“Yes Sir, That’s My member where I put my keys or what
Reid Richards, ing candy in church is OK. But I’ve
and Falynn Finley, think HE writes me up or anything.
It didn’t take I also have a problem occasional-
me long to figure ly when the kids want a particular
out that, in times color, also known as “flavor” in the
of stress, I could adult world.
control just about "T," one of them will say, “I want
any situation by red.”
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to be the Goose Creek Hospital on
West Defee and Lillie-Duke on West Wanda Orton is a retired manag-
Pearce at Ashbel. ing editor of The Sun. She can be
I remember attending Story Hour reached at viewpoints@baytownsun.
nearby Economy tie, red brick library on Texas Ave-
meat market/gro- nue, and hanging out in the spacious
eery store provided Humble Community House in the
similar ways to get shadow of the Baytown Refinery,
in and out, while For the first time, I watched TV —
Penney’s had dual shaky, blurry images of "What’s My
access fronting Tex- Line?” — in the Community House
as Avenue and West library.
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As Discerning Readers know, I’m
a man of many talents, a man who
wears many hats (not at the same
time), and a man of few words.
(That last one was a joke.)
Let’s see, there is journalism and,
uh, journalism and, uh ...
Let me think about my other tal-
ents. I’ll let you know what they are JIM
no later 2020. FINLEY offering them a Excuse me, I roar, but red might
One thing I’m extremely proud of, -------------- Life Saver. It grew be down in the package and I’m not
however, is my little known secret from there. going to dig in there to find it. OK?
life as “Life Saverman.” Playing “T [that’s me],” Katie would say, (This proves I can be TOUGH on
this important role has been one of “can I have a Life Saver? I’ve been these children if I have to )
the great joys of my existence. good.” So rather than lose Life Saver
I thought about this the other day Of course you can, sweetheart, privileges altogether they settle for
when no less than five of my six and how about a trip to Disney what ever color is next. I see this as
great-grandchildren asked me for World? an extreme form of discipline,
a Life Saver. Yes on the same day, This was not to be a short-lived I didn’t have that problem on the
and over a span of four hours. tradition. Quicker than you can say, c , • , 1 T :c c
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I was prepared to honor their re- Give me a purple one, Katie had N . .
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quest, and they knew it. babies of her own - Kamlle, Con- r J B E
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Truth is, I would honor their re- nor, and Collin. ... 1 11 . .. T
quests for just about anything. For- Falynn blessed us with Cay den abies °U si e on he si ewa ’
tunately - for our bank account - and Coltyn, who is still a little young PupA, cA
none of them has asked for, say, a to join the Life Savers Brigade. (N UN-EDI I OR S NOIL. Our
Maserati Gran Turismo convertible Soon I was at the Top of My Game cars bulitn systems that au-
(suggested retail price $148,850). At again, and I have spent approximate- tomatically pullover on their own
least not yet. ly $1.4 million on Life Savers since. When of our kids are detected. I
For history’s sake, let me say I be- “T-Bone [that’s also me],” Cay den don t know how that works.)
came Life Saverman 40-plus years said the other day, “can I have a Life So there we were, and Kamille
ago when I quit smoking. If I were Saver?” popped the question. “May we have
going to die of anything, it wouldn’t Sure. a Life Saver?”
be nicotine but of sweet-tasting can- And that unleashed my thought I complied, as always. They all
dy. process for this column, said they loved me.
All, yes. Life Savers. Here are more exciting details. Life Savers were a small price to
At first, of course, the Life Savers As a religious person, I confess pay for such affection.
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