HomeMy WebLinkAboutMy Story--College Station Pg. 2orthopedic ward and later transferred to the Dispensary. I played softball for the Hospital
and made the Base team two years. We won base championship. I was discharged in
December 1954 at Camp Kilmer, N. I
I re -enrolled at Sam Houston State and graduated in 1955. I graduated from Hermann
Hospital Physical Therapy School in Houston in 1957, then worked at Methodist Hospital
in Houston for about 2 years. From there, I worked at the Veterans Hospital in Houston
for 11 years. Then I worked in Nursing Homes and Doctor's Hospital and started my
own Physical Therapy Clinic. I retired from the U.S.Army Reserves as 0-6 (Colonel) in
1990.
My memories of College Station come from being around my father's grocery store,
Charlie's Food Market. It was at what was called Sulphur Springs Road, now University
Drive. Wells Fargo now occupies that space. At the old wooden store, I was thrilled as a
child when the Calvary (A&M) passed in front of the store. They went up to where
Hensel Park is and where the Plaza Hotel was for their maneuvers. Sulphur Springs Road
only went across Texas Avenue a short distance, almost to where the Hilton Hotel is now.
The corner opposite The Old Plaza Hotel was Louis Mays Grocery Store. Later, houses
that were on the campus were moved to that area.
Dr. Asbury had a house where the North Parking Garage is. It was covered with
climbing roses. The 1't. Bank was on the same side (North) as A&M Methodist Church
and across the street. I remember walking there to make a deposit for my father's store.
Coach Homer Norton came into the store and would talk to me. During the war years he
had the Kidde Corps. They fumbled so much that he had the backfield members carry a
football to class.
The Fire Department was operated by Texas A&M. It was East of Sabisa Hall. The City
of College Station did not have a Fire Department.
I remember the old fly catcher. It was a screen box sat on a plate form that had a hole in
it. Something sweet was sat under the screen box. The fly would fly into the cone screen
and was captured. Many flies were caught and died in the screen cone. Stores were not
air conditioned then. To keep flies out of the stores, each door had a ceiling fan to keep
the flies from entering the store.