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HomeMy WebLinkAboutNorthgate Remembered; newspaper article (03-19-1995) . t' t . . - . . . Ann Landers 102 . Youth lines 105 . School menus 106 . Times to remember 107-9 Dave Barry Exhume Perry Mason .... TRANSCRIPT, TRIAL OF THE CENTURY, DAY 257 BAILIFF: Hear ye, hear ye, the court is now in sess ... DEFENSE: Objection, your honor. JUDGE: To what? DEFENSE: Nothing, your honor. We're just warming up. PROSECUTION: Your honor, the peo- ple would like to state that we also have no objections at this time. DEFENSE: Objection, your honor. Every time the defense says some- thing, the prosecution always feels it has to say something. PROSECUTION: The people do not. DEFENSE: Do too. PROSECUnON: Do not. DEFENSE: Do too. DEFENDANT: OK, stop, I confess! I'm guilty! JUDGE (sternly): Order in the court! (To prosecution): Proceed. PROSECUTION: Where were we? JUDGE (checking his notes): You were on "Do not." PROSECUTION: Oh, right, thanks. Do not. DEFENSE: Your honor, the prosecu- tion is clearly jealous of the ~fense ~~r~ \Ile have a lQt.piJ;t).~qlJ.ee '''!egaJ taled stlCn. ?SJ.';-.C~t:: l?a!ley ap~l. . the late Rl'l.-ymonc! Burr.- . ,iROSECUTION: Objectioq, your honor. The people have reason to believe that that is not really F. Lee Bailey. (A murmur runs through the court- room.) JUDGE: Dammit, bailiff! I ordered the murmurs removed from this courtroom! BAILIFF (drawing his gun): We'll take care of it, sir. PROSECUTION: Your honor, if that IS F. Lee Bailey, how come he hardly ever SA YS anything? He just sits there, day after day, not moving. The people request permission to stick him with a pin. JUDGE: I'll allow it. F. LEE BAILEY: sssssssssssss JUDGE: Let the record show that "F. Lee Bailey" is actually an inflatable doll wearing a $1,000 suit. DEFENSE: Objection, your honor. That suit cost $1,500. , JUDGE WAPNER: Do you have a receipt? DEFENSE: Objection! This judge is from a completely different TV show! JUDGE: I'll sustain the objection. DEFENSE: Which one? JU'DGE: I have no idea. Let's proceed with the expert .witness. PROSECUTION (to witness): Please state your name and the size of your b06k advance. ~PERT WITNESS: My name is Dr. Pembrick A. Femur, and my advance is $350,000. PROSECUTION: And who will be play-' ing you in the movie version? EXPERT WITNESS: We are thinking Brad Pitt. DEFENSE: Objection, your honor. We were thinking of Brad Pitt to play us. PROSECUTION: Brad Pitt? YOU? Your honor, the people request permission to laugh until little snot bubbles form in the people's nostrils. DEFENDANT: I'll sign a full confes- sion, OK? DEFENSE (sarcastically): And we suppose the prosecution wishes to be played by Demi Moore? PROSECUTION: Sharon Stone. JUDGE: I'll allow it. Proceed. PROSECUTION: Dr. Femur, you are an expert, are you not? EXPERT WITNESS: I am. PROSECUTION: And do you think the people's hairstyle looks better this way, or the way the people wore it before? EXPERT WITNESS: This way. JUDGE: What about my beard? EXPERT WITNESS: With all due respect, your honor, I have seen more impressive facial hair on a coconut. (.Laughter.) JUDGE (angrJy): Bailiffi Where is that laughter coming from? Please see BARRY, page 02 .Dave Barry is a humor columnist for the Miami Herald. Write to him c/o Tropic Magazine, The Miami Herald, One Herald Plaza, Miami FL 33132, j KEGS shuns drive time popul~rjlY . . if' -'{j'.-~ By SHELLEY SMITHSON "Community radio dictates its own format Eagle staff writer because volunteers bring their own music," Halstead says. "What you get is a real diversity Community radio" is more than a"slogan for of music that isn't played on tpe radio nmy." Bryan-College Station's newest radio sta- Some of the volunteer music show.$.1@lready : tion, KEOS, 89.1 FM. It's the non-profit sta- planned will feature jazz, blUl~ gi~ss;1fOlk and . tion's reason for being. alternative rock. ~ , ?~'.., : KEOS signs on the airways Saturday. "We have a Bryan mom whb will be ~oing ~ . "We want to bring the community closer by Celtic music show and one ~aduate student who allowing people from different parts of the com- will be doing an Igaeli-Jewis,n musi~~p~o~ari1." munity;t6 ~xpress,their ml:lsic, views -and cul- Halstead says. "We're hopingHo play'Reggae, ture," says KEOS General Manage!: Eric Truax. world cultural music and Texas 'and-tero.<wal Using volunteers from throughout the Bryan music as well." . '. \, \ ,;;~~;'. Aj\~~;~ and College Station area, station organizers hope Local bands are also invited to'>,play"luw'e'at the to provide local music and public-affairs pro- KEOS studios, says Cyd Cassone, stahOli under- gramming 85 percent of the time. writing coordinator. . J. f~ "The rest of the time we'll play syndicated "There are many bands in. the 10<;a1 circuits. : shows that give a national and international per- and this will provide them Cll,1 ou~~t~ for gett~g spective,', says Program Director Heidi Halstead. their music on the air," she says:' ~l - News programs from the British Broadcasting KEOS organizers also hope to .fu~us communi- Company, the Pac'ifica Radio Network, National ty attention on issues affecting IQcc!1 goveI11ll!ent Public Radio and Public Radio International will and schools. .. . supplement local public affairs programming. "We want to broadcast city cot'.llcil and school The station will also give its disc jockeys the board meetings live so that peopie 'can know: ' : chance to program their own shows rather than . '.', " adhere to a strict format. Please see' KEOS, paQll ~8 e Above, Northgate'as'it appeared in 1948 compared to today. At right, bootmaker Johnnie Holick, 87, shows off the style that is the pride of the A&M Corps of Cadets. His Northgate shOp has turned out thousands of boots since the 1930s. By Shelley Smithson Eagle photo/Peter Rocha Eagle photo/Dave McDermand Cyd Cassone takes the micrcphone as KEGS gears up for its Saturday premiere. '. r .. Section .~ -0 Northga~~ EDITOR'S NOTE: The Northgate area adjacent to Texas A&M - . University is the hub from which the community of College _ Station sprang forth, The following article is the first of a.,three :. part series. 4 w. .. en Jo,hnnie H. OliCk. 's father opened " ".h'i~ bQQ.f ~stbte near:t\1e~l'l'@rth : gate of thr~$' A&M campus in , 1931, lonely Aggies looking for love roamed the . narrow streets of the-;fledgling commercial dis- trict. While that has not changed, Holick has watched the area known as Northgate grow to a social mecca for Texas A&M students and a business dream come true for many area mer- chants. .. Northgate began in the early 1920s with lit- : . tie more than a post office and a general store.' . Young cadets attending the all-male school ventured beyond the college's north gate to .!I mail letters to hometown sweethearts and sample candy bars at Boyett's Store. Barely a teen-ager at the time, Holick remembers the iron fence that surrounded the campus of what was still the Agriculture and Mechanical College of Texas. "There was a 10-foot gate at the entrance - that's why they call it Northgate," says the 87- : . year-old Holick. "The Aggies had a curfew - I -' think it was 10 o'clock - but they didn't always keep it and sometimes they climbed the gate or dug under the fence." "Town," as Bryan was called, was only four miles from the campus. But the commute aboard the "Toonerville Trolley" - an electric. street car - took nearly 30 minutes. That is, . when the car did not jump the track or sputter' to a halt half way up a hill. While Aggies did travel to Bryan to visit girls and to go to honky tonks, the growing student and faculty population was evolving into a community of its own. What passed for the entertainment scene was a silent-movie theater at the A&M chapel and a nearby spring-fed swimming hole. "They had posters stacked on tel~phone . , ," . '.. . '... ~ ' " Please see NORTH GATE, page O~ . , ., t Page D2 Bryan-College Station Eagle Sunday, March 19, 1995 - -- Lifestyle Woodville students behaved like swine Dear Readers: Remember the letter to the editor of a Texas weekly that asked what kind of Future Farmers of America is being run at Woodville High School? The writer described how a pig had been tortured at the Tyler County Fair in Texas. The FFA teacher and the school prin- ciPal did nothing about the atrocity. The pig was several pounds too light to qualify for a competition, so the high school kid who was entering the animal, and four of his pals, put a hose down the pig's throat to "fatten him up." Water began to run out of the pig's nose, his eyes rolled back in his head and the animal died soon after. The FF A teacher made no effort to save the animal's life. The high school principal walked by and did nothing. Appalled by this act of wanton cruelty, I asked that someone in authority at Woodville High School explain. I heard nothing from Woodville High, but! did receive several thousand letters from outraged readers. Here's a sampling: Dear Ann Landers: Your Ann Landers column about the pig that was tortured at the Tyler County Fair made me physically ill. Charges should have been brought against the boys, the teacher and the school. What they did was vicious. - Cape Cod From Palatine, Ill.: I wept when I read about the way those cruel high school students mur. dered that pig in Tyler County. Why was nothing done? Cool, Calif.: Those boys belong in jail. Next thing you know, they will be doing the same horrible thing to humans. Council Bluffs, Iowa: Please tell me where the Tyler County Fair authorities were when the pig was being tortured. I cannot believe they had no knowledge of what was going on. phoenix: That column abou t the unfortunate pig is a symbol of wh:lt is happening to our world. I believe a great many people today, not just the boys who did I that monstrous deed, have no respect for life. Humans now dominate this Earth at the expense of everything else. We ha\'e lost our humanity in the great scheme of things, and everything in our lives is suf. fering because of it. Dover, Mass.: It has been said, "Tl1e only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." These words cer. tai11ly ring true in the case of the tortured pig in Tyler County. Bloomington, Ind.: Remember Jeffrey Dahmer, the serial killer in Milwaukee who admitted killing 17 people? In his youth, he impaled frogs and cats on trees with metal stakes. That was his idea of fun. Remember David Berkowitz, SOll of Sam, in New York? He said he hated dogs and admitted to killing a n umber of them in his YOllth. Brenda Spencer was the woman who fired 40 shots at San Diego schoolchildren and wounded nine. She admitted to setting fire to cats' tails when she was a youngster. Albert DeSalvo, the Boston' Strangler, used to trap dogs and cats, put them in orange crates and shoot arrows through the crates. Denver, Colo.: What happened in Tyler County is an example of what is happening everywhere. People don't want to "get involved." If it's not their ox that is being gored, they look the other way. This is how Adolf Hitler rose to power. There's a bit of history here that should never be for- gotten. So, dear readers - you have spoken eloquently. Thank you. . Forget to save some of your favorite Ann Landers columns? "Nuggets and Doozies" is the answer. Send a self- addressed, long. business-size envelope and a check or money order for $5.25 (this includes postage and handling) to: Nuggets, c/o Ann Landers, P.O. Box 11562, Chicago, III. 60611-0562. Sports cause wide variety of painful nerve injuries By BRIAN W. HAINLINE The Associated Press If you engage in almost any sport, you expose yourself to the risk of nerve damage. But knowl- edge about why and how it hap- pens may help prevent injury. There are no comprehensive statistics on sports-related nerve damage. But a recent Japanese study found the highest incidence among mountain climbers, base- I IPopcorn' ceilings help hide dirt, soot HomeRepair Q We have a textured ceiling in our bedroom and it is becoming a bit dingy. I have heard conflicting opinions about the advisability of repainting this celling. What is your advice on this? . A We regularly receive letters with questions regarding the care and repair of "popcorn" tex. tured ceilings. Depending on where in the country you live, this ceiling treatment may also be known as cottage cheese, Cali- fornia, or carpeted. The texture is derived from a spray.applied paint that has polystyrene plastic foam particles mixed in. The par- ticles give the coating a texture and help hide ceiling imperfec- tions. Pores in the surface help it hide dust and soot. We recently found a company, Sprayed Tex- tures Unlimited, that makes products to clean and repair tex- tured ceilings and also offers a free brochure to readers. The company strongly recom- mends against painting a popcorn ceiling. Apparently, paint seals the surface and diminishes its ability to hide smoke and dirt. The company sells a cleaner, but it recommends spot cleaning with bleach and water. There isn't room to list the brochure's 10 tips or the company's cleaning and repair products which range in price from $5 to $20. You can get this information yourself, how- ever, by sending a business-size self-addressed stamped envelope to: Sprayed Textures Unlimited, 1518 Hwy 138, Wall Township, N.J. 07719. ball players and gymnasts. For climbers, it's the equip- ment rather than the climb that causes nerve problems. They often wear heavy backpacks that can put damaging pressure on a shoulder nerve - the axillary nerve - numbness and weakness of the arm. Skiers also can have an equip- ment-related problem. A skier who consistently wears boots too tightly may create enough pres- sure to damage the peroneal nerve, which runs from the knee to the foot. The same nerve can be damaged at the knee by the per- sistent stress of sharp turns. Persistent pressure is one major source of nerve injuries. Another is the repetitive motion that is common in many sports, and the vulnerable nerves are those that lie in tight compart- ments that are stressed from repetitive soft tissue stress. Take baseball. It requires an overhead throwing motion that eventually can str~tch the suprascapular nerve of the Pet of the week "Kayla" is a spunky 4-month-old female bull terrier-bassett mix with dark blue fur. She is the Brazos Animal Shelter's pet of the week. If you are interested in adopting this or another animal. visit the Brazos Animal Shelter at 2207 Finfeather Road in Bryan. Phone: 775-5755. The hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. No Time For A GOOD Lunch? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Served 11 AM - 2PM )( 1:,.!II'~I'~I.l\llllI ...:H4a- , /'':::I::llflll'n'nn' (:"lIh'l" . 11'.\ 1\-1< $ Plazafl · cae 409/693-7500 801 University Blvd College Slolion. TX 77 840 shoulder to the point that the typists and other office workers. muscle it supplies atrophies, And because they hyperextend causing a deep, nagging pain and their bodies at the waist, gym. weakness. Another vulnerable nasts can experience leg pain and nerve is in the elbow area - the numbness because they damage ulnar nerve, better known as the the femoral nerve. which runs "funny bone." Damage to it can along the front of the pelvis and cause pain, tingling and weak- thigh. n€SS of the forearm, and occurs Runners aren't exempt, either. most often in pitchers who throw Up to 15 percent of runners who curve balls and sliders, which have chronic foot pain may have require a sudden twisting at the a damaged posterior tibial nerve, elbow. whose branches serve the foot. People who play tennis and vol. And they can also experience sci- leyball are vulnerable to the same atica, the kind of low-back pain kind of nerve damage. Biome. that occurs if one of the disks in cbanically, what they do is sim- the spine ruptures, putting pres- i11r to the throwing motion of a sure on the sciatic nerve. b3seb3il'. For bike riders, one major In football, it's the brachial problem is equipment-related. A plexus, a bundle of nerves at the seat that is hard and uncushioned b3se of the neck, that is most often can pu t pressure on the pudendal d~ged. The cause is hyperex. nerve, which lies at the base of tension of the neck or over. the buttocks. If the pressure- stretching of the arm that, in [Sed lilamage is severe enough, turn, stretches the nentes. T. his i .o:alolSf! temporary. impotence injUry is usuall.Y' !~;'!;. .. " .~. C3using sudden pain and arm ,.. m. i>~ei's :'wl1o-'"r.est "'their weakness. It is commo y called a hands on the' hancUebars can "}>urner" or "stinger." injure the ulnar nerve, which lies For gymnasts, two different at the base of the hand: nerves are most at risk. Because they often land on their wrists, gtmnasts are su bject to the carpal tt1nnel syndrome often seen in . Dr. Brian W. Hainline is a Research Assistant Professor of Neurology at the New York University School of Medicine. Barry From 81 BAILIFF: From inside a set of parentheses. JUDGE: I'll allow it. Continue. PROSECUTION: Dr. Femur, I am handing you Exhibit No. 2038-B. Can you identify this item for the court? EXPERT WITNESS (examining it): Yes. That is a DNA molecule belonging to the defendant. DEFENSE: Objection! We can't see the exhibit! PROSECUTION: Of COURSE you can't, you idiot. It's a MOLE- CULE. EXPERT WITNESS: Or a poppy seed. There's a 73 percent chance either way. PROSECUTION: Now Dr. Femur, can you tell the court, in your (lwn expert words, what "DNA" stands for? EXPERT WITNESS: Yes. PROSECUTION: I see. Now Dr. Femur, could you please tell the jury, as an expert, whether the defendant could' have left this J)NA molecule or poppy seed at the scene of the ... EXPERT WITNESS: Tell WHA T jury? JUDGE: Dammit, bailiff! The jury escaped again! (Another murmur through the court.) GUN: BANG! I BAILIFF: I got the murmur, your 'honor! DEFENSE: Objection! The bailiff shot a reporter for The National Enquirer. JUDGE: I'll allow it. PROSECUTION: Your honor, i; while we're waiting for the authorities to track the jury down, the people request your honor's permission to ask the witness approximately 850 unbe- lievably redundant questions. JUDGE: Of course. DEFENSE: Objection, your honor. As counsel for the defen- dant, we cannot ... JUDGE: Hey! Where's the defen- dant? runs ARE YOU KILLING . YOURSE~F BY BEING 100 'POUNDS OR MORE OVERWEIGHT? You know the signs... shortness of breath with activity, dif- ficulty getting around, trouble with advancing in your career, being shunned socially and possibly impairing your health. 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Biography propounds genius of Stevenson By MARIO SZICHMAN The Associated Press Considering that Robert Louis Stevenson created such won- derful villains as Mr. Hyde, the Master of Ballantrae, Alan Breck Stewart and Long John Silver, it is difficult to imagine that there is still some doubt about his genius. In "Robert Louis Stevenson: A Biography" (Random House, $30), Frank McLynn tries to set the record straight. He shows that RLS - "one of the few writers instantly familiar from his ini- tials alone" - was not the lightweight author whom critics usually dismiss because he was too readable, too popular, too cin- ematic and too accessible for children. Rather, says McLynn, he was "Scotland's' greatest writer of English prose," which was far beyond the ponderous prose of Sir Walter Scott. Stevenson's credo was, "There is bu t one art, to omit!" But Stevenson was something else. Like Poe and Melville, he was capable of exploring the ambiguity and mistrust that lurks in every human, and the split personality that character- izes our age of anxiety. Maybe that is why his villains are so indelible. Besides Long John Silver, who is more of a tra- ditional villain, the scoundrels who inhabit Stevenson's world are as bad - and as good - as the heroes, the fallen angels of Gothic mythology. Th ink T he Plaza Cafe is serving a weekday lunch buffet that'll satisfy your hunger and your schedule. And each day we offer a different specialty: Each Buffet for just $5.95 Monday - Prime Rib Tuesday - Homestyle Country Ham and Chicken Fried Steak Wednesday - Texas BBQ with the Best Ribs in Town Thursday - Italiono with Posta Sauteed to Order Friday - Seafood with Oyster Bar and Shrimp on Ice or try our Magnificent Souper Salad Bar for just $4.50 CHRIS LeDOUX at Texas Hall of Fame ckets available at College Station Rothers . Catalena Hatters Bryan . Courts Western Wear . 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Metlife and most other major health care plans. ......,... .......-..............w.........-... ..........,....-....... ..........w.w,'.,..., .'............ .w....... ...., Bryan-College Station Eagle Sunday, March 19, 1995 Page 03 Lifestyle ""- .. Ebony Fashion fair visits Wednesday Paris. Milan. London. Bryan. Bryan? Haute couture and pret-a-porter comes to the Brazos Valley Wednesday, when the 37th Annual Ebony Fashion Fair is staged at the Bryan Civjc Audito- rium. The event is sponsored by the Bethune Women's Club for the benefit of the North Bryan Community Center. The fair starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are $18. Twelve male and female models will wear about 200 garments from the collection of famed designers such as Yves Saint Lau- rent and Oscar de la Renta during the fair. It will mark the third time the traveling roadshow - the players ride in a chartered Greyhound bus and hold 190 shows a year - has made a stop in Bryan. The fair Salons, Nails & More, Tip Top.: Music, Hall's Mini Mart, Ken'~:: We Praise Thee Beauty Salon ana~. the North Bryan Communit9'. Center. . For more information, call Mildred:' Thomas at 822-1932. 1 -- This year's Ebony Fashion Fair includes the school girl look from Christian Francis Roth. The model at left wears a short jacket with pleated collar and cuffs. The other model wears a three-piece ensemble with midriff ja:ket, white blouse, plaid skirt and socks. Northgate From 01 polls every week that there was a dance somewhere," Holick says. "There were five to seven dif- ferent bands that played mostly dance music." Before 1930, busi- nesses like Holick's shoe-repair shop and the photography studio, we on campus. Then the college decided to move an ~ryone off campus "except for the campus cll;l.aners," Holick said. "They built this building in 1931 and Dad moved his business here and we began to make boot5 for the Aggies," Holick says, "Within a few years most of the buildings within a block or two were here." From his father's boot company on College Main Street, Holick watched the college, and the Northgate commercial district, begin to bustle. "There was a photo studio and a dry cleaning establishment, some semi cafes or restaurants on a limited scale, and two barber shops," Holick says. "There were clothing stores where they sold uniforms and a general store where you could buy supplies and candy bars." By 1938, two pharmacies - Lip- scomb's and Aggieland Pharmacy _ had opened in the Northgate business district. Several grocery stores and general stores made staying in town (Northgate) a better idea than going to "town" (Bryan). After residents of the college community voted to incorporate in 1938, citizens met for council meetings in a room above North- gate's photography studio until the city purchased land for a city hall in 1940. "This was downtown College Station," Holick says. "It was a place of great importance because even then the economy was situ- ated around the college." Through the years, Texas A&M has continued to fuel economic success in the buildings which, ironically, were built during the height of the Great Depression. During World War II, the com- mercial district increasingly catered to a military, rather than student, population. "This got to be quite a military installation during the war because we had units from the Marines, the Air Force, the Navy and the Army all training here," Holick says. "The area was buzzing wit'll military activity." But the university, and the Northgate commercial district, began to see the greatest growth after Texas:A&M began admitting females in 1963, Holick says. More students were also attracted to the university after 1965, when Aggies were no longer require to participate in the ROTC program. The decision to allow alcohol sales within the city has also changed the face of Northgate. While still the daytime downtown for Texas A&M students, after 1974, the area increasingly became the scene for college night life as well. The Dixie Chicken and Dudley's Draw, the first bars to open at Northgate, packed in crowds of more than 2,000 stu- dents, sometimes blocking Unit versity Avenue in the 1970s. When the Aggies won the Southwest Conference after a 10- year-drought in 1985, the night clubs of Northgate again over. flowed onto the streets. For old timers like Holick, the "beer joints" that have come to Northgate in the last two decades have changed the scenery, but not the character of College Station's original commercial district. . "College Station really never had an official downtown," Holick says. "This is still down. town." . TOMORROW: Northgale survives hard times. I Thesday, March 21, 7:30pm · Rudder Theatre "You will not find a better Renaissance ensemble anywhere" Balti~~ort <<,....""" -.,. _.,<-,.,...,.,' # .,..,,;-. ,,/' .... 'I ~ .",,~, '"" \.f.) .-_______ '" ~. "\.. ..;: ~ " '~r'" \, TICKETS: Adults - $10.00, Students. $5.00 Senior Citizens (65+) - $7.00 Call the MSC Box OffIce today. 845-1234 Credil card orders on I,. is billed as the world's largest traveling show. Ebony Magazine's traveling fashion show has raised more than $41 million for organization such as the community center in its long history. The ticket price includes a one- year subscription to Ebony, EM or six months to Jet. Advance I tickets are available at Flexible Mirrors Salon, Lurl's Beauty , Find It In The ~ ..... " " . . .: I I .. . . . " . . . J,"'" " . '. )..... , . , , .....' '.. ".. ... . '. . . , tOO. . '. " . "