T Durden said:

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Did you play football and baseball in AYA?

We moved in to Mission Bend in 1982 on the Ft. Bend side but played in AYA and Alief little league growing up.

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Talmbout AYA fields then Bissonet Pizza Hut

T Durden said:

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Did you play football and baseball in AYA?

We moved in to Mission Bend in 1982 on the Ft. Bend side but played in AYA and Alief little league growing up.

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Played AYA till age 14 and then Alief Little League for summer once in HS.

Anyone remember when this pool had the olympic sized high dive? I convinced myself I was going to go for it one day. Walked all the way up the stairs and could feel my legs getting weak. I literally started to shake as I approached the end of the platform. I think I started crying bc I was so terrified. Walked back down and did the half platform (which was still no joke at that age).



Hammerly Pool followed by enchiladas at this place was a hell of a combo…

We had a high dive until I was a teenager. Started diving off it around 7.

bigjag19 said:

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We had a high dive until I was a teenager. Started diving off it around 7.

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That was about the age I tried to build up the courage, but couldn't...around 6 or 7.

To be fair, I had witnessed some nasty landings and I once saw a teenager get injured pretty badly (they had to call ambulance)...pretty sure that was bouncin around in my noggin.

Moved here in 2003, the one Texas town I never wanted to live in. Still haven't gotten out.

It was yet another ambulance call that ended that high dive. I'm sure the insurance was getting ridiculous.

scd88 said:

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Not too long ago it was straight 7 digit dialing and everything was 713. We lost our **** when we had to add 713 or, gasp, 281.

Damn cell phones...

(Man states as he replies via his cell phone...)

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My first area code was 409, then whenever they broke up the region into the 3 or 4 different area codes ours changed to 979. Took a while to get used to that, now it is kinda hard to remember before since it's been 979 for 20 something years now. Maybe 30.

But I remember not having to dial area codes unless you were dialing long distance. Way back in the old days.

NoahAg said:

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Moved here in 2003, the one Texas town I never wanted to live in. Still haven't gotten out.

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You have my permission to leave. El Paso is waiting.

I had friends that lived in Oak Creek (I think that's the name of the subdivision) off of 1960, close to Champion Forest. I want to say that pool had a high dive.

Man, all I saw was the bottom of the pool. Terrifying. I did it once and that was it.

MelvinUdall said:

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T Durden said:

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Did you play football and baseball in AYA?

We moved in to Mission Bend in 1982 on the Ft. Bend side but played in AYA and Alief little league growing up.

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Played AYA till age 14 and then Alief Little League for summer once in HS.

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One of my first jobs was with the fledgling Alief YMCA, which had no facilities of its own. I was probably in sixth grade or so?

My job was handing out baseball equipment to the coaches from a trailer in the parking lot of a church on Bellaire. The practices and games were at the Quillian Memorial Center (now Alief Community Park). Then, after practice, the coaches would drive back to the trailer and drop off the gear and we'd check it in.

Imagine youth baseball where every team had two batting helmets and a couple of bats. No $400 bats and $110 sliding gloves.

I later moved up to umpire and referee baseball, flag football and street hockey.

HtownAg92 said:

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Born in Alvin in '69. Lived in Spring Branch area, played ball at SBMSA. Went to 6th Grade at old Westchester JH.

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Hellya...I believe a lot of this movie was shot there. That whole area and then east to Brittmoore was our stomping grounds. Didn't realize how good we had it with OG Sam's Deli on our side of the tracks back then.

1981 Monte Carlo said:

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AgLA06 said:

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Born in Spring Branch Medical Center in 1983.

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Was that near Long Point and Campbell?

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Yes. Ish.

EclipseAg said:

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MelvinUdall said:

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T Durden said:

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Did you play football and baseball in AYA?

We moved in to Mission Bend in 1982 on the Ft. Bend side but played in AYA and Alief little league growing up.

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Played AYA till age 14 and then Alief Little League for summer once in HS.

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One of my first jobs was with the fledgling Alief YMCA, which had no facilities of its own. I was probably in sixth grade or so?

My job was handing out baseball equipment to the coaches from a trailer in the parking lot of a church on Bellaire. The practices and games were at the Quillian Memorial Center (now Alief Community Park). Then, after practice, the coaches would drive back to the trailer and drop off the gear and we'd check it in.

Imagine youth baseball where every team had two batting helmets and a couple of bats. No $400 bats and $110 sliding gloves.

I later moved up to umpire and referee baseball, flag football and street hockey.

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Ha! So true on the baseball equipment for youth baseball back in the day…I actually worked at Quinlan during the summer as a youth counselor along 4 or 5 other baseball players that we playing summer league for Alief Little League, we got the job because our coach ran Quinlan.