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Gene Noe Memories (Contributed by Gene Noe) I remember Gary Miller, Leland Camp, Tyrone Grogam, Joseph Rider and many others in the DeMolay. I was Master Councilor of the Chapter in 1958, I was the first and probably the only Married Master in the history of Gus A. Brandt DeMolay Chapter. I played baseball for Mr. Joe Jones not the famous "Pop" Jones, he lived one block from me and I knew him well. He coached a team in the same Little League that I played in. Joe Pizolla (spelling probably not correct) owner of Regal Sandwich Company on Hahlo Street also coached the Brown & Root Browns in the same league. This was in 1948, probably the first year of Little League Baseball in Denver Harbor. L.N. and Frank Boudreaux were also very close friends of ours as were Jerry Beasley, Mike Taylor, Peggy Taylor (they lived on Hahlo Street) and Kenneth Harold. Mr. Harold, Mr. Taylor, G.B.Taylor and my Father all drove buses for the Houston Bus Company during the 1940's and 1950's. Charles Waggoner, Gilbert Jacobson, Gary Patrick, Roy Gill, Raymond Jordan, myself and James Harper were the Denver Harbor Ramblers, City Rec. Basketball team that won the City Championship in 1955 or 1956.Raymond was the Outlaw he went to Milby High School. We were all Gym Rats at Denver Harbor Park. Robert Tuttle (Cliff Tuttle was his Father), Robert and James Christian, Leo Lyons, Paul and Evelyn Skinner, Louise Boren, Diane Burt, Francis Burt, Sammy Priano, Jerry Peebles, Pat Peebles,Ronnie Taylor,Fred Bradley and many others were friends. Living in Podunk during the late 40's and 50's was really an experience. We were all close and took care of each other. I remember the little Wars with the East Enders at Prince's Drive Inn on Wayside and at McDonalds on Wayside. We went to "Snooties" Drive Inn on McCarty Drive to buy beer or to the Lockwood Bar-b-Que Inn across the tracks and bought beer out the back door. Waiting for the City Bus to pick us up in front of Wiengartens (Shotwell and Lyons) to go to Edison Jr. High, and getting my first car (a 1951 Hudson) during my first year at Austin, boy what a time. We never got into any serious trouble, (my Uncle was asst. to the County Judge, Bob Casey, so I could not get into much he couldn't get me out of). Sammy Priano's Father Joe ran for Mayor of Houston a couple of times and Robert Tuttle's Father, Cliff served on the Civil Service Commission. We had some real Civic Leaders in Podunk. In my life I visited 42 Countries but I never saw anyplace as unique as Podunk, Texas. Today it is very hard to believe a place like Podunk (or Happy Days really existed).
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