musicman Posted August 3, 2005 Share Posted August 3, 2005 Who remembers Sambos?<{POST_SNAPBACK}>i do. there was one on broadway just south of bellfort that we used to go to. this was big in the 70's. my mom went to a garage sale recently and they had all the old pictures from a sambo's for sale. but she resisted. i remember a big boy at MLK and griggs as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texasdago Posted August 3, 2005 Author Share Posted August 3, 2005 There was a Sambo's on Memorial near Kirkwood. They often used some pretty cool googie architecture out on the west coast - folded plate roofs, for example (similar to the Denny's on Washington and I-10) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceAge Posted August 10, 2005 Share Posted August 10, 2005 Kip's locations from an undated book of their matches: Houston: 5111 Griggs Road 5320 Bellaire Blvd. (Bellaire, TX) Dallas: 5704 Lemmon 2600 S. Zangs Blvd. 5706 E. Mockingbird Lane 6833 W. Northwest Highway 6215 Gaston 425 E. Main (Grand Prairie, TX) Fort Worth 6450 Camp Bowie Blvd. 1523 S. University Blvd. Oklahoma City 122 West Main 32nd & North May Ave. 59th & So. Western S.E. 15th & Air Depot (Coming Soon) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowspark Posted August 10, 2005 Share Posted August 10, 2005 SpaceAge -- Perfect!! That's exactly what the Kip's on Bellaire looked like!Looks like there's a bank at that address now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crankypup Posted September 11, 2005 Share Posted September 11, 2005 Here's the Kip's section of my website, if anyone wants to take a look. I still need lots of info on the Houston Kip'ses. sixty8thirty3.com/kips2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted September 11, 2005 Share Posted September 11, 2005 Here's the Kip's section of my website, if anyone wants to take a look. I still need lots of info on the Houston Kip'ses. sixty8thirty3.com/kips2ooh ooh! that is so neat!are you here in houston? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djrage Posted September 12, 2005 Share Posted September 12, 2005 Who remembers Sambos? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I vaguely remember Sambos. My cousin has a better memory of it than I do. I discovered an old Sambos building on the southwest corner of 290 and Mangum. I lived in the area a few years ago and would pass by it from time to time and the building appeared to me like it might have been a restuarant once. I thought maybe a Denny's but it was the shape of the sign that threw that theory off. I later discovered after seeing a picture of an old Sambos on the internet that thats what it was. It was used as a GTE Mobilenet Store eventually Verizon Wireless. The sign is also still there. It has since closed. The picture above is the same design as the one off 290 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crankypup Posted September 12, 2005 Share Posted September 12, 2005 ooh ooh! that is so neat!are you here in houston?<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Thanks for the kind words, but nope, I'm in Dallas. Feel free to share any info you might have regarding these Houston Big Boys! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texas911 Posted September 13, 2005 Share Posted September 13, 2005 I still remember that statue on Westhiemer and Weslyan! Brings back memories. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJones Posted September 20, 2005 Share Posted September 20, 2005 There was also a Sambo's in Clear Lake, on Nasa Rd. 1, back in the 70's to early 80's. The restaurant had to change their "mascot" back in the late 70's. It was a little walking "black" chef. NAACP comes in, and next thing you know, we got a cartoon Tiger all over the billboard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jermaine Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 There was a great Kips on the corner of MLK and Griggs...right across from Palm Center on one corner and Montgomery Wards on the other.There was a SAMBO'S near 1-45 N and Airline...next to what used to be GEMCO (now a FIESTA). The building that was SAMBOS is now an EZ PAWN SHOP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firepower_RKBA Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 I know there used to also be a Kip's Big Boy but can't recall if any were located in Houston or Texas...Well, I remember there was a Kips Big Boy in Bellaire not far from the Bellaire Broiler Burger. Does that help? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firepower_RKBA Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 I remember the Kip's Big Boy on Bellaire. It was around in the 60s and 70s for sure. The Big Boy outside that restaurant was probably 6 feet tall, give or take. And they used to give the kids Big Boy comic books for free to read while you waited for your food. I loved that place as a kid. There was a JoJo's on S. Braeswood just west of Hillcroft which went out of business a few years ago. And, remember Jim's? The one on N. Braeswood & Chimney Rock turned into Champ's before it died and remained empty for a while. It then became Victor's Deli which didn't last long and now it's a Mexican Restaurant.Howdy! You sound like you grew up or lived in my end of Houston. Braeswood Square was practically in my back yard. I remember Jim's then Champ's and now that's El Ranchero. I also remember the Kips Big Boy in Bellaire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NenaE Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 I've always known the Dot's Coffee Shop as being original, was not a Kip's before hand, as mentioned by others, in above posts. I grew up with both of them. The bldgs look very similar. There was also a Sambo's located on Broadway, close to the Harold Farb apartments and Hobby Airport. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TV2EBoogaloo Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 there was a Sambos on Memorial down near Kirkwood and it was not a black kid it was an Indian kid (tech support not casino), but since it was dark it was taken to be a black kid by the baiters at bethe Kips Big Boy on Westheimer is the home of one of my "best" wild drunken high school storiesit was the evening of either Jan 1 1987 or possibly 86....I am almost sure it was new years day of 87 (I know it was the evening of new years day just not the year)anyway me and several friends went there drunk as hell and hungry.....I was so drunk I was not going to eat.....we had just been there the night before new years eve after all my friends got trashed and I refrained and was the driver for them......the place was TRASHED new years eve and the bathrooms were all puked in which was furthered by two of my friendsso here we are back the next night and one of my friends was driving this time and I was DOWN AND OUT......we end up running into an old friend of mine from elementary and middle school that I had lost touch with since I had moved......we got a booth right next to the buffet and my two friends plus my other friend (that everyone already knew) that we had run into all ordered and I gave a grunt to the waiter and my friend told him I would not be eatingit was a 4 top booth and was sitting on one of the ends.....the friend we had bumped into was kind of a funny guy and I don't remember how the conversation got going (because I was wasted with my head down on the table) and my friend all the sudden is talking about all this gross stuff that could be on the buffet table like friend cows eyes ect...I am getting SICK......so I am sitting there with my head down and listening to him and everyone laughing and I am thinking "I need to tell him to shut up or I am going to puke"......and I am also thinking "If I pick my head up and open my mouth I am going to puke"so finally I had enough and looked up and started to feel like I was going to puke......all my friends knew I was a puker so they are suddenly looking at me.....and I grab the silverware that is wrapped in a napkin and try and bite on it to keep my mouth closed while puke is spewing out between my lips and the silverware........my friends are like "oh damn" and the two across from me jump up and the guy I had blocked in jumps up on the booth seat and steps on the table and jumps past me right as I take the silverware out of my mouth and puke all over the tableI felt a LOT better than that and went to the bathroom with a restaurant full of people staring at me and my friends dieing laughing and I puked some more and them my friend drove me home to wash up and change shirts and go out a bit morethe also gave 10 bucks to the busboy that was looking at me all crazy eyed as I walked past him walking towards my tableI love you Kips Big Boy and always will!you had a great chicken fried steak sandwich and chicken friend chicken sandwich I had the chicken friend chicken the night before on new years eve it was damn good wish I had one right now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southernpilot Posted December 25, 2014 Share Posted December 25, 2014 Anyone remember where the Bob's Big Boys used to be around town? I remember one on the corner of Westheimer and Weslayean, pretty much where Central Market now stands. I vaguely remember it being a cool Googie style building with lava rock or some kind of flagstone detailing on the walls.Anyone know of any others? How about some pictures? I remember it. My parents owned or rented the Mobile gas station next to it, right on the corner of that intersection. This was around '77, '78 time period and they had a limousine company, Southwest Limousine Company. We had many meals in that Kips.SP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Lins Posted October 25, 2015 Share Posted October 25, 2015 I remember a Sambo's on the north side of the South Loop- around Crestmont or close to there, back around 1976 or so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msteele6 Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 I think that that Sambo's was actually located just north of the South Loop on Wayside. It changed it's name to something else after a controversy concerning the "Sambo's" name, probably in the early '80's(?). It was on the same block as the Auchan (another defunct establishment). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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