I was born and raised on the east side of Houston in the same neck of the woods as Rodney. I tear up every time I hear this song. (One of my all time favorites)

@elvisAronPresleybyRusty

2 жыл бұрын

I was North Side .

@scottowen6669

2 жыл бұрын

My dad spent lots of time growing up in Houston. This reminds me so much of him. And he’s buried off of Wayside Drive, just like that other Crowell song.

@NC5B

2 жыл бұрын

I grew up in Galveston (and was on the island during Hurricane Carla), and I certainly agree about the cheeseburgers at the Prince's Drive-In. We didn't have one on the Island, but that was a regular stop for us when we came to Houston.

@shelleysharp7005

Жыл бұрын

Did you go to Furr?

@landondavis3647

Жыл бұрын

@@shelleysharp7005 - No, I graduated from North Shore in 1978.

I lived my whole young life near and close to Telephone Road. Before my Dad passed away at the Southeast Memorial Hospital. I only knew Telephone Road. I left my❤on Telephone Road. Thank you for the song😢. The 80s and 90s and early 2000s. On Telephone Rooooooaaad.👏

I grew up in oak meadows off 225 and Allen Genoa road. Went to Deady and Milby.I did all those things he sang about. My dad owned a big Sinclair station on corner of telephone and wayside. I ran it at night by my self while in high school and was never robbed. Different times back then.. After the Navy, I worked at gulfgate selling stereos and tv’s for City Appliance.

For me, this is just the story of all our childhoods - where and when and how we grew us; ordinary kids, rich, poor or whatever. How lucky we were, to have experienced it as opposed to today where a blade of grass is unknown. Rodney Crowell says it all.

I wish I could like it a million times!

This song is SO Houston. Y’all don’t even know.

@deerlodgeco

Ай бұрын

I grew up in a small town in another Southern state, and even if my youth wasn't spent on the actual Telephone Road, the descriptions are the same that all us Southern kids knew in the 50's and 60's. Beautiful song.

Rodney grew up in Jacinto City and went to my school ,Galena Park High School. His story in this song is spot on.

I grew up just off Telephone Road and Wayside Drive. Not much has changed and the Telewink does still have the best breakfast on the SE Houston side, even at 4:00 AM after a night running the bars along Telephone Road. I still live about 15 minutes from there... lots of memories! Hey Rodney, when are you coming back to Houston????

What a cool song! I grew up not far from Magnolia Gardens, drove every morning to Telephone Road for trade schooling. Mosquito trucks, Hurricane Alicia, the Astrodome, Astroworld (RIP)...

Maybe Rodney's best ever, so many good ones. You can click "dislike this", "like this", but not "I love this!"

I grew up off Telephone Rd, over by Hobby Airport, in the late 50's and 60's. Just like the song says!!!!

When I first heard this song, it all came back... I USED TO RUN BEHIND THE MOSQUITO TRUCK AS A KID, TOO! All the kids did - we were clueless to the danger. Love the video - I was a kid in Houston during the bomb drills, Carla, Prince's, etc. THANKS

@hambone5547

6 ай бұрын

We all did.

I love the way he paints pictures with his songs

Used to work a security guard gig at Schlumberger Well Services on 5000 Gulf Freeway and drove up Telephone Rd to get there every day. Ate at the Tel-Wink quite frequently. Thanks for the memories.

@JeffMiletich

4 жыл бұрын

The Tele-Wink was our after bar close drunken breakfast place in the 80's.

GREAT SONG, RODNEY! MAKES ME HOUSTON PROUD!

Always liked Rodney Crowell. Didn't know he sang a song about my hometown (really Pasadena). I did have a friend who said she saw Elvis at Magnolia Gardens. Prince's drive in. Red Bluff Drive In. Love nostalgia.

I grew up between Telephone and Wayside, off Lawndale. Yes Sir, it was home.

used to ride innertubes on Buffalo Bayou when the big rains rose the water into the tops of the oak trees. Would pull ourselves around on the branches. Parents never caught us... What a great place. Telephone Road. Old Spanish Trail. Westheimer. Before the freeways scrambled everything and erased the past...

This is a great song and video growing up in Houston in the 70's was a great time. We had that china berry tree in the back yard & I loved climbing to the top & poppin my friends in the head with the china berries. ha my dad cut that tree down in the 80's. I was sad to see my old friend go.

I was there. Smiley graduate. Prince's Drive In, the Granada, Tidwell Drive-In.... Astrodome, Hurricane Carla, the skeeter truck, salty water melon slices,. Ahhh, the memories,

I didn't grow up on Telephone Rd - but I played with Phil Parr at the Western Club....Also played with Robert Herridge before the Urban Cowboy thang. God Bless Texas and Rodney Crowell.

@jerrymelton5282

Жыл бұрын

Nothing but good memories in 1970 and 71 at Western Club Frenchy Burke Randy Connor and Phil Parr I remember dancing Whiskey River by Johnny Bush many times

Wow! Takes me right back to my younger days. We lived off of Wayside Dr & Ave I until we moved up to a better place off Telephone Rd. I experienced all of this song, including the mosquito truck. I can’t imagine how bad those skeeters might be without that smoking truck. PS - I also remember the carhops at Princes and McDonalds drive- in’s.

Well I know a lot about Telephone Rd. Probably more than I should...lol. The Tel-wink is still there and open for breakfast and lunch. Ate there many, many times....the other one. Princess a few times as well. They're closed now...cool song!

@icanary64

2 ай бұрын

I ate at Tel-Wink with my family every weekend.

I remember those tanks at 2:42. They were off of Market going into Jacinto City. I wonder if they are still there? Houston has changed so much. This video shows parts all over the east and southside. Love it.

This is about as good as it gets for my generation.

Yeah, I remember running through the magic fog coming out of the mosquito truck as a kid. I'm amazed I still have brain cells .

@jmallen1962

6 жыл бұрын

We would follow them on bicycles for blocks. argh

@jacktaylor1030

5 жыл бұрын

When we went camping in the Michigan State Parks, they would spray DDT in the evenings and us kids would chase the truck. Oh what fun that was, and our parents never said a word. How times have changed.

@ATMAtim

3 жыл бұрын

What a silly little novelty song. Sort of cute though.

I remember Hurricane Carla but not with fondness. I was just 9 yrs. old; September of 1961. My parents would remember about the bars but I sure remember Princess Drive In, the Cherry Tree in our front yard. Our parents took us to Gulf Gate shopping center. I remember getting lost when I asked my brother where the water fountain was, he pointed, I went; boy did I get a whoopin'. We lived in Foster Place neighborhood until I was around 12. Lots of fond memories.

@melissaphillips3745

8 жыл бұрын

even cowgirl get the blues

@darrellshepherd7734

8 жыл бұрын

+Melissa Phillips was your daddy Sean Brady Phillips who's the nephew of Darrell Shepherd the son of newly shepherd? My only sibling Sean mother was Gail Lee. I know it is a long shot, but stuff happens!

Brings back a lot of old memories growing up on the southeast side

@debrahurst9720

9 жыл бұрын

So did I; Foster Place---went to Foster Place Elementary & Cullen Jr. High.

I grew up there until I was 40 years old. Old Cage Elementry. East End Little League. then the ice houses where I stayed for 20 some odd years. Good times and bad times. It was bad when I couldn't go have a good time. Knew Tod Herring, Big Ed Baxter and his crew.#1 Big Ed's Ice House,The Telro, Rays Ice House, Rosies Lounge, The Rock Lounge and thats just to name a few. Now its all gone except for a few die hards.

@elvisAronPresleybyRusty

2 жыл бұрын

My sis .Debra and hee hubby Rod Rodriguez owned one if the ice houses .every Sunday was pot luck

I grew up in Jacinto City in the '50s and '60s ~ ~ funny to see the water tower. I'll have to send this to all my old friends. It was good.

@carlcrisp8700

Жыл бұрын

Me too, 1309 Jennifer Lane, from 1953 (when dad bought the house for $5200) to 1968 when I joined the Army after graduating from GPHS. Carl Crisp

Definitely brings back childhood memories. Grew up in the East End and went through Hurricane Carla. Used to hang out at the East End Pharmacy.

The Man is a lyrical musical super man for when he wrote beautiful despair in tribute to Bob Dylan Rodney 4 me belongs in the greatest company.

Great song and Rodney Crowell, as usual, giving an excellent performance. Used to see him in Austin years ago.

GOD ALMIGHTY.. Dear Rodney I hope you're payin' attention to us all loving you and your spontaneous music/lyrics in here honey. Ah, having had southern roots, a speckof salt on watermelon got my small attention and drew a 'granny' grin of my southern Granny and she also put it on home grown tomatoes, a tad bit of 'sugar.' Nevermind that all. I'm in N Cali and saw you here honey, raised here w/ southern roots therein, Midland tx was where my folks met or I wouldn't have been born couple years b4 you. Forever your eternal loving fan.

@gordonpickett2879

7 жыл бұрын

Dorie McKay no NJ no cat food Cat Stevens

I was one of the bare foot heatherns! I'm still here!

Wow, that brings back some memories! I had just moved to Austin to go to UT when Carla came in. And the carhops on roller skates....

As a native Texan myself, I can relate very well. He mentioned the mosquito truck, all I could do was laugh. I had almost forgotten about those going down the road, spraying and killing. Could you imagine how millennial parents would freak if they did that today?.....lol

@beverlyrogerssingleton7856

4 жыл бұрын

We all ran behind those mosquito trucks, too! It's a wonder we haven't had an arm or leg fall off by now...or at the very least ...major health issues!!

@FatGuyinLittleShirt

8 ай бұрын

What makes u think that stopped? He comes by my house atleast once a week

@rclark297

8 ай бұрын

You must live somewhere near the ocean.@@FatGuyinLittleShirt

@FatGuyinLittleShirt

8 ай бұрын

@@rclark297 yup seabrook tx se houston

@rclark297

8 ай бұрын

I was in Beaumont when I was around those mosquito trucks.

Very good song.

@deloresdindlebeck918

8 ай бұрын

Rodney has a beautiful voice. His music is great.

I didn't have privilege of growing in Houston, but I get the soul of this song. Rodney knocked this outta the park and it's still flying.

What a great song!

This song and the entire Houston Kid album are absolute masterpieces. One of my Top Ten desert island albums.

grew up living in Kings Row mobile home park. I know Pauls Ice House well. Love this song and the memories it calls up.

@elvisAronPresleybyRusty

2 жыл бұрын

My siestah and her hubby. Owned an ice house .

Grew up in the 50's at Revelle, Park Place and Telephone.

great tune...Rodney always takes you in a different direction... thanks for posting

That German restaurant was the Old Munich Inn. And who remembers Stubbs before the move to Telephone Road. It was off Bellfort close to Nunn Street. We called it the Honda shop.

Loved the Princes Hamburgers near downtown. One of the Mexicans I worked with on Greens Bayou told me that the day he arrived in Houston, he walked into that Prince's and everyone was on the floor because they had just been held up. My grandma's house is gone now. A pipe company is there now.

Hurican Carla, as Dan says. Song gives me chills of my hometown. Oops, I mean big azz city of H-Town!

Rodney, thanks for the memories! Grew up in Deepwater (Pasadena) Texas and lived near Gulfgate and Telephone Rd.

OMG I had not thought of the Tel-Wink Grill in years. Spent many a 2:00 AM in there fueling up before going back to LaPorte for a coupla hours sleep before going to work.

With me growing up in this area, I find that China Berry trees are not friendly for barefoot heathens. lol

This album was one of Rodney's best. Love every song.

Wonderful stuff! Lived it!

I lived through Hurricane Carla it was a catagory 3 in 1961 . This song brings a lot of memories back for me because I grew up in that area

@beverlyrogerssingleton7856

4 жыл бұрын

Hurricane Carla was a Category 5 hurricane. I lived through it, too.

@elvisAronPresleybyRusty

2 жыл бұрын

@@beverlyrogerssingleton7856 we lived in the Heights area when Carla rumbled right thru

I lived on McHenry off telephone down close to Reveille. 1953 sneak off from house&cross telephone barefoot to get a 5cent coke at Stewarts Ice House. Momma would tear my ass up but that did'nt stop this telephone rd. boy!

@hyster2568

7 жыл бұрын

Steven Gibson I live off telephone and bellfort

Yeah, that Prince's had great burgers. And I spent many an afternoon in the Tel-Wink grill playing pinball. Tel- Wink is still there, I checked yesterday.

Rodney rules. His part in Heartworn Highways is tremendous. Blueberry Wine anyone?

Grande musicista !!! Ha inciso dischi stupendin,peccato in Italia lo conosciamo in 50 appassionati!

from 7115 myrtle st love this

@leehanson1416

5 жыл бұрын

I had relatives on Myrtle street, the Zimmerman family.

cool video that brings this great song to life!

I lived and hung out, grew up off Telephone Rd down in the Garden Villas area, certainly not the same that was in the 60's & 70's.... Ken's Ice House, Rice Food Market, Tendal's Gas & Auto Repair; Airplanes all day and night going over head, Gulfgate, the Santa Rosa, The Carousel Motel - all great back in the good old days!

@xecukc7010

5 жыл бұрын

I almost forgot the Carousel Motel! Yep, Houston has changed so much.

@michaelwhitt200

4 жыл бұрын

thanks for reminding me of the Santa Rosa theatre and the Carousal Motel next to Gulfgate, where my mom was mugged and subsequently died

History in the making...............

I knew Jerry Stubbs long before he opened his shop, and I remember the old one. When I met him, he was a home improvement salesman at Montgomery Wards in Palm Center.

There were some liberties taken here. For instance, the Astrodome hadn't even broken ground when Carla came thru in the summer of '61, LOL! BUT, otherwise an EXCELLENT ballad about the life and times of H-Town in the late 50's - early 60's!!

@elvisAronPresleybyRusty

2 жыл бұрын

Yeppers. I was 9

great song thanks for posting

I remember well

Yes TS1, he did....My mom and dad was there for that.......he said every guy there wanted to "Whip his gyratin ass , but man, he sure fired the girls up".....hehehe....I think it was New Years 56, because I was born Sept 4 ,1956.....hehehe....aint that a hoot......

I grew up in Pasadena. 5 miles east of Telephone Rd.

I lived thru hurricane Carla we lived in oyster creek about 5 miles from gulf we went thru our house in a boat the song describes by childhood I was just messing around I thought thought I knew all his stuff but never seen the video of Dan rather talk about Carla gave me chills I was 11 .

Did Elvis perform at the Magnolia Gardens bandstand in the late '50s? I can only remember going there once. Swam across the river and back. Some drunks started chasing us and they followed us all the way back to the Jacinto City police station. When they realized where we were parking they turned around and we never saw them again (thank goodness.)

@michaeljozwiak5716

6 жыл бұрын

TimeSpanOne Yes. He played in 1954 and 1955. My parents most likely saw him there.

Houston national anthem.

Telephone and Lawndale @ Cage Elementary School 1960.. Father went to the same in 1937

Breakfast after the bars closed at 3 AM at the Tele-Wink Cafe... an ice cold beer on the way home from a bike ride at the W. Alabama Ice House....

Sawdust Floor - this is the watermelon stand at 75th & Lawndale. I worked there 3 summers & the only tip I got was the watermelon seeds that the customers used to spit on on the "Watermelon Floor"

@Tayfancier Thats funny... My mother also talked about the big times at Magnolia Gardens and seeing Elvis when he did one of his first tours. I was also born in Pasadena at the old Pasadena General. Been to the Red Bluff but we won't discuss that lol. Loved the old Prince's. I grew up near the corner of Lawndale and Telephone. Proud to be from there for some reason. Guess I'm proud to have make it out alive. Now reside in friendly Tyler Tx. Mike

@JeffMiletich

4 жыл бұрын

I lived in Houston January 1978 - Nov. 1993. There was a great Thai restaurant on Telephone near Lawndale. A Chinese place , too (Jin Bo?) Also - La Rotiseria on Telephone was my favorite Mexican restaurant. Spent a lot of time with friends off Harrisburg & Grace- by Maxwell house. You think that tombstone Rodney's behind is in Lawndale Cemetery ?

@jessietims4279

3 жыл бұрын

I grew up magnolia gardens 70s born and bread. Good times hott sand and awesome rope swing...

From the Houston Kid album.

I was a kid, lived on Santiago Road, bayou behind us. When hurricane Carla came through... AFTER IT STARTED, my mama threw a fit and made my daddy drive all of us to my grandmas house! I remember watching the power lines catching fire, exploding! My grandma was so upset! Mama endangered us all, getting us out during hurricane! After hurricane, we did not swim in the water... instead, waited for it to go down... and grownups had to kill water moccasins that came from the bayou. Took a long time! We also lived on Telephone Road after a few years. Lots of wonderful memories. We LOVED the Princess (or Prince?) drive in restaurant! Oh my. The best food in Houston!

I grew up in Channelview. Alot of things have changed. Its sad how Bad it is Now. My parents still live there. I visit every week.But I would never move back. Telephone rd. Is a Trip!

@brianboisguilbert6985

9 жыл бұрын

+Cynthia Howell I grew up in Northshore. Yer right, sadly, it's not the same by a long shot.

@brianboisguilbert6985

7 жыл бұрын

Daniel Lee Yes....I know EXACTLY what you mean Where about in east Houston?.

@brianboisguilbert6985

7 жыл бұрын

Daniel Lee Right down the road in Northshore. Lived there in the mid 60s early 70s, before that Scenic Woods off Homestead Road. None of that area is same, used to be lower middle/middle class blue collar, white predominately, not no more I remember when the klan advertised a rally at the Sheldon reservoir. I found a poster on the ground, must've blown off a telephone pole, announcing the event, it had a drawing of a robed klansman holding a flaming cross mounted on a rearing horse. I was young, 11 or 12, I didn't know what it meant, just liked the art work. Sure found out when my father saw it, Man he grabbed my shirt, jerked me up and told me if he ever caught me hanging with that white trash he'd beat me til I couldn't sit or stand. Never had I seen him so angry. When he calmed a bit he told me what they were and what they stood for.

@brianboisguilbert6985

7 жыл бұрын

Daniel Lee I lived on Rhobell and then Boggess in Scenic Woods. Went to Mt Houston Elementary in 1st grade and then Scenic Woods Elementary 2nd - 5th when it was established in 1964, On Boggess, our neighborhood back yard fence line divided the Scenic Woods and Lakewood school districts. In the beginning, the S.W. school buildings were old army barracks, when I left in 1968 I recall the new permanent school was being built beside it. My cousin graduated from Smiley in the 60s. They tore it down didn't they? Went 6th grade through 8th in Northshore and moved to Huntsville in 1971 where I graduated in 1975. One day I want to drive around both Scenic Woods and Northshore as it's been many, many years since I was there, I live way up in Northeast Texas now but even though Houston has changed I still have good memories of living there.

@brianboisguilbert6985

7 жыл бұрын

Daniel Lee Will pass on to my cousin about Smiley, he's the one who told me it's been torn down. I went to Cimarron Elementary, I lived on Joliet St. so it was around the block. There's still a lot of good folks in Houston, it's always good to visit.

Maybe greatest Texas song ever

I remember Carla. I spent the night at the hospital. No one could get to the hospital to work.

god save the astrodome!

Genial!

@1:27 that my dad, uncle and there 2 cousins. Lol I have that exact picture on my wall right now.

Read Rodney's new book. It took me about six really wonderful hours. It's called Chinaberry excellent funny ass songwriter and bookwriter something or other. I liked it and I know you will too. Because I just know.

Worked for TTA at Hobby mid 60's. Beer at Ken's after our shift.

gotta love this

Barefoot heathen running wild and free.. the story our lives 😊🥽😂

Telephone Rd and La Paseo.......

God Bless Garden Villas and Jerry's Used Cars!

i went to get a princes burger the other day and its some crapy burger joint now

been there....

Barefoot heathens running wild and free!

RIP Bully Paul.

Princess was a ways from Telephone, how about the original Ranger Drive In

My cousin was murdered on Telephone Rd. Houston is the vortex to hell. My soul was sucked right out of me.

RIP Michael Rhodes

Hey Houstonians do you remember

Know all the joints on Telephone Road.

I was a barefoot heathen, LOL!

Rodney Crowell lived up off of North Wayside, in what we knew in the 60s as Podunk. I think one might have to say he might have know shit about Telephone Road - it wasn't *that* far away...

@rayb.457

Ай бұрын

That was DH I was there too

Tel Wink Grill and their special salad dressing