My dad and I would have breakfast at the Pig Stand on Calder

My dad and I would have breakfast at the Pig Stand on Calder after dropping mom off at the Beaumont Enterprise and Journal for her Saturday morning shift as a telephone operator.

There was a hamburger joint across from South Park High School operated by a family member (Strick Strickland) that also served a good burger.

We occasionally splurged and had seafood at Grangers in mid county. I recall fried shrimp but mostly flounder. My mom was serious in warning me to watch out for the bones. This was relatively pricey so we did not frequent it often. The same applied to the seafood places ‘across the ferry’ on the Seawall in Galveston.

Someone sold tamales to go near the viaduct - I had not yet developed a taste for them so I was not impressed at that time.

Patillos served barbeque to go, but we got it very infrequently. Dad had them smoke turkeys for us for Thanksgiving and Christmas.