• Pat Flood (@rebarcock) passed away 9/21/25. Pat played a huge role in encouraging the devolopmemt of this site and donated the very first dollar to get it started. Check the thread at the top of the board for the obituary and please feel free to pay your respects there. I am going to get all the content from that thread over to his family so they can see how many people really cared for Pat outside of what they ever knew. Pat loved to tell stories and always wanted everyone else to tell stories. I think a great way we can honor Pat is to tell a story in his thread (also pinned at the top of the board).

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Met him a couple of times, nice guy. RIP.
He performed at the local park sock hops in Houston when I was a very very young guy. Love Park was one of the main places because it had a nice pavilion. I don't know if it is still there or not. There was a little flood runoff bayou that ran at the end of the park and we would play hooky and go swimming. One day we were under the bridge and an old man about my age now leaned over the wooden rail and laughed at us and ask us if we brought some toilet paper with us. He told us the bayou had sewage running in it. I don't believe it did because even in the 50s Houston was pretty strict about things like that. I often had dreams of Tom Sawyer going down the Mississippi because that little bayou would rise a good 12 feet when we had a hard rain and the current was at least 30 miles an hour. BJ Thomas was a great singer and he and many other greats are gone now ;0(
 

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