Breakfast at IHOP

Should I trade some part of my workday to have breakfast with some old guys?  If today's instance was a regular occurrence, then the answer should be Yes.  And in fact right now I do this breakfast errand quite often, to the detriment of having my best morning hour to myself.

This morning we met at IHOP (International House of Pancakes) – the location at 7830 N Central Expressway, which was at one time a box-shaped building having Velocity Sports Performance, and before that I have no memories of it.  The Benefit Store was actually next door where the Guitar Center is now.  It’s too bad I don’t have a clearer recollection of that section of the service road when I had by breakfast with Will at Chick-Fil-A back around 2005 (so long ago, omg).

Attendees (clockwise): Dr Kenneth D Thomas (catty corner), Dan Flagg (across from me), me, Joel Flagg (to my left).  I got there last at around 7:30a or so.  The rest of them had already ordered.


Later on, Tim Richard Woodall joined us.  When he sat down I had no idea who this guy was, except that Dan knows him and this was a chance encounter.  He sat down just a minute or two before I had to be the MC for my morning standup starting at 8:30am.  He talked loudly, perhaps a bit hard of hearing, and with a classic Texas accent of a native.  His mother is from the Terrell / Forney area, and his father is from Wichita Falls (?).  Or the other way around.  But as Dan would explain after Tim had to leave, he was a member of the Vent-A-Hood family.  Also Milestone and other brands for household appliances.  The other side of the family is the Jarrell people, as far as I heard they were retailers of appliances.  The grandparents were from Terrell/Forney and Wichita Falls, can’t remember which side.

Brothers Blake and Blaine-or-Blair were managers of a band called The Romeos.  One of the songs was named after Tim, a song called Tim Sidekick / Angel 5.  Tim had gone with them to Los Angeles to meet record executives, and to put it mildly, Tim made a scene the whole time.  Dan said a book could be written about that.

A lady named Bunny (actual name Debbie) was a groupie that went along with The Romeos.  She got her first real job at Vent-a-Hood doing clerical stuff.  Tim was there but did not get an executive office like his brothers did.  I probably shouldn’t go into much more detail than that if this webpage is going to be public, plus I don’t know if I really have the facts.  We should sit down and do more formal interviews.

I had seen the film Turn Every Page just over the weekend, about Robert Caro and his editor Robert Gottlieb.  That film inspires me to write.  I’m not much of a writer and I won’t stick to this art like those guys did.

Some other notes:
3716 Maplewood? Whatever street is behind Mockingbird across from Dr Thomas.  Van Metter Living Trust, we looked it up this morning.
Sylvia Cuellar Leudtke from the Cuellar family that had El Chico.
Jimmy Bishop, junk dealer, parents Beverly and Douglas
Jim Lake / Stacey Lake

Mon 03 Jul 2023 07:35:09 PM CDT
2023-07-03 19:35:14