After I got out of the service, lived on Holdereith RD, off of what was then 149, on a 60 acre tract by the railroad tracks. Was shoeing and training horses. Back when Goodson’s was a tiny building with six tables, still served what was then really the best damned chicken fried steak in Texas, and the outhouse was out back.
I have eaten at Goodson's in Tomball some years ago, back in the 1990's. Yes, one of the best CFS dinners I have ever eaten.
Haven’t been there in years, but IIRC Goodson’s moved to a location in downtown Tomball. What ruined it was when the liberal asses at Texas Monthly declared it the “The Best Chicken Fried Steak in Texas” (which it was), and it suddenly was so full of transplants from Houston you couldn’t get in the door for the long lines into a six table restaurant way out in the country.
They also had a place right off the feeder road at Gessner and I-10, almost right across the interstate from Memorial City Mall. It was in the front of the Kroger's parking lot.
IIRC the Goodson family raised their own beef and owned a butcher shop? Still to this day haven’t had a better, or bigger, chicken fried steak. The proverbial steak, bigger than the platter, with the fries and gravy on top never touching the plate. My lunch, on many a hot summer day, after shoeing all morning in a hot Texas pasture, And a quart of cold Colt 45 to go with it.
Yes, I had one, not in 1970 though.
I won mine at the county fair, popping balloons with darts! Mid 1970's IIRC.
I looked for but couldn't find a clip of Steve Martin telling that joke where Farrah Fawcett snubbed him at a party and he complained "...and after all that time I spent holding up her poster with one hand!"
Fascinating subject, actually. Yes, there are soap box derbies and they still have those Pinewood derby races, too. Read up on the designs. They've gotten really sophisticated.
