My story about my Dad's life-long patronage of James Coney Island was selected as a winner in the "James Coney Island Fondest Memories" contest for the JCI's 80th Anniversary Year in 2003.
The Radio Commercial (MP3 format)
My Contest Entry (not all of which got used in the ads)
Ben Thompson standing in the
chili
line at JCI - 1960's newspaper photo
(Ben is the tall guy with glasses
looking straight at the camera)
Cover story about James Coney Island in the Houston Chronicle's
Texas Magazine for August 29, 1976:
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