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Old 05-30-19, 09:06 AM   #31
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This is good news for sure ... but the San Jancinto Park was my favorite place to visit when I lived in the area 30 years ago.

Now if they could figure out how to move the San Jancinto Inn to the USS Texas new location I would be happy, but sadly they closed its doors on Sunday, February 15, 1987.

https://houstonhistorymagazine.org/w...an-Jac-Inn.pdf

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Nationally famous for its seafood and chicken dinners,
the San Jacinto Inn served not only as a restaurant
for its patrons, but also as a dining experience. Jack and
Bertha Sanders established the restaurant in 1916 near
the Lynchburg Ferry on the Houston Ship Channel.
Originally a small lunch counter, the menu included
fresh seafood caught by the Sanders served with freshly
baked biscuits and homemade preserves. In 1917, the
growing restaurant moved to its location in an old dance
hall opposite the present location of the Battleship
Texas near the San Jacinto Battleground State Park.1
Soon the popularity of the San Jacinto Inn grew, and dining there became a tradition for many Houstonians and
their families. The dining room featured an all-you-caneat menu, consisting of primarily seafood and chicken. In
winter the menu included celery, shrimp cocktail, oysters
on the half shell, fried oysters, fried tenderloin of fish, fried
chicken, French fried potatoes, hot biscuits served with
strawberry or black cherry preserves, and dessert. The summer menu mirrored its winter counterpart in many ways,
but featured iced crab and stuffed crab rather than the oyster
dishes. In the 1930s and 1940s, patrons not only enjoyed
the hefty meal, but also a dance orchestra. During World
War II, this live entertainment gave way to a need for more
tables to accommodate the restaurant’s growing clientele.
In later years, the restaurant seated nearly seven hundred
guests and it boasted serving 85,000 pounds of fish, 55,000
chickens, 200,000 pounds of shrimp, 1,700,000 oysters,
50,000 crabs, and 500,000 hot biscuits in an average year.2
The restaurant’s reputation for serving large quantities of
food was not limited to its dining room. During the construction of the San Jacinto Monument, the San Jacinto Inn served
laborers coffee and sandwiches every four hours during the fifty-seven hour pour of the monument’s foundation. Monument
construction workers consumed nearly 3,800 sandwiches and a
total of 5,700 cups of coffee provided by the San Jacinto Inn.3
Many Houstonians warmly recall eating at the restaurant,
often citing the all-you-can-eat menu. Houstonian, Jesse H.
Jones, II, son of John T. Jones Jr. of the Battleground Corp.,
joked that his father acquired the restaurant so he could
enjoy its wonderful food while doing business.
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