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THE BATTALION
From humble beginnings y Northgate became social center of College Station
By Anni Hoar
The Battalion
n 1928, Texas A&M President T.O. Walton
changed after-school activities for Aggies
for generations to come. Walton ordered all
commercial buildings off campus, thus cre-
Making admissioi ating the area known today as Northgate.
ip staff aware ofthf The name Northgate comes from when
personal communic the college actually had four gates. North-
tority students and4 gate included cafes, tailor shops and a pho
tosupply store attached to Boyett’s, the first
ig scholarships avaiicommercial store in Northgate. Planked
rective minority sit walkways, instead of sidewalks, provided a
other suggestions, place for shoppers to avoid the mud of the
/s steps have alreaii unpaved road. The buildings were corn-
start addressing tl pletely wooden.
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The tailor shops were especially important
to students at that time because all uniforms
were custom-made. A grocery store where
the Texas Aggie Bookstore currently is lo
cated provided students with an easily acces
sible way to buy food. Restaurants and a
\ the Honors Prograi drugstore-pool hall provided a place for Ag-
ire taking action.
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gies to relax on the weekends.
College Station was incorporated in
1938, and Northgate became the
downtown area. A city
hall and numerous
■churches were built dur
ing that time.
Carolyn Holick
Matheson, of Holick’s, a
Northgate business that
specializes in making
Corps boots, said that
the store has been in
Northgate since the '20s.
“We started making senior boots in the
late ’20s when they became part of the uni
form,” Matheson said. “We weren’t as spe
cialized then as we are today. We made shoes
and anything you wanted out of leather.”
Don Ganter, owner of the Dixie Chicken,
Dry Bean and Shadow Canyon, said the
buildings have had many different uses since
he bought them in 1974.
“The Dixie Chicken was originally just
one building,” Ganter said. “It was built in
1968 and known as the Aggie Den.... It was
a pool hall and game room from 1968 to
1974. The other side was Loupot’s until the
mid '70s when it moved to its current loca
tion. ... Then it became Farkleberry’s Pool
and Domino Parlor. In 1978 it became Mi
randa’s Rock 'n' Roll Whiskey Joint, and in
1979 1 shut it down and then expanded the
Dixie Chicken.”
Ganter said the Dry Bean opened in the
1940s and was a laundermat, bike shop and
ice cream parlor before he con-
^ verted it in the ’80s.
“Aggies like whiskey more than ice
cream,” Ganter said. “So I opened it (Dry.
Bean) as a saloon.”
Ganter said the building that currently
houses Shadow Canyon was built in 1939 and
operated as a movie theater called the Cam
pus Theater until the late ’70s.
“If you peel off the wood, you can still see
the theater,” Ganter said. “Towards the end, it
only showed the Rocky Horror Picture Show.”
Ganter bought the building in the early
’80s and converted it to Shadow Canyon five
years ago.
Amid the restaurants, bars and stores in
Northgate, there are many different religious
centers and places of worship. Meeting
places for Baptists, Christian Scientists, Pres
byterians, Methodists, Lutherans and Roman
Catholics have existed in the area for many
years. A mosque is the most recent addition
to the religious community of Northgate.
Mike Sis, a priest at St. Mary’s Catholic
Church, said that a Catholic ministry at
A&M has existed since 1904 and the
goal of the ministry is to serve the
students.
“We are located here to be close to the
University because we want students to be
able to walk to our services,” Sis said. “A city
planner asked us if we intended to stay in
Northgate. ... We will because we are not a
neighborhood church. We focus on the Uni
versity, and our location in Northgate makes
us closer to the University.”
Sis said that having a church in the mid
dle of an area populated with nightclubs and
bars does not bother him. In fact, he sees the
location as an advantage to the mission of
the ministry.
“The church needs to be where the people
are, and this is where lots of the students are,”
Sis said. “Acampus ministry should not isolate
itself. It should be in the middle of the action.”
Sis said he thinks there always will be a
religious presence in the area.
“We will always have a role to play in this
neighborhood,” he said.
Throughout the years, some Northgate
traditions have lived on while others died out.
One tradition that would be easy to rein
state is the Northgate Back to School Party.
In the mid ’70s, the Northgate merchants
hosted a party to celebrate the beginning of
school. Merchants hired bands and closed off
the surrounding streets for dancing.
Some things about Northgate will proba
bly never change. A Battalion article from
Aug. 28, 1978 compares getting a table at the
Dixie Chicken to getting football tickets.
Both still are hard to come by.
Parking has been a problem since the be
ginning, and both Matheson and Sis said that
parking is one of the things that they would
like to change most about the area.
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