My favorite is chicken fried steak with taters and white gravy. In the 50s there was a restaurant just on the north end of the old San Jacinto River Bridge, I'm talking about the old bridge that was replaced a very long time ago ! but anyway one of their specialties was chicken fried steak and it was so good. I was young but I don't forget how great that food was.
We live on the San Jac river; which bridge do you mean? The I-10 bridge, Market street, Hwy 90, Atascocita on 1960, or I-45 near Conroe?
The only freeway or interstate in the early 50s came off of I-59, there was no I-45 until a few years later but this old bridge was rebuilt and the rail bridge much later when the highway was widened and improved. It was a major rail line into Houston at one time. If you wanted to go out to the San Jacinto River Park there was a right turn off of I-59 but if you stayed on the I-59 you would go over the river on a two lane bridge farther out of Houston. I don't believe the turn off to the river was there at the time but it might have been. I do remember going to that part of the river later and doing fireworks on July the 4th. To get to I-59 we had to drive to the very end of Jensen Drive and go up on the freeway which back then did not have a lot of overheads it was mostly flat since it was not built up much at all. Some other time I'll tell you about doing a Dukes of Hazard launch on the new Freeway being built into Dallas. I drove across a flat section unmarked and the overhead ramp was there but no road. I came down hard and broke all 4 shock hangars on my 66 Chevy SS. I was really lucky and the dealer repaired all of them free of charge.