TexasEscapes.com HOME Welcome to Texas Escapes
A magazine written by Texas
Custom Search
New   |   Texas Towns   |   Ghost Towns   |   Counties   |   Trips   |   Features   |   Columns   |   Architecture   |   Images   |   Archives   |   Site Map


Columns





Counties
Texas Counties


Texas Towns
A - Z

 


Contributors

Mel Brown

Contributing Editor


About Mel Brown
Email: melbjr@earthlink.net





Book Excerpts

  • CHINESE HEART OF TEXAS by Mel Brown
    The San Antonio Community, 1875-1975
    San Antonio Conservation Society "2007 BEST BOOK AWARD"

  • Author writes on "Chinese Heart of Texas"

    More Books by Mel Brown



  • Columns:

  • A Valentine Story 2-10-11
    Valentines Day 1986 fell on a Friday as it sometimes does. For my wife Lorraine that meant a late afternoon school party with her Special Education colleagues enjoying a few goodies before heading home. And sure enough, when Mom pulled into our driveway a little before suppertime, we could see a back seat full of helium filled balloons, some red ones and a few white ones too...

  • San Antonio's New Braunfels Avenue Bridge 9-2-08

  • Adventures of Eddie Fung: Chinatown Kid, Texas Cowboy, Prisoner of War 6-26-08

  • Five Buildings of San Antonio 4-1-08
    The Star, the Pig, the Dealership, the Icehouse and the Chinese Grocery

  • Kathy Dell: A Cowboy's Sweetheart; the life of a famous unknown 2-18-08
    "Dell’s true importance to the state’s music history is found in the pioneering spirit and unconventional accomplishments of her career... in two male dominated professions, first as a rodeo star and then as a country musician and band leader."

  • J. Frank Dobie and Colonel Jack Jenkins 1-1-08
    Two Texans become friends in War-torn England
    "The two images have never before been published or even seen outside Jack Jenkins' family and I would like to share them - and the story behind them - with Texas Escapes' readers." - Mel Brown

  • Gruene 11-16-07

  • The Short Yet Semi-Happy Life of Zip the Dog 10-15-07
    Ever since seeing an old movie long ago titled “The Biscuit Eater” I have been enamored of coon dogs. Something about their especially soulful faces and incredible voices has always touched me deeply, perhaps the result of some fifteen or so generations of Southern heritage...

  • "Rattlesnake Bomber Base" - The Rattler 9-27-06

  • Humble Station, San Antonio, 1938 9-13-07

  • Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip: The 1935 Travelogue of Two Soviet Writers 7-1-07

  • 35 Years of Humble Service - San Antonio's C.K. Brown 6-12-07

  • Zuehl, Texas 4-18-07

  • Hochheim General Store - photo 2-25-08



  • Biography

    Mel Brown was born in San Antonio, Texas shortly after WW II. He is a fifth generation Texan who graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1969. Mel married Lorraine Lee of Houston in 1974, then settled in Austin where they have raised a son and two daughters. Mel has been a professional fine artist since 1976 specializing in Southwestern landscape and aviation subjects and is a member of the United States Air Force Art Program. Now as a full-time writer, CHINESE HEART of TEXAS; the San Antonio Community 1875-1975 is his third book dealing with San Antonio's rich and colorful history. "I'm a general history buff concentrating mainly on San Antonio, WW II and aviation subjects plus just about anything Texana." Mel's first book was SAN ANTONIO In Vintage Postcards while the second was Wings Over San Antonio, a photographic history of military aviation there in over 200 images. Chinese Heart of Texas is the first lengthy and detailed history of the Chinese in Texas to be published anywhere. He is currently working on a follow up to it titled TexAsian Infusion that will cover the significant Asian immigration into San Antonio since 1975. This includes the Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Thai/Cambodian, Filipino and Indian communities as well. A second book also currently in progress is titled San Antonio; Past, Present & Always which will be a look at that city's rich heritage and present development as depicted in over 300 vintage postcards, plus archival and modern images, most in color. Text will be largely anecdotal based on Mel's memories of growing up in the historic Alamo City and will also feature a price guide for the many postcards featured. He also can be seen in the recent PBS/KLRN production titled "Wings Over the Alamo" which is a history of aviation in San Antonio that features a number of his aviation paintings and an interview.

    More Books by Mel Brown


     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     


    Texas Escapes Online Magazine »   Archive Issues » Home »
    TEXAS TOWNS & COUNTIES TEXAS LANDMARKS & IMAGES TEXAS HISTORY & CULTURE TEXAS OUTDOORS MORE
    Texas Counties
    Texas Towns A-Z
    Texas Ghost Towns

    TEXAS REGIONS:
    Central Texas North
    Central Texas South
    Texas Gulf Coast
    Texas Panhandle
    Texas Hill Country
    East Texas
    South Texas
    West Texas

    Courthouses
    Jails
    Churches
    Schoolhouses
    Bridges
    Theaters
    Depots
    Rooms with a Past
    Monuments
    Statues

    Gas Stations
    Post Offices
    Museums
    Water Towers
    Grain Elevators
    Cotton Gins
    Lodges
    Stores
    Banks

    Vintage Photos
    Historic Trees
    Cemeteries
    Old Neon
    Ghost Signs
    Signs
    Murals
    Gargoyles
    Pitted Dates
    Cornerstones
    Then & Now

    Columns: History/Opinion
    Texas History
    Small Town Sagas
    Black History
    WWII
    Texas Centennial
    Ghosts
    People
    Animals
    Food
    Music
    Art

    Books
    Cotton
    Texas Railroads

    Texas Trips
    Texas Drives
    Texas State Parks
    Texas Rivers
    Texas Lakes
    Texas Forts
    Texas Trails
    Texas Maps
    USA
    MEXICO
    HOTELS

    Site Map
    About Us
    Privacy Statement
    Disclaimer
    Contributors
    Staff
    Contact Us

     
    Website Content Copyright Texas Escapes LLC. All Rights Reserved