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Historic Texas & Travel

May Issue 2005
Rooms with a Past

Little Tee Pee(s) on the Prairie by Johnny Stucco 5-12-05
Photos courtesty Ken Rudine & Blue Dolphin Investments LP

"This is the biggest news in Wharton County in years. It's bigger than the night they burned the wooden sidewalks on the square and certainly bigger than the night they cut down the sycamore trees on the courthouse lawn. It might even be considered a tie with the time Sheriff Buckshot Lane burned the state highway bridge."

TEXAS TOWNS
Photos by John Troesser
  • Carbon | Cost | Sisterdale 5-6-05
  • Tomball 5-16-05
  • Photos courtesy Jim & Lou Kinsey
  • Andice | Nixon | Smiley | Westhoff | Wrightsboro 5-1-05
  • Postcard courtesy rootsweb.com/~txgenweb// postcards/Index.html
  • Corpus Christi 5-1-05
  • Photos courtesy cottonwoodtexas.com
  • Cottonwood 5-15-05
  • Iredell texasoldphotos.com 5-16-05
  • Photos courtesy James Feagin 5-18-05
  • Barstow | Dalhart | Stratford | Texhoma

    Photos courtesy Terry Williams 5-20-05
  • Satin
  • Aledo | Algoa | Big Wells | Bloomburg | Cactus | Cactus |
    Clay | Jourdanton | Lutie | Nazareth | Penwell |
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    TEXAS GHOST TOWNS
  • Indianola Photo courtesy texasoldphotos.com
  • Ghost Towns Photos courtesy Erik Whetstone :
  • Adobes 5-4-05
  • Shafter 5-4-05
  • Ruidosa 5-4-05
  • Center Point
  • Coke 5-1-05
  • Bippus | Bonami | Catfish |
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    FEATURES | TRIPS
  • Midday at the Oasis by Johnny Stucco 5-1-05
    Photos by Erik Whetstone

    "Having never pumped a pint, let alone a gallon of gasoline, this station-that-never-was has become our symbol for a particular period in Texas history."
  • Photos courtesy texasoldphotos.com
  • Lover's Leap 5-1-05
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  • ARCHITECTURE | IMAGES
    Soda Springs, Quito Quarry and “Pecos” Sandstone 5-19-05
    Bridges
  • Kansas' Route 66 Bridge 5-4-05
    Photos by John Troesser
  • Texas Old Photos
  • Roy Orbison Photo courtesy David Coffield 5-16-05
  • Old photos ourtesy texasoldphotos.com :
  • Itasca | Ivan | Kounze | Mullin | Shafter 5-15-05
  • Irion County Courthouse, Merzon, architectural drawing
  • Former Stonewall County Courthouse in Rayner
  • Brown County Courthouse, Brownwood, before remodeling
  • Ward County Courthouse, Barstow, Razed
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  • COLUMNS
    They Shoe Horses, Don't They?
  • The World's Heaviest, Fastest and Most Beloved Hailstone
    or "I Can't Believe It's Not an Ice Cube" by Luke Warm
    5-20-05
  • Area citizens join protest in Austin against Texas corridor by Barry Halvorson, Victoria Advocate 5-5-05
    "We need to say no to the largest land grab in Texas history, say no to freeways being converted to toll roads and say no to TxDot being replaced by EuroDot." - Fayette County Judge Edward Janecka
  • HISTORICAL

    Archie P. McDonald
  • The Tidelands 5-26-05
    "Ownership of the “tidelands,” or territory between the shoreline and “three leagues Gulf ward” in Texas, or approximately 10.35 miles, became the most contested state-federal issue of the twentieth century. In the balance was 2,440,650 submerged acres. Here is the story as told by Price Daniel himself..."
  • Rabbi Cohen 5-8-05
    Rabbi Henry Cohen provided a place for thousands of Jewish immigrants routed through the port of Galveston.


    Bob Bowman
  • The Neches River 5-15-05
    "... Sometimes called East Texas’ last wild river, the Neches has been flowing though eastern Texas longer than any of the remnants of mankind, even the earliest Indians..."
  • The Lady in Blue 5-1-05
    For longer than anyone can remember, the story of “the lady in blue” has existed on the fringes of East Texas history and religion.

    Mike Cox
  • Stagecoach Holdup 5-26-05
    "Stagecoach robberies happened so often along the Texas frontier it came to be considered something of a right of passage to hand over one’s money and valuables to a masked man with a gun on some lonely roadside."
  • Whiskey Funeral 5-19-05
    "... He won his nickname when he got so desperate for a drink that he traded his horse and saddle for a gallon of whiskey..."
  • Bold CSA Vet 5-14-05
    "Thomas Evans Riddle bet on a dead racehorse. He lost.
    The horse was Man o’ War..."
  • Wells Branch 5-8-05
    "Today, as the rustic center piece of Katherine Fleischer Park, the cabin sits in the middle of some 8,000 residences occupied by 20,000 people."
  • Freer 5-1-05
    In rhyme, Wilson tried to distill life in and around the Duval County town of Freer, the state’s last truly wild and wooly oil boom town.

    Murray Montgomery
  • Richard Gaertner's Story 5-14-05
    Every town needs a storyteller and Moulton is fortunate to have a mighty good one in a feisty fellow named Richard Gaertner.
  • Thomas Lenz 5-2-05
    "... All three of the high-school pals saw action in Vietnam – two survived and one, Tommy Lenz, would die a month after his 21st birthday and just a week before he was due to come home..."


    REGIONAL

    Delbert Trew
  • Boys will be boys - and also troublemakers 5-14-05
    Ever do something you hoped your parents never found out about? Since both my parents are deceased, I offer the following incidents from my early life.
  • Domino, pool parlors were pre-TV entertainment 5-1-05

    Clay Coppedge
  • The Eerie Demise of Johnny Horton 5-26-05
    "Despite Johnny Horton's wild-at-heart looks and voice, he was a man haunted for years by ominous premonitions of his own death. He often promised those close to him he would contact them from beyond the grave."
  • Killer Vultures 5-10-05
    "Bell County trapper Gary Silvers has been answering calls about calves killed by vultures for the better part of a decade. Count him among those who are no longer amused by or even skeptical about the idea of killer vultures."

    Louise George

  • More Work 5-14-05
    "Back then, it was dry land farming. We didn’t make very much. We raised wheat, mostly, and maize...."

    N. Ray Maxie
  • "Mules"
    Snaking Logs in East Texas 5-14-05
    "Snaking logs" is hard work, for both man and animal. In the early days of clearing "new ground" and harvesting timber in the Ark-La-Tex area, the term "snaking logs" described the job of pulling pre-cut logs out of huge forested areas using mule-power.
  • Attention All Officers, All Stations: WANTED FOR MURDER.........." 5-1-05


  • HUMOR & OPINION

    Maggie Van Ostrand
  • Barbara Walters Does Cleopatra 5-15-05
    The venerable Barbara Walters has consented to conduct her first post-semi-retirement interview at the personal request of Cleopatra. "Diane Sawyer wanted me," said the elusive Egyptian Queen, "but without Mike Nichols directing, she's nothing."
    Following is a documented transcript of the Walters-Cleopatra taped interview as surreptitiously obtained by an imbedded reporter....
  • Mexican-American War of Ought-Five 5-3-05
    "
    ... A group of Mexican citizens calling themselves Los Hombres al Minuto has volunteered to make their sole quest in life the prevention of North Americans illegally crossing the border into Mexico.... It should be noted that volunteers are not permitted to carry any weapons except guns and machetes..."

    Peary Perry
  • Get a Life 5-26-05
    "... [S]ome people have too much to worry about, and some folks worry about things that don’t matter at all."
  • This Week 5-16-05
    "Each week, I try to come up with something that I feel might be of interest to you and then slant my viewpoint in a humorous or satirical manner. Since I’ve been doing this for over 20 years, there have only been a few periods in which I’m unable to put a funny spin on some topic or another. This is one of those periods..."
  • A Nation of Fools 5-10-05
    " There just seems to be so much to write about that defies sanity in the world we are now living. I’m wondering if this is normal or is a function of getting older? It’s hard to decide."
  • The Missed Wife 5-2-05
    "... I recently told you we had a new granddaughter. Now, for this reason my wife has left me for a week to go over and help with the new baby. As a result my life has been turned upside down in her absence..."

    Elizabeth Bussey Sowdal
  • Paaaar-Teeee! 5-14-05
    Boy Sleep Overs, or The End of Civilization As We Know It.
    Love You, Ociffer! 5-1-05
    "If I were the Boss of Everything, which I have sometimes been accused of thinking that I am, there would be a very special award for people who work the night shift..."

    John Gosselink
  • A Touchy Subject 5-15-05
    My aversion to hugging has been well documented, if not somewhat misinterpreted. While it is true that in 1982, I misunderstood Nancy Reagan’s public service commercial and spent the entire decade just saying no to hugs
  • Directions for Proper Use 5-1-05
    "Congratulations on your purchase of “Stumbling Forward,” version 1.02. As our valued customer, we have included this instruction manual to insure that your SF experience is safe and rewarding."

    MEMOIR

    George Lester
  • The Irony of It All 5-14-05
    Summer enterprises: soda pop bottles and scrap iron.
  • Cyclone 5-1-05
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