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January Issue 2005

Well done, Johnny by Maggie Van Ostrand 1-25-05
"Ernie Kovacs once said that television was a medium because it was so rarely well done. When Johnny was on, it was well done."

TEXAS TOWNS
  • Vattmann, Texas 1-29-05
    Photos circa 1910 courtesy Gerald R. Walker Austin, Texas
  • Three Texas Hill Country Towns 1-29-05
  • Fredonia Photo courtesy of Co Wisdom, Brady, Texas
  • Voca
  • Brady Postcards rootsweb.com/~txgenweb//postcards/Index.html
  • Three Texas Panhandle Towns 1-27-05
  • Flomot, Motley County
    Photo and story courtesy Joe Garrett
  • McAdoo, Dickens County
    Photos and story courtesy Neal Crausbay
  • Draw, Lynn County
    An Informal History of Draw, Texas by Nolan Porterfield

  • Postcards courtesy rootsweb.com/~txgenweb//postcards/Index.html
  • Cisco Photos by John Troesser January 2005 Feature Town 1-20-05
  • Del Rio 1-23-05
  • Langtry | Edinburg 1-15-05
  • Kerrville | Johnson City | Nacogdoches 1-3-05
  • Sandoval Photos by Erik Whetstone 1-16-05
  • Happy Photos Swisher County Museum 1-1-05
  • McAdoo 1-9-05
  • Papalote 1-9-05
  • Texas Ghost Towns
  • Swenson Photos by Erik Whetstone 1-1-05
  • Glory 1-11-05
  • Taylor Town 1-11-05
  • IMAGES
  • Rust in Pieces Texas’ Largest Outdoor Museum 1-19-05
    For those who find beauty in unusual places, or those who remember amber-winged fairy hood ornaments and pin-up girls encased in plastic steering wheel knobs, here’s our ode to bullet-ridden sheet metal. We casually present: Rust in Pieces.
  • Mineola's "Lost" Post Office Mural 1-11-04
    New Orleans Reader's Request Brings Discovery
    Photos courtesy Mineola Economic Development
  • ARCHITECTURE
  • Goliad County Bridge Available for Adoption 1-14-05
    "Looking for a good home"
    Bridge and photos courtesy Glen L. Baecker
  • Lost Buildings of
    the "Macaroni" Railroad in Inez, Texas
    1-11-05
    Photos and text by Sara Duncan
    Railroad laborers' cabins near Victoria, Texas
  • Carnegie Libraries in Texas 1-5-05
    Photos courtesy texasoldphotos.com
  • Carnegie Libraries by Bob Bowman 1-25-05
  • Stephenville Historical House Museum 1-1-05
    Text and photos by Sam Fenstermacher
  • The Gibraltar Hotel 1-1-05
    Text and photos by Robin Jett
    "The Gibraltar Hotel was once Paris’ shining glory...."
  • Sagging Symbols by Dwight Young 1-12-05
    "In the midst of the vast, windswept West Texas landscape, the courthouse was the architectural paperweight that kept the town from blowing away. ... [It] offered tangible evidence that our town was here to stay and that the residents were a civilized lot who knew what a public building ought to look like."
  • Texas Schoolhouses Stephen & Elizabeth Taylor, TE Schoolhouse Editors
    Fort McKavett School 1-16-05
    Minerva School 1-26-05
    Robinson Schoolhouse 1-1-05
    Razed in Texas
  • How to Demolish a Texas Courthouse in 14 Days
    Brazos County Hires an Iowan to Raze their 1892 Building
    1-8-05 Photos courtesy texasoldphotos.com
  • Fort Worth - The Board of Trade Building 1-7-05
    Postcards courtesy rootsweb.com/~txgenweb//postcards/Index.html
  • FEATURES
  • Lost Graves of Jeddo and
    An Occurance at Peach Creek Bridge
    1-18-05
    Reader's letter brings to light violent acts in the last days of the Nineteenth Century from a forgotten corner of Bastrop County
  • Ol' Rip, The Entombed Horned Toad of Eastland County
    The horned toad entombed in the Eastland County Courthouse for 31 years.

    Postcards courtesy rootsweb.com/~txgenweb//postcards/Index.html

    Book Review:
  • My Life with Bonnie & Clyde by Blanche Caldwell Barrow
    Reviewed by Robin Jett 1-26-05
  • Rooms with a Past
  • Doering Hotel, Temple, Texas aka The Hotel Hawn by Johnny Stucco 1-23-05
  • COLUMNS
    Chili by Mike Cox 1-31-05
    "They shoe horses, don't they?"
  • Mary, Mary, Once of Perry by Toney Urban 1-25-05
    Unbelievable, but true stories connected to Perry, Texas (Falls County)
    "In the late 40s and early 50s, there was a Black lady named Mary (last name unknown), that would arrive out in the countryside near Perry, Texas and dispense some incredibly amazing medicine and conversation....."
  • An Extremely Informal* History of Penitas 1-9-05
    *Written as an entertainment and not recommended for school reports
    by Brewster Hudspeth


    HISTORY


    Archie P. McDonald

  • Linda Darnell 1-16-05
    The brief but brilliant life of actress Linda Darnell began in Dallas on October 16, 1923...
  • LBJ and East Texas Politics 1-5-05

    Bob Bowman

  • Carnegie Libraries 1-25-05
  • The Colonel’s Home 1-12-05
    Myrtle-Vale, one of the most magnificent pre-Civil War homes still standing in East Texas.
  • Nazis in East Texas 1-1-05
    POW camps in East Texas


    Mike Cox
  • Kaiser Cows - Bovine Saboteurs of WWI 1-25-05
  • Jake, the Bridge Ghost of Williamson County 1-17-05
  • Tejano Hero Norberto Sierra 1-5-05
  • Austin Grade School 1-1-05


    LIFE IN TEXAS
    Delbert Trew
  • Dogs figure in life's fondest memories 1-16-05
  • Planning for weather is trying proposition 1-1-05

    Clay Coppedge
  • Name of This Town Rings A Bell - Ding Dong, Texas 1-16-05
  • Legends of the Pancake Mine 1-1-05

    Louise George
  • Hard Times 1-21-05
  • HUMOR

    Maggie Van Ostrand
  • Well done, Johnny 1-25-05
    "Ernie Kovacs once said that television was a medium because it was so rarely well done. When Johnny was on, it was well done."
  • Harvard Strangles First Amendment 1-25-05
    ...
    and what women really want
  • Ninotchka 1-21-05
    She was a blue-eyed creature of enormous beauty, so beautiful that she was named after a Greta Garbo film heroine. You'd be proud to take her anywhere, as she was always perfectly attired. She was a magnificent Siberian Husky.
  • New Year's Resolutions 1-1-05

    Peary Perry

  • Reading vs Television 1-25-05
  • Pet Peeves: Coffee, Stereos and Thermostat 1-25-05
  • Inaugural Packages 1-16-05
  • Professor Perry on Time 1-1-05

    Elizabeth Bussey Sowdal
  • A Home of My Own 1-16-05
  • New Year’s Resolutions 1-1-05



    MEMOIR
    George Lester

  • Hunger Pains 1-16-05
  • The Cyclist 1-1-05

    N. Ray Maxie
  • The Day Kennedy was Shot 1-16-05
  • My Night at Bessy and Bud's House 1-1-05
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