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A drive from Ft. Davis to Toyahvale on Hwy 17 is fantastic this time of year with the cottonwoods turning yellow. Superlative!
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Tyler--best place of 8 locations I have lived in Texas during my lifetime! Lived there as a kid 1961-1962.
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Rail Line Along Corpus Christi Causway
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My mother recalls a siren would sound off every time the highway lift bridge was raised for a passing ship. I think the railroad had a swing bridge. This would have been 1950 to 1953. -
Always a must-stop place to eat at when we drive west of Ft. Worth on I-20. https://www.smokestack.net/ Across the interstate is this neat museum on Thurber's coal mining and brick making past: https://www.tarleton.edu/gordoncenter/
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Best book store I've found for Texas and Western history, lore, and fiction! Owner does mail order sales too. http://www.cactusbookshop.com/
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Had reservations there for 4 days in September. That got cut back to Fridays and Saturdays only about a month before we showed up. Then 24 hours before we were to check in, we got a call that Indian Lodge was closed until early October 2020 because some of the staff tested positive for COVID-19. No alternatives were provided or even a list of places. We ended staying here in Ft. Davis on short notice and liked it: Mountain Trail Lodge https://www.mountaintrailslodge.com/
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Looking for some place a bit retro to overnight in West Texas? Try this place: https://antelopelodge.com/ Built in 1950. It still looks it inside and out. Important things have been updated and remodeled though. Rooms are clean with new beds, fridge, and microwave. TV too. It's a trip back 70 years!
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Two summers ago it was hard to find a place to overnight between Big Spring and Van Horn for less than $200 a night. A few weeks ago I drove Pecos to Abilene and saw an explosion of new motels and all sorts of temporary housing.
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I've heard the food is fantastic and photos of the hotel entices one to overnight there. https://hotelblessing.com/
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A.J. Foyt Chevrolet where I bought my 1978 Chevy Nova!
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1505 Kane St - St. Joseph's Catholic Church
WillowBend56 replied to ttuchris's topic in Historic Houston
In the 1970s I would occasionally attend the mariachi mass at St. Joseph's. They had singers (and musicians) who could belt out the songs! -
This book is a thumbnail guide to Houston: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1467118001/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pd_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2QETXY0KJE7TY&coliid=I37P7DATCBKC52 Not much depth, but it covers a lot of topics.
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I saw this book at Barnes & Noble yesterday: http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Houston-William-Dylan-Powell/dp/1910496758/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1458481972&sr=8-1&keywords=lost+houston
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Check out the new book from University of Texas Press on River Oaks and Highland Park http://utpress.utexas.edu/index.php/books/ferhig
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Yep, that's Illinois Central's "Green Diamond" train set on tour before it went into regular service between Chicago-Springfield-St. Louis in the 1930s. P.S. T&P and CNO&TP are two different railroads, neither of which served Houston. The latter was not even in Texas despite the name!