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I went to work in Dallas in the fall of 1952 and left in the summer of 1953, I lived in a boarding house at 3919 Holland which was 2 blocks north of Lemmon and if you went 2 blocks east you ran into Oak Lawn . There was a streetcar stop a block or so west of our boarding house and I rode it a few times to downtown, I believe it cost a nickel and you could get a transfer but I don't remember the d
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I think everyone understood Mr. Herrera's message and not everyone is blessed with the proper spelling that seems to irk you, I wish that is all I had to worry about.
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Bill you are absolutely correct, if more people had been involved it would have come unglued before now. The mafia is the only ones who could have kept it secret and they sure as hell would not have used a nut like Ozzie even as a patsy. Now some folks will say that is where Ruby came in but he just happened to be where he was, suppose his money wiring would have taken longer?
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We called them goatheads and grass burrs with grass burrs being the worst and you also had cockle burrs but they were no problem, seems like I read somewhere that Velcro's idea came from cockle burrs?
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Dallas - 10 years ago
On this day in 1852, Alexander Cockrell paid $7,000 for the portion of the John Neely Bryan homestead that included the Dallas townsite and the Trinity River ferry concession. Bryan, a Tennessee native born in 1810, had settled at a natural ford on the east bank of the Trinity in 1841. In 1844 he persuaded J. P. Dumas to survey and plat the site of Dallas; he was also instrumental in the organizi
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OLD PRESTON ROAD. The Old Preston Road was originally part of a major Indian trail that extended from near the site of present St. Louis, Missouri, to southwestern Texas. Between 1840 and the coming of the railroad three decades later, the road was the principal immigrant route into northern Texas. It was completed in 1843 by soldiers under the command of Col. William Gordon Cooke, who had been i
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I like the cigarette ads where they would say more doctors smoke camels because they are so mild and camels had to be the harshest cigarettes of all, well maybe picayunes had them beat. I smoked picayunes for awhile and it cut down on moochers for after the first time you were never hit on again.
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The DMN was kind of like a certainTV station that has a fair and balanced news division.
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This is a very good site about ghost towns in Texas.
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Robert Mitchum, Noah Beery Jr., and William Frawley were in it.
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This is a little off subject but the 1st house we ever bought was on the west side of town in Indianapolis, it was a Cape Cod with full basement and it had a coal chute but the coal furnace had been converted over to oil and the last year I lived there, 1969, people were raising hell about oil prices which was around 17 cents per gallon at that time. This house was built right after ww2 with base
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I smoked steady from the time I was 14 and quit in 1974 at the age of 38, I used snuff and chewing tobacco to help me quit cigarettes which was pretty easy, about a month ago I decided to give up all forms of tobacco after 63 years of using it and the snuff is 10 times harder to give up than the cigarettes. So if you quit smoking don't use snuff or chewing tobacco as a crutch as it is tough to qu
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I first met Red Tiny Smith in Gainesville in 1952, he was working at a service station right before crossing Red River, later on I got pretty well acquainted with him in one of the beer joints over in Oklahoma and he said he was working in the oilfield then, he also said he was 6'10" tall and weighed 300 pounds, I found out later he began calling himself grizzly Smith and had started wrestli
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The game I remember the best at the fair was the mouse game, They had a white mouse and a circular thing like a wheel with holes in it and the holes were numbered, you would put your money on a number and when they turned the mouse loose if he ran in the hole with your number on it you got paid a certain amount more than you put up. I had an old time carny work for me years later and he said it w
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If I remember correctly there were 4 or 5 in a small box and it was marked not for sale on the box? I belonged to FFA and we went to the fair every year and our ag teacher would lecture us on what livestock we were to check out and the only thing we wanted to check out was the side shows and the vendors were not all that particular about how old you were when ordering beer which we did.
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I went to a country school named Burton which was between Gainesville and Denton, it had classes from 1 to 9 and after that you went to the high school at Collinsville. We would have performers come through occasionally wanting to put on a show and one was a guy named Lloyd Weaver out of Fort Worth and he sang a couple of songs and had a magic trick that was really pretty good so naturally all th
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Water towers have gotten to be a favorite spot for antennas, cell phones and what have you, cities lease the space out and as the heighth is already there!
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There was nothing around that area when I built that tower, downtown Desoto was probably 2 or 3 miles away.
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I built a water tower in De Soto in the early winter of 1970 and there was not much to it then, if I remember right the tank was on Westmoreland away out in the country.
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I would definitely think that the book is nearly all fiction, especially the part about Clyde amassing a lot of money holding up filling stations and country grocery stores and maybe a small bank or two.
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I read somewhere that she was pregnant at the time of her death?
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You could get all kinds of great stuff from XERF, prayer cloths, bibles, books on whether it was wrong to buy or sell a dog. I remember one guy selling prayer cloths that would make you healthy and wealthy especially wealthy and at the end of the broadcast he said if you don't start buying these prayer cloths they are going to take me off the air because I am running out of money and it hit me th
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I did not know that Grand Prize was brewed in Dallas, I knew that it was brewed in Houston by Gulf Brewing Company which was owned by Howard Hughes, a company he started after prohibition was over.
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I did a little research on Candy and found that she had died in 2005 in Victoria but she was living in Edna, her home town, she was senenced to 15 years for less than one ounce of mary jane and did a couple I think and maybe got a full pardon later on, Mickey Cohen supported her for awhile but she testified against him when he was tried for tax evasion.
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I believe Candy was from Edna or at least she went back there after serving a stretch at Goree for marijuana possession, she was also one of Mickey Cohen's main squeezes for awhile. I think she ended up in Brownwood and maybe died there?
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I stayed at a room and board house close to Lemmon and Oaklawn in 1952-1953 and the landlady had a payphone upstairs, phone calls were a nickel for local and one of the roomers showed us how to take a penny, put it in the slot and take a car key and spin it and it would do the same thing as a nickel if you did it right. When the phone company came around to collect the box was full of pennies and
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I remember the Red Devil although I never was in there, it had a flashing red devil neon sign outside if I remember right. I had a friend who was cut from his nipple to his backbone one night while he was in there, he ran outside with the cutter in hot pursuit and the first lap around the building he spotted a 2X4 on the ground and on the second lap he had gained some ground and picked it up and
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Back in my younger days in Port Lavaca Texas I used to spend Saturdays in a bar downtown playing moon and dominoes and young mexican boys would come in with their lard buckets full of tamales and sell them for less than one dollar per dozen if I remember right and they were the best tamales I think that I have ever eaten. I gave no thought to what meat was used but wih a cold beer they were reall
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