Assassin said:

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1920 DMN ad

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Assassin, are you sure that is a 1920 ad? Model looks a lot like you.

Nguyen One Soon said:

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Assassin said:

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1920 DMN ad

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Assassin, are you sure that is a 1920 ad? Model looks a lot like you.

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Ha!

Corpus? No
Nassau? No
Baytown? No
St. Thomas? No

Dallas Rock Quarry near McKinney. Limestone pit that flooded some years ago with the equipment still in it

Jack Ruby signed check for the Ervay Theater

Dallas Herald 1887

Texas kid Jayne Mansfield (even Sophia is jealous...)

Misses Mama
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/08/07/mariska-hargitay-opens-up-about-her-mother-jayne-mansfields-death.html

BU84BEAR said:

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Misses Mama
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/08/07/mariska-hargitay-opens-up-about-her-mother-jayne-mansfields-death.html

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"...Back in 2012, PEOPLE Magazine reported Hargitay and her husband, actor Peter Hermann, adopted a baby boy and girl. The couple also share a biological son."


That is some weird phrasing right there. Journalism schools ain't what they used to be.

Nazi POWs captured in North Africa as part of Rommels Afrika Corp were housed in Texas. 1945 DMN article;

Created a new Facebook page - history of Texas and other Texas goodies:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/memoriesoftexas/

ep, Love Field used to have its own football team. around 1917. From a newspaper clipping courtesy deGolyer

the day Black Sabbath came to Dallas - and nobody knew it...

the last house Frank Lloyd Wright completed before his death

http://significanthomes.com/home/9400-rockbrook-drive-dallas-texas/

the old Central Continental Bank Building in McKinney. You saw an example of this building in nearly every little town around Dallas

Liz Taylor and James Dean get a day off from shooting Giant and visit the Texas State Fair;

Trivia quiz - no googling! Anybody know why he's kinda famous? Two fold

Assassin said:

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Trivia quiz - no googling! Anybody know why he's kinda famous? Two fold

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The correct answer won't make it past the 365 censor software.

Assassin said:

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Liz Taylor and James Dean get a day off from shooting Giant and visit the Texas State Fair;

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Liz is looking every bit the 'tough Texian' she portrayed in the movie.

One of my members shared this. Her dad was George Petton that played with the Texas Playboys and Bob Willis. none of us are sure who the author is

Robert Wadlow, the tallest man who ever lived, and the Sons of the Pioneers musical group meet each other at the Texas Centennial celebration in Dallas, 1936. That's none other than Roy Rogers himself with a guitar, bottom right, looking up at Wadlow. Note that Wadlow has a stand-up bass in his hands and it looks pretty much like a normal-sized guitar in the hands of a normal-sized man. Wadlow was 8'5" tall in this photo but later grew to be 8'11". Sadly, he passed away at the age of 22.

Oldest known rendering of Santa Ana.

<a href="https://imgflip.com/i/2brg5p"><img src="" title="made at imgflip.com"/></a>

Yep, thats David Bowie with former Golden Gloves champ Richard Lord back in the day down in Oak Cliff. Bowie was working on his Serious Moonlight Tour in Dallas at Las Colinas Studio. As the story goes, it was his chauffeur, an ex-boxer himself, who convinced Bowie that boxing was the way to get fit and to hire Lord. And Bowie was committed.

http://kut.org/post/david-bowie-boxer-former-pro-recalls-training-musician-dallas

Best thread on SE365 and it's not even close.

Assassin said:

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Trivia quiz - no googling! Anybody know why he's kinda famous? Two fold

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I watched his father when I was a kid and listened to him in Galveston 20 years later.

Malbec said:

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Best thread on SE365 and it's not even close.

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it is a lot of fun!

Limited IQ Redneck in PU said:

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Assassin said:

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Trivia quiz - no googling! Anybody know why he's kinda famous? Two fold

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I watched his father when I was a kid and listened to him in Galveston 20 years later.

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how things might have been different except for a bizarre accident...

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The death of 39-year-old Jim Beck in the late spring of 1956 was noted in three brief sentences buried inside the May 12 Billboard.

"DALLAS Jim Beck, well-known recording technician and owner of the recording studios here bearing his name, died early Thursday (May 3) at Baylor Hospital from the effects of inhaling hydrachloride fumes. He was rushed to the hospital earlier in the week after collapsing while he and an assistant, Jimmy Rollins, were cleaning recording equipment at Beck's studio. Fumes from the cleaning compound caused Beck's lung to collapse and inducted other ailments that caused his death."

The brevity of that farewell omitted the whole truth about Beck's death, which was far from sudden or easy. It also didn't mention that at the time of his death, Beck was easily the most important record-maker in Dallas maybe ever. He recorded and promoted future Country Music Hall of Famers when they were just young, hungry, anonymous scrappers Frizzell, Ray Price, Jim Reeves, Hank Thompson, Marty Robbins. Legend has it Fats Domino, Buddy Holly and Roy Orbison also cut sides at one of his Dallas studios.

"If Beck had not died when he did, the recording industry would have been big in Dallas, because Beck was an innovator," the hit-making Tall Texan, Billy Walker, told historian Michael Streissguth shortly before Walker was killed in a 2006 car crash. No less an authority than the Country Music Hall of Fame insists Beck's death was the footnote heard 'round the industry.

"But for a tragic accident," Charles Wolfe wrote in the Country Music Hall of Fame's The Encyclopedia of Country Music, Jim Beck "might well have changed the course of country music." Wolfe wrote elsewhere that Beck had "the studio that produced the most distinctive sound of all, the one that produced the most influential recordings, and the one that came within a hairbreadth of changing the whole direction of the music's development." (courtesy Charles Wolfe)

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a Texas kid...

Texas own....

32years ago today

a friends blog - if you ever knew Mr Peppermint, this one will reach out to you...

https://jeffveazey.com/2012/01/05/a-peppermint-in-my-pocket/

Screenshot from the old TV show "Route 66" at Dallas Pressed Brick Company, one mile west of Mesquite, 1961