This building housed the first H-E-B (originally named the C.C. Butt Grocery Store) in Kerrville. Florence Butt opened the store in 1905 on the lower floor. Her family lived on the upper floor.
H-E-B founder, Florence Butt, behind the counter of her first store in Kerrville in the early 1900s. The original name of store was the C.C. Butt Grocery Store and was founded in 1905. Florence handed management of the Kerrville store to her youngest son, Howard Edward Butt, in 1919. By 1930, Howard had expanded the company to 17 locations across South Texas and renamed it the H.E. Butt Grocery Store.
Grocery shopping at H-E-B in the 1980s
Welcome to Galveston
Plane watching at Love Field in Dallas in 1964
Simpson’s Grocery & Market in Breckenridge, Texas in the 1930s
Kilgore in 1952
Texas Women’s Track Club in 1964
Image credit: Stolen, borrowed, absconded, pilfered, scrounged, purloined. looted. liberated
I hear pachapapa isn’t doing well, either. I am trying hard to be Christian in my outlook, and I’m not alone. I just finished a lesson with my church sisters, and at the end we discussed which prayer to pray for the Pope. We settled on a prayer for the conversion of his soul and for the dying.
Yeah, he ain’t to popular in the traditional Catholic world..
I had a cute moment today. I attended mass while I was in Dallas, and I was sitting at the back of the room. A mom with her two-year-old son came and sat next to me. He was a little fidgety and stuff, but he was really cute. He avoided looking at me. That’s normal for little kids, they don’t always cotton to strangers right away. When it came time for the collection, though, I asked the mother quietly if her son would like a dollar to put into the basket. She whispered back that he would absolutely love that.… Read more »
Bongino news Great news for Law Enforcement and American Justice! Dan Bongino, a man of incredible love and passion for our Country, has just been named the next DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE FBI, by the man who will be the best ever Director, Kash Patel. Dan has a Masters Degree in Psychology from C.U.N.Y., and an MBA from Penn State. He was a member of the New York Police Department (New York’s Finest!), a highly respected Special Agent with the United States Secret Service, and is now one of the most successful Podcasters in the Country, something he is willing… Read more »
Wow. This is how bad it is in Europe.
Maybe President Trump could put in the good word for her at McDonald’s.
It’s been a deranged death cult for almost 1,400 years – not a religion.
Over 7 days, a Syrian stabs a 14 year old boy to death in Austria, another Syrian stabs a Spanish tourist in Berlin and an Algerian stabs a Portuguese man to death in France.
He had no cheers for Fauci.
The evil, nasty Joy Reid has fired by MSNBC.
Tens of thousands shout ‘Death to Israel’ at Nasrallah funeral,
as Israeli jets fly overhead
In address to packed Beirut stadium from hidden location, terror leader’s successor vows to uphold his legacy, threatens Israel and US,
as IDF hits Hezbollah targets across Lebanon
Here is what Jeff Foxworthy has to say about folks from Texas… If someone in a Lowe’s store offers you assistance and they don’t work there, you may live in Texas; If you’ve worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you may live in Texas ; If you’ve had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you may live in Texas ; If ‘Vacation’ means going anywhere south of Dallas for the weekend, you may live in Texas; If you measure distance in hours, you may live in Texas; If you know several people… Read more »
Santa Anna arrived at the Alamo today and the siege began.
yo squawka Bruddah.
The fastest FAFO I have ever seen.
This event occurred right about the time of The Flood. I think it took Noah about a hundred years to build The Ark. It certainly took a Supernatural being to give Noah the warning with enough time in advance to complete the task.
Play stupid games….
https://youtube.com/shorts/J6sz_7zX3h4?feature=shared
The old pictures in the OC are great.
Good morning Hamsters.
Overcast but not dripping this morning, which is nice. We don’t need any more puddles in the yards that are squishy enough as it is. Temp is hanging onto 44 this morning, and a light breeze has moved in. Weather guessers say the sun is supposed to take charge tomorrow. That would be nicer.
Did you hear the conversation between the sadist and masochist?
The masochist said, “Hurt me”.
the sadist said, “No”.
You not going to believe this but my wife was at Walmart yesterday (yes I know) and picked up a neat Bluebird House made out of Cedar, for twelve whole dollars. Ole Dave, being the resident smart a** says, “dang, I didn’t know they even had Cedar in China” BUT guess what? The little birdhouse was made in the US of A by the Amish! So how do they do that? The Amish folks that made the birdhouse couldn’t have got more than about $6 bucks for it but they still made money? And yes, I know they sourced their… Read more »
I’ll be heading of to mass soon, then the drive home. Only got a few hours’ sleep last night, so I’ll probably doing for a nap asking the way.
I woke up to the headline the Joyless Reid hady been cancelled. That managed to cheer me up.
Good to see Texpat and Bones taking up our slack, dang we’re bunch of slackers.
It’s Sunday!
Mornin’ Gang
The German mind in purgatory.
Nick Freitas putting the board of knowledge to the seat of learning. I find it interesting that the left constantly accuses the right of being stupid, racist, misogynist, or some other character flaw and the right typically spends the rest of the time trying to defend against the false charge. It is ever more clear to me that the Ds are the ones with the character flaws, they know it, we know it and they know that we know it; yet we never accuse them of the blatantly obvious. Perhaps those genuine character flaws and malevolent intentions are finally going… Read more »
Texas gun owners just got some major news out of Austin—State Senator Bryan Hughes has filed SB 1362, the “Anti-Red Flag Act,” to ban red flag-style gun confiscation laws in Texas.This legislation is significant not just because it would prohibit any attempts to strip Texans of their firearms without due process, but also because Senator Hughes is Chairman of the State Affairs Committee, which is the Senate’s primary committee responsible for handling gun-related bills. This means SB 1362 is primed for a committee hearing and a strong push through the Texas Legislature, especially since the committee is made up of ten… Read more »
Dismantle the ATF. Demolish the headquarters. Haul off the rubble and salt the soil. ATF has been setting up covert facial recognition at gun shows, gun stores and independent FFL dealers. Recent revelations confirm that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) has been aggressively expanding its use of facial recognition technology, raising significant concerns about mass surveillance and unconstitutional tracking of law-abiding gun owners.But now, explosive new reports indicate that this same technology played a role in identifying the would-be assassin of former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024—an event that shocked the nation and… Read more »
Plenty of gun news today ! Kash Patel to head up ATF. It doesn’t matter who President Trump names to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the (now formerly government-funded) gun control lobby will oppose them. As if newly-confirmed Director Kash Patel doesn’t have his hands full already at the Federal Bureau of Investigation after being sworn in on Friday, administration sources say Donald Trump plans to now name him acting director ATF.Folks in flyover country may be able to hear the wails and tearing of clothing all the way from DC at this news. Gun control activists, lobbyists, and… Read more »
Well that didn’t take long. Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, was confirmed on Wednesday. This morning, the NSSF’s Larry Keane tweeted that Commerce will end its “pause” on small arms and related exports that the Biden administration enacted as a sop to the gun control industry.To refresh your memory, whoever was really in charge during the Biden years had the Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security announce a “90-day pause” in small arms exports in October of 2023. Commerce claimed that the export pause was to “assess current firearm export control review policies to determine whether any changes are… Read more »
Cats are evil snitches.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said if Hamas were on the Mexican border, America would have already killed them all.
Good Morning.
They had kids get on stage to celebrate the corpses of the Bibas Family and Oded Lifshitz being paraded.
THESE DEMONIC ANIMALS did this and took the video to poke a stick into the Israelis eye.
Jackson, Jefferson, Madison – 3 big shots with very different views of government. Read this brief essay, it claims that we are definitely in a Jacksonian era with Trump.
Another story on the the blockbuster Yale Medical School Covid study. Dr Akiko Iwasaki is the kind of immigrant I am proud to welcome. For years, thousands of Americans who suffered debilitating side effects after getting the Covid vaccine were told there was no evidence the shot was linked.Some were branded antivaxxers, others told their symptoms were imagined or related to other conditions, like long Covid. But that changed this week.On Wednesday, a team from Yale University known for their rigorous work revealed the mRNA shots can cause a previously unknown condition known as ‘post-vaccination syndrome.’The syndrome appears to cause brain fog, dizziness, tinnitus,… Read more »
Good rainy and wet afternoon, Hamsters The 37 at 6am has wobbled up to 40 now with some much lighter sky to the west of us that hopefully is coming this way minus rain. It is miserable outside for man or beast. A hard-working gray squirrel has helped himself to some parts of my fabric floral arrangements that sat outside on our covered back porch to have something nice to be seen on nasty days like this. Said squirrel took several bites out of it and took them away only to come back and looked for more, except spouse had… Read more »
If anybody missed my 7:00 AM comment about “Post Vaccine Syndrome” (PVS), do check it out. It cites some of the Yale study this week.
Squawk RE: your 12:47 PM comment Healthline is one big lying cesspool. I quit reading them when I realized they were using terms like “chestfeeders” and “birthing person”. The article you cite is 2-1/2 years old. I dare them to republish it now and if they were an ethical group they would retract it and apologize for being so stupid. Here is Alan Berenson this week. This is bad news. Very bad.A Yale University team led by a top immunologist has found that some people who received the Covid vaccines have damage to their immune systems, as well as high… Read more »
Rodeo is a sport?? I did not know that.
VAIDS??? Boy am I uninformed. Big middle finger to Healthline and the CDC. If VAIDS is not real, how come my pastor displays all the symptoms that they say do not exist AFTER he took the vaccine?
This is one of the most bizarre natural phenomenon I have ever seen. Be sure to wait until the very end.
It is just amazing what 10 degrees will do, 61 outside, bright and sunny and an absolutely beautiful day! 😉
The information is out about who the flight crew was on the Delta Endeavor jet crash in Toronto.
At the 06:27 mark.
This one appealed to my darker nature.
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/tampons.jfif
Never a more accurate description.
WIP. Smells like freedom.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/02/the-week-in-pictures-1-down-47-to-go.php
A quick cultural note… As I was sitting here praying my rosary, a young black guy came over to find a plug to charge his phone. We spoke briefly, and as he walked away, out of the clear blue, he praised Trump.
The fact that he just volunteered his approval of Trump spoke volumes about his enthusiasm for what he’s doing. “I believe he can make things better,” he said as he walked outside.
Trump has obviously made inroads into the traditional Democrat voter base.
There is a handwritten date in the lower right hand corner of the Breckenridge photo that looks like 1927.
Good morning. Popping in briefly and sharing a link to Stine’s pondering over the possible connection to U.S. intelligence agencies and Francis’ abrupt and possibly forced resignation.
https://www.youtube.com/live/6pymkWQZMRM?feature=shared
You can’t prevent disastrous forest fires with environuts running to leftist judges every week and then blaming the whole thing on “climate change”. Researchers from the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado Boulder and the U.S. Forest Service’s Rocky Mountain Research Station compared wildfire frequency across two periods: 1600 to 1880 and 1984 to 2022. Using data from 1,850 tree-ring records in historically burned areas, they assessed past fire activity and compared it with modern fire perimeter maps from Canada and the United States.The findings show modern-day fires are much less frequent than… Read more »
Dang Texpat has been carrying this place since about 6:30 AM, I need to go back and check out the links. 😉
What great old pictures and I especially like the one of Dallas Love Field. I’m guessing that the old DC 3 is a Texas Central plane and the the one in the back is likely a Convair 880 Jet since it is smaller than a Boeing 707 but I can make out the markings, does anyone here know?
Mornin’ Gang