Category: Texas
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Movie House Madness Weekend Open Comments
What you did not know about movie theatres and probably don’t care to know. A little known fact about movie theaters is their summer time popularity sky rocketed after Willis Carrier, in 1925, installed his air conditioner at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City. 1925: The Rivoli Theater in New York City’s Time Square…
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Nothing Says Texas Like Texas Weekend Open Comments
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…
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Mid Week Texas Memories
It does not make sense. They tore The Rice Hotel SHAMROCK down Note to self: post the Rice Hotel sometime in the future Best Tex/Mex if you had never had Tex/Mex before. If it was just me and him on a 100 mile stretch of road…. I am gonna get a ticket. And they…