Category: Texas

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • What’d He Say Open Comments

    Nothings says Texas like…….. well Texas . . . . . Dang it, I just realized that today is the anniversary of Japan Bombing Pearl Harbor.  Much has been written about the various destroyers and battleships that were destroyed on that fate filled day.  I have one question that I have never seen addressed.  Where…