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Post by Rick on Nov 2, 2007 22:40:03 GMT -5
Red on black looks sharp, Greg. Nice job.
Kind of a Texas Tech motif, I guess.
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Post by Rick on Oct 29, 2007 18:54:52 GMT -5
Vivaldi's The Four Seasons.
Followed by a TV's Greatest Hits cassette tape (the TV Western themes, at least).
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Post by Rick on Mar 21, 2008 20:06:36 GMT -5
Patrick Duffy´s role as Austin was the best part of the movie. The love story was too far out to be believeable but very PC - unfortunately! Probably the tallest Austin on film, since Duffy stands 6-4. Wasn't this one based on Michener's novel? I seem to recall some topless senoritas running around the streets of Alamo Village -- or maybe that was in some other movie filmed there.
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Post by Rick on Jun 24, 2007 16:52:03 GMT -5
The closest I've ever come to one of these was two years ago when I stayed one night at the Paisano Hotel in Marfa, Texas -- the same hotel where the cast of Giant stayed when that film was shot near Marfa in the mid-'50s. I woke up just before 6 a.m. and was trying to decide whether to go back to sleep or get up. Half-awake, I guess. But all of a sudden, the TV set came on, with the sound real loud and the remote on top of the set where I'd left it the night before.
I was wide awake real fast, muttered a few "What the hells?", got up and turned the damned thing off. Figured there was some sort of timer in effect on the set, though I couldn't find anything hooked up to the set. Maybe a wiring glitch?
When checking out later that morning I asked the desk clerk if the Paisano had any resident ghosts. When she asked why, I related my TV experience, whereupon she said other guests had reported similar things over the years.
The Paisano is an old hotel. So I don't know.
I've stayed at the Crockett Hotel in San Antonio twice and have yet to see/hear anything spooky, though that place is supposedly haunted.
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Post by Rick on Mar 25, 2008 21:10:27 GMT -5
Someone in San Antonio told me about a doctor who went into the Alamo several months after the battle and was in the room he claimed Bowie was killed in, and that there was still blood stains on the wall. Have any of you heard anything about that. I have never read about it anywhere, or heard about it anywhere, but this one man that was at the Alamo standing outside telling stories to people, and he didnt work there, just some Alamo fan. I've read different places that it was Doc Sutherland who did that. At least he tends to get credit for it.
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Post by Rick on Nov 16, 2007 16:44:54 GMT -5
A friend of mine here in El Paso has an adult daughter in Southern California who attended one of the test screenings. I tried hard to set up an interview with her, but he said she had no idea what to tell me about the film.
She wasn't impressed by it, apparently, nor was she interested in telling me exactly what it had in it. I imagine the version she watched was the one detailed in the screenplay printed in Frank's Making Of book.
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Post by Rick on Mar 25, 2008 20:51:03 GMT -5
I remember seeing this one Western where an Indian chief was using his archers like artillery, judging the trajectory and then firing the arrows up into the air to come down on the enemy. Sounds like Escape From Fort Bravo.
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Post by Rick on Feb 24, 2008 23:42:48 GMT -5
www.mysa.comIf you check out the above link today, you can see a SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS NEWS slide show of yesterday's SALHA events on Alamo Plaza. The link may not be any good tomorrow. (Look under MULTI-MEDIA Slide Shows.) They ran some very nice shots. And Ned, I saw you in a couple of them.
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Post by Rick on Feb 24, 2008 0:11:50 GMT -5
Looks like it was a bit chilly and/or damp. Was it?
Thanks for the photos, Ned. Keep 'em coming.
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Post by Rick on Mar 25, 2008 21:04:36 GMT -5
Ned, on the ABA's recent visit to Concepcion, did Hardin lead the tour over the ground of the battle that Bowie and Fannin fought there in 1835? Bowie apparently displayed some real understanding of tactics, cross-fire, etc. from everything I've read about the battle -- which has always made me wonder what might have happened had he taken Widmark's advice and fought a cut, slash 'n run campaign in the spring of 1836, rather than opting to be forted up.
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Post by Rick on Nov 17, 2007 18:12:34 GMT -5
It might be the quote of Charles Ramsdell. Does that name ring a bell? Hmmm -- wasn't he Mrs. D's grandson?
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Post by Rick on Jan 18, 2007 23:07:33 GMT -5
An AP story in today's (Thursday's) paper led off this way:
Icy conditions closed the Alamo in San Antonio and other attractions Wednesday, but for tourists from the north it created another form of amusement: watching the locals in Texas get bundled up.
Dale and Crystal Barber, standing in lightweight jackets near the Alamo, that symbol of Texas toughness, were incredulous at the bulky jackets, gloves and stocking caps residents put on to cope with temperatures in the 30s. The Barbers said the sleet, light snow and ice that closed schools and businesses across much of the state would go virtually unnoticed this time of year in their hometown of Sandusky, Mich.
"These people from San Antonio come in with their big parkas. I thought, 'Oh, come on,'" said Dale Barber, chuckling. And a few graphs later:
Marc and Courtney Unger, visiting San Antonio with their 3- and 7-year-old boys from Tallahassee, Fla., found most of their plans wrecked by the cold weather and closed attractions. The Alamo shut down for the morning but reopened at noon.
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Post by Rick on Apr 9, 2008 17:14:40 GMT -5
December 1989
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Post by Rick on Feb 20, 2008 21:25:28 GMT -5
Great picture I often wonder how many of these sorts of images are still to be found in peoples houses. Or in other places. There's a neat B&W shot (probably an old postcard) of the 'Mo at the Cracker Barrel here. I've tried more than once to sweet-talk them into letting me borrow it to scan. They keep saying uh-uh.
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Post by Rick on Mar 5, 2007 14:13:28 GMT -5
I went looking for where the Alameda and funeral pyres were this afternoon by walking up and down E. Commerce, but couldn't figure where they were. I saw no signs. I'm thinking the Adams Freeway (I-37) is too far east based on the drawings and models. It seems to me it should be closer to Macy's or maybe the La Quinta. Nef? A few years ago in Texas Monthly, Texas writer Stephen Harrigan had a piece entitled "Remembering the Alamo: Thirteen Ways to Look at It." In it, he described 13 different stops that would give visitors a sense of 1836, one of which is a plaque marking the location of the pyres. I've never hunted up the plaque, but Harrigan says to walk south from Alamo Plaza, cross Commerce at Dillard's, then walk east "thirty or forty yards" until you reach a spot across from the Rivercenter Mall's parking garage. Judging from the photo in the magazine, the plaque is mounted on a rock wall on the south side of Commerce. Harrigan added that he thinks the true spot of the pyres is a tad farther east, "perhaps where the Denny's or the La Quinta Inn now stands at the edge of Interstate 37," in his words. Harrigan's story is a good one to tote along when you walk downtown San Antonio. The old three-story La Quinta motel he mentions has been razed and replaced by a high-rise La Quinta hotel that sits farther north from Commerce. I believe the latter's new parking lot now occupies the space the old La Quinta and its small (and free) parking lot once occupied. I also think the Denny's (corner of Commerce and Bowie) is still there. Hope this helps. Did you take any photos while you were there for HHD 2007? If so, will you be posting any?
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Post by Rick on Dec 5, 2007 13:24:46 GMT -5
Is it from that puppet movie a few years ago? I think it was called Team America. I rented it (big mistake). Pretty funny in parts, but gross overall.
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Post by Rick on May 19, 2007 11:30:39 GMT -5
How do you guys stand those northern winters? You must have extra-thick blood to handle those kinds of temperatures.
Here in West Texas, we start shivering when it dips into the 30s. Of course, our summers are lovely -- hot, humid, major sweat city.
In June 1994 when I lived in New Mexico, a heat wave hit the whole Southwest, and one day, it hit 113 in the town I lived in. The water in my swamp cooler evaporated before it could wet down the cooler pads, and I had to climb up on the roof a few times, put on gloves to remove the skin-searing AC panels, then hose down the pads to get 'em wet.
A few miles south of us, another town recorded a new state-record high for New Mexico -- 117 degrees.
I've long wanted to visit Scandinavia and England and be a tourista for a few weeks. How early do the leaves start to change there?
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Post by Rick on Jan 17, 2008 21:16:18 GMT -5
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Post by Rick on Sept 6, 2007 14:04:46 GMT -5
A few shots of El Paso's turf: A rare snowfall from my front door Two sunsets from my backyard The Franklin Mountains under a rare snowfall
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Post by Rick on May 9, 2007 15:06:10 GMT -5
Here's mine
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