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Post by Bromhead24 on Jan 8, 2005 17:04:23 GMT -5
Nef, can you post a larger pic of the Eastman watercolor? I'm having a hard time trying to figure out that you were saying about the comparison....I'm slow for some reason..  |
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Post by neferetus on Jan 10, 2005 13:10:17 GMT -5
Nef, can you post a larger pic of the Eastman watercolor? I'm having a hard time trying to figure out that you were saying about the comparison....I'm slow for some reason.. Sorry, I cannot make the Eastman painting larger, but I will try to clarify it a little more. You see the northernmost upper niche on the 'modern day' Alamo facade postcard? Well, this is where Eastman's painting ends. The wall that links the chapel to the Long Barrack was much higher at the time of the battle and so it blocks your view of the facade in the Eastman painting. I hope that this helps, somewhat. |
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Post by neferetus on Jan 10, 2005 13:17:53 GMT -5
While "The Alamo" (2004) shows Billy Bob Thornton's Davy Crockett taking a pot-shot at Santa Anna, Alamo legend suggests that it was actually Micajah Autry who did the shooting. Sadly, Micajah's shot went wild, Santa Anna made an undignified retreat and the rest, as they say, is 'history'. The painting below, which once hung in the Alamo chapel from the 1930's through the 1980's, depicts this moment in Alamo mythology.  |
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Post by Bromhead24 on Jan 10, 2005 18:47:11 GMT -5
Sorry, I cannot make the Eastman painting larger, but I will try to clarify it a little more. You see the northernmost upper niche on the 'modern day' Alamo facade postcard? Well, this is where Eastman's painting ends. The wall that links the chapel to the Long Barrack was much higher at the time of the battle and so it blocks your view of the facade in the Eastman painting. I hope that this helps, somewhat. Ok, thanks, i got it now. My mind was in low gear last night. |
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Post by neferetus on Jan 12, 2005 10:45:57 GMT -5
 "Let the old men tell the story..." |
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Post by Alamoguy on Jan 12, 2005 17:30:00 GMT -5
what movie is that from?
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Post by Bromhead24 on Jan 12, 2005 18:29:39 GMT -5
Notice how all of the "dead" Texian and Soldados are holding their rifles... Just like in "Gettysburg" the reb assault on little round top, the dead rebs were all holding their rifles (so they don't loose them).. Is that photo from a movie or an event? |
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Post by neferetus on Jan 13, 2005 13:38:58 GMT -5
Notice how all of the "dead" Texian and Soldados are holding their rifles... Just like in "Gettysburg" the reb assault on little round top, the dead rebs were all holding their rifles (so they don't loose them).. Is that photo from a movie or an event? The Sesquicentennial reenactment at Alamo Village, March 8, 1986, put on by members of The Alamo Encampment and the Alamo Lore And Myth Organization. (I am numbered among the 'dead'.) Yeah, them boys was real perticular about not letting their pieces touch the ground. The weather was appropriately overcast for the event. |
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Post by neferetus on Jan 13, 2005 13:43:14 GMT -5
 Here, the Texians are beginning to assemble for Travis' line speech. That's me in the foreground, by the carronade, holding onto my rifle for dear life. While I managed to retain the rifle all right, I did suffer the loss of a very nice, brass powder flask. |
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Post by neferetus on Jan 13, 2005 17:39:45 GMT -5
 "I have answered their demand with a cannon shot..." |
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Post by neferetus on Jan 14, 2005 13:42:22 GMT -5
 Soldados check a door in the Long Barrack, before entering. |
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Post by Bromhead24 on Jan 14, 2005 19:50:54 GMT -5
Hello, hello,
Is the woman of the house here? We are vacuum salesmen
HA!................Fixed it!!!!!! ;D
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Post by neferetus on Jan 18, 2005 17:02:06 GMT -5
Hello, hello, Is the woman of the house here? We are vacuum salesmen That's 'vacuum salesmen' Craig Covner and Kevin Young. ;D |
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Post by Bromhead24 on Jan 18, 2005 18:15:50 GMT -5
That's 'vacuum salesmen' Craig Covner and Kevin Young. ;D ;D  I never said i could spell.. All traces gone............. ;D |
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Post by neferetus on Jan 19, 2005 10:51:27 GMT -5
;D I never said i could spell.. All traces gone............. ;D T'weren't correctin' yer spelling... jus' identifing them two fellers there fer posteriority! |
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Post by Bromhead24 on Jan 19, 2005 19:17:40 GMT -5
;D |
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Post by neferetus on Jan 24, 2005 12:27:16 GMT -5
 Travis, (Jack Edmondson) Bowie, (Mike Waters) and Crockett, (Kenny Pruitt), Alamo Plaza Sesquicentennial Celebrations, March 6, 1986. |
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Post by neferetus on Jan 25, 2005 10:43:01 GMT -5
 Dawn at the Alamo. |
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Post by Greg C. on Jan 25, 2005 16:34:37 GMT -5
mike waters looks like a very good bowie.
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Post by neferetus on Jan 26, 2005 19:01:08 GMT -5
Welcome, TexasMac! This one's for you!  |
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I never said i could spell.. 