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Sandy Fiedler's
"Voice of East Texas"
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Three
Young Men in Post-WWII America
Light
Crust Doughboys Still Alive and Picking!
"... In the 1930s and 1940s the Doughboys played their Western
Swing while fans stood around, many in bare feet, enthralled.
One Palestine man told me he remembers himself as a young boy,
running through the fields to see the Doughboys at their scheduled
stop in front of a local grocery store...."
The
Gem Picture Palace and Other 1920s Charms
"a silent movie theatre"
Slocum
- The Town That Blew Away
"Old-timers still recall Slocum's Great Tornado of April
24, 1929. Ripley's-Believe-It-or-Not oddities occurred, like the
mule stuck high in a tree. ..... "
Pearl
Harbor Survivor - Texas Vic Lively
"On December 6, 1941, the day before the Japanese attacked
Pearl Harbor, Victor H. Lively, stationed on the battleship USS
Nevada, went ashore to Honolulu to buy Christmas gifts for his
family. The last thing anybody was thinking about was war .....
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The
Redlands
Hedonism
in East Texas
Blind, yes. But She Gathers Seashells -
Jacel the Palestine Beachcomber
Fredericksburg,
Texas - Blending German Colonization with Modern Tourism
Printed with permission
About the Author
East Texas Towns
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