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Luling's
signature watermelon water tower
Photo Courtesy Barclay
Gibson, March 2008
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Lockhart and Luling has cooled
somewhat. Their high schools no longer compete in football and both
towns have spanking-new HEB stores. Life is good in Caldwell
County. Barbecue aficionados from South of I-10 have never seen
the need to drive the additional mileage to participate in the Barbecue
Wars in Lockhart, since City
Market and Luling Barbecue know what they're doing. Once
called "The Toughest Town in Texas", time has tenderized Luling to
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Luling
roughnecks, circa1935
Courtesy Caldwell County Genealogical Society |
Luling, Texas
Landmarks / Attractions
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Luling
Oil City display
Photo Courtesy Chia-Wei Wang, August 2006 |
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Luling
Oil City since 1922
Photo Courtesy Chia-Wei Wang, August 2006
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A
decorative pumpjack in Luling
Photo Courtesy Barclay
Gibson, December 2006 |
Another
decorative pumpjack
Photo Courtesy Barclay
Gibson, December 2006 |
Decorative
pumpjack with a pig
Photo courtesy Margie Warwas, May 2003 |
Decorative pumpjack with a whale
Photo courtesy Margie Warwas, May 2003 |
Designated swimming
hole on the San Marcos River
TE Photo August 2006 |
Downtown
Luling
by David
Knape
Them sulfur wells
made visits grueling,
noses repelled
'twas our undoing
Never been to hell
but I ain't fooling,
It's smelled like hell
in downtown Luling!
Note:
Don't know about the present, but in the old days, you could smell
Luling, Texas for miles around. Smelled like rotten eggs. We kept
going. The smell might have stopped. We never did. - d.knape
"Once Upon A Line" - Light
verse and poetry by d.knape › |
Watermelon
Thump Festival
A "world famous"
annual event - Last weekend in June
Book Hotel Here › Luling
Hotels |
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A Battle Ax plug
Tobacco sign appears in Luling, Texas
TE Photo, 11-2003 |
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Luling
street scene
TE Photo |
Luling Area Chamber of Commerce -
641 East Davis Street In the Historic Walker Bros. Building, sharing
space with the Central Oil Patch Museum
P.O. Box 710 Luling, TX. 78648.
Phone (830) 875-3214
Website: www.bcsnet.net/lulingcc
Caldwell County Genealogical and Historical Society -
This well-oiled facility is found adjoining the library and can well
serve as a model for other cities concerned about preserving their
past.
Book Hotel Here › Luling
Hotels |
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Luling, Texas
Forum
Subject:
Morris
Ranch & other places
My wife love going to old places......About 2 weeks ago we went
to the Austin, San
Marcos area (Hill
Country) We found Morris
Ranch, no problem with the excellent directions on your website....we
were kind of disappointed that it was all fenced off......the silo
was close enough to the fence to get some good pictures, the large
barn was just like on the website but a No Tresspassing sign kept
us from getting closer.......the schoolhouse was incredible but
a big gate was in the way I would have love to look inside.......
We went on to San
Marcos, there we found an old hospital that had at one time
been converted into a college fraternity house, but now is abandonded
with a somewhat spooky history of a fraternity ritual that had gone
wrong ,maybe true maybe not...( I read about it in a book called
Weird Texas, check it out sometime, it's a cool book)........
Also we found an abandonded
saw mill outside of Luling it was great, [Zedler's
Mills] it was along side the River you can walk right up to
it, of course you wouldn't have wanted to go inside, the historical
marker said it had been abandonded since 1960......
As usual I can't say enough good about your magazine... who knows
where we will go next.......... Thanks. - Rodney Stegall, November
08, 2005
Subject:
SARG RECORDS
Hello Historic Luling, My name is Graham C. Marshall and I live
in East Yorkshire, England. For a brief period in the seventies
I corresponded with Charlie Fitch of Sarg Records. Does anyone know
anything about him? Is he still alive? I should be very grateful
if you could find someone who could enlighten me. Thanks - Graham,
January 05, 2006
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