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FIRST ANNUAL
TEXAS ESCAPES AWARDS
1999
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| While it is
nearly impossible to acknowledge all the positive events and people
we've met this last year, this list acknowledges some of the most
memorable. |
The
"We'll leave the light on for you" Award - Majestic
Theater, Eastland
Most Innovative
Restoration of an Endangered
Building Award - The Prison,
McKinney
Most
Painstaking Restoration and Improving the Face of the Town Square
Award - Jubilee House, Athens
Town
That Looks Most Like A Model Train Layout From The Air Award - Ballinger
Best
City Logo Award: Kingsville
Best
Murals Not Found In A Post Office - Breckenridge
Best
Mural
We Found in a Post Office this Year - El
Campo
Best
Whimsical Mural Depicting a Town - Andy's Restaurant, Gatesville
Best
Photo Used in a Travel Brochure - Old Milam Co. Jail, Cameron
Best Business
Theme Using a Local Hero that Happens to be a Horned
Toad - Rip's Diner, Eastland
Best Haunted
Railroad Station Used as a Chamber of Commerce - Edinburg
Best Downtown
Café for Bringing People Downtown on Sunday Award - Mattie's, Decatur
Best
Restaurant for Bringing People Downtown at Night Award - Fuente's
Mexican Restaurant, San
Angelo
Best
Promotion of a Local Oddity Award - The Paris
Chamber for providing a postcard of a local cemetery statue portraying
Jesus
wearing cowboy boots.
Friendliest
Genealogical Society - Caldwell County, Luling
Best
20th Century Ghost Town - Thurber
Best 19th Century Ghost Town - Indianola
State
Agency with Largest Number of Gruntled Employees
- General
Land Office, Austin
Hardest
Working Wildflower Association - DeWitt
County
Still Cheerfully
Doing Their Job at 4:59 Award - Breckenridge
Chamber of Commerce
Standing
Up for Preservation Award (Tie) -
Citizens of Wharton County
for fighting to keep their County Courthouse,
Breckenridge for fighting to keep their brick streets.
Towns on
the Edge of the Horizon with Rough-hewn Charm Award (Tie) - Menard
/ Mason
Friendliest
Small Town Newspaper Staff - Smithville
Times.
Best Small Town Newspaper Article -
Smithville Times series of interviews with local
school children.
Best Small
Town Bookstore South of Waco - Main Street Books, Bastrop
Best
Small Town Bookstore North of Waco - The Book Gallery, McKinney
Best
Bookstore In An Under-populated Area - The Lynch Line, Albany
Best "Making
It Happen" Award (Tie) -
Shelly Hargrove, Main Street Manager, Breckenridge
Gabrielle Gonzales, Main Street Manager, Gatesville
Efficiency
and Thoroughness Award (Tie) -
Aida Hernandez, Edinburg
C of C
Mario Bazan, Edinburg
C of C
Best Publication
on Texas - Los Caminos Del Rio. Texas Historical Commission
Most
Attractive Business Card - Missy Pollard, former Main Street
Manager, Taylor
Most
Attractive Lobby of a Former Hotel - The Cactus, San
Angelo
Town
with The Most Aggressive Geese in the River - San
Angelo
Librarian
with a Cause (he started the library) - H. Ben Johnson, Moulton
Small
Town Hotel with the Most Interesting History/ Owners - The
Von Minden, Schulenburg
Silliest
Name of a New Business That Still Makes You Laugh Award - Wash-A-Terrier
Dog Grooming, Farmersville
A Note to Recipients: Just because you don't receive
a plaque or trophy from Texas Escapes for your excellence, doesn't
mean you can't go out and buy one.
December
1999
Reader's
Comments:
Friday, February 04, 2000
I loved reading through all of your awards, it makes me just want
to jump in a car and take off on a major texas roadtrip. I know of
some of those spots, but others I don't, and I'm now curious. GOOD
JOB! - Shelly H.
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