Brokeback Mountain: Our Community's Common Bond > The Lighter Side
ROAD TRIP: A BBM Game
jpwagoneer1964:
FRAZIER, TEXAS.
Frazier was just north of State Highway 49 and fifteen miles northeast of Jefferson in eastern Marion County. The Frazier school had thirty-nine black pupils and one teacher in 1899. In 1938 the community had a one-room schoolhouse that accommodated forty-five black elementary school students and one teacher. The Frazier school was consolidated with those of Jefferson by 1955, and in 1967 all that remained of Frazier was two cemeteries named for the Coore family, who owned the original land grants at the site.
Drop the "i" and Frazer was an automobile that I own! A 1951 frazer sedan one of the last made. Manufactured from 1947 to 1950 ( As 1951 model year ) by Kaiser Frazer Corp. KF bought out Willys (Jeep and passanger cars ) in 1954 and discontinued passanger cars in favor of the Jeep after 1955. Kaiser Jeep was bought out by American Motors in 1970 which was bought out by Chrysler in 1987.
If you look at the lite biege car at top and my brown one, they actually use the same body except for fenders and hood. they only reason the 1951 Frazer was even built was to use up the unfininshed older bodies left over from 1949-1950 planned production, Kaiser was aready using an all new body. Ironicly they had orders for over 55,000 and could only supply about 10,000.
Mark
Fran:
Round Hill, AB
An abandoned house, Round Hill, Alberta, 1995
MaineWriter:
Lubbock, TX
Present day Lubbock is a merging of two towns - Old Lubbock and Monterey. Rival town promoters saw the writing on the wall and realized it was mutually beneficial to do so. The compromise was reached when Lubbock County was organized in 1891.
The town was named after Colonel Thomas S. Lubbock, Texas Ranger and brother of Texas Governor Lubbock.
1884: Post Office opened in Yellow House Canyon (now part of a city park)
1891: Lubbock County Organized / The newspaper Lubbock Leader was founded
1900: The Lubbock Avalanche newspaper is founded
1909: Santa Fe Railroad enters Lubbock from Plainview
1916: First Electrical Plant started
1923: Texas Technical College is founded (later Texas Tech)
1936: Lubbock Lake Archeology Site is discovered
1969: Texas Tech College becomes Texas Tech University
1972: Liquor is sold - Lubbock loses it's claim on being the largest "dry" city in the United States
Also....Buddy Holly was born and grew up in Lubbock. And "my" Ennis and Jack bought their bedroom set at the Lubbock Furniture Store!
Leslie
Meryl:
Krakow, AB
The wooden church of 1906 in the former Polish settlement Kraków,
near Hilliard, Alberta, 1996
Ellemeno:
Waco, TX
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