Official Photo Thread for El Paso (Abilene, Victoria: how much, gas, termite) - Page 17 - City-Data Forum

caiguar · 03-13-2008, 01:12 AM

thanks miner, happy to be here.

Here are more pictures, downtown is looking good, after a lot of years not walking in it since I was in high school.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a350/caiguar0/20080311-IMG_9505.jpg (broken link)

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a350/caiguar0/20080311-IMG_9486.jpg (broken link)

caiguar · 03-13-2008, 01:15 AM

ok here is a little photo trivia for you people from el paso. People that are not from here or maybe the people that are not or did not visit downtown at night won't know this one. Maybe very young people won't know it either, I don't even know if its still working or not. I saw it and had a flashback to when I was a little kid. I'm 30 now so maybe some people of my generation will know.

what is this?

el borracho · 03-13-2008, 03:59 AM

heres what the colors meant i think red bad weather ahead ,gold means cold,blue no change is due

HIGH!Lonesome · 03-13-2008, 04:51 AM

[quote=caiguar;3124160]ok here is a little photo trivia for you people from el paso. People that are not from here or maybe the people that are not or did not visit downtown at night won't know this one. Maybe very young people won't know it either, I don't even know if its still working or not. I saw it and had a flashback to when I was a little kid. I'm 30 now so maybe some people of my generation will know.

what is this.

This is the weather beacon atop the old El Paso Natural Gas building, it would forcast the weather by changing colors, red, gold, blue, and white if not mistaken, it was so long ago as kids we would call it the building with a (tronpo) top on it.

holmes · 03-13-2008, 08:47 AM

Ah, I wish Mr. Foster would relight the natural gas building.. I miss seeing the warm glow of the flame, that is so nostalgic.

holmes · 03-13-2008, 08:52 AM

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Originally Posted by caiguar

thanks miner, happy to be here.

Here are more pictures, downtown is looking good, after a lot of years not walking in it since I was in high school.

That's the merrick building, built in 1892 (I think). Lovely restoration they did with it too not so long ago. The top floors are rentals in case anyone's interested. I myself would love to live there if I wasn't already fixing up my old house a few blocks north.

caiguar · 03-13-2008, 09:26 AM

I think red was hot day, yellow was rain or wind, blue was no change in weather, thats all I remember, maybe i'm wrong.

grad-student · 03-13-2008, 02:32 PM

Holmes, was it you who said was going to compile a list about rentals in downtown? I will be moving there next month, and I am having a hard time finding apartments located downtown. Do you know where I can find more info? Thanks, and if anybody else has information, I would appreciate it.

holmes · 03-13-2008, 02:51 PM

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Originally Posted by grad-student

Holmes, was it you who said was going to compile a list about rentals in downtown? I will be moving there next month, and I am having a hard time finding apartments located downtown. Do you know where I can find more info? Thanks, and if anybody else has information, I would appreciate it.

Sure, I was thinking about that earlier. I have a partial list, but there are a lot of places I just don't know the names of and know them by location only. I'll try and get a list compiled together soon..

HIGH!Lonesome · 03-13-2008, 05:10 PM

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Originally Posted by holmes

Ah, I wish Mr. Foster would relight the natural gas building.. I miss seeing the warm glow of the flame, that is so nostalgic.

Thats a good thought holmes, what would be nice but very unlikely would be if Southern Union Gas bought the Blue Flame building after Paul Foster remodels it and kept the flame icon lighted.