Official Photo Thread for El Paso (Mission, Alma: work, home, campus)

[Synopsis]

Thanks 6/3. I'm from Oklahoma but I have been living in Texas for the last 18 years or so (DFW). I lived in Reno, NV for several years and came to appreciate the desert. El Paso reminds me a lot of Reno; high altitude, low humidity, similar type of desert, and so on. I've become intrigued by El Paso over the last few years and would love to visit. Plus, I love Mexican food!

[Muhnay]

Originally Posted by 6 FOOT 3

I'm taking a guess but the road by your house in the photo is either Gateway North or South correct??

Nope thats Trans-Mountain Road and Alcan street. right near the GECU building.

Yeah SYN some nice pictures.. I should get some of the interesting rock formations on Trans-Mountain road. Like the Elephant near the top or camel rock. I call it Mammoth rock. There is also one that looks like a sheep's head or if your perverted male private parts.. but I do really like the mammoth rock one.. think I will drive up and get pictures for you.

SYN my family is from Oklahoma.. Tulsa. Before that Kansas City. I have a really cool letter from my grandmothers side of the family from way back during covered wagon days crossing the country and fear of Indian attacks and all that. Its a real slice of history.

[Synopsis]

Originally Posted by Muhnay

Nope thats Trans-Mountain Road and Alcan street. right near the GECU building.

Yeah SYN some nice pictures.. I should get some of the interesting rock formations on Trans-Mountain road. Like the Elephant near the top or camel rock. I call it Mammoth rock. There is also one that looks like a sheep's head or if your perverted male private parts.. but I do really like the mammoth rock one.. think I will drive up and get pictures for you.

SYN my family is from Oklahoma.. Tulsa. Before that Kansas City. I have a really cool letter from my grandmothers side of the family from way back during covered wagon days crossing the country and fear of Indian attacks and all that. Its a real slice of history.

Small world! Tulsa is my adopted hometown; I'm originally from Southeastern Oklahoma (near the Ouachita Mountains) and love the country but if I were going to live in a bigger city Tulsa is my kind of place. I lived there for several years and would love to go back. The only thing keeping me from it is we are too entrenched in the DFW area with our daughter. In a few years when she's out of the house, we may be moving back to Tulsa.

[Muhnay]

Yeah its a wonderful place.. I remember as a small kid going up there all the time with my grandmother. We used to walk to the corner five and dime and get a homemade soda, and a big pickle and walk back. There was a small stream behind the house there I used to play in. My grandmother had 12 sisters.. the Redd family.. they used to be well known in the area.. all of them gone my grandmother being the last to go. Her dad was a Pastor in the area.

Have you been on the Will Rogers Turnpike and stopped at the Worlds Largest McDonald's that spans the turnpike? What a cool place.

[EnjoyEP]

I respect your opinion Earl. I completely disagree with it nearly 100%, but we all have our likes / dislikes. I find El Paso to be one of the absolute most polarizing places in the US...people either usually love it (like me) or hate it. The desert setting obviously adds to that, as the desert is in itself fairly polarizing.

I just want to add this though -

Originally Posted by Earl Turner

I really am a positive person, but Juarez looks just like any other town in the middle east to me.

I can't necessarily really agree with this. Most folks in the US would be aghast at Juarez...I am not one of them, but obviously many people would consider Juarez beyond an eyesore.

However, let's just remember that while they are only a few miles apart, it really isn't fair to judge El Paso by Juarez. It would be similar to judging San Diego harshly because of Tijuana.

Originally Posted by Earl Turner

BUT, Phoenix and Tucson make the desert look pretty. They have exceptional clean up for their down town areas, hispanic heritage murals are placed all over the place, and even the Highway mediums have zero scaping with plenty of beautiful local flora.

I kind of find that this really demonstrates well the "different strokes for different folks" point I was trying to make. There are many who find Phoenix and Tucson (especially Phoenix) especially ugly, especially Phoenix's downtown. I actually am not one of them...I think I like every major Southwestern city pretty much (especially EP, Albuquerque, and Tucson), but if you want to talk about smog or bad air quality making a city ugly, obviously Phoenix takes the cake there, and the sprawling nature of metro Phoenix often inspires the kind of ire that you speak of for EP. Again, I guess it is just different strokes for different folks.

[Muhnay]

Syn why cant I see the words in your post?

[6/3]

I think its photos that were deleted. Maybe they were Google Images as they are copywrited so they'll not appear on City Data.

[Synopsis]

Yep,
Sorry folks, I probably posted something that wasn't supposed to be posted. Mods can make mistakes too!

[Jaded Spade]

Here are some pictures of around town. They aren't that great since I took them myself, but they're pictures none the less

[EnjoyEP]

Originally Posted by Jaded Spade

Here are some pictures of around town. They aren't that great since I took them myself, but they're pictures none the less

These are actually very nice photos, Jaded...thanks for sharing them!