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Old 10-24-2011, 07:08 PM
 
Location: Sacramento Mtns of NM
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Who was the Texas artist who had both a town and a car model named after her?
I know this in unlikely to be the answer, but one of the more famous (infamous?) artists who claimed Texas as a birth place was Janice Joplin.

Here is a photo of the Porche, now housed in a museum, that belonged to her but don't think named for her:

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Old 10-24-2011, 08:33 PM
 
Location: San Antonio
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I'm stumped, but I'm musically illiterate.

Maybe this bump will give someone else a chance to answer it.
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Old 10-24-2011, 11:54 PM
 
Location: Victoria TX
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Here is a photo of the Porche, now housed in a museum, that belonged to her but don't think named for her:


It was not a particular car that was named for her, but a model of a well-known car. And the "artist" I'm looking for was not a well-known pop artist, but a known and revered figure in the fine arts. Her best known work was a sculpture of a person who was killed in a plane crash. You might not be familiar with her, so work on the clue of a Texas town and a well-known car model with the same name. The town was named for her by her father, before the car was named for her by her husband's corporation.

She, earlier, had been named for a figure from classical literature, who, in one reference, was reputed to look good in black.

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Old 10-25-2011, 08:24 AM
 
Location: Sacramento Mtns of NM
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ELECTRA WAGGONER BIGGS, 1912 - 2001

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Her beauty inspired the naming of an automobile, the Buick Electra, and of an aircraft, the Lockheed Electra. Harlow H. Curtice, president of General Motors' Buick Motor Division when the Buick model was named in 1959, was the brother-in-law of Biggs husband, John Biggs, who died in 1975.
Since the sculptor for whom the automobile was named was not born until 1912, the town was named for her mother, who was also named Electra (Electra Waggoner Warton, married name).
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In 1885 the town was called Waggoner, TX, but following the building of the station and a post office in 1889, it was dubbed Beaver Switch, after the nearby Beaver Creek. The town was renamed again in 1907, this time after Waggoner's daughter Electra.
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Her most famous work may be "Into the Sunset," the bronze statue in Fort Worth of the late humorist Will Rogers astride his horse, Soapsuds. (Will Rogers and Wylie Post died in a plane crash) Longtime Fort Worth Star-Telegram publisher Amon Carter Sr., a close friend of Rogers, commissioned the statue in 1936, the year after the humorist's death.
Funny - I was thinking first of the Jeep Wagoneer! But that put me on the right track anyway.


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Old 10-25-2011, 09:51 AM
 
Location: Victoria TX
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Electra is it. Your turn.

An additional anecdote on the statue. It was intended to be placed facing west, on the Texas Tech campus. But that would mean the horse's rear end would point directly at downtown Lubbock. So it was rotated 23 degrees to the right, and the rear end of the horse faced directly at Texas A&M.

If one of my clues puzzled you, it as the reference to Eugene O'Neill's play "Mourning Becomes Electra", about a figure from Greek Mythology.
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Old 10-25-2011, 10:13 AM
 
Location: Sacramento Mtns of NM
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Electra is it. Your turn.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” movie was released in 1974 and is still one of the most influential of the slasher B-movie genre. At one time it was actually banned from video because it was deemed too gruesome. The movie introduced, believe it or not, one of Hollywood’s best up and coming actresses, Texas born Renee Zellweger.

A few short months after the movie was released, there occurred in Austin a real-life event that "could" have been inspired by the movie. It garnered a LOT of publicity at the time, and during the trial of the perpetrator in 1975. Though convicted and sentenced to death, the trial was overturned due to improper search and seizure procedures and the perpetrator was set free. Years later there was enough NEW evidence to re-try, but the man died in 2003, before that could be accomplished.

What was the nature of the crime and who was tried and convicted?

Bonus points for the names of the known victims, whose remains have never been recovered.

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Old 10-25-2011, 01:37 PM
 
Location: Victoria TX
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Sounds like Robert Kleasen, with details answering your questions in these links:

Robert Elmer Kleasen (1933 - 2003) - Find A Grave Memorial

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Elmer_Kleason

By the way, I had a friend who lived in a neighboring farmhouse less than a mile from Ed Gein, and I visited him there a few months before Gein was exposed and arrested, still lurking nearby, oiling his chainsaw.

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Old 10-25-2011, 05:25 PM
 
Location: Sacramento Mtns of NM
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Sounds like Robert Kleasen
So what are we doing? Playing a game of one-on-one? ummm...make that "Horse."

Your turn again!

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Old 10-25-2011, 06:12 PM
 
Location: San Antonio
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ELECTRA WAGGONER BIGGS
I was stuck with Ulysses Grant Speed from San Angelo. He created the Buddy Holly sculpture in Lubbock. Knew it was wrong 'cause he's not a she. Also, I doubted neither the Opel or Porsche Speedster was named for him, nor Speed City USA (Daytona Beach, FL). :-D
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Old 10-25-2011, 10:13 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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So what are we doing? Playing a game of one-on-one?
I have been trying to join in, but have been distracted lately and have not caught a question where I had a clue. And Y'all are doing such a good job of keeping the game going on your own.

I do keep checking in and will be back.
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