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Old 03-05-2012, 08:21 PM
 
Location: The Magnolia City
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Let's just say Houston is an acquired taste and I never acquired it.

And one more thing for you newcomers who haven't been there very long: Just wait until the oil patch goes bust again, and it will.
For someone who loves Texas, I wouldn't think you'd be too thrilled about that happening.

Houston has no worries, either way. The "oil city" niche is dwindling a bit. We've got our hands in other facets of the energy industry, and the entire economy is diversifying.

Houston has proved to be one of the most resilient cities in the nation. Don't ever bet money on us staying down too long.
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Old 03-05-2012, 08:56 PM
 
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You know...the Texas which was unique, the Texas where Texan's were By Gawd Texan's in cowboy boots and hats; self-reliant, tough, unimpressed by false fronts, not the self-absorbed, whiney metro-sexuals in sneakers we have today.

This song, written as theme music for a TV special about Lyndon Johnson's Texas evokes that old Texas for me. If you never saw the Hill Country before Austin swallowed it up, you missed a taste of Texas which we'll never find again, but maybe you old timers will remember it when you hear this.


Hill Country Theme - YouTube
I like Bob Wills and the Texas Rangers, Willie and Waylon, Lucinda Williams, Lyle Lovett, the Dixie Chicks and a few dozen other Texas musicians, but the music in that clip is horrendous elevator muzak of the most repulsive kind. If that was the old Texas, I am HUGELY glad it is gone.
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Old 03-05-2012, 10:15 PM
 
Location: San Antonio
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You know...the Texas which was unique, the Texas where Texan's were By Gawd Texan's in cowboy boots and hats; self-reliant, tough, unimpressed by false fronts, not the self-absorbed, whiney metro-sexuals in sneakers we have today.

This song, written as theme music for a TV special about Lyndon Johnson's Texas evokes that old Texas for me. If you never saw the Hill Country before Austin swallowed it up, you missed a taste of Texas which we'll never find again, but maybe you old timers will remember it when you hear this.


Hill Country Theme - YouTube
Yup, now they're all into grommin' and all that fancy book learnin'.
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Old 03-05-2012, 10:28 PM
 
Location: Metromess
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I like that music a great deal, but I must say that since was the title music for the Texas Country Reporter TV series hosted by Bob Phillips, I associate it with that, which I like a great deal. But I'd probably like it anyway. The Boston Pops doesn't play Muzak (although I haven't liked everything I've heard them do).
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Old 03-18-2012, 08:33 PM
 
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Texas has been ruined by the people from up North and from California.
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Old 03-18-2012, 11:35 PM
 
Location: Metromess
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That was mean-spirited.

Many small towns in West Texas haven't changed much since the 1950s. I feel as though I'm time traveling when I visit some of them.
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Old 03-19-2012, 07:55 AM
 
Location: Where I live.
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That was mean-spirited.

Many small towns in West Texas haven't changed much since the 1950s. I feel as though I'm time traveling when I visit some of them.
Some of them have lost population and businesses in recent years, which just adds to that. It can get downright depressing, too!
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