Fort Worth Spirit in Letters and Local Lore
A reader notes Fort Worth embodies Texas spirit more than any big city, citing TCU Horned Frogs and Davey OBrien, the Fat Stock Show and rodeo, mule auctions and cowboys, and the World War memorial grave site in England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boyce House
Fort Worth
Naal
Texas
Bert Worth
Texas Christian Unirsity Horned Frogs
Davey O’brien
Fortarth
Cowtown
Exas
Imail
Vernon Cane
England
Fortorth
Amor Carter
Thia
Presa
Hidden convent and Puebla sights linger in travel notes
Descriptive travel writing recalls the Lantex Theatre sunlit interior and a hidden convent with secret doors and a last supper tableau. It moves to El Rosario chapel, Puebla tilework, the 300-year Hotel Arrante lunch, and central park scenes with market vendors. The piece ends with a tax history note on Texas shifting from property to sales taxes over 18 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
el Rosario
Ualtar
Arrante
San Angelo
Texas
Hopalong Cassidy Stars in In Old Mexico Western
William Boyd as Hopalong Cassidy headlines the Paramount western In Old Mexico. The piece describes a grand exterior and an ornate interior cathedral like setting with a dim atmosphere and vaulted ceiling painted with canvases, conveying a majestic cinematic mood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hopalong. Cassidy
Old Mexico
Onyx Baptismal Font Adorns Cathedral Chapel
An ornate baptismal font carved from a single onyx block anchors a central chapel in the cathedral. Priests chant before the great altar set against heavenward imagery of angels and archangels slicing through clouds as a visitor wanders outside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Angela
Archangels
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Puebla
Old
E. Chesnut Insurance All Kinds
Llano, Texas
C. P. Gresham
Llano
San Saba
Hatchery
Ban Saba
Percy Crosby
Waseph
Lantex Theatre
Ahopa
Pueblace
Darkey
Mexico
Rockwell, Bros. & Co
Otto Holtzer, Mer
Dick Powell
Anita Louise
Norma Shearer
Lantex
Theatre Screen
Clark Gablele
Jefmie Medlock
Archer
Just
Miss Beveridge
Lansing
Mich
Ratliff Motor Company
Miers
Undertaker
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