How the world sees the USA and why
Jim Strong
strongjim@yahoo.com
Fri, 4 Jan 2002 11:03:25 -0800 (PST)
Branf em on bub. Sound like the makins" for a good
coffee table book for the barn.
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Billy Jim
--- Wayne Johnson <cadaobh2@brgnet.com> wrote:
> Jim Bob.
>
> Now wait just a cotton pickin' minute. Don't start
> telling me
> ole-boy-in-High School stories! Otherwise, I will
> just have to recall
> Ernest & Emory Goethe who ran the Walston Purina
> feed store down by the MKT
> railroad station in Georgetown. Ernest married one
> of the Palm sisters and
> Emory, well Emory sort of went "the other way."
> Still for a 6-4" 300# guy
> he was remarkably nice. At least nobody messed with
> him. Ernest and Ida Palm
> produced two sons, Martin Heidegger Bob and Lionel
> Feininger Bob who later
> became enamored of Hollywood and ran off to
> California never to be seen
> again. Martin Bob drove a really cool chopped &
> channeled green Mercury
> coupe with an awesome chromed Caddy engine. Willy
> Bob was more into
> bicycles which he built from old tractor parts.
> Ever seen a 900# bicycle?
> There was also a sister who looked like a cross
> between Marilyn Monroe and
> Kim Novak. I was madly in love with her as was the
> football team. Oh,
> well. I was the one who helped her past, er pass
> algebra. The old Goethe
> feed store now contains a Crown Book, a Victoria's
> Secrets and a Starbucks
> but many in Georgetown say that is progress. Many
> in Georgetown can now
> spell progress if you spot them the "p"s ,"r"s and
> "s"s.
>
> More tales of mythic central Texas of the '40s and
> '50s to follow if you are
> not careful.
>
> Freddie G. Williamson, UCWCT
>
> (Unofficial Chronicler of Williamson County, Texas.)
>
>
>
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The peace of the cosmos is infinite motion
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