Millionaire defendant publicly accepted Christ after third jury failed to convict him.Ĭowboy disco parking lot, Dallas. Good luck, Karen.Ĭullen Davis, Fort Worth. Supported her man on the witness stand became Cullen Davis’s wife. Your own bungalow, free coffee in the office, and mountain air, all for $14.42 a night. Willow furniture handmade by a clan of master craftsmen. Home of convicted criminal Oscar Wyatt, shady financier Frank Sharp, and failed presidential aspirant John Connally. Best schools, beautiful creek, astronomical property values outclasses murder-prone River Oaks. Runner-up: Jerry’s Hair-Um, Granbury.Įd Beheler, Waco. Radio broadcasts of tumultuous meetings rival Cowboys games in popularity.įarrah’s Fawcett Beauty Shop, Smithville. Recent election put real people-two blacks, one Mexican American, one eccentric-on council for first time in memory, thanks to single-member districts. Francesca Cuello’s pure Arabian stars in The Black Stallion.Ĭity Council, Dallas. Despite crippling auto accident, continues to excite audiences with brilliant sax solos, sometimes on crutches.Ĭass Olé, San Antonio. Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association’s Rookie of the Year for 1979.Īrnett Cobb, Houston. Fist-swinging boom-and-bust wildcatter was model for Jett Rink of Giant threw Best Party Ever for grand opening of his Shamrock Hotel. Imaginative documentaries and a news team that doesn’t try to be cute winner of two du Pont–Columbia awards, TV journalism’s Pulitzer prize. Cabins with fireplaces in the pines for $12 a night. Mata’s hauteur outclasses younger John Giordano, Fort Worth Symphony conductor.īastrop State Park. Best City Bakery: Sweetish Hill, Austin.Įduardo Mata, conductor, Dallas Symphony. Apple fritters baked fresh daily, date and raisin breads, and Alsatian specialties such as fruit stollen-a crescent-shaped coffee cake filled with apples, cherries, pineapple, blueberries, and apricots. Placed first in his high school graduating class in the Windham School District, Texas Department of Corrections. Looks like you’re riding through a park, and-alas-you are. 281 is end product of fourteen-year legal battle between city fathers and environmentalists. Houston’s outdoor masterpiece, the Orange Show, has outgrown the category: it is art. Wagon wheel fence, farm implement sculpture, and Lone Stars outlined in gravel. Most beloved recording: Bob Wills’s “San Antonio Rose.” Features animals, fruits, and vegetables, all known automotive and household notions, minimum of commercial dreck, dance band, food, beer, and a festival after 4 p.m.ĭogs Have Always Been My Friends, Lyndon Johnson and Yuki. Texas side produced Kathy Dawn Patrick, this year’s Miss New Mexico, who went to court to keep from being disqualified as a nonresident. New Mexico line runs right through the Line Bar. Former postmistress spent $15,000 to cover six-by-ten-foot window with 11,217 postage stamps, many of them rare.Īnthony, El Paso County. For 44 years, this classic has hauled two generations of Vicks to unclog drains.Įastland Post Office, Eastland. Spa in the desert is not on any map go to Ruidosa, turn north, and don’t give up.ġ935 Ford, Wayne Vick Plumbing, San Antonio. Everybody knows about the prominent Dallas arts figure caught flagrante delicto with a married culture maven, but nobody dares put it in writing, including us. Unofficially, Shuttle Chicanos Around Town. And if you turn the page, you’ll see that the Best-of Texas, that is-is yet to come.īest Name of a Chinese Restaurant Near Texas Looking over this new array of Bests, it seems that the last four years have been the best years of our lives after all. As for the others, my philosophy was to let the best man win, remembering that in the best of all possible worlds, the best things in life are free. They make up the Hall of Fame on page 118. Through the years and miles, a few 1976 Bests proved to be immutable. 83 from Brownsville to Perryton) and the Best Interstate (IH 10 from El Paso to Orange), and I can tell you the Best Pothole and the Best Filling Station and the Best Walnut Bowl for the price. In my search I averaged 1500 miles a month on the road and lived in the Trans-Pecos, the Piney Woods, the Panhandle, the ghetto, the barrio, and the barrier islands. So I went out anew to see what, aside from the price of oil and the governor’s political party, has changed across Texas in the last four years. That’s why we have the word in the first place, instead of the less precise “goodest.” Four years ago this month I chronicled the Best of Texas-150 of the best people, places, things, and Mexican food these 169 million acres have to offer. It may not be the best of times, but it is the time of bests.
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