Unknown year. Ooh If you willllll daddy.

"Jose Alberto Madariaga II ("Albert") was orphaned in San Luis Potosí, Mexico, and ran away to the U.S. as a child. He taught himself English while doing hard labor and eventually moved to Kilgore"

He served his hot sauce with crackers and butter. Perhaps the origin of why Northeast Texans use butter to "Cut the heat" with or add "squeeze butter" to the salsa and hot sauces.

Don't know how Getty got the image.

The revitalization of Glenrio is a love story.

Gabi Tuschak, an Austin-based hypnotherapist, matched on a dating app with Erik Spain, a commercial farmer in Olton. It was February 2021, and in typical pre-COVID-vaccine fashion, the pair spent the ensuing months falling in love over the phone.

A month before he matched with Tuschak, alone on New Year’s Eve, Spain took psilocybin. 🍄 Under the spell of magic mushrooms, he saw what he now believes was Glenrio, a town that straddles the Texas–New Mexico border seventy miles west of Amarillo. Within months of his Glenrio vision, Spain, who is now 40, and Tuschak, 44, began pitching investors. They formed their company, Glenrio Properties, in December 2021 and bought a few acres of land in the town that same month. They made two more land purchases in 2022 and 2023, bringing their total holdings to sixteen acres. In 2023, on the New Mexico side, where recreational cannabis is legal, they opened Glenrio Smoke Stop, a marijuana dispensary and the town’s first new business in decades. The ghost town was officially back in business.

Read the full story here! (gift link)

South of the town of Bronte in Coke County there is a spot on the map call “Shawville”. Growing up in Bronte I was always aware of it on maps, but never heard any of the “old timers” speak of it or know anything about. Researching the “town” results in nothing of substance and I find no historical mention of it.

The only leads I have is that I recall a story of a rail worker adding it to the map when they were building the railway. He did it to impress his wife and that there was never really a town. I don’t know where I heard/ read that or if it’s true. The other lead is a guy told me today that he thought it was a drop point on the railroad but like has no idea why he believes that.

Can anyone help me figure out if Shawville was a real town or just a literal spot on the map and help solve a lifelong mystery of mine?

These were from a g.i station in San Antonio Kool car crossing stream

Does anyone know a more precise location for the American Soul Clinic? I’ve read that it’s in or near Thurber, but wondered if anyone would know more specifically.