Driving onto Galveston Island via the San Luis Pass Bridge (which no longer charges a toll), there is construction going on everywhere. It's rather startling if you haven't been on west Galveston Island in a while.
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- Past & Present, W.Falls-Houston
- Two of my former roommates, lounging in what's lef...
- Possum Kingdom Lake, North Texas, late 1970s. He s...
- Bluegrass festival, Oklahoma, late 1970s.
- Fiddle player, bluegrass festival, Oklahoma, late ...
- The solar-powered Lake Jackson sign @ 65 mph.
- Main Street, near Rice University, Houston.
- Public Service Announcement, median of Highway 288...
- The statue of Dick Dowling, Hermann Park, Houston.
- Half-Price Books in The Village, Houston.
- This is a Kugel Ball.
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- Sam Houston, aka "The Raven."
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- The Children's Museum, Houston.
- A skater on the Galveston Seawall, early 1980s.
- The Water Wall, with downtown Houston in the backg...
- Ride on, easy rider. Loop 610 South, Houston.
- Hubcaps at Rollo's Racing on Richmond, in Houston.
- Skateboarder & seagulls, Galveston, Tx., early 1980s.
- Cowboy at the rodeo, Wichita Falls, Tx., late 1970s.
- Post-tornado landscape, Wichita Falls, Tx., 1979.
- Rodeo, Wichita Falls, Tx., late 1970s.
- Horse excrement at Dickens On The Strand festival,...
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- Goose Creek oil field, Baytown, Tx., late 1970s. M...
- Skateboarders on the seawall in Galveston, circa e...
- From the archives
- Kinky Friedman in Houston
- People waited for well over an hour to have Kinky ...
- Across the street from the bookstore, this banner ...
- Kinky bumper stickers, Kinky posters. It's all par...
- With his non-signing hand, Kinky took a moment to ...
- Kinky closes the deal with a handshake.
- Education, Lake Jackson-style
- Check out these colonnades. When you build an inte...
- When there's an exclamation point at the end of a ...
- Demolition of the old Lake Jackson Intermediate Sc...
- Photoblogging "Casablanca" (1942)
- "I remember every detail. The Germans wore gray. Y...
- "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the...
- "I blow with the wind, and the prevailing wind hap...
- "Have you tried 22 tonight?"
- "I wouldn't bring up Paris. It's poor salesmanship."
- "Go ahead and shoot. You'll be doing me a favor."
- "I don't know what's right any longer. You'll have...
- "Here's looking at you, kid."
- "Ricky, I'm going to miss you. You're the only per...
- "Remember, this gun is pointed right at your heart...
- "What about us?"
- "We'll always have Paris."
- Welcome to the fight, indeed.
- Ka-pow
- "Major Strasser has been shot. Round up the usual ...
- "Louie, I think this is the beginning of a beautfu...
- "Six Chairs In A Yellow Dining Room"
- Bird's nest on the ground
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- Two of the baby birds died. One of them was snatch...
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- My Back Pages, Galveston edition
- This is part of the construction site for Sunset C...
- Looking toward the mainland, that's West Bay in th...
- Cows still graze on some parts of the west Galvest...
- Real big kites are sold in Galveston. You always s...
- Looking west from the end of the seawall, there's ...
- At the farthest west end of the seawall, a couple ...
- A tanker moves up the ship channel.
- All about Fort Point/Fort San Jacinto.
- The far east end of the Seawall is a good spot to ...
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- I include this photo of the Sandpiper Motel only b...
- The Bishop's Palace. Open for tours. Worth the pri...
- Tourists crossing The Strand.
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- This is a Mardis Gras arch that stays up year-roun...
- The Galveston County Courthouse. There's more lyin...
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- The Stewart Title Building is one of the more attr...
- If you ever have an hour or two to kill in downtow...
- I bought this house on Avenue P near 29th Street a...
- There's a row of apartments above this little shop...
- Here on 45th Street once stood the Galveston Burea...
- Gaido's is a famous (for Galveston) restaurant loc...
- We happened upon a woman in a white dress who was ...
- Death in the Afternoon, otherwise known as Shopping
- Galleria skylight.
- Never underestimate the rejuvenative effects of a ...
- The sales pitch comes in many shapes and sizes. An...
- Could this somehow be construed as a political sta...
- Sharp-dressed dummies? Or alien life forms sent to...
- Amazing. A business empire that all began with a m...
- It's important to begin indoctrinating the young a...
- Et tu, Brute? Come here often? Speaka the English?
- Jewelry for sale. Bobbles, bangles. Ridiculous bob...
- This young lady showed all the earmarks of being i...
- Tara Lipinski sometimes works out on the Galleria ...
- It beats jogging.
- Tiny dancers on the ice.
- When you run a business that caters to the public,...
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