This street is in the tiny unincorporated town of Reagan, Tx. The “town” was started in the 1800’s and has no relation to the former president.
I am guessing the there are possibly fewer than 1000 residents. Certainly fewer than 5000.
This “town” does not have a Walmart. Possibly even no gas station.
Next time I drive thru, I’m going to explore this street. I wonder is there also a Forklift Meandering Way.
I actually like this street name. I am really tired of the Ye Olde Phony English street names that fill every new subdivision. I wish the various county commissioners would force new street names to reflect local features and local history, rather than all coming from the tiresome “nature” names (wood, stream, meadow etc) and the equally tiresome upper-class English naming traditions.
This street name may have been around a while, but the sign is new.
This street branches off from State Highway 6 directly across the highway from this beloved landmark:
Buddy Holly is from Lubbock, and the Stones sax player Bobby Keys was born in tiny Slayton, TX, inside the county.
Several friends and my nephew-in-law graduated from Tx Tech which is there
(The relation in question is slowly going all burnt-orange tho).
TX Tech did well the rec itent NCAA-M tourney! Final 2!
(I have relatives who are alumni of both TT and UVA, so I got to root for both teams at the same time!)
Is on the way to NM! (One of the finest places on the planet for hiking and for getting a feel for what Tony Hillerman calls “Indian Country”.)
@compunaut@f00l As with the town I grew up in, I believe Lubbock is a great place to be FROM! I have been there on a coupe of occasions…once on purpose, once passing through to New Mexico. Texas Tech is famous…they even have their own STD…the Raider Rash.
@f00l@tightwad
Looks like my oldest will be attending TxTech this fall, what with scholarship offer & admission to Connections for Academic Success and Employment (CASE), part of the Burkhart Center for Autism Education & Research (College of Education). Hoping to avoid making that drive more than once/twice per semester. Maybe I need to invest in a camper
I absolutely cannot believe that Reagan has made its way into the zeitgeist of the Mehtropolis. For reasons no one else will understand, I am duty bound to mention that Reagan is beautiful at night when it’s all lit up. Also, I agree with @f00l about that drive. It’s one of my favorites. Just don’t speed through Riesel, those cops have itchy siren-switch fingers.
Curiosity got the best of me whilst waiting for a store to open…
Google is sometimes our friend.
That sign appears to be a bow to the local Chamber of Comerce’s deference to a likely important member, “Texas Pneumatic Tools” (that spite behind the sign), located on that road.
(Apologies for the typos and individual posts rather than replies to my own - the forum doesn’t like my iPhone and does not show the format tool on replies.)
“It finally dawned on us that Bevo was more of a liability than an asset,” the former athletic director Bellmont told the Statesman in 1932. “After leaving him on the Iglehart ranch for nearly a year he was brought into town again, slaughtered and barbecued.”
I’ve always (within the space of my personal memory) known about how the Aggies branded Bevo with their winning score “13-0” from one year’s game.
And about how the first Bevo (which, it is said, looked the part, bit was far too wild to be a publicly presented mascot, was served up as the main course at a Longhorn-Aggie banquet.
(I have in my family a long generational history of football fans and UT alums.)
(A lead-up goes over how the steer came to be a mascot for the first time. The steer was a nearly fully wild one, brought in from West Texas.)
With the football season [1916] over, the steer remained in South Austin while UT students discussed what to do with him. The Texan newspaper favored branding the longhorn with a large “T” on one side and “21 - 7” on the other as a permanent reminder of the Texas victory. Others were opposed, citing animal cruelty, and wondered if the steer might be tamed so that it could roam and graze on the Forty Acres.
The debate was abruptly settled early on Sunday morning, February 12, 1917. A group of four Texas A & M students equipped “with all the utensils for steer branding” broke into the South Austin stockyard at 3:00am. There was a struggle, but the Aggies were able to brand the longhorn “13 - 0,” which was the score of the 1915 football game A & M had won in College Station.
Only a week later, amid rumors that the Aggies planned to kidnap the animal outright, the longhorn was removed to a ranch sixty miles west of Austin. Within two months, the United States entered World War I, and the University community turned its attention to the conflict in Europe. Out of sight and away from Austin, the branded steer was all but forgotten until the end of the war in November 1919. Since food and care for the animal was costing the University fifty cents a day, and because the steer wasn’t believed to be tame enough to roam the campus or remain in the football stadium, it was fattened up and became the barbecued main course for the January 1920 football banquet. The Aggies were invited to attend, served the side they had branded, and were presented with the hide, which still read “13 - 0.”
Kind of an odd thing to name a road. Is it significant in any way?
Pneumatic tools are handy.
This street is in the tiny unincorporated town of Reagan, Tx. The “town” was started in the 1800’s and has no relation to the former president.
I am guessing the there are possibly fewer than 1000 residents. Certainly fewer than 5000.
This “town” does not have a Walmart. Possibly even no gas station.
Next time I drive thru, I’m going to explore this street. I wonder is there also a Forklift Meandering Way.
I actually like this street name. I am really tired of the Ye Olde Phony English street names that fill every new subdivision. I wish the various county commissioners would force new street names to reflect local features and local history, rather than all coming from the tiresome “nature” names (wood, stream, meadow etc) and the equally tiresome upper-class English naming traditions.
This street name may have been around a while, but the sign is new.
This street branches off from State Highway 6 directly across the highway from this beloved landmark:
Www.aggiebarn.com
@f00l
The “town” is in well watered farm and ranch country. Not at all near a city. Rather nice looking (from the highway), but not in a historical way.
@f00l I’ve driven that way on the way to Hearne (Blue Moon BBQ: Texas Monthly Top 50) and to College Station. Can’t say that I remember Reagan.
I’ve also driven from Ft W to Lubbock & back (2 different paths) - I swear the GPS was set to ‘visit every hick town possible’.
@compunaut
This is the most common “hick town” route from FW to Lubbock.
I quite enjoy this drive.
Now Lubbock itself could really use some trees and landscaping …
@compunaut @f00l The only problem with the drive from Ft. Worth to Lubbock is that you end up in Lubbock!
@compunaut @tightwad
Well, yes.
But I’ve had good times there.
Buddy Holly is from Lubbock, and the Stones sax player Bobby Keys was born in tiny Slayton, TX, inside the county.
Several friends and my nephew-in-law graduated from Tx Tech which is there
(The relation in question is slowly going all burnt-orange tho).
TX Tech did well the rec itent NCAA-M tourney! Final 2!
(I have relatives who are alumni of both TT and UVA, so I got to root for both teams at the same time!)
Is on the way to NM! (One of the finest places on the planet for hiking and for getting a feel for what Tony Hillerman calls “Indian Country”.)
Anyway, Lubbock is on the way to somewhere.
Poor Lubbock!
/image Lubbock
@compunaut @f00l As with the town I grew up in, I believe Lubbock is a great place to be FROM! I have been there on a coupe of occasions…once on purpose, once passing through to New Mexico. Texas Tech is famous…they even have their own STD…the Raider Rash.
@f00l @tightwad
Looks like my oldest will be attending TxTech this fall, what with scholarship offer & admission to Connections for Academic Success and Employment (CASE), part of the Burkhart Center for Autism Education & Research (College of Education). Hoping to avoid making that drive more than once/twice per semester. Maybe I need to invest in a camper
@f00l @tightwad Santa Fe & Taos, NM are 2 of my favorite places in the whole country! But they’re much farther north; closer to Amarillo than Lubbock.
I once found a road called ‘Cash Back Bonus Boulevard’…
@PooltoyWolf
Not terribly far from Reagan, TX are the “twin towns” of Dime Box, Tx, and Old Dime Box, Tx.
These town names seemed to facinate all the kids in our family.
These are not large metropoli.
@f00l Also highly amusing!
@f00l @PooltoyWolf No dime bags? Ah, probably not in Texas.
@Fuzzalini @PooltoyWolf
We have had our for share of Dime Bags.
Most notably, this one:
“Dime Bag Darrell”, named at birth Darrell Lance Abbot, lead guitarist of Pantera and Damageplan
Unfortunately, he (at age 38) and several other persons were murdered in 2004 by a deranged fan.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimebag_Darrell
@f00l @PooltoyWolf What a sad story. I’m not a metal fan, but he sounds like he was one of the great ones.
I absolutely cannot believe that Reagan has made its way into the zeitgeist of the Mehtropolis. For reasons no one else will understand, I am duty bound to mention that Reagan is beautiful at night when it’s all lit up. Also, I agree with @f00l about that drive. It’s one of my favorites. Just don’t speed through Riesel, those cops have itchy siren-switch fingers.
@sixstringslim
Best not speed thru any small town in this part of the country.
But the Reisel police are extra notable.
Altho, if one does, the locals will be happy to increase their revenue at the driver’s expense.
Indeed, looks like a charming town.
Curiosity got the best of me whilst waiting for a store to open…
Google is sometimes our friend.
That sign appears to be a bow to the local Chamber of Comerce’s deference to a likely important member, “Texas Pneumatic Tools” (that spite behind the sign), located on that road.
*spire
“Driving” tee wrong way on Hwy6, can see the Aggie barn on the right.
@RedOak Apparently Reagan, Texas is home to a couple of arrow-shaped UFOs!
@therealjrn haha, yep, to get the conspiracies amped up, those are Google UFOs.
@RedOak @therealjrn
Re UFOs
We can only hope!
@RedOak @therealjrn I heard they were Amazon delivery drones.
@blaineg @therealjrn actually, since this was a Google Maps street view image, wouldn’t it more likely be a Google sister, Wings delivery drone?
After turning into Pneumatic Tool Drive. (The sign must be new as @f00l notes, it is not apparent on Google Street View.)
@RedOak
Woah! And there you are!
(Apologies for the typos and individual posts rather than replies to my own - the forum doesn’t like my iPhone and does not show the format tool on replies.)
A&M and Texas Tech in the same thread Should I choose sides now, or later?
@phendrick
Prepare to be eaten by Bevo.
/image bevo
@f00l Isn’t that reversed? I thought Bevo was the guest of honor (as in, the main course) at a barbecue.
Excerpt from https://www.kut.org/post/century-ago-longhorn-fans-hated-bevo-and-eventually-barbecued-him,
“It finally dawned on us that Bevo was more of a liability than an asset,” the former athletic director Bellmont told the Statesman in 1932. “After leaving him on the Iglehart ranch for nearly a year he was brought into town again, slaughtered and barbecued.”
@phendrick
Modern day Bevos don’t get eaten. They eat.
I’ve always (within the space of my personal memory) known about how the Aggies branded Bevo with their winning score “13-0” from one year’s game.
And about how the first Bevo (which, it is said, looked the part, bit was far too wild to be a publicly presented mascot, was served up as the main course at a Longhorn-Aggie banquet.
(I have in my family a long generational history of football fans and UT alums.)
Here is a source that explains what went on.
https://web.archive.org/web/20150301172854/http://www.texasexes.org/uthistory/traditions.aspx?tradition=bevo
(A lead-up goes over how the steer came to be a mascot for the first time. The steer was a nearly fully wild one, brought in from West Texas.)