• Start with a City beginning with A
    • This is BY STATE
    • Similar to the Tag contest, there will be one thread per state
    • Post a picture of your bike AND some sign, building etc which clearly shows the city/state you're in
    • The next person posts from a city with the name beginning with B, then C, D, etc
    • You can't posts back-to-back pics, you have to wait for a person to post the next city
    • Once Z is reached, the game starts over with A
    • If your state doesn't have a city beginning with the next letter in sequence, it's okay to skip that letter
    • If the location sits for more than one month, the person that posted that is open to move it to the next letter.

    The World Wide game is a bit different as it is by whatever is considered a geographic type of regional category, state/province/village etc. and all those will be in the single World Wide A-Z topic.

TX: A to Z (Round 16)

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Uncle Phil said:
Freeport -
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Took me a few seconds to get oriented (there's about 3-4 different bridges leading into Freeport).

If you turn around and go back the other way, turn left at traffic light, then 4-5 streets on your right, my wife's brother and his wife own a home there (and actively live there) up on stilts :)
There's a good seafood restaurant there too, a couple streets away.

Back in the early '70's, I practically lived down at that beach, back when I was a hard core surfer (I know, "what surf"?).

If you keep going the direction you're heading, about 10 minutes, my wife grew up in Lake Jackson (her retired mom still lives there!). Still go down every so often to visit family !!

Enjoy !!
 
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18FLHP said:
Old Dime Box

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I had to look up the history behind that one -

The community originated in either the late 1860s or early 1870s. The settlement was first known as Brown's Mill, but was later changed to Dime Box. The origin of the name "Dime Box" stemmed from a custom in which early settlers would use a large, wooden box to forward and receive mail, or order small items from a carrier on horseback traveling to nearby Giddings. In 1913, when the Southern Pacific Railroad built a line three miles southeast of the community, most of the residents and businesses moved to a site near the tracks. From that point onward, the original settlement became known as Old Dime Box and the new community was referred to as Dime Box or New Dime Box. A Texas Historical Marker was erected in 1968 that honored Old Dime Box as the second oldest community in Lee County.
 
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