Meanwhile the “sleeping giant” 107 miles to the east has been in an 85 year coma.
My great grandfather (born in 1862) was alive to see their last, and only, claimed MNC in the big 3 sports.
Interesting - but I didn’t notice that in the photo.
In retrospect I am disappointed I never took a picture of my A.
All I have left of it is the chromed metal logo that was on the panel where the radio was to be installed.
That ‘59 MGA 1600, except for the wire wheels, looks just like the 1960 roadster I drove from 1964 until 1967.
Paid $900 for it from a UT law grad, sold it to an airman out at Bergstrom AFB for $600.
The MG TD reminds me of the dock full of new MG TF roadsters that had just been offloaded from a British freighter in New York harbor in 1954 - as we were passing by on a US Navy transport ship from Puerto Rico.
There must have been a couple hundred brand-spankin’ new ones all lined up in rows.
My good Brit friend was a Chinook crew chief in the Falkllands War.
Trouble was, he didn’t have a Chinook to crew chief with….after the Argentines sank the freighter carrying it and several others before unloading them.
45 years ago Mrs. Brat’s father died at home alone in his bed in Dallas, and his body wasn’t discovered for a week.
By the time we arrived on the scene the next day, some relatives had cleaned up most of the bloody mess after his body had been removed. However, I and my son carried the fouled mattress to the back yard. I’ll never forget that awful smell.
Necrobump…..
Booby Reed, a friend of my brother at the U. of Texas in 1957-58, played guitar for a local band that opened for Elvis when he appeared at the old Skyline Ballroom in Austin in 1955 (before he was a national hit).
When my family settled in Austin in 1959, Bobby’s dad showed me a photo of his son standing next to Elvis.
While Elvis went on to national fame, Bobby became a petroleum engineer and worked in Saudi Arabia for decades.
Here’s a history article about Elvis playing in several Austin joints early in his career
https://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2015-12-25/folk-music-fireball/
Read in more detail here about Sherrill’s blatant cheating in this Barking Carnival article. And reference it the next time one of those ignorant goobers runs his mouth about the “evil” tu wrecking the SWC.
https://www.barkingcarnival.com/2008/07/24/the-history-of-college-football-recruiting-cheating-part-9
Excellent tacos & enchiladas for midafternoon dinner at Mamma Betty’s this afternoon.
The margaritas were great and pretty strong, but apparently too much for the drowned fly I fished out of mine…