Speed limit is 85mph. So not an autobahn with no posted speed limit…or a Saudi highway at 160kmh/100mph.
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It became a toll road while I was still living there. First couple of years, almost zero cops. It was wild and fast out there
Kind of still is...just a few more occasional cops. There were several places where hogs/deer crossed for years and they had numerous accidents. The crappy soils south of Lockhart also made for some "great jumps at 90+MPH" until they fixed them.trouble said:
It became a toll road while I was still living there. First couple of years, almost zero cops. It was wild and fast out there
I pay my fair share when I head south to avoid I-35
Texas County Courthouses:
129 Kaufman County, Kaufman, Texas
129 Kaufman County, Kaufman, Texas
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The Padgitt Family Contribution to the History of the Swiss Avenue Historical District:
J. D. Padgitt was the co-founder of Padgitt Brothers Manufacturing Company, the largest wholesale saddle manufacturer in America. He was also instrumental in organizing The State Fair of Texas. His family's presence on Swiss Avenue was not quite as prolific as was the Higginbothams, but it was significant, nonetheless. Mr. Padgitt built three impressive homes on the street. In 1912, he built a classic Prairie Style home at 4933 Swiss for his daughter. Five years later, he built his own High Prairie Style mansion at 4937 Swiss, designed by architect Charles P. Sites. And that same year, he built the Italian Renaissance Style home at 5421 Swiss, designed by famed architect Hal Thomson, as a wedding gift for his son, J. Durell Padgitt and J. Durell's wife, Mai Blanche.
Due to his expertise as a major leather-goods manufacturer, Mr. Padgitt designed and patented a medical saddle bag for use by the British and American Army during World War I. His contributions to the Allied war effort resulted in Mr. Padgitt receiving death threats from German sympathizers, which he ignored. The threats culminated in saboteurs posing as coal delivery men and dropping explosives through the coal chute in the basement of his home on Swiss Avenue. The saboteurs were spotted and apprehended a few blocks away and the plan was scuttled before the explosives could be detonated.
The Padgitt Family Contribution to the History of the Swiss Avenue Historical District:
J. D. Padgitt was the co-founder of Padgitt Brothers Manufacturing Company, the largest wholesale saddle manufacturer in America. He was also instrumental in organizing The State Fair of Texas. His family's presence on Swiss Avenue was not quite as prolific as was the Higginbothams, but it was significant, nonetheless. Mr. Padgitt built three impressive homes on the street. In 1912, he built a classic Prairie Style home at 4933 Swiss for his daughter. Five years later, he built his own High Prairie Style mansion at 4937 Swiss, designed by architect Charles P. Sites. And that same year, he built the Italian Renaissance Style home at 5421 Swiss, designed by famed architect Hal Thomson, as a wedding gift for his son, J. Durell Padgitt and J. Durell's wife, Mai Blanche.
Due to his expertise as a major leather-goods manufacturer, Mr. Padgitt designed and patented a medical saddle bag for use by the British and American Army during World War I. His contributions to the Allied war effort resulted in Mr. Padgitt receiving death threats from German sympathizers, which he ignored. The threats culminated in saboteurs posing as coal delivery men and dropping explosives through the coal chute in the basement of his home on Swiss Avenue. The saboteurs were spotted and apprehended a few blocks away and the plan was scuttled before the explosives could be detonated.
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This restroom presents one with all sorts of logistical problems...
This restroom presents one with all sorts of logistical problems...
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The best chance of not making a mess is to sit on it backwards!!!
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We sing Hallelujah! The Lamb has overcome!
We sing Hallelujah! The Lamb has overcome!
129
SH 129 was transferred to SH 23 in 1934.
SH 129 was transferred to SH 23 in 1934.
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STATE HIGHWAY SPUR NO. 129
Minute Order 109041, dated 09/26/2002; DesLtr3-2002, dated 09/27/2002
In Whitesboro, from US 377 at Locust St. eastward to SH 56, a distance of 0.265 mile. (Grayson County)
https://www.dot.state.tx.us/tpp/hwy/SS/SS0129.htm
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Historic Swiss Avenue Disrict Founding Family, Dallas, Texas
THE MUNGER FAMILY
When cotton-gin magnate and real-estate visionary Robert S. Munger developed the Munger Place neighborhood, he established Swiss Avenue as its centerpiece a boulevard of grand homes that would serve for decades as the exclusive enclave of the city's most prominent citizens. Mr. Munger himself never resided on Swiss Avenue, but several members of his family did.
Mr. Munger's son, Collett Munger, who was the manager-in-residence of his father's Munger Place development, owned the massive Prairie Style home at 5400 Swiss Avenue. Collett's brother, Hamilton Munger, an architect, lived directly across the street in the Eclectic Style home he designed and built at 5405 Swiss Avenue.
Munger's niece, Rena Munger Aldredge and her husband George Aldredge, owned the home at 5500 Swiss Avenue, a massive French Eclectic mansion with Beaux Arts details designed by Hal Thomson and originally built for Texas rancher, William J. Lewis as a wedding gift to his bride. Now known as The Aldredge House, it serves as the City of Dallas' first designated Historic House Museum. The entire house has been preserved inside and out, and is considered a pristine example of this city's rich and colorful history. The House, and Mrs. Aldredge, played a key role in the creation of the Swiss Avenue Historic District by providing an early preview of what the neighborhood would one day become. .
Historic Swiss Avenue Disrict Founding Family, Dallas, Texas
THE MUNGER FAMILY
When cotton-gin magnate and real-estate visionary Robert S. Munger developed the Munger Place neighborhood, he established Swiss Avenue as its centerpiece a boulevard of grand homes that would serve for decades as the exclusive enclave of the city's most prominent citizens. Mr. Munger himself never resided on Swiss Avenue, but several members of his family did.
Mr. Munger's son, Collett Munger, who was the manager-in-residence of his father's Munger Place development, owned the massive Prairie Style home at 5400 Swiss Avenue. Collett's brother, Hamilton Munger, an architect, lived directly across the street in the Eclectic Style home he designed and built at 5405 Swiss Avenue.
Munger's niece, Rena Munger Aldredge and her husband George Aldredge, owned the home at 5500 Swiss Avenue, a massive French Eclectic mansion with Beaux Arts details designed by Hal Thomson and originally built for Texas rancher, William J. Lewis as a wedding gift to his bride. Now known as The Aldredge House, it serves as the City of Dallas' first designated Historic House Museum. The entire house has been preserved inside and out, and is considered a pristine example of this city's rich and colorful history. The House, and Mrs. Aldredge, played a key role in the creation of the Swiss Avenue Historic District by providing an early preview of what the neighborhood would one day become. .
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Texas County Courthouses:
128 Karnes County, Karnes City, Texas
128 Karnes County, Karnes City, Texas
128
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STATE HIGHWAY NO. 128
Minute Order 090669, dated 08/29/1990; Adm. Ltr. 003-1990, dated 12/18/1990
From the Texas/New Mexico State Line eastward approximately 13.8 miles to FM 703. (Andrews County)
https://www.dot.state.tx.us/tpp/hwy/SH/SH0128.htm
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Wow that's like Knox level bad...
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3 Moon Rev.
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Swiss Avenue Historic District
Founders:
THE NEIMAN-MARCUS FAMILY
Theodore Marcus was among the first members of the world-renowned Marcus Family to settle in Texas. His brother, Stanley, followed him to Hillsboro, Texas from Louisville, Kentucky and by 1899, both men had relocated to Dallas. After taking a variety of janitorial and retail jobs to escape economic hardship, Stanley eventually rose to the position of buyer at the Sanger Brothers clothing store. In 1907, Stanley co-founded Neiman-Marcus along with his and Theodore's sister, Carrie Marcus Neiman, and Carrie's husband, Abraham Lincoln (A.L.) Neiman. At the time, both Carrie and A.L. were employed at Sanger Brothers competitor, A. Harris & Co., which later merged with Sanger Brothers to form Sanger-Harris.
In 1920, Theodore moved into a handsome, three-story, dark-red-brick Prairie Style mansion on Swiss Avenue. His sister Carrie Marcus Neiman and her husband, A.L. Neiman lived just a half block away, at the corner of Swiss Avenue and Skillman Street, in an immense Tudor Style manor built in 1922.
Swiss Avenue Historic District
Founders:
THE NEIMAN-MARCUS FAMILY
Theodore Marcus was among the first members of the world-renowned Marcus Family to settle in Texas. His brother, Stanley, followed him to Hillsboro, Texas from Louisville, Kentucky and by 1899, both men had relocated to Dallas. After taking a variety of janitorial and retail jobs to escape economic hardship, Stanley eventually rose to the position of buyer at the Sanger Brothers clothing store. In 1907, Stanley co-founded Neiman-Marcus along with his and Theodore's sister, Carrie Marcus Neiman, and Carrie's husband, Abraham Lincoln (A.L.) Neiman. At the time, both Carrie and A.L. were employed at Sanger Brothers competitor, A. Harris & Co., which later merged with Sanger Brothers to form Sanger-Harris.
In 1920, Theodore moved into a handsome, three-story, dark-red-brick Prairie Style mansion on Swiss Avenue. His sister Carrie Marcus Neiman and her husband, A.L. Neiman lived just a half block away, at the corner of Swiss Avenue and Skillman Street, in an immense Tudor Style manor built in 1922.
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Texas County Courthouses:
127 Jones County, Anson, Texas
127 Jones County, Anson, Texas
127
Quote:
STATE HIGHWAY NO. 127
Minute Order 016701, dated 09/26/1939
From a point on US 83 west of Concan via Concan to Sabinal. (Uvalde County)
https://www.dot.state.tx.us/tpp/hwy/SH/SH0127.htm
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Texas County Courthouses:
126 Johnson County, Cleburne, Texas
126 Johnson County, Cleburne, Texas
Days Left: 126
Last of the Swiss Avenue Historical District---Dallas, Texas
THE Magnolia oil families
you worked in upper management at the Magnolia Petroleum Company at the turn of the 20th Century, there's a good chance you lived on Swiss Avenue. In fact, legend has it that the name of the company was inspired by the view of a large Magnolia tree that the company founder would gaze at each morning from the breakfast-room window of his home on Swiss Avenue. But since the company was originally founded in Galveston, we suspect that story may be more fiction than fact
The President of Magnolia Petroleum, George C. Greer, lived in an Italiante Style home with Georgian details at 5439 Swiss Avenue. The Chairman of the Board and his wife, Mr. And Mrs. Edwy Rolfe Brown, lived at 5314 Swiss Avenue. Mrs. Brown hired renowned architect Hal Thompson to design and build a home for the Brown Family that resembled an Italian Villa because she felt that style fit well with the Dallas climate. Benjamin Stephens, the founder of Magnolia Petroleum Company, built his home at 5634 Swiss Avenue. He was also Director of Mercantile National Bank and Dallas Federal Savings and Loan, and was a political adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II. Frederick M. Lege, Jr., the first President of Magnolia Pipeline Company, a subsidiary of Magnolia Petroleum, lived at 5302 Swiss.
All of these homes on Swiss were within just a few minutes' trolley ride of the Magnolia Petroleum Building on Commerce Street. The company's original Magnolia Flower logo continued to be used after Magnolia was acquired by Standard Oil Company of New York (Socony) in 1925 as well as after Socony
merged with Vacuum Oil Company to became Socony-Vacuum Oil in 1931. Socony-Vacuum later adopted as its logo the image used on Magnolia's "Red Flying Horse" brand of retail petroleum products, the mythic Greek figure known as Pegasus. Pegasus went on to become not only the iconic logo for Mobil Oil Corporation (now Exxon Mobil Corporation), but the official mascot of the City of Dallas.
Last of the Swiss Avenue Historical District---Dallas, Texas
THE Magnolia oil families
you worked in upper management at the Magnolia Petroleum Company at the turn of the 20th Century, there's a good chance you lived on Swiss Avenue. In fact, legend has it that the name of the company was inspired by the view of a large Magnolia tree that the company founder would gaze at each morning from the breakfast-room window of his home on Swiss Avenue. But since the company was originally founded in Galveston, we suspect that story may be more fiction than fact
The President of Magnolia Petroleum, George C. Greer, lived in an Italiante Style home with Georgian details at 5439 Swiss Avenue. The Chairman of the Board and his wife, Mr. And Mrs. Edwy Rolfe Brown, lived at 5314 Swiss Avenue. Mrs. Brown hired renowned architect Hal Thompson to design and build a home for the Brown Family that resembled an Italian Villa because she felt that style fit well with the Dallas climate. Benjamin Stephens, the founder of Magnolia Petroleum Company, built his home at 5634 Swiss Avenue. He was also Director of Mercantile National Bank and Dallas Federal Savings and Loan, and was a political adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II. Frederick M. Lege, Jr., the first President of Magnolia Pipeline Company, a subsidiary of Magnolia Petroleum, lived at 5302 Swiss.
All of these homes on Swiss were within just a few minutes' trolley ride of the Magnolia Petroleum Building on Commerce Street. The company's original Magnolia Flower logo continued to be used after Magnolia was acquired by Standard Oil Company of New York (Socony) in 1925 as well as after Socony
merged with Vacuum Oil Company to became Socony-Vacuum Oil in 1931. Socony-Vacuum later adopted as its logo the image used on Magnolia's "Red Flying Horse" brand of retail petroleum products, the mythic Greek figure known as Pegasus. Pegasus went on to become not only the iconic logo for Mobil Oil Corporation (now Exxon Mobil Corporation), but the official mascot of the City of Dallas.
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