Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jeff--this was a one-room schoolhouse slightly north of the quarry that is before the bridge over the Canadian as you head for Old Tascosa. Years later, I went back to find it had been converted into a residence. The last time I looked, the quarry had expanded and the house was, I believe, gone. I have been slightly misleading, I guess, in saying it is at Old Tascosa. I'm not sure that intersection of Boys Ranch Road (1061) and 385 has a name, but I believe the Burlington RR calls it "Tascosa." I have fond, fond memories of Boys Ranch. The rodeo there is the first place I took what could be called a picture story. I have returned many times, and I never go there without feeling that old excitement. Lordy, how I wish I could have shown these photos to Buck Ramsey before he died. --Bill ----- Original Message ---- From: Jeff Matsler <jeffmatsler@amaonline.com> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 8:22:02 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] Panhandle: A one-room schoolhouse in Old Tascosa Bill, Wow. When I was medically retired from the Army in 2000, I became the Sr. Chaplain at Cal Farley's Boys Ranch - located on the site of the ghost town, Tascosa. If you shot this in '62, you are very familiar with Cal Farley's and probably with the old man himself. If you were a newspaperman in Amarillo, you surely knew of Cal. I don't know if his radio show was still on in the 60's or not. This school house now sits 30 yards behind my former abode (they've moved it from its original site, where you took this image in '62), directly behind the Chapel - neither of which would have been there when you were around, if this picture represents the last time you were in Tascosa, now simply called Boys Ranch (and officially by the USPS). Suffice to day the schoolhouse now resides approximately 150 yards NNE of the old courthouse. I'm amazed at the amount of interconnectedness of these shots and my own - although these prints of yours are by far the better - and of the apparent interconnectedness of our experiences and interests, albeit 35 years separates them. Please keep showing these Bill. These images from the past are the way I see my native countryside when I look out upon it today. Sometimes I wish it still looked like your photos instead of what I more frequently see in mine. Jeff M ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Clough" <bill_clough@yahoo.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <LUG@leica-users.org> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 7:41 PM Subject: [Leica] Panhandle: A one-room schoolhouse in Old Tascosa > USA > TEXAS > CORPUS CHRISTI > 18 April 2007 > > Hi there-- > > Here is the latest Texas Panhandle submission: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Bill1941/Panhandle/Tascosa+School2-0184+1962.jpg.html > > Panhandle Index: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Bill1941/Panhandle/ > > Complete Index: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Bill1941/ > > --Bill > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information