Displaced El Pasoan here.

[RiverRider]

So, you El Paso guys...wake up!

I just created an account here, and would love to maintain some kind of contact from my long lost hometown. I was born at Southwestern General, right at the southern tip of the mountain in the middle '50s. I don't want to tell my life story all at once but I'd sure like to talk about the area I grew up in and familiar things there. It's all waaaaaay different now but I have some great memories of people, places and things around there.

Anyone remember Starkey's Gun Shop?

 

[RiverRider]

Okay then...anyone remember Kirk's Gun Shop?

Is there any breathing soul left in EP or did everyone OD on the lithium in the water?

 

[cbp210]

I am technically not an El Paso resident but my dad lives there and I last visited him this last summer with my family. My daughter sometimes meet up with Desert 4H team members to shoot skeet and Trap.

 

[TexasFlash]

Born at the same hospital, same time frame. I miss shooting in the desert and great mexican food. Left in mid 90's and haven't had a good chile relleno since, lol. Welcome to the forum!

 

[Gordo]

El Paso has water?

 

[TexasFlash]

Go check it out... thousands of acres of irrigated fields raising primarily cotton, alfalfa, and pecans. The spanish missions in the area pre-date the ones in San Antonio, fyi. So I'm thinking, yeah, there's water.

 

[General Zod]

What part of NTX did you land in? It ain't so bad up here in NE Texas. Instead of Juarez we have Dallas.

 

[jimbo]

Hello and welcome

 

[Desert Citizen]

It do be pretty dead/slow on here. Hell, I haven't been on here for about a couple of months.

 

[RiverRider]

What part of NTX did you land in? It ain't so bad up here in NE Texas. Instead of Juarez we have Dallas.

Somewhere between Fort Worth and Decatur. It was country out here when I first saw it in 1996 and when I set up housekeeping here in 1998. It was still pretty much the same when I bought this place in the same locale in 2004...and now I hear the roar of Fort Worth coming nearer and nearer.

Screw this "progress" BS!

 

[General Zod]

Somewhere between Fort Worth and Decatur. It was country out here when I first saw it in 1996 and when I set up housekeeping here in 1998. It was still pretty much the same when I bought this place in the same locale in 2004...and now I hear the roar of Fort Worth coming nearer and nearer.

Screw this "progress" BS!

We've got the same shit going on out here - Dallas is creeping eastward steadily...and out here by Cedar Creek Lake we're starting to see it.

 

[RiverRider]

I have the feeling I'll be a refugee sometime in the next three or four years. I think I'll have a place to go down near San Saba...or I may head out west toward Graham or even way further---someplace like Post. I dunno. I just know I don't want Fort Worth in my face, and I damn sure don't want a place like El Paso in my face (even though I still love the area).

 

[Tnhawk]

We've got the same shit going on out here - Dallas is creeping eastward steadily...and out here by Cedar Creek Lake we're starting to see it.

Most cities spread like roaches in an apartment complex.

 

[TxStetson]

Somewhere between Fort Worth and Decatur. It was country out here when I first saw it in 1996 and when I set up housekeeping here in 1998. It was still pretty much the same when I bought this place in the same locale in 2004...and now I hear the roar of Fort Worth coming nearer and nearer.

Screw this "progress" BS!

I grew up in Wise County, and I’m still amazed at all the people and houses every time I go home.

 

[RiverRider]

I can imagine how shocking it is if you space your visits out six months at a time.

When I began my final job in 2006, I was commuting on 114 from southeast Wise County to Grapevine/Southlake weekday mornings and the drive was not bad at all. Highway 114 was still two lanes out here. As the months went by I began to notice increased traffic. Then the rate of increase accelerated and I could see it get worse and worse by the week---and I am not exaggerating. I worked for a great company and I loved my job (even though there were certain frustrations regarding certain aircraft operators), but the commute became so hellish in the afternoons I had to hang it up last summer. I just can't and WILL NOT take that crap.

Getting older and crankier by the day didn't help much either. LOL.

 

[mdf9183]

Welcome from Bastrop, Texas

 

[TxStetson]

I can imagine how shocking it is if you space your visits out six months at a time.

When I began my final job in 2006, I was commuting on 114 from southeast Wise County to Grapevine/Southlake weekday mornings and the drive was not bad at all. Highway 114 was still two lanes out here. As the months went by I began to notice increased traffic. Then the rate of increase accelerated and I could see it get worse and worse by the week---and I am not exaggerating. I worked for a great company and I loved my job (even though there were certain frustrations regarding certain aircraft operators), but the commute became so hellish in the afternoons I had to hang it up last summer. I just can't and WILL NOT take that crap.

Getting older and crankier by the day didn't help much either. LOL.

In 1986 I got a well paying job in Irving and commuted 5 days a week. It took me 55 minutes to get from Paradise to work, and 48 minutes to get home. I was working nights so I was always going the opposite direction of traffic. Now it takes longer than that just to get from South Lake to Grapevine.

 

[RiverRider]

Still in Paradise?

 

[TxStetson]

Still in Paradise?

No Sir. I’m in Abilene now. I left Paradise long ago.

 

[RiverRider]

Just as well, I guess. It won't be Paradise much longer.