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THE DAY EKELUND & I MET THE HOTEL'S NEW MANAGER

posted 3 months ago, updated 3 minutes later | 1 comment
The Day Oscar Ekelund and I Met the Hotel’s New Manager

By Bill Cherry

Moments before, George Mitchell had finished up the stuff necessary for him to buy the long out of business flop house called the Belmont Hotel.

It sat on the northwest corn...

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DALLAS HARPIST - PATTY CHERRY

posted 3 months ago | 0 comments
Patty's my wife, and she's one whale of a musician. She's a great classical pianist and harpist.

She plays for dallas weddings, dinner parties, receptions, afternoon teas...even funerals.

After all, harp music is the choice of angels. You can re...

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TO PRESIDENTS HAVING LUNCH

posted 11 months ago, updated 4 minutes later | 0 comments
My friend, Houston radio program guru, Brent Clanton, wrote this story, and I asked him if I could share it with you.

Brent owns Clanton Communications, LLC, which produces and hosts CBS Radio's "Talk650 Morning Show" on KIKK-AM in Houston.

(Pre...

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HOW NOT TO SELL NEW YORK -- Complements of HGTV

posted 11 months ago | 1 comment
Have you seen the program on the HGTV channel called "Selling New York?"

The viewers get to see a handful of agents who specialize in Manhattan ultra-expensive high-rise apartments.

In a box as each segment begins is the name of the agent and ag...

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Professor "Old Test Tube" Took Texas' First X-Rays

posted 11 months ago, updated 3 minutes later | 0 comments
(From my monthly columns in www.texasescapes.com)

UTMB Professor “Old Test Tube” Took the First X-Ray Ever Taken in Texas

The only one of the original 1891 faculty of the University of Texas Medical Branch who graduated from the University of Te...

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A GAME OF OLD MAID TO DIE FOR

posted 11 months ago, updated 5 minutes later | 0 comments
ARSENIC & OLD LACE

Arsenic and Old Lace is one of those Broadway stage plays that has been around for decades.

Legitimate theaters, college drama classes, even high school senior play groups have staged the play time and time again, and it...

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SHOULD GALVESTON ISLAND ASK FOR CASINOS?

posted about 1 year ago, updated 15 minutes later | 2 comments
A Primer of the Island’s Experience with Gambling’s Past

By Bill Cherry

Once again, there are those who hope that legislation allowing casino gambling in Texas will be introduced in this session, and that it will be approved.

<<<===Sam...

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International Piano Supply, Inc., Astoria Oregon.

posted about 1 year ago, updated 26 minutes later | 0 comments
By way of background, I have been a professional pianist since 1962, and I've tuned pianos for almost that same amount of time.

YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THIS COMPANY

There is a mail order piano technicians supply house in Astoria, Oregon, Internati...

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SISTER VERESSA. VOODOO PRIESTESS WITH EXTREE POWER

posted about 1 year ago | 0 comments
God and the IRS knew my daddy as William Wallace Cherry. To the rest of the world his formal name was W.W. Cherry, written in his very elaborate and fancy cursive hand.

He began his career with American National Insurance Co. as a part-time agent...

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Bob Ford -- Getting Rich as an Island Hairdresser

posted about 1 year ago | 0 comments
Perhaps you've heard. Bob Ford died last week. He was 81.

More than 50 years ago, Galveston's Bob Ford and his friend, Charley Killebrew decided that there was money to be made as beauticians, so they drove back and forth to a beauty school in Ho...

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