Date:  Mon, 28 Feb 1994 07:53:37 EST

From:  Wayne Glowka <wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MAIL.GAC.PEACHNET.EDU>

Subject: Re: Texas town names



>I'm surprised no one has mentioned one of the most famous (and my favorite)

>Texas town name: Dime Box, and even better, there's Old Dime Box. Seems there

>was a box people would put a letter and a dime in for anyone abouts who was

>going into the nearest town that had a postoffice to carry the letter to and

>mail it for them. See Fred Tarpley, East Texas Place Names if you don't

>believe me.

>    For you bilingualers, people out here in Arizona are into redundan-

>cies: Picacho [big peak] Peak and Table Mesa [table].

>    Rudy Troike





Thus Willis Allen Ramsey's--



    South of Amarillo and east of Old Dime Box

    You can find you a Cinderella or a genuine Goldilocks

    And if you don't like love attachments

    And your taste in women is strange,

    Go on spend your money my friends

    Down in old La Grange!



Wayne Glowka, Songmeister.