The Gas Station in America
The Gas Station in America

Author: John A. Jakle

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 572

ISBN-13: 9780801869198

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"The first architect-designed gas station - a Pittsburgh Gulf station in 1913 - was also the first to offer free road maps; the familiar Shell name and logo date from 1907, when a British mother-of-pearl importer expanded its line to include the newly discovered oil of the Dutch East Indies; the first enclosed gas stations were built only after the first enclosed cars made motoring a year-round activity - and operating a service station was no longer a "seasonal" job; the system of "octane" rating was introduced by Sun Oil as a marketing gimmick (74 for premium in 1931)." "As the number of "true" gas stations continues its steady decline - from 239,000 in 1969 to fewer than 100,000 today - the words and images of this book bear witness to an economic and cultural phenomenon that was perhaps more uniquely American than any other of this century."--Jacket.

Historic Grand Prairie
Historic Grand Prairie

Author: Kathy A. Goolsby

Publisher: HPN Books

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 93

ISBN-13: 1893619842

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An illustrated history of Ggrand Prarie, Texas, paired with histories of the local companies.

The Last Great Days of Radio
The Last Great Days of Radio

Author: Lynn Woolley

Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781556223211

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Long-time radio personality Lynn Woolley introduces you to the laughs and times of Texas radio in its heyday. A mixture of humor, wit, and nostalgia, this book follows the career of Woolley from the smallest station in a small market to the largest radio newsroom in Texas, and back again.

Water for Texas
Water for Texas

Author: Jim Norwine

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9781585443260

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More than the economy, more than changing demographics, evenmore than education, water is the key to the future of Texas. It is not much of an overstatement to claim that water is the future of Texas. In the fall of 2000, a conference on "the world's most crucial natural resource" was held at Texas A&M University. It was a gathering of people with many viewpoints and areas of expertise, all focused on what the book's editors rightly say is and will be the state's definingissue--water. Together, the observations and recommendations brought together in this volume represent some of the best thinking about Texas' connections with water--in the past, present, and future. Ranging from broad historical overviews to technical and scientific discussions, the chapters address the questions of where we have been and where we are headed as we enter a new century of challenges to provide water for Texas.

Dallas Rediscovered
Dallas Rediscovered

Author: William Lloyd McDonald

Publisher:

Published: 1978

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13:

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In the years between the Civil War and World War I, a raw and vibrant city was forged out of the Texas blackland prairie by Eastern promoters and local opportunists; a city of opulent Victorian Gothic mansions, of elaborate cast-iron commercial emporiums, and of sharecropper shanties where the poor struggled to survive. This city, its monuments and ideology, have today almost totally vanished, replaced by a modern metropolis of reflective glass and abstractionist concrete.????Dallas Rediscovered examines this city in all its turn of the century splendor through hundreds of period photographs expertly reproduced by a duotone printing process, complemented by a lively and informative text.

Biennial Report of the State Auditor
Biennial Report of the State Auditor

Author: Maine

Publisher:

Published: 1909

Total Pages: 1288

ISBN-13:

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1930/31 includes the Report of the state controller; 1940/41, Financial report of Bureau of accounts and control of the Dept. of finance.

The Totalitarians
The Totalitarians

Author: Peter Sinn Nachtrieb

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Published: 2015-01-01

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13: 0822234297

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THE STORY: We might be on the brink of revolution in Nebraska. Penny, a compulsive and compulsively watchable candidate for state office enlists the help of Francine, a silver-tongued operative. Francine’s husband Jeffrey, a doctor, is lying to his dying patients—one of whom opens his eyes to Penny’s nefarious plans for the Cornhusker State. THE TOTALITARIANS is a raucous dark comedy about the state of modern political discourse, modern relationships, and how easy it is to believe truths without facts.