Luling Texas, Historic Luling. (original) (raw)
Luling's signature watermelon water tower
Photo Courtesy Barclay Gibson, March 2008
Rivalry between Lockhart and Luling has cooled somewhat. Their high schools no longer compete in football and both towns have spanking-new HEB stores. Life is good in Caldwell County. Barbecue aficionados from South of I-10 have never seen the need to drive the additional mileage to participate in the Barbecue Wars in Lockhart, since City Market and Luling Barbecue know what they're doing. Once called "The Toughest Town in Texas", time has tenderized Luling to a nice medium-rare.
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Luling roughnecks, circa1935 Courtesy Caldwell County Genealogical Society |
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Luling, Texas Landmarks / Attractions
Luling Oil City display
Photo Courtesy Chia-Wei Wang, August 2006
Luling Oil City since 1922
Photo Courtesy Chia-Wei Wang, August 2006
A decorative pumpjack in Luling
Photo Courtesy Barclay Gibson, December 2006
Another decorative pumpjack
Photo Courtesy Barclay Gibson, December 2006
Decorative pumpjack with a pig
Photo courtesy Margie Warwas, May 2003
Decorative pumpjack with a whale
Photo courtesy Margie Warwas, May 2003
Designated swimming hole on the San Marcos River
TE Photo August 2006
Downtown Lulingby David Knape
Them sulfur wells
made visits grueling,
noses repelled
'twas our undoing
Never been to hell
but I ain't fooling,
It's smelled like hell
in downtown Luling!
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Don't know about the present, but in the old days, you could smell Luling, Texas for miles around. Smelled like rotten eggs. We kept going. The smell might have stopped. We never did. - d.knape
"Once Upon A Line" - Light verse and poetry by d.knape ›
Watermelon Thump Festival
A "world famous" annual event - Last weekend in JuneBook Hotel Here › Luling Hotels
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A Battle Ax plug Tobacco sign appears in Luling, Texas TE Photo, 11-2003 |
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Luling street scene TE Photo |
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Luling Area Chamber of Commerce -
641 East Davis Street In the Historic Walker Bros. Building, sharing space with the Central Oil Patch Museum
P.O. Box 710 Luling, TX. 78648.
Phone (830) 875-3214
Website: www.bcsnet.net/lulingcc
Caldwell County Genealogical and Historical Society -
This well-oiled facility is found adjoining the library and can well serve as a model for other cities concerned about preserving their past.
Book Hotel Here › Luling Hotels
Luling, Texas Forum
- Subject: Morris Ranch & other places
My wife love going to old places......About 2 weeks ago we went to the Austin, San Marcos area (Hill Country) We found Morris Ranch, no problem with the excellent directions on your website....we were kind of disappointed that it was all fenced off......the silo was close enough to the fence to get some good pictures, the large barn was just like on the website but a No Tresspassing sign kept us from getting closer.......the schoolhouse was incredible but a big gate was in the way I would have love to look inside.......
We went on to San Marcos, there we found an old hospital that had at one time been converted into a college fraternity house, but now is abandonded with a somewhat spooky history of a fraternity ritual that had gone wrong ,maybe true maybe not...( I read about it in a book called Weird Texas, check it out sometime, it's a cool book)........
Also we found an abandonded saw mill outside of Luling it was great, [Zedler's Mills] it was along side the River you can walk right up to it, of course you wouldn't have wanted to go inside, the historical marker said it had been abandonded since 1960......
As usual I can't say enough good about your magazine... who knows where we will go next.......... Thanks. - Rodney Stegall, November 08, 2005 - Subject: SARG RECORDS
Hello Historic Luling, My name is Graham C. Marshall and I live in East Yorkshire, England. For a brief period in the seventies I corresponded with Charlie Fitch of Sarg Records. Does anyone know anything about him? Is he still alive? I should be very grateful if you could find someone who could enlighten me. Thanks - Graham, January 05, 2006
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