How the world sees the USA and why

[Wayne Johnson]

Jim Bob.

Now wait just a cotton pickin' minute.  Don't start telling me
ole-boy-in-High School stories!  Otherwise, I will just have to recall
Ernest & Emory Goethe who ran the Walston Purina feed store down by the MKT
railroad station in Georgetown.  Ernest married one of the Palm sisters and
Emory, well Emory sort of went "the other way."  Still for a 6-4" 300# guy
he was remarkably nice. At least nobody messed with him. Ernest and Ida Palm
produced two sons, Martin Heidegger Bob and Lionel Feininger Bob who later
became enamored of Hollywood and ran off to California never to be seen
again.  Martin Bob drove a really cool chopped & channeled green Mercury
coupe with an awesome chromed Caddy engine.  Willy Bob was more into
bicycles which he built from old tractor parts.  Ever seen a 900# bicycle?
There was also a sister who looked like a cross between Marilyn Monroe and
Kim Novak.  I was madly in love with her as was the football team.  Oh,
well.  I was the one who helped her past, er pass algebra.  The old Goethe
feed store now contains a Crown Book, a Victoria's Secrets and a Starbucks
but many in Georgetown say that is progress.  Many in Georgetown can now
spell progress if you spot them the "p"s ,"r"s and "s"s.

More tales of mythic central Texas of the '40s and '50s to follow if you are
not careful.

Freddie G. Williamson, UCWCT

(Unofficial Chronicler of Williamson County, Texas.)