The Goethe Family/How the world sees the USA and why

[Jim Baldauf]

Now you've went and did it Mr. Johnson!

>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.<

 The Georgetown Goethes were kin to the Navasota Geothes on Earnest daddie's
side, so I happen to know a thing or two about which you're talking. And
talking, I might add, just a little bit out of school. But hell fire, I
guess its time somebody went and told the whole story the way it actually
happened. For the sake of  some innocent folks in Washington County who've
been living under a helluva cloud for a helluva long time. After Martin and
Lionel went to Hollywood, they went their separate ways. Martin became and
bank teller and Lionel Feininger Bob, well, he went and fell in with a kind
of a bad crowd. Lionel (Lyin') Bob, or "Fingers", as some called him, went
from being a kind of a con man and poker and pool hustler to little more
than a pimper of lady folks. He'd call on his brother for help now and then,
and though Martin had moved up in the bank and was doing o.k. he could never
get Lionel  to change his ways. In fact, it worked the other way around, and
Lionel almost brought Martin down with him. Lionel had changed his name to
some kind of Latin Lover handle and it was him that got that sweet little
Ms. Barbie to sign over all her royalties when he started "managing" her
career. And, yep, it was his brother Martin he got to do all the fishy
banking and bookeeping that made the whole sad story possible. Back in
Navasota, ol' J.W. went to his grave telling people about how his kin folks
were in banking and show business out in Hollywood. The few of us that knew
better didn't have the heart to say otherwise. But hell, now it's out, and
maybe it's all for the best. The way some of us found out was when me and
Nadine's cousin, Mary Lou, went out to California and ... well, that's a
whole nother kettle of fish that we best not get into right now.
Jim Bob





----- Original Message -----
From: Wayne Johnson <cadaobh2@brgnet.com>
To: <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 8:47 AM
Subject: RE: How the world sees the USA and why


> 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.)
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