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galveston: "GALVESTON" & "THIS DAY IS MINE" -- GLEN CAMPBELL - 07/02/09 08:22 AM

There's Got to Be More to His "Galveston" Than That Glen Campbell Sings It
By Bill Cherry
If you know singer Glen Campbell's real relationship with the island, you can't help but wonder if there isn't more to the story than that a songwriter named Jimmy Webb wrote these words … (2 comments)

galveston: THE BILLIONAIRE DEVELOPER - INTERESTING INSIGHT AT 90TH BIRTHDAY - 05/20/09 06:14 AM

BILLIONAIRE REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER
GEORGE P. MITCHELL
By Bill Cherry
George P. Mitchell was born on the Galveston Island 90-years ago tomorrow, May 21st. And for all 90 of those years, he's been making history, and with a good portion of that history he has made life better for other people … (1 comments)

galveston: TEXAS DECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICE ACT VS "AS IS" - 04/18/09 01:31 PM

Some say that the reason the Texas Legislature put in place the Deceptive Trade Practices Act (Chapter 17 of the Texas Business and Commerce Code), was to give attorneys an opportunity to sue for big bucks, win big settlements, and pack their pockets with big legal fees. Maybe so.
One thing … (4 comments)

galveston: NEW BOOK: GALVESTON - A CITY ON STILTS - 12/26/08 06:45 PM

There is a new historical pictorial titled:Galveston: A City on Stilts (General History: Texas) by Jodi Wright-Gidley and Jennifer Marines (Paperback - Oct 13, 2008)It is primarily a selection of photos taken by a professional photographer named Zeva B. Edworthy, who lived in the city for about eleven years after the … (0 comments)

galveston: THE IRONIES OF THE 1900 STORM VS. HURRICANE IKE - 12/05/08 06:29 AM

            Unlike 108 years later when Hurricane Ike struck, Galveston was in a stark raving fiscal and financial mess when the 1900 Storm hit the island on Sunday, September 9, 1900.
            That on top of that the 1900 Storm killed at least 6,000 of the island's residents.
            There were … (2 comments)

galveston: THE BEACH BOYS HIT GALVESTON -- HURRICANE IKE RECOVERY - 11/14/08 08:09 AM

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galveston: PRAYERS NEEDED BADLY - 10/14/08 08:26 AM

The news of the destruction and attempts for recovery after Hurricane Ike struck the Gulf Coast has dwindled to a snail's pace. Galveston is a fun place, but after all it doesn't have anywhere near the notoriety of New Orleans. That reality doesn't help.
You see, the destruction is of the … (11 comments)

galveston: YOU OUGHT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS AFTER A DISASTER STRIKES - 10/11/08 09:13 AM

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galveston: HURRICANE IKE MEETS THE FAMOUS GAIDO'S RESTAURANT - GALVESTON - 10/01/08 04:48 PM

Since 1911, the Gaido family has owned and operated Galveston's most famous seafood restaurant. For at least the past half-century it has been on the corner of 39th Street and Seawall Boulevard.
Millions of meals are served there every year. Generations of tourists come to the island every year for a … (8 comments)

galveston: New Galveston Insight: Another Hurricane Ike Legacy - 09/25/08 11:23 PM

Since World War II, Galveston has had increasing numbers of federally funded housing projects for the poor. One reason is that the city has a huge state medical school and hospital known to Galvestonians as UTMB but that stands for University of Texas Medical Branch.
Loads of charity patients are treated … (0 comments)

galveston: HURRICANE IKE & LIFE ON GALVESTON ISLAND -- TOTALLY INCONGRUENT - 09/14/08 06:40 AM

Galveston, Texas is a barrier island.
And it is where I was born and lived for most of the first 65 years of my life; the last three in Dallas.
I know the island so well -- its past and its present -- that for 10 years I wrote its history … (24 comments)

galveston: HOW IT WAS AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS MILESTONE -- 44 YEARS AGO TODAY - 03/27/08 10:06 PM

<<My First Company Sign
Today I renewed my Texas Real Estate Broker's license so I can begin my forty-fourth year of service selling Texas real estate.
Dallas' famous Ebby Halliday was my mentor. She was a bit past fifty then and with only one office, and I was twenty-four with a full-head … (7 comments)

galveston: MY SIGN OF THE TIMES - 02/18/08 10:02 AM

A few years before Patty and I left Galveston Island for Dallas, I sold my company offices in Galveston, in the Island's resort-second home community, and the one in the Museum District of Houston.
I primarily needed a breather from managing people and paying bills, so I became a sole practitioner. I … (9 comments)

galveston: SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH DALLAS REALTOR BILL CHERRY, 18th Edition - 02/16/08 09:22 PM

Even though it's been a rainy cold weekend here in Dallas, joining you in the coffee shop gazebo across from the park for our regular Sunday after church visit is still a great way to start the week.
I woke up this morning thinking about Galveston, an island off of the coast … (10 comments)

galveston: CORNYN WANTS CASINOS IN TEXAS By Dallas Realtor Bill Cherry - 12/13/07 10:15 PM

A Primer of the Galveston Island's Experience with Gambling's Past
By Dallas Realtor Bill Cherry
U.S. Senator John Cornyn, representing Texas, recently announced that he is going to attempt to offer legislation that would allow certain specific areas of Texas to license casino gambling.
The argument that he will advance is one that … (5 comments)

galveston: The Teenage Radio Announcer's Approach to Sales -- Chapter 2 - 10/20/07 12:10 AM

            In Wednesday's blog, I recounted how I sold a radio station owner into hiring me as an announcer and personality on his station when I was fourteen.
            There was another chapter of that first radio job that ended up with an interesting twist.
             I quickly learned that the money in radio … (7 comments)

galveston: Jimmy Beaumont and the Skyliners - 10/15/07 09:54 PM

The other evening, just before midnight, I was listening to a local weekly Saturday night radio program that plays doo wop, race music and rhythm and blues. Music primarily recorded in the 1950s and 1960s. The guy who fronts the program on Dallas' KAAM-AM calls himself Crusin' Al.
As I was getting … (11 comments)

galveston: BAD DEVELOPMENT PENDING FOR GALVESTON ISLAND, BY BOI REALTOR BILL CHERRY - 10/05/07 12:44 AM

I was born on Galveston Island, a quirky barrier island town that's just off of the coast of Texas, about fifty miles south of Houston, in 1940. Most of my adult life, until I moved to Dallas three years ago, was spent as the owner of a Galveston real estate company. Galvestonians … (8 comments)

galveston: Brother Fickett -- By Dallas Realtor Bill Cherry - 08/26/07 11:18 PM

Everyone called him Brother Fickett. By 1949, he had been the pastor of the First Baptist Church for next to ever. Before he was called to Galveston, he had been a mining engineer and smelter chemist and Sunday school teacher, all at the same time. Somewhere in there, teaching the word … (2 comments)

galveston: Mr. Mackey, Miss Pearlie and Young Oscar Make Certain Nothing Changes with Time - 08/08/07 11:35 PM

By Bill Cherry
Dallas Broker-Realtor
Nana Davenport Newton was an Auntie Mame sort of a woman who was born in Galveston in 1889, and then in her 40s moved to San Antonio and then to Houston. But that's not to say that she didn't like the island or that she didn't … (4 comments)

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