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)
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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)
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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 … (23 comments)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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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galveston: OPEN GATES - A MANSION WITH REAL PEOPLE INSIDE - By Bill Cherry - 08/08/07 03:15 PM
The Big House aka The Open Gates
No One Who Truly Knows the Mansion Would Ever Call It The Open Gates
By Bill Cherry, Dallas Broker-Realtor
When I was growing up on Galveston Island, there were so many mansions that the thought of their value and opulence to us were sidebars, really. They … (4 comments)
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galveston: Slaves Built and Paid for Their Own Churches - A Revolutionary Idea - Realtor Bill Cherry - 08/07/07 06:20 AM
By Bill Cherry, Dallas Broker-Realtor
My 43rd Year Selling Texas
www.billcherrybroker.com
Galveston, Texas, one of the oldest citiies in Texas, had barely been settled by businessmen and their families when they decided that slaves should have the benefit of churches of their own.
That was quite a revolutionary idea back then.
But rather than … (25 comments)
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galveston: A Godly Light Seemed to Promise Peace - 07/29/07 10:25 AM
<----In the almost total darkness, the cross began to glow
By the time the Korean Conflict was going strong in the early 1950's, Trinity Episcopal Church was 109 years old, and it and its congregation had been through a lot together.
Twice after this Gothic-Revival style church was designed and built by Irish … (9 comments)
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galveston: UBENISKY'S TRIP TO BUY A HOUSE BROUGHT A PHONE CALL INSTEAD - 07/17/07 07:27 AM
By Bill Cherry
Dallas Broker-Realtor
www.billcherrybroker.com
It's been about 20 years ago now, but it happened during the time that I had a large residential brokerage firm with offices in Galveston and Houston,Texas. The phone rang and it was a call from Ubenisky.
He told me that he had been born in Germany, … (11 comments)
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galveston: The Pied Piper of the '50s, Bill "Rascal" McCaskill - 07/09/07 10:45 PM
I enjoy telling the stories of people who live to make a difference. In a recent blog I mentioned Rascal McCaskill, and several of you found him interesting. So forgive me, I know this isn't about real estate, but it's a true story about an incredible couple. I hope you had … (6 comments)
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galveston: A POP BIGGER THAN AN A-BOMB COULD PRODUCE - 07/05/07 11:55 AM
This Year's Fireworks Display from Galveston's Famous Flagship Hotel
(Courtesy Kevin M. Cox - Awesome Photographer, Galveston County Daily News)
Galveston Island is made up of 60,000 eccentric residents, apparently all with corroded brain cells from the salt air and water. I was one of them until, like an illegal alien, I exported … (7 comments)
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galveston: RE/MAX's Willie Payne & the Famous Himalayan Singing Kitten Enterprise - 06/25/07 03:04 PM
The Willie Payne Family's Famous Himalayan Singing Kitten Enterprise
BY BILL CHERRY, DALLAS BROKER-REALTOR
{---RE/MAX GALVESTON'S WILLIE PAYNE
Willie Payne is the owner of the Re/Max office in Galveston, Texas, and he is the absolute most noted authority on Galveston's famous resort home living, in my opinion.
And he should be, for … (3 comments)
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galveston: GALVESTON - 1836 WHEN IT CAME TO BE - 06/17/07 10:54 AM
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galveston: TEXAS REALTORS CONVENTION IN GALVESTON - WELCOME FROM A BOI - 06/16/07 05:12 PM
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galveston: THE PIRATE JEAN LAFITTE WAS REALLY MORTIMER WILSON - 05/31/07 10:38 PM
Galveston's Pirate Jean Lafitte Was a Fraud. He Was Really Mortimer Wilson By Bill Cherry, Dallas Broker-Realtor
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www.texasescapes.com
It is entirely possible that the real Jean Lafitte never sailed into or had a home in Galveston. But that depends on whose accounting of Lafitte's life you want to … (6 comments)
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galveston: PART 2: A SEQUAL: THE KOREAN WAR HERO WHO SWUNG THE BOARD OF EDUCATION - 05/27/07 06:28 AM
LT. COL. RICHARD H. SCHIEBEL
The Korean War Hero Who Swung the Board of Education at Ball High By Bill Cherry, Dallas Broker-Realtor
My 43rd Year Serving Texans
If any of the students at Galveston's Ball High School knew he was Lt. Col. Richard H. Schiebel, a Korean War … (0 comments)
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galveston: CANCER - THE FACTS - 05/22/07 12:22 PM
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BILL CHERRY, DALLAS BROKER-REALTOR
My 43rd Year Serving Texans 972 380-734
CANCER - THE FACTS
1. Every person has cancer cells in his body. However, cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. So when doctors tell … (7 comments)
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galveston: CHURCHES HAVE LEFT IT IN GOD'S HANDS - 05/12/07 12:34 PM
Trinity Episcopal Church, Galveston
Founded in 1857
Churches Have Been Doing Their Best to Mask Financial Troubles
By Bill Cherry
Meet me on the web at www.billcherrybroker.com
While there's reason to question whether it's academically theological, one rather consistent message Western religions infer in their teachings boils down to this: Don't worry about It. As … (2 comments)
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