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March 1940. San Angelo, Texas. "Watching the parade which opened the Fat Stock Show." Acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Those kids look like they would rather be somewhere else.
I trust that the festival is now called the Ample Bovine Exhibition.
The suit jacket fits perfectly around the man's neck. No gaps. The shirt collar is a perfect fit too. Mom doesn't seem impressed.
San Angelo is a little off the beaten path, but it has some interesting history worth seeing.
* Fort Concho National historic landmark.
* One of the original Hilton Hotels, which still dominates the San Angelo skyline.
* A second floor bordello that was raided in the early 1950s, boarded up, became a time capsule, and is now a museum. The tour of Miss Hattie's includes the stories of some of the women who worked there.
* The Twin Buttes Reservoir, which was riddled with construction problems and began leaking upon completion in 1964. In 1969 the lake it created received the Rowan and Martin's Laugh-in Flying Fickle Finger of Fate award because it caught on fire.
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