Sorry, not Alsace St. but Alsace Ave.
Chuck Norcutt
On 11/18/2011 3:36 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> Nope, I didn't expect otherwise. I've drunk Shinerbock many times before
> since I've been in Texas on business and family visits many times before
> and even lived there for about a year. I well knew it was German. I see
> that the brewery dates to about 1909 or some such. I thought it might be
> even earlier than that since Texas received a large number of German
> immigrants in that general area in the 1840s.
>
> There's a large cemetery in Castroville, Texas just outside San Antonio
> full of German graves with dates from the 1840s on. I haven't been there
> in over 40 years so I just looked it up on Google maps. I think it must
> be the St. Louis cemetery because the main street outside the cemetery
> is called Alsace St. Somewhere I have some K64 slides taken there
> including the the grave of a 2 year old child from that time whose head
> stone has a skull and crossbones on it. My wife and I remember it well.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 11/18/2011 2:18 PM, Charles Geilfuss wrote:
>> Yep it's here in SC and it is good. Made by German immigrants so did you
>> expect otherwise?
>>
>> Charlie
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Chuck Norcutt<
>> chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> I do hope and trust that Oz has some better beers than what is commonly
>>> available in the US. But Texas has at least one good beer, Shinerbock.
>>> I had some recently on my pass through Texas. First one in many
>>> years.<http://www.shiner.com/main.php?page=history>
>>> It's supposedly available in 40+ states. Although I've never seen it in
>>> New York maybe it's available in the state of enlightenment (apparently
>>> a non-physical place) :-)
>>>
>>> Chuck Norcutt
>>>
>>>
>>> On 11/17/2011 10:03 PM, WayneS wrote:
>>>> I'm sure everything in OZ could put a Texan to shame. skiters, snakes,
>>>> spiders, sand burs, ticks, scorpions, beer, hats, grass fires, train
>>> tracks,
>>>> belching, beans, farts, fire ants, and self aggrandizement.
>>>>
>>>> Thankfully I live in the small state of enlightenment in the north
>>>> east.
>>>>
>>>> WayneS
>>>>
>>>> At 11/17/2011 03:35 PM, you wrote:
>>>>> There was an original - the first model - that had interchangeable
>>> lenses; three of them. it is now rather rare and pricey.
>>>>> Texas does indeed refer to size because the Texans keep banging on
>>> about how big they are. They don't know the meaning of 'big'. We've got
>>> cattle stations (ranches) bigger than Texas.
>>>>> Andrew Fildes
>>>>> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 18/11/2011, at 12:32 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I had assumed this camera was new but, in checking at B&H, I see that
>>> no
>>>>>> Fuji film bodies are offered any more. Where does "Texas Leica" come
>>>>>> from? I assume Texas refers to its size. Perhaps the quality of the
>>>>>> camera inspires the Leica moniker but the GW690 is a fixed lens
>>>>>> camera.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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