Take a Trip to Brownsville: In 1961
By Diego Garcia III ★ Editor of The Brownsville Beacon Take a trip with me, if you please, to Brownsville, Texas in early August, 1961. it was hot, but there was some wind blowing in cooling things down a bit. Skies were also partly cloudy. City Goings-On: Boca Chica was being expanded from a two-lane road to a four lane road from Military Highway to International Boulevard (Four Corners), and a proposal was being introduced to secure state funds to expand Boca Chica from two to four lanes from International to the Y split with Billy Mitchell. Police Chief Gus Krausse was defending the city's thin, 12 inch tall road medians (called "cattle chutes" that had been installed on Boca Chica and Palm Boulevard. Chief Krausse said they were primarily installed as safety measures to prevent cars from meandering from one lane to another. It's interesting to see road issues persist on Boca Chica Boulevard some 60 years later. A woman didn't want to wait for a train stalled...
So we are not gonna be getting the great jobs for our children?
ReplyDelete