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Offline Roger, Roger

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There Goes Alpine...
« Reply #15 on: March 17, 2006, 12:15:41 PM »
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I'll have to post some photos of the view from where we lived just outside Alpine.  I used to  love watching the waterfalls on the mountains when it rained.

What mountians are you talking about, and when did you graduate high school?  I grew up out in Sunny Glen, and I agree that the view of waterfalls coming over the mountain cliff behind our house was incredible.
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Offline randell

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There Goes Alpine...
« Reply #16 on: March 17, 2006, 12:56:50 PM »
Who is your daddy and what does he do?

Sorry, couldn't resist the Arnold Schwarzenegger quote:
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/arnolds1.html

These mountains and I graduated in 1990.  





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Offline Roger, Roger

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« Reply #17 on: March 17, 2006, 01:07:48 PM »
My house was in the canyon about 2 thumbs to the right of where your first picture cuts off, and in the left 1/3 of the second picture.  I moved out of Alpine in 1990, when I was 12.

Did you know Clint or Nick Pate?  Older brothers of mine...they were in Alpine on and off during your high school years, and you would be right in between them, age-wise.
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Offline randell

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« Reply #18 on: March 17, 2006, 01:12:30 PM »
The first picture is of our land and that was our barn.  I graduated in 1990 and left a month later.  I really miss that scenery.  The waterfalls were very awesome.
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Offline Roger, Roger

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« Reply #19 on: March 20, 2006, 12:43:22 PM »
I knew a lot of people from your class... my dad delivered Brett Beinhauer's first daughter (as well as Brett herself), and Andrea Hext was my babysitter for a long time, as well as a good family friend.  We still keep in contact with the Hext's.
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Boomtown
« Reply #20 on: March 21, 2006, 12:32:25 PM »
"Boomtown"
Here come the artists with their intense faces,
with their need for money and quiet spaces.
They leave New York, they leave L.A..
Here they are - who knows how long they'll stay -

[chorus:]
It's a Boomtown
got another Boomtown
and it'll boom
just as long as boom has room.

Here come the tourists with their blank stares,
with their fanny packs - they are penny millionaires.
Something interesting happened here long time ago.
Now where people used to live their lives the restless
     come and go.

[repeat chorus]

Nice to meet you, nice to see you
in a sheepskin coat made in Korea.
Welcome to the new age, the new century.
Welcome to a town with no real reason to be.

[repeat chorus]

The rich build sensitive houses and pass their staff around.
For the rest of us, it's trailers on the outskirts of town.
We carry them their coffee, wash their shiny cars,
hear all about how lucky we are
to be living in a ...

[repeat chorus]

The guy from California moves in and relaxes.
The natives have to move - they cannot pay the taxes.
Santa Fe has had it. Sedona has, too.
Maybe you'll be lucky - maybe your town will be the new...

[repeat chorus]
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Re: Boomtown
« Reply #21 on: March 21, 2006, 12:54:26 PM »
Quote from: "Vortexan"
"Boomtown"

FYI:  http://www.gregbrown.org/gbpoetg1.html#boomtown
Very appropriate song for the area, unfortunately.
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