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|   Border Theater - Mission, Texas
in U.S. National Register of Historic Places Designed in 1942 by Dallas architect William J. Moore for a small theater chain, the 500-seat Pueblo Revival Border Theater features fluorescent murals along its interior walls. posted by:  JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 5/5/2008 last visited: never |
 view gallerySE10 km |  The Border Theater
in Texas Historical Markers This theater, designed by Dallas architect William J. Moore, was built in 1942. posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 11/20/2007 last visited: never |
 view gallerySE10.1 km | Shary Building in Texas Historical Markers This Spanish Colonial Revival office building, designed by San Antonio architect Harvey F. Smith, was built in 1939. posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 11/26/2007 last visited: never |
 view gallerySE10.1 km |  Mission Historical Museum, Mission, Texas
in History Museums Inside this museum is a mish-mash of historical items - popular teachers, local sports heroes, Miss Citrus gowns, Pancho Villa (even though he never set foot in Mission), and a model of a Jacal and a steamboat. More interesting is the adjacent art museum. posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 3/8/2008 last visited: never |
 view gallerySE10.1 km | Shary, John, Building - Mission, Texas in U.S. National Register of Historic Places This Spanish Colonial Revival office building, designed by San Antonio architect Harvey F. Smith, was built in 1939. It is mostly in its original condition. posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 3/8/2008 last visited: never |
 view gallerySE10.1 km |  TIC - Mission, Texas
in Tourist Information Centers - Visitor Centers This ‘Visitors Center’ is really a Chamber of Commerce. There are a handful of brochures, and the staff tries to be helpful, but they really don’t have much knowledge of the area. posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 3/21/2008 last visited: never |
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|  Rancho El Charco
in Nature Centers This 150 acre wildlife park, with a bordering 75 acre lake, is one of the last patches of brush country remaining in the lower Rio Grande Valley in southern Texas. posted by: capbat location: Texas date listed: 2/13/2007 last visited: never |
 view gallerySE10.5 km | Lomita Boulevard Commercial Historic District - Mission, Texas in U.S. National Register of Historic Places The district stretches along four blocks of Conway (Lomita) Blvd., from 4th St. to the Missouri Pacific Railroad. With most development ending in 1952, it’s one of the few remaining examples of an early 20th-century commercial district in the Valley. posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 5/11/2008 last visited: never |
 view gallerySE10.5 km | Teatro la Paz - Mission, Texas in U.S. National Register of Historic Places Away from the main commercial area, on a quiet residential block, Spanish immigrant Juan Bautista Babera designed this Mission Revival theater to serve the city’s Hispanic community in 1912. It was a cultural center but now appears to be for sale. posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 5/11/2008 last visited: never |
 view gallerySE10.5 km | Rio Theater in Texas Historical Markers Teatro La Paz was built in 1912 by a Spanish bricklayer, Juan Bautista Barbera. In 1945, the name was changed to the Rio Theater. posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 11/26/2007 last visited: never |
 view gallerySE10.5 km |  Rio Theater Mission Texas
in Live Stage Theaters The Rio Theater was built in 1912 by Spanish emigrant Juan Bautista Barbera as a brick building originally named El Teatro La Paz posted by: capbat location: Texas date listed: 2/16/2007 last visited: never |
 view gallerySE10.9 km | Roosevelt School Auditorium and Classroom Addition - Mission, Texas in U.S. National Register of Historic Places Not only were Texas schools segregated by race, they were also segregated by ethnicity, especially in the Valley. This 1929 Mission Revival school, designed by J.E. Walsh, was built for Mission’s Mexican community. posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 5/11/2008 last visited: never |
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|  Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park - Mission, Texas
in State/Provincial Parks In the chapparal along the banks of the Rio Grande River is one of only two state parks in the Valley. It used to be crowded with families, but now caters almost exclusively to birders and hikers. posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 5/5/2008 last visited: never |
 view galleryS11.6 km | Penitas in Texas Historical Markers The Crown sent Spanish priests to Mexico in 1521, planning to oust Hernando Cortez. Cortez imprisoned them. When released, some of the priests fled here and founded the village of Penitas. The marker does not explain what happened to the village. posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 11/29/2007 last visited: never |
 view galleryS11.6 km | Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park in Texas Historical Markers This marker explains the ecological history of the Lower Rio Grande Valley. The 586 acres of Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park were donated to the state in 1944 to preserve some of the original landscape. posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 11/20/2007 last visited: never |
 view galleryS13 km | Mission Butterfly Park in Nature Centers A refuge for butterflies from north America. posted by: capbat location: Texas date listed: 2/9/2007 last visited: never |
 view galleryS14.3 km |  Pepe's on the River - Mission, Texas
in Official Local Tourism Attractions Part icehouse, part tropical paradise, this thatched-roof, open-air bar landscaped with palms on the bank of the Rio Grande is the perfect place to relax with a cold one on a hot afternoon. Except for the dead cat. posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 5/11/2008 last visited: 2/15/2008 |
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| Hidalgo County's First Oil Well in Texas Historical Markers Near this site was Hidalgo County's first oil well. posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 11/30/2007 last visited: never |
 view gallerySE14.8 km |  McAllen Nature Center, McAllen, Texas
in Municipal Parks and Plazas The Nature Center was developed as part of the World Birding Center and now seems to be abandoned. The signs say it’s open, but the gate is always closed and locked. Inside are peaceful trails and a cactus garden. posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 12/4/2007 last visited: never |
 view galleryS15 km |  The Mission Chapel
in Waychapels La Lomita Chapel posted by: capbat location: Texas date listed: 2/12/2007 last visited: never |
 view galleryS15 km | The Mission Chapel in Official Local Tourism Attractions La Lomita Chapel in a very quit surronding. posted by: capbat location: Texas date listed: 2/25/2007 last visited: never |
 view galleryS15.4 km | La Lomita Historic District - Mission, Texas in U.S. National Register of Historic Places This simple, austere chapel was built by the Oblates of Mary Immaculate in 1899 to serve near-by ranch workers. It’s one of the most peaceful and evocative places in the Valley. posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 5/11/2008 last visited: 7/19/2008 |
 view galleryS15.4 km | La Lomita Chapel in Texas Historical Markers La Lomita Chapel was built in 1865 on the Brownsville-Roma Trail. posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 11/29/2007 last visited: never |
 view gallerySE15.8 km | Spiderweb Railroad in Texas Historical Markers The San Benito & Rio Grande Valley Railroad was begun in 1912. With 100 miles of 'spiderwebbed' lines and spurs, it became part of the Missouri-Pacific in 1924. posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 11/26/2007 last visited: never |
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|  Bicycle World of the Valley Fitness Systems - McAllen, Texas
in Bicycle Shops There are only three bike shops in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, in Brownsville, Harlingen and McAllen - all outlets of Bicycle World. So if you need your bike fixed, this is where you are headed. Only downside is that they are all closed Sundays. posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 4/24/2008 last visited: never |
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