Index to the
JRBs’s* Official Guidebook To
Val Verde Co. and the State of Coahuila, Mx.
"Dear Judge Bean and Doctor Brinkley,we cannot publish your guidebook at this time."
INTRODUCTORY EXCERPTS:
Del Rio's famous Dog-proof Trashcans
THE TOUR: Bird's Eye Overview:
Entering Val Verde County from the East:
Laughlin Air Force Base
The Dump
San Felipe Country Club
The Camel Corps
Blue Hole (previously known as.. forget it.)
Entering Del Rio from South:
San Felipe
Eagle Pass Hill + Margarita Street
Mountain Bike Trails
Round Mountain (Loma de la Cruz)
The Old San Felipe Del Rio Cemetary
Garza Street
The Last Dam
San Felipe Creek as a Berlin Wall of ethnicity:
Judge Roy Bean learns to swim.
Hispanic Texans, La Raza, "Pochas", and Chicanas
GRINER STREET Floating Doorway
Del Rio's famous Dog-proof Trashcans
San Felipe
Memo's Jazz Jam Dinners
Art and Culture:
The Firehouse (Del Rio Council For The Arts)
The Casa De La Cultura (Hispanic, Chicano, Aztec)
The Molina-Stone Murals:
Roswell "Blue Period" Mural
Sacred Heart Auditorium panels
Architectural Delights and Nightmares:
The Green Bikini Lady (RIP)
The Welder's Fence
The Gallery of the "UFO Lady"
Round House
Xeroscaping
Casonelli Gin House
Club Cafe
Pecan Street Station
New Colony Store
San Felipe Porches
Campus Café (Los Betos)
Tick and Flea Eradication Center
Stone Houses
Music and Film:
Screw-worm Watcher radio ads
That song about Del Rio
Films shot in Del Rio Area
Wolfman Jack and the Chicken Shack
FOOD: About Grease, in general
The Anglo Flavors:
Cow
Caliche Dust
The Texas “Cheese Ball”
Seven Layer Dip
Special Mention: Don Marcelino's International Cousins
The Hispanic-Mexican Flavors:
Mesuite broiled Goatmeat Fajitas
The Shaved Ice Cream Stand in San Felipe
Dissappearing Healthy Mexican Diet:
Missing Horchata and Aguas de Frutas
"Chamoy"
Cake of Three Milks (Pastel de Tres Leches)
Candy con Chile
Menudo
West To The Rio Grande (Rio Bravo):
Industrial Zone
The Duck Pond
Terraces of Las Cienegas
Carrizo Labyrinths of the Undocumented Aliens
NorthWestern Val Verde County:
Pecos High Bridge
Seminole Canyon
Song of Vinegaroon
Cave-dweller Wars
Winter Texans and Snowbirds
Lake amistad (Presa del amistad)
Boating and fishing Lake amistad
The Rio Grande
Torritos
Jimenez
Cariño de las Montañas
Devil's Sinkhole
Favorite Events:
Turquoise in the Blue Hole
Bobby Paul Memorial Bullride
Dále Gas Pro Rodeo
Weekend Warrior Motorcylce Club Invasion
Fiesta amistad (October-November)
Miss Del Rio Pageant
Confiscated Vehicle Auctions
Almost Forgotten Things to See and Do:
Tubing and Snorkeling the Rio Grande
"Cemetary Trees" ending 2nd Street
Shaved Ice in San Felipe
Biking or Walking to Mexico
Snorkeling the Lower Dams of San Felipe Creek
Creation Myths and Legends:
John C. Van Dyke's "The Desert" fake
La Llorona
El Diablo in the bars
Indians in Cowboy Hat Stetsons
Casa de Cultura "Chicanos" and "Mexicans"
Judge Roy Bean
Dr. Brinkley
Paul Kallinger
Wolfman Jack and Chicken Shack
GARRETT'S BAR-B-QUE CHICKEN SHACK
Self-Defence, Texas Style
Methodist Church Pines
Asian Influences in food and Downtown
Kress Building
Main Street Del Rio
The Train Station
Old HEB on Pecan Street
The Casonelli Gin House
Sunrise on the Overpass
Nature:
Ancient Natural Habitat
Beavers and Nutria
Monarch Butterfly Migration
Carpenter Ant Invasions
Exodus of Termites
Ring-tailed Cats
Orange-phase Indigo Snakes
The Duck Pond
Mexican Bird of Paradise
Catalpa
Sycamore
Cottonwood
Oldest Living Creasote Bush
"Purple Sage" Ceniza
Vulture Trees and Villa Del Rio
Nearby Parks and Scenic Wonders:
Quemado (Spanish for "Burned")
Langtry & Eagle Nest Canyon
Leaving US to Coahuila, MEXICO
"Crossing:" Legal and other...
The US of Mexico
The International Bridge:
Mexican Carwash in the Rio Bravo
Ciudad Acuña:
The Truth about Shopping
Rio Las Vacas
Ma Crosby's Inventive Nacho
The Hilltop ex-Garrison "El Cuartel"
What's a Periferico?
Merco
Seguro Hospital
Sorriana and Gutierrez
Bike Iturbide Street
Circuses
La Feria
North Of Del Rio/Acuña:
"Como Aqua Para Chocolate" House
Unnamed Creek
Eagles Monument "Cortina de la Presa"
Foot of the dam birdwalks
The Real "Old" West of Acuña:
Municipal Dump Bonfire and smoke
Santa Eulalia
Hacienda San Miguel
El Progreso
Agave forest
El Mosco
Aguas Verdes
South Of Acuña: Permissions
Hunting and “The (Boystown) Hill”
Hugging the Border:
JIMENEZ
Towards (Cuatro Cienegas) Torreón: Permissions to Travel in the Interior:
Parque Balneario de los Novillos
San Carlos
Vado San Rodrigo
Zaragosa
Morelos
Allende and "The Last Fronteir"
Zona Carbonifera
Nava
Allende -
Palaú -
Melcohor Musquis -
Nacimeintos de Los Negros
Nueva Rosita
Estacion Hermanas Hot Springs
Shortcut to Cuatro Cienegas
Escobedo
Abasolo
Monclova:
Harold Pape and the Steel smelters
San Buenaventura
Nadadores
Balneario (Pool) de Cariño de las Montañas
Sacramento and Goat's Milk Carmel Cones
Int'l Eco-tourism in Cuatro Cienegas:
Hometown of Venustiano Carranza
The Protected Zone (Zona Protegida de Flora y Fauna)
Underwater Aquarium "La Becerra"
Snorkel Oasis "Rio los Mezquites"
Parque Ecologico "La Poza Azul"
Ocampo "La Mota" Oasis and Tortoises
Torreón:
MYSTERIOUS Zone of Silence & Bolson de Mapimi
Arabic Influence
Peñon Blanco
Torreón to Saltillo:
General Cepeda
PARTING:
Del Rio in the Rear-Veiw Mirror
APPENDIX MEXICAN HOLIDAYS:
JRB's Famous Quotes:
Re-examining JUDGE ROY'S Infamous Incident whereby he provoked a mere Boy to commit Homocide
Reiterating Dr. Brinkley’s career as THE WORLD’S MOST SUCCESSFUL QUACK, EVER, EVER WILL BE, PERIOD who pioneered the use of Radio and single-handedly invented Tele-evangelism, control of Media for Political purposes, on-air subscriptions, broadcasting Jazz music to keep listener's attention (like Dr. Gene Scott's tele-evangelism on Shortwave Radio)
The End?
How? When?
Brinkley's Morality 101
Meeting of Dr. B and Judge B
The Origins of Indigenous
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS:
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