Haly Parchman and son Stanley Parchman and built the Rapid Mart on family land around 1955. The grocery store was located at 6969 Grapevine Highway. The store was officially owned by Tully Angle and Stanley Parchman. The store was best known for…
Rand Theatre chained and empty. Rand Theatre was unable to pay the lease and as a result, Burk Collins terminated their lease. After Rand Theatre closed the theatre became known as Movies 8, a dollar theatre. The property is now a gymnastics studio…
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department stocked rainbow trout in fisheries around Texas every winter for over 40 years once the water temperatures dip low enough. Over 330,000 were stocked in the 2020-2021 season alone.
A quilting bee pauses to show their work in the 1940s.
Standing: Faye Hudler, Hattie West, Mae Turner, Mrs. O’Dell, Imogene Gilbert, Kathryn (Morrow) Autrey.
Seated: Virgie Estill, Pat Baldwin, Billie Wolf, Pauline Morrow, and Mary Johnson.
Quanah Parker, Chief of the Comanches, was the son of Cynthia Ann Parker. Cynthia Ann was a niece of Isaac Parker of the Birdville community. Quanah’s father was Chief Peta Nacona.