Hi,
There's an Imperial in Calif,East of San Diego and near the Mexican border.
Never been there but.......................
Don Savard
Chris Boekhout wrote:
> Hugh, and list, I'm in southern Illinois, just outside St.Louis-about 50
> miles to the southwest of me is, you guessed it- Imperial, Missouri...Wonder
> how many other states have an "Imperial"??? Maybe we should organize a
> nation-wide tour ?
>
> Chris 72 Lebaron...
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "hugh hemphill" <hugtrees@xxxxxxxx>
> To: "imperiallist" <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 9:04 PM
> Subject: IML: Imperial, Texas
>
> > I bought a 1958 map of Texas and was scoping it to see how possible it
> might
> > be to get to places using only roads available back then. More of a
> mental
> > exercise than a reality. However, I happened upon a small Texas town
> called
> > Imperial. Located eight miles west is Imperial Reservoir. The town is 28
> > miles north of Fort Stockton, which is 312 miles west of San Antonio and
> > still more than 230 miles from El Paso and the New Mexico border.
> >
> > Well, rats! Now I have to go there. That's about 340 miles, one way. I
> > have wanted to go to Odessa and Midland for some time now, so I will just
> > add this to the itinerary. When I lived in Scotland, long before I ever
> > knew I would end up here, I was captivated by the movie, "Paris, Texas."
> > So, sooner or later, you have to go. I mean I have been to Dallas,
> Scotland
> > which must have a much smaller population than Imperial, which is hovering
> > around the seven hundred mark. Of course, Dallas has a whisky distillery,
> > so you have to stop there, don't you?
> >
> > An Imperial in Imperial, Texas sounds neat. I could be the only person on
> > the list who stayed overnight in Imperial. When I went to Hemphill,
> Texas,
> > I got to take snaps of all kinds of neat stuff, like the Hemphill VFD fire
> > truck, the radio station, etc. I look forward to having pictures of an
> > Imperial fire truck, and post office, etc, etc.
> > Hemphill is the county seat, but Imperial does not enjoy that status in
> > Pecos county.
> >
> > And I looked at a map of San Antonio and, sure enough, there is an
> Imperial
> > Boulevard. I think it's maybe in the shabbiest part of town, right next
> to
> > the old Kelly Air Force Base, now civilianized. I have little doubt that
> my
> > Imperial will be there, and probably a little sooner than I'll make it to
> > Imperial.
> >
> > By the by, a 1958 makes a most impressive dust cloud on unpaved roads. I
> > have been told the fins add to the dramatic effect very effectively. I
> hope
> > to get a picture of that, too.
> >
> > Hugh
> >
> >
> >
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