Alpine Photos

      


New additions

 

Above are a package of 10 small photos that were sold as a pack when Martin's parents distributed post cards in the area.

 

More Alpine, Texas scenes from Theophilus archives


1950s Alpine, Texas parade (Peggy Anne in last photo)

                

November 1957 float building?  (Peggy Anne left, Anne Hegland, Foster Rich, Miriam, Camille?)


1956 Cathedral Mountain Lodge fire

     

1956 Cathedral Mountain Lodge fire


      

Early 1960's plane crash in dust storm between Alpine and the "Y"


These photos are from Peg Theophilus' (Martin/Buddy's Mom) photo collection.  Peg worked with students to create prom murals and displays.

                              

Photos above are from both the 1959 7th/8th grade prom and the 1959 AHS prom - below are mostly from the 1960 AHS prom

                                        


     

Photo of bus (left) may be during the AHS trip to Monterrey Mexico • AHS band Fall 1958 • unknown

 

Peg Theophilus' art class (Bain Ward & ?)

1957 AHS band Elvis

Granada Theater pass

 

1955 - 1958 Martin's Mom Peg Theophilus was teaching in Marathon

    

1950's Alpine Texas Cowboys baseball scorecard   1950's Alpine Texas Cowboys baseball scorecard 1950's Alpine Texas Cowboys baseball scorecard    1950's Alpine Texas Cowboys baseball scorecard


Sul Ross State (College) University photos

  Phyllis Carol Avant in Who's Who   

                                     

 

1967 Lady Bird Johnson visit to the Big Bend, flying into the old Marfa Army Air Base

For a short period, TransTexas Airline flew into the Marfa Army Air Field • go to More about MAAF

1952 TransTexas Airline map showing Marfa Army Airfield 

1968 Sul Ross

  


          Carol and Martin working as police dispatchers for the City of Alpine/Brewster County Sheriff's Dept 1966-1968

 
Sully Sul Ross mascot
During holidays, Martin & Carol took care of Sully the Wolf mascot for Sul Ross University in 1966. We took her out on 2 leads and walked around (or more accurately dragged around) campus. She loved to collect beer cans and bring them back to her cage.  She got to go to Sul Ross games.  It was hard for us to see her in a cage and unfortunately she was eventually poisoned.   Watch movie of Sul Ross University mascot "Sully" in 1966.

         

Jan Briggs wedding (photos say  Aug 67, however my folks didn't always develop their pics right away)


Pics from others

        

 

AHS class of 1962 Reunion 2005

Class of 1965 back in 5th grade

1950s Halloween Ball Alpine, Texas

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Earlene Anderau Pike I'm thinking the only time I remember elementary folks in formal wear was the Halloween coronations every year. Wonder what year?
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Ken Moyer Well the BIG KIDS are 58, and 59, but the little ones are mostly siblings of the older ones, like the little girl third from the left, and the Micro Couple in the MIDDLE... This was at the ALPINE COUNTRY CLUB, (Original one before it burned) about 1949? Not sure who the little girl is with Johnny Carpenter in the middle.
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Ken Moyer Maybe Brenda Logan? that would be logical since Mickey and Harriet are right behind them. This photo BTW, is courtesy of Ann Clanton Sawyer.

1966 AHS pep rally - from Kathryn Agans

  Alpine, Texas snow 1946     1946 snow at Theophilus home

Alpine weather history  •  In 1946 the official records show Alpine received 26.5 inches of snow

My Dad was stationed at Marfa Army Air Base as a Link trainer during WW II. My parents lived behind the house I eventually grew up in. When the war ended they moved back to Cleveland, Ohio. They disliked the cold north weather and decided they wanted to return and live in Alpine. This snow had occurred as my Dad arrived back in Alpine. The Alpine train station had burned to the ground. Folks were stranded on a bus under the train overpass and ladders from a train had to be lowered to rescue them. Dr. Wheat was on a navy ship and had told his crew mates about the wonderful Alpine weather, when a news bulletin said Alpine was buried in snow. I loved it every time it snowed and my parents never regretted moving from Ohio back to Alpine. I was born in Marfa that year, as 2 Alpine doctors were having a dispute about the use of their Alpine clinic. Cheers! Martin


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From Mary Bell Lockhart '67 - April 17, 2003

I struck a gold mine of stories about Central School this evening, chatting
with Lee and Joanna Cowell. Here's s few from Lee.

Most of us recall that the boys and girls restrooms in the building were in
the basement. In addition, the boys restroom opened up out into the west
schoolyard while the girls restroom did not open up to the east schoolyard.
(There you have it; the beginnings of gross discrimination, in my humble
opinion. ;>) The boys had a door so that they could go straight out from
the restroom to the playground to play football.

Here’s how it came about. The original building built in 1910 had two out
buildings to the north. One was a bus barn and the other was the boys/girls
restrooms. During cold weather, folks had to go quite a distance to the
restrooms, outside 30-40 ft to the other building.

Lee started at Central in 1938. Sometime about 1940, he says probably in
the summer, a basement was dug out under the main building and the restrooms
were added. This provided indoor restrooms for everyone. There was a
closet in the boy’s restroom for equipment.

Here's another Central School story from Lee. The Janitor in about 1933,
when Lee’s older brother Pete was a student, was a guy named Don Aurelio
Olazaba. He is pictured in the Avalanche book of historical Alpine photos.
The kids mangled his name and called him Aurelius. Mr. Olazaba through, had
names for the kids, too, and he called Pete Cowell "Peter Rabbit".

In those days, there was actually a bell in the bell tower which was used to
ring various events of the school day. Mr. Olazaba had to go up to the
tower to ring the bell. Olazaba could look around the whole school yard, so
he'd scan the entire grounds before he rang the tardy bell. Well, Pete was
always late to school. If he saw Pete coming, he’d yell out "Run, Peter
Rabbit, Run! I’ll hold the bell." And he would delay ringing the bell so
Pete could make it "on time."

Here's another: In 1949, when the schools were moving in buildings from the
Marfa air base, the main Central School wooden staircase was condemned as a
fire hazard. V. J. Smith was the school architect. Lee’s dad, Charlie
Cowell, was working for the schools, moving in and rebuilding these
buildings. They were thinking of putting in a metal staircase, but Charlie
Cowell said that in a fire those would become hot and stressed with heat and
would be unsafe too. He convinced them to put in a concrete stairway in the
middle of the building.

And a final note: The street in front of Central to the south was widened,
curbed and guttered by the City when my dad was either Mayor or Councilman
and Lee Cowell was City Secretary. They purposely made it wider because
that's where so many parents came to pick up their kids.

So, here's a few for the archives.
Mary Bell Lockhart '67

 
   

 

 

 


More Links

These were found and saved from a server that was available a few years ago.  Sorry, however we have no more info on these events.

Class of 1973

Class of 1983

Class of 1993

Class of 1957

Class of 1959

Classes of 1970-79 - "That 70's Reunion"

Class of 1977

Band Reunion - "The Mr. Shipp Years" - 1977-84

Class of 1982

Class of 1984

Class of 1992

Centennial School

Alpine OBITUARIES (from old files)

 

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