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Lost Houston
A look at how the buildings, streets, and institutions that comprise Houston's cityscape have changed dramatically over the years, and the many that were lost along the waySince its founding in 1836, Houston has become America's fourth largest city. It was a hardscrabble life for the early settlers, but first King Cotton brought wealth to the local economy and then the Lucas Gusher at the Spindletop oilfield made Houston the capital of the American oil and gas business. The old Texas State Capitol was demolished and replaced by the old Rice Hotel, which was then replaced by the 1913 Rice Hotel that stands today. Baseball has been played at Buffalo Stadium, Colt Stadium, and the "EighthWonder...
Secret Houston: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure
What's the best place in Houston to watch ostrich racing? Is there really buried treasure in Hermann Park? Do you know where to catch live jazz on the site of the original Republic of Texas capitol, or enjoy world class Cajun food in a church cloister from the 1800s? You'll find the answers to these questions and more in Secret Houston, your guide to H-Town's offbeat, overlooked and unknown. This book will take native Houstonians and fresh-off-the-freeway Newstonians alike on a behind-the-scenes look at the funkiest bits of the nation's fourth-largest city. Did you know Memorial Park was once a World War I training camp? Or the original use of the Last Concert Café and why its front door wa...
Houston Then and Now®
In 1836 revolutionaries routed the Mexican army at the Battle of San Jacinto and the nearby town took the name of the battle’s victor, General Sam Houston. Since that time Houston has become America’s fourth largest city, and its magnificent cityscape of concrete, glass, and steel bears little resemblance to traditional Texas imagery. It’s easy to see why its residents, showing allegiance to their unique heritage, proudly refer to themselves as Houstonians rather than Texans.It was an entrepreneurial New York family who first promoted Houston’s lush landscape and vast potential in the Northeast and Europe, and the town expanded from a handful of tents into a place of over 10,000 resi...
Jukes & Tonks
Whether their cover bands play Willie Dixon or Willie Nelson, juke joints and honky-tonks appeal to hard-working men and women looking for a good time. Offering hot music, cheap food, and generous amounts of liquor, jukes and tonks are often a community’s unofficial gathering spot, where Saturday nights are spent committing the sins church leaders rail against the following morning. The stories in Jukes & Tonks introduce you to many sinners and few saints, love begun and love gone wrong, and all manner of unsavory criminal endeavors. What the stories have in common is that they plop you down in worlds where the music pulsating from the compact stage—if there’s a stage at all—provides...
Texas Then and Now
"A photographic tour of Texas using vintage archival images compared to the same sites as they appear today. Includes views of major cities such as Dallas, Houston, Austin, and San Antonio, as well as popular tourist spots such as the Alamo"--
Houston Culture Shock: Quirks, Customs, and Attitudes of H-Town
What is so great about living in the loop in Houston? How come people cheer when the price of oil goes up? And how do you pronounce Kuykendahl? If you’re one of the roughly hundred thousand people that moved to Houston in the last year, you’ve wondered all of these things and more. Houston Culture Shock is your guide to the things that make Houston unique that will help you explore the quirkiness, culture, and eccentricities of this city like no other. Get the answers to more questions like what it means to hunker down or is a taco just a taco? Find insider tips for understanding the lifestyle, weather, natural surroundings, local legends, and more. Whether it’s the rodeo, barbecue, or a swanga, this guide will help newcomers navigate the cityscape, food scene, and all the treasured events of this diverse Texas hub. Local writer Dylan Powell presents this lighthearted and comprehensive snapshot of H-Town personality that will make Houstonians nostalgic and Newstonians feel right at home.
Guns + Tacos Vol. 2
There’s a taco truck in Chicago known among a certain segment of the population for its daily specials. Late at night and during the wee hours of the morning, it isn’t the food selection that attracts customers, it’s the illegal weapons available with the special order. Each episode of Guns & Tacos features the story of one Chicagoland resident who visits the taco truck seeking a solution to life’s problems, a solution that always comes in a to-go bag. Episode 4: “Three Chalupas, Rice, Soda…and a Kimber .45” by Trey R. Barker. Episode 5: “Some Churros and El Burro” by William Dylan Powell. Episode 6: “A Beretta, Burritos, and Bears” by James A. Hearn. Episodes 1-3 of Season One are featured in Guns + Tacos Vol. 1.
Switchblade Issue One
Cutting edge suspense under extreme tension. Quick & dirty flash fiction and sharp & deadly crime fiction at your fingertips; featuring a motley crew of 13 usual suspects, and new blood. This is it: the first cut of Switchblade. No-limit crime culture springs to life at the hands of Paul D. Brazill, Preston Lang, Liam Sweeny, Steve Liskow, Jim Wilsky, Larry Kelter, William Dylan Powell, Susan Cornford, Travis Richardson, Jack Bates, Tom Leins, Fred Zackel, and Scotch Rutherford.
Untimely Demise
"Be careful whom you cross - they may have read this book! Killed with a toilet? Deadly belt buckles? Sexed to death? Untimely Demise is a daily exploration of the most fascinating ways people have offed one another since the beginning of time. From ninja swords to cyanide, poisons to pistols, the deadly details of 365 dastardly, mundane, ritualistic and just plain bizarre ways people have murdered one another are revealed in this darkly humorous - and suprisingly informative - cautionary collection. Whether you love a good whodunit or solve real-life murders for a living, this daily dose of deadly weapons will shock and amaze you! Or, at least, remind you to lock you doors at night."--Back cover.
Dixon Guidry Gets Lost / All Souls Are Final
Two thrilling detective novellas in one exciting volume! In William Dylan Powell's Dixon Guidry Gets Lost, Dixon Guidry trudged to a Deer Park refinery with his beat-up lunchbox every day for twenty years. Every day but his last day on the job, that is. With few friends, no family and no clue as to why he disappeared, Guidry seems to have gone up in smoke. And as his Happy Retirement sheet cake sits uneaten in the office refrigerator, his former employer is desperate to uncover Guidry's whereabouts. That's where oilfield-worker-turned-private investigator Roughneck Mike comes in.In Will Viharo's All Souls Are Final, a long-buried memory resurfaces in retired private eye Vic Valentine's torme...
