Welcome to Texas with Bill Ingram

My stories of Christmas

When KTRK TV Channel 13 came on the air in Houston KiTiRiK was one of my favorite chidlren's TV shows.

The 1960's was a very busy decade for Houston... we'll look at some of the major changes.

The Buffalo Bayou Cistern is Houston's former water supply.  It's bigger than two football fields and is a beautiful public place,

There are at least six different forms of music that were either invented here, or flouished from the Lone Star State.

Dr. Denton Cooley was a world famous heart surgeon who performed the first heart transplant in the U.S. in 1968,

Take the cutting blade off that riding mower, and let's race!

The Dean of American Newspaper Publishers, George B. Dealey.

The one-time capital of the Republic of Texas was located at 909 Texas Ave in Houston, Texas. We know it today as The Rice Hotel.

The story oif the famous cannon that inspired the battle cry "Come and Take It".

An abandoned dog was found swimming with dolphins in Galveston Bay.

After the 1900 Storm, Buffalo Bayou was deepened and widened to accomadate large ships... and Buffalo Bayou became the Houston Ship Channel.

The Gulf Freeway was the first feeway in Texas.

It seems we only cry out for God when something is wrong, but God is always there.

The town of Daisy, Texas had to change its name when it was learned there already was a Daisy, Texas in another part of the state. So it was renamed Alief.

The term "Get Out of Dodge" may have originated from the old TV show "Gunsmoke"... but we have our own Dodge right here in Texas.

Former concert venue and former home of the Houston Rockets... Now home to Lakewood Church.

Texas is known for great Mexican food. Some of the spices used originated here.

Houston is the nations 4th largest city, and still growing.

In 1836 the Allen Brothers bought some land along Buffalo Bayou.

When his parents died Howard Hughes inherited a fortune. He was a good businessman, and dabbled in everything from movies, tools, aircraft and aviation.

Truax Field is home to Air Wing 4

The former county seat of Calhoun County was Indianola, until hurricanes wiped it out.

An area known as Mark Belt became Pearland in the late 1800s.

God has promised each and everyone of us eternal life.