Posts by: Willie Jacobs
During the next thirteen years, the law arrested Pressley more than eighty times, convicted him thirty-four times, and collected more than $20,000 in fines for liquor law violations. For the local authorities, bootlegging was a not-so-serious crime, and was on the watch list as long as no violence was involved.
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The year was 1956. Bootlegging was the number one crime in Grayson County and a way of life in Sherman and Denison. Thirsty drinkers were willing pay for their liquor, and a bootlegger could double his money hauling hooch up US 75, the two-lane ribbon of concrete that connected Sherman to Dallas.
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A Thousand One-Night Stands
In his own way, Joe Hicks is Texoma’s version of the great impresario of the Follies, except that Ziegfeld’s shows ran for months, and Hicks’ shows all bring down the curtain after one performance.
Car Star
In neither Hollywood nor New York do many celebrities have the distinction of saying that they have appeared on television regularly for twenty years—Oprah Winfrey, Bill O’Reilly, David Letterman maybe. Joining those ranks this year is Texoma’s own Blake Utter.
Colleen Grafa
She has high-dollar exercise equipment and offers Pilates classes, but owner Colleen Grafa is quick to correct anyone who mistakes her as just a fitness trainer or her business, Ability Physical Therapy & Pilates, as a health club.
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