6 man History

[Old Bearkat]

Kamay Valley View warriors, I'm assuming you found their mascot in a paper or web.

I also found some Kamay Valley View annuals (1959 and other years) with the title Chieftains and a Big Indian Chief on them.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1959-Valley...tain-1st-12-/161843630380?hash=item25aea1d12c

I saw it in an article in the Olney paper from the 1950's.

 

[sinfonian]

I wonder if they tore it down? Could it be a picture of a different Valley View? I also notice that it is a ways from the actual community of Kamay. I wonder if they had a different school at some point?

 

[CT6MFL]

I was trying to figure out if Kamay and Valley View both had a Field or not.

I've seen where Kamay hosted track meets.

I've also seen Valley view games being played at Kamay and then Kamay Valley View playing in Kamay.

The odd ball today was a Kamay Valley View "Eagles", I'm sure it had to be a miss print because the rest all stated warriors.

I have found 3 Valley Views so far.
Valley View (Kamay) (Wichita County)- Consolidated with Iowa Park
Valley View (Mitchell County) - Consolidated with Loraine 1982
Valley View (Cooke County) -

Valley View School State Historical Marker
http://www.uncoveredtexas.com/texas...=5507013443&page=6&param1=valu1&param2=value2

Valley View School State Historical Marker
http://www.uncoveredtexas.com/texas...Mitchell&type=Historical Marker&an=5335004908

 

[sinfonian]

I interviewed with the one in Cooke county, they are the Eagles, so it might be a picture of an early building from there. There is also a Valley View in Hidalgo County.

 

[CT6MFL]

I guess that means don't try to map your way to valley view from your GPS haha.

 

[Old Bearkat]

From the 9/16/1940 Amarillo Daily News:

 

[Old Bearkat]

You learn something new every day. I did not know that Newcastle used to be a coal mining center back before it all closed down before WW2. It seems the coal was near enough to the surface that it was strip mined.

Has there been any exploration of the existing reserves to see if it would be worthwhile re-opening the mines?

 

[Leman Saunders]

Along with the Newcastle history stuff...There is an auction on ebay for a picture of some guys rounding up rattlesnakes from 1925 outside of Newcastle on the Johnson and Dawers ranches caught by Luther and Rigby Riggings. Price to high for my blood!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/371218831576?_t ... EBIDX%3AIT

 

[smokeyjoe53]

Ever heard the expression, "Carrying coal to Newcastle"?
It came from Great Britain and means wasted effort or meaningless action. The original Newcastle in England was a large coal mining center..............
Trivial mind......... Can't help it.............

 

[Old Bearkat]

Ever heard the expression, "Carrying coal to Newcastle"?
It came from Great Britain and means wasted effort or meaningless action. The original Newcastle in England was a large coal mining center..............
Trivial mind......... Can't help it.............

That's what the Texas Escapes article said........

 

[Old Bearkat]

BTW....I did find a paper by a UT geologist going over all the data for coal reserves in Texas, excluding the huge lignite fields that stretch from the Rio Grande to East Texas. There are several, but the only one that would be worth exploiting (at least in the mid 1970's) was the one that stretched from Abilene to the Okie border, with the best area in northern Palo Pinto County to Newcastle.

 

[CT6MFL]

Are we making a map of 6-man's relationship to industry?

Railroad expansion
Coal
Oil

 

[Leman Saunders]

cotton
cattle
wind energy

 

[Old Bearkat]

The wind part will bust when the subsidies stop in 2018.........

 

[CT6MFL]

It would make for a very interesting map

 

[CT6MFL]

Hey, is there a list for just the basketball ghost schools?

 

[Old Bearkat]

Most of the ghost schools played just basketball for their last few years, like McAdoo, Estelline, Lakeview, and Goree.

 

[CT6MFL]

I have been looking up schools against the Texas Ghost Town list.

I found the Pear Valley yellow jackets played basketball. I found another but it slipped my mind who they were, I was called away from my desk. lol

 

[Old Bearkat]

It just occurred to me that Barnhart, between Big Lake and San Angelo was a basketball only school.

 

[Leman Saunders]

just about every single small school in the 1920s/30 played basketball, back them you didnt have to have a gym. I know that many school held games out side on gravel courts