The "We'll leave the light on for you" Award - Majestic
Theater, Eastland Most
Innovative Restoration of an Endangered
Building Award - The Prison, McKinney
Most
Painstaking Restoration and Improving the Face of the Town Square Award - Jubilee
House, Athens Town
That Looks Most Like A Model Train Layout From The Air Award - Ballinger Best
City Logo Award: Kingsville Best
Murals Not Found In A Post Office - Breckenridge
Best
Mural
We Found in a Post Office this Year - El
Campo Best
Whimsical Mural Depicting a Town - Andy's Restaurant, Gatesville Best
Photo Used in a Travel Brochure - Old Milam Co. Jail, Cameron
Best Business
Theme Using a Local Hero that Happens to be a Horned
Toad - Rip's Diner, Eastland Best
Haunted Railroad Station
Used as a Chamber of Commerce - Edinburg
Best Downtown
Café for Bringing People Downtown on Sunday Award - Mattie's, Decatur
Best
Restaurant for Bringing People Downtown at Night Award - Fuente's Mexican Restaurant,
San Angelo
Best Promotion
of a Local Oddity Award - The Paris Chamber
for providing a postcard of a local cemetery statue portraying Jesus
wearing cowboy boots. Friendliest
Genealogical Society - Caldwell County, Luling
Best 20th
Century Ghost Town - Thurber
Best 19th Century Ghost Town - Indianola
State Agency
with Largest Number of Gruntled Employees - General
Land Office, Austin Hardest
Working Wildflower Association - DeWitt
County
Still
Cheerfully Doing Their Job at 4:59 Award - Breckenridge
Chamber of Commerce Standing
Up for Preservation Award (Tie) - Citizens of Wharton
County for fighting to keep their County Courthouse,
Breckenridge for fighting to keep their brick streets.
Towns on the Edge of the Horizon with Rough-hewn Charm Award (Tie) - Menard
/ Mason Friendliest
Small Town Newspaper Staff - Smithville
Times. Best Small Town Newspaper Article -
Smithville Times series of interviews with local school children.
Best Small Town
Bookstore South of Waco - Main Street Books, Bastrop
Best
Small Town Bookstore North of Waco - The Book Gallery, McKinney
Best
Bookstore In An Under-populated Area - The Lynch Line, Albany
Best "Making
It Happen" Award (Tie) - Shelly Hargrove, Main Street Manager,
Breckenridge Gabrielle
Gonzales, Main Street Manager, Gatesville
Efficiency
and Thoroughness Award (Tie) - Aida Hernandez, Edinburg
C of C Mario Bazan, Edinburg
C of C Best Publication
on Texas - Los Caminos Del Rio. Texas Historical Commission Most
Attractive Business Card - Missy Pollard, former Main Street Manager, Taylor
Most Attractive
Lobby of A Former Hotel - The Cactus, San
Angelo Town
with The Most Aggressive Geese in the River - San
Angelo Librarian
with a Cause (he started the library) - H. Ben Johnson, Moulton
Small
Town Hotel with the Most Interesting History/ Owners - The
Von Minden, Schulenburg Silliest
Name of a New Business That Still Makes You Laugh Award - Wash-A-Terrier Dog
Grooming, Farmersville
A
Note to Recipients: Just because you don't receive a plaque or trophy from Texas
Escapes for your excellence, doesn't mean you can't go out and buy one.
December
1999 Reader's
Comments: Friday, February 04, 2000 I loved reading through all
of your awards, it makes me just want to jump in a car and take off on a major
texas roadtrip. I know of some of those spots, but others I don't, and I'm now
curious. GOOD JOB! - Shelly H.
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