What is Tyler, Texas like?

[Mizmoon]

It seems like a lot of freaky stuff happens there. Didn't one of the first fast food shooting spree massacres happen there or something? Now this poor girl was kidnapped and killed from the Wal-Mart there ...

It seems kinda freaky ...

[Fenris]

1. About what you expect.

[pmbryant]

2. My wife's father is from there

But hasn't lived there in decades.

I've never been, but it's classic rural east Texas, as I understand.

--Peter

[mhr]

3. Repug Central - I Can Tell You Horror Tales

Do not spend time there without your protective hypocrite suit ready for action.

[wryter2000]

4. Roses

It's supposed to be a great rose growing area. Earl Campbell grew up knowing how to grow roses.

[kick-ass-bob]

5. I thought this was going to be a joke about Wat_Tyler.

:shrug:

because he is in the Texas of Canada.

[ceile]

6. East TX....

but not as frightening as the smaller towns. Tyler pop. is about 100,000. Lots of pine trees and lakes, but don't stop too long....they can smell the outsiders.....

[liberalmom]

7. I got carsick there once.

:shrug:
Otherwise, I don't know.

[Mizmoon]

9. I like your response the best

:)

[Quakerfriend]

8. Funny you should ask about Tyler

I stopped in a bar there while driving thru with some college friends in '81. One of my strangest memories!

The bar tender was a wild-eyed old lady with few teeth. (In fact not many in the place had teeth!). Two very pregnant ladies having beers at one table. One old man crying to us about how his "old lady" just totaled his car. And, then she came in and they started into a brawl!

I'll never forget the place!

[Mizmoon]

10. No way

if you wrote that for a movie they'd say, "Nah, too cliched."

[Quakerfriend]

11. I know!!

I've never forgotten the place!

Linoleum floors and kitchenette style tables...

I remember thinking, Shouldn't we be getting out of here soon guys??!
All the while, trying to act casually like nothing was at all out of the ordinary to me.

[franmarz]

12. Tyler Texas ia a whole other country.

Like most of Texas, except in the big cities-Dallas-San Antonio-Houston-Ft Worth, and a few others,-the Texas attitude is what makes Texas another place in time. As I grew up there-San Antonio- I recognize their frame of mind, which is very stubborn, proud and really hard headed as a general tendency-but if they like you, there is nothing they wouldnt do for you, whether you are a yankee or not.

[Left Is Write]

13. I know someone who lives there. Aside from the Republican factor -

she loves it. It's her home. I've never been there, but from what I can tell from photos and her descriptions, it's a pretty little city.

[WritersBlock]

14. Landover Baptist with roses. n/t

[mhr]

15. Home To Very Large Baptists Churches - Fundie Heaven

Green Acres Baptist - Tyler Texas

[Misunderestimator]

16. Jeez... Do they have trained elephants perform at their services?

Why would they need a building the size of a circus? And Tyler, TX is relatively small (pop. 83,650 in the 2000 census, I guess they are all Baptists).

[WritersBlock]

17. (Y'all thought I was kidding on that post above, didn't ya?) ;)

[kick-ass-bob]

19. we have a big ass one here in Raleigh.

on second thought, it may not be Baptist.

[cry baby]

18. I lived there for a year while I was in college. It's real pretty there

with the rose gardens, azalia trails, and lakes. It's mostly middle class to uper middle class but there is some "old money" there. Very much a church-going bunch, but they are very friendly. I liked it there, even with my political views, I was treated nicely. It was a few years ago and times have changed, but people in Texas are usually very friendly.

[mhr]

20. Trust Me Times Have Changed - I Have Friends There That I No Longer See

Why - GW Bush.