Bus Image courtesy of EISD

I moved to Bristol, TX in 1976 just before the bicentennial celebration of the USA. I remember walking across the street from our house with my Mom and Grandmother to attend the 4th of July celebration at the “ball-field” as the local baseball/softball diamond was called in that time. As I watched Jodie Taylor singing Margaritaville from the back of a flat-bed tractor-trailer that stretched between 3rd and 1st bases across the pitcher’s mound I truly believed I was witnessing something great, and in relative terms I was correct. Jodie was the coolest guy in glasses singing one of the coolest songs of the Dazed and Confused era. [Read more...]