Anybody seen this? To be honest, I've never seen one till now. Must be a Texas thing? 
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Odd door lock.
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That's the Circle C Ranch branded door lock....only 25 ever manufactured, and only one was ever sold......
We are renting a house in Galvastin for the week and it has these on both the front back doors. Never seen them before. Pretty cool I think.
Used to live in Hitchcock just north of Galveston off Hwy 6. Only good restaurant on that island is IHOP. If you want good food, look up Gilhooley's on 9th st in San Leon. Go north across causeway on 45 to Bayou Vista, take 146 north to San Leon. Good Seafood and very interesting motif. Don't be judgmental of the looks, that's just part of Gilhooley's, but the food is damned good and much better pricing. The place has character.
Best inexpensive seafood, you mean. Very high dollar-to-quality ratio. Pay 2X as much and not balk. Plus, a fun place to take anyone from out of town. (Lived there recently).
There are a few high roller places where, yes, it’s indisputably better. But a whole different experience. Out on the Island where the guys with 2,000-gals capacity “fishing boats” call home (well, one of several addresses they maintain) the price for a meal doesn’t have much meaning.
Only a few areas of Florida have fishing to match the Coastal Bend.
I would heartily recommend Snoop's to anyone. (Cash only).
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I haven't found anyplace that taste that fresh with the low cost. People in states that are not touching the Gulf Coast do not know what Real Seafood taste like.
I worked for a division of Schlumberger in Houston and we made runs down to Galveston and bought shrimp right off of the boats. We iced them down really well and when we got to the cook outs the shrimp were still alive. Those Coonasses knew how to boil/fry seafood. Don't anybody get offended by the term Coonasses that's what we were. My uncle traps gators and I guess that make me half coonass.
Hurricane Ike (2008) destroyed so many trees that Galveston lost (for me) much of its charm. The ex and I went thru in 2009 and I decided that was the last one of several dozen trips over a lifetime. I used to load Barite (pneumatic tanker) over in the port after that (flowback agent used in “mud” on oil drilling rigs; high specific weight. by volume with talcum powder consistency), and as it was the first exit off the causeway (and I’d time it for past midnight), Galveston was a MUCH more interesting place (to me).
Hope you enjoy your stay. One of my grandmothers would stay there with her family a few weeks in winter to escape the Plains, and her telling of the city-raising plus seawall construction before during and after the First War were great stories. The 1900 hurricane is well-told in the book, Isaacs Storm.
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Agreed. Them Frenchies will eat ANYTHING that moves.
And make it taste good (always a surprise to me).
I’ve made 200-mile roundtrips for BBQ. And I wholly agree about being on the coast. The ex and I would drive the three miles down Shoreline from our house to buy shrimp off the boats.
Seafood doesn’t travel. Not really.
Sorta like rainbow trout for breakfast next to a Rocky Mountain stream.
The experience IS worth the trouble.
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right on 29 west ,,,,wootons make the best hill country bbq,,,,but sure miss the rambling rose