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Howdy y’all!
Howdy y’all!
Howdy y’all!
Howdy y’all!
Howdy y’all!

L L ast year well over a half a million people moved to Texas from other t year well over a half a million people moved to Texas from other t year well over a half a million people moved to Texas from other

as
as
states. That is more than any other state! Californians, Floridians, Okies
and a whole heck of a lot of Illinoisans moved here in 2015. This boom has
been trending for years, bringing talent and fresh ideas with it. At every

L show I meet a fresh transplant and see new cars on the Texan scene.

Recently I met Zane Cox of
Helltrain Street Rats at a local show
at a local show
just a few miles from my house. The
just a few miles from my house. The
RATOBERFEST
show was the fi rst RATOBERFEST
at TUPPS Brewery in McKinney.
The brewery is on the site of the
old haunted McKinney Cotton Mill,
old haunted McKinney Cotton Mill,
I say haunted,
constructed in 1910. (I say haunted,
and I mean HAUNTED…from
) The modern
personal experience) The modern
Miller Manufacturing plant could
spin 6000 pounds of cotton onto
spin 6000 pounds of cotton onto
spindles in 10 hours, a marvel of
industry at the time. The mill was
industry at the time. The mill was
hit hard by a tornado in 1948,
literally destroying the third story
literally destroying the third story
of the mammoth bring structure.
of the mammoth bring structure.
C.R. Miller rebuilt, and by 1960
the Mill was the largest denim
manufacturer in the world. After
closing for good in 1969, the
building sat empty for 30 years….
building sat empty for 30 years….
waiting to be resurrected.

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