Welcome to Texas with Bill Ingram

<p>It seems we only cry out for God when something is wrong, but God is always there.</p>

<p>The town of Daisy, Texas had to change its name when it was learned there already was a Daisy, Texas in another part of the state. So it was renamed Alief.</p>

<p>The term "Get Out of Dodge" may have originated from the old TV show "Gunsmoke"... but we have our own Dodge right here in Texas.</p>

<p>Former concert venue and former home of the Houston Rockets... Now home to Lakewood Church.</p>

<p>Texas is known for great Mexican food. Some of the spices used originated here.</p>

<p>Houston is the nations 4th largest city, and still growing.</p>

<p>In 1836 the Allen Brothers bought some land along Buffalo Bayou.</p>

<p>When his parents died Howard Hughes inherited a fortune. He was a good businessman, and dabbled in everything from movies, tools, aircraft and aviation.</p>

<p>Truax Field is home to Air Wing 4</p>

<p>The former county seat of Calhoun County was Indianola, until hurricanes wiped it out.</p>

<p>An area known as Mark Belt became Pearland in the late 1800s.</p>

<p>God has promised each and everyone of us eternal life.</p>

<p>After Hurricane Ike devestated the Bolivar Penisula, a local man, Bat Correll, put up a cross at the curve where hwy 124 and hwy 87 medet in High Island.</p>

<p>It's Hurricane Season again along the gulf coast, let's get ready, just in case we get a storm.</p>

<p>Faith in Christ is the only way to be saved because it is only by faith in Christ that we can b e counted righteous in  God'ssight.</p>

<p>A look back on a beloved theme park in Houston.</p>

<p>In the 1800s there were two Amarillos</p>

<p>The worst accident in Houston's history happened in 1976, when an ammonia tanker truck crashed in southwest Houston.</p>

<p>Lake Jackson is a small town developed as a company town for Dow Chemical.</p>

<p>In 1835 the Come and Take It Cannon fired the first shot in the Texas Revolution.</p>

<p>Lake Livingston was built in the early 1970s.</p>

<p>The Menard House is thought to be the oldest house in Galveston.</p>

<p>Never give up praying for a loved one to come to know Jesus Christ</p>

<p>What was Houston's original airport is now a vintage museum.</p>

<p>Battleship Texas has been in dry dock getting repairs for a year and a half, and is now getting ready to go to her new home in Galveston.</p>

<p>The history of the grocery store chain H-E-B.</p>

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<p>A 12 year old girl gives Major League Baseball of the "clapping hands" on the scoreboard.</p>

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<p>The history of Lamar University in Beaumont.</p>

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<p>In the early 1900s when automobiles first came to Houston.</p>

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<p>59 People signed Texas Declaration of Indendence on March 2, 1836 at Washington on the BRazos.</p>

When a major hurricane destryoed the Brownwood Subdision in1983, homes were not rebuilt. Instead they were bulldozed. A decade later the destroyed neighborhood was turned into a beautiful nature center.

<p>When Hurricane Alicia destroyed the Brownwood Subdivision in 1983, the officials opted to buy out properties and bulldoze the houses. Over time, actually about ten years, the city built a beautiful nature center on those properties.</p>

Cowboy Trick Rider created a rodeo event known as Bulldogging. The cowboy jumpss off his horse and grabs a steer by his horns and wrestles him to the ground.

<p>Bill Pickett was a trick rider, and rodeo cowboy who created the Bulldogging event. When a cowboy jumps off of his horse and wrestles a steer to the ground.</p>

The three cites, East Baytown, Pelly, and Goose Creek united to become one city…. Baytown.

You’ll hear a little of everything from me… I’m a bit of a history buff, I like to tell personal stories, and Faith plays a huge role in my podcast.

We are bombarded daily with everything from cars to furniture, and told we can get it right now. But those are material things. In reality we are sinners, so we should thank God that we don’t get what we deserve.

When both of our grandsons have birthday a week apart we take them to celebrate.

After many years of playing drums and working at the radio station, it all finally caught up with me, and I had to make a choice… Radio or Drums. I chose Radio.

My dad believed in Giod, but was very put-off with the fake TV preachers and evangelists. So I had to use finesse in getting him to accept Jesus as Lord and savior.

More than 100 years ago, the Toonerville Trolley started running between Bellaire and Houston. Then trolley cars were people movers 20 years before bus service became a reality.

Daniel Denton Cooley was very instrumental in the development of Houston Heights, establishing a school, and eventually elected as Alderman when the Heights incorporated in the late 1800s. He also served as Chairman on the joint city and county committee that built Jefferson-Davis Hospital. He became known as the Father of Houston Heights.

After Ninfa Laurenzo’s husband died she was struggling finacilally. So she turned part of her Tortilla factory into a restaurant. She then created a new dish she called Fajitas, and Tex-Mex was born in Houston, Texas.

It’s comforting to know that God doesn’t change with the times. God is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

It’s comforting to know that God doesn’t change with the times. God is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

At the turn of the last century (1899-1900) the city of Houston was still trying to make its way to being a major city. Because New Orleans had such great success with Mardi Gra, there was a festival designed for Houston. The Notsouh Festival. Notsouh is Houston spelled backward. For almost twenty years it was a successful event.