DFW day trips and backroad destinations
I was in Irving for my niece’s 6th birthday party at Incredible Pizza Company. That put me a few miles from Big State Drug in the Irving Texas Heritage District. The miracle in this story is that I remembered the place was there and that I wanted to go see it.
In Victoria Texas, just a short distance from the the old county courthouse on South Main Street, your going to find Fossati’s Delicatessen. On the front of this old building they stake their own claim: “Oldest in Texas.” The Texas Historical Commission Official Medallion certainly adds some credibility to this claim. It seems that Italian [...]
Miller’s Pharmacy has occupied its current location on the corner of the town square in Cooper Texas since some time in the 1930′s. Still operated by the Miller family and still largely the same as it was years ago. Miller’s, and much of the town square in Cooper, apparently changed very little in the past [...]