1955 KXOL to KXIQ

Well here it is and maybe we should have got permission first because things aren't always what they seem.  Those of you few who read this "blog" know that Brownsville, Texas got a new radio station and right now it's streaming music over the airwaves on your FM dial 105.1 and its call letters are KXIQ. Steve Clark of the Brownsville Herald did a write-up about it recently a part of which you can read HERE.  What you read in the Herald online is just the gist of the actual printed page.

KXIQ 105.1 is a low power FM radio music station that we all hope will make an impact so if you live in Brownsville you can listen in anytime as the music streams 12-hours of commercial-free music.  We wish the ** Brownsville Society for the Performing Arts ** all the best as they continue to build a radio station that will reach the entire community and will try to keep readers posted as to any new developments.

Here's the original photo taken from KXOL News webpage.  A few Photoshop tricks were used to change the letters.  So if we dont get emailed any objections from the fine folks at the original KXOL tribute page we'll keep this posted and you posted as the radio station takes a hiatus for other new developments in downtown Brownsville with the Half Moon Saloon and Brownsville Society for the Performing Arts.

By the way some of you may remember that KBOR's "Voice of Brownsville" Hank Hollingsworth got a taste of radio broadcasting when as a boy in Ft Worth to watch a baseball game being broadcast live by KXOL.  

1955 Chevy delivery wagon

1955 Charro Days announcer

* Bronsbil Estacion gladly promotes with pride and hope the future of Brownsville Society for the Performing Arts and KXIQ 105.1 FM radio to foster education in the arts. *

Amelia Earhart and Alexandra Garcia in Brownsville, Texas

Photos by Cynthia Martinez Garcia

"Here are the pics of my Alexandra Garcia's project. It was a 2nd grade GT project she did this past year. She attends Benavides Elementary here in Brownsville Texas. She had so much fun going all over Brownsville to get info and researched on several websites. All the information is accurate. I posted the pics of the board 2x incase you could not see them clearly. Now, she that we know about your fb page, she will enjoy learning more about Brownsville's history."
~ Cynthia Martinez Garcia

Alexandra Garcia

Informational panels and presentation photos at Benavides Elementary

Alexandra Garcia and teacher.

Transcontinental fligt be Amelia Earhart

Historic Brownsville International Airport

Interior  lobby Hotel El Jardin-December 14 1926- JCazares



Here's the fb comments under a very rare interior look of El Jardin discovered by Jose Cazares 

Cynthia Martinez Garcia Thank you for posting this awesome picture! My daughter's 2nd grade project was on Amelia Earhart and she included info about this hotel. Charles Lindbergh had a party there after he made the first ever air mail flight to Mexico city and arriving in Brownsville Pan Am airport. They both stayed there.

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Cynthia Martinez Garcia She says the pic is so pretty and amazing.

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Bronsbil Estación Ask your daughter if she wants her project posted on our blog and we'll add some picture to it. :D thanks -- didnt know about the Charles Lindbergh party - that must have been a lot of fun

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Cynthia Martinez Garcia Yes, she would love it. I will send you pics later. She loved doing the research. She just turned 8 a few weeks. Thank you.

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Cynthia Martinez Garcia I inbox messaged some of the pics from her project.

There was no need to add photos to Alexandra's awesome project.  This is something new for Bronsbil Estacion.  If you want to send some pics of some family history or your kid's story in sports just like Rene Torre's softball stories contact us brownsvilletrain@yahoo.com    Just like that.  

Thanks Cynthia Martinez Garza!

KXIQ FM 105.1

A few conceptual designs by Javier R. Garcia

I asked George Ramirez of the Brownsville Society of Performing Arts if I could volunteer a few (or more) call-sign designs for Brownsville's new radio station with an antenna on top of Lone Star National Bank on Boca Chica Blvd.  The following are a few designs just to get warmed up.

A play on the archaic use of the word "calibrate" which people like to throw out there to sound like mechanics -- which brings out another word people throw out there when someone pulls out a chart or "electrical diagram" no one these days can read but they call it a "schematic."  I know none of this makes sense.  

A throwback to the days where everyone had to constantly watch their gauges and respond accordingly whether it was air for the tires or oil for the car engine. Quality was striven for and things were built to last if you took time to keep them in tip top condition such as a car or television with tubes in the back which had to be replaced regularly.  Everything had to be "perfectly calibrated". 

 "Elvis and groupie" was originally done-for-fun as a KBOR radio station gag

 Some font and letter customizations

 More font styles that might be fun to work with.  Submit your and we'll post them here with your name and post on our Facebook page.  Who makes the best bumper stickers in town who can work with us for some ad time?  Talk to us  - leave an anonymous tip below on your ideas and suggestions for this page also.  If you tell me to F-off I wont publish that comment.  :D

 Artist's rendition of Stegman building as Society for Performing Arts Academy

1970s sundown on Browntown

We can call this one a creepy palm dagger silhouette background but I definitely want to work with that letter arrangement.  If you have a favorite font send me a name so I can look it up on dafont.com

 The lightning bolt letters with vintage portable retro radio 

That guy that really can't dance.

To learn more about KXIQ-LP 105.1 Community Radio go to Brownsville Society for Performing Arts webpage --  KXIQ  www.artsinbrownsville.org

The Orives at Palmetto Ranch

Maria Linda Orive-Garcia

 Carlos Orive at Palmetto Ranch (photo courtesy of Toni Wise)

Manuel Orive of Palmetto Ranch

Enrique Orive

The family of Enrique and Concepcion Orive 

1970s Faces and Commotions Brownsville, Texas

 7th & E Elizabeth St accident - Mustang and pick-up

 Mormons on a mission

 Bus just passing through

 Caballeros

1970 and now

 1949 scene of bus fatality on E Adams and 11th St

Timo Hernandez III The Conde family owned both; the [Monterrey] bar and the restaurant.. both were very good, but I preferred the restaurant .... great food!! My favorite??? Tacos de asado de puerco en chile colorado!!!!!! One must eat when drinking!!!!   (Did I mention the coldest draft beer in town???)

Henry Pineda [The White Horse] bar was in our family since 1938. First owned and established by my great uncle Nino Garcia. Second owned by his brother my great uncle Benito Garcia (name changed on license to Garcia's Place) it was still known to be White Horse but also El Venados. I took over in 1989 until we closed in 2006.