Hi there! I actually worked on the fences at 14:30. They were put up to protect Civilian Land, not necessarily to fully stop crossing. This is so the land owners may prosecute trespassers that would sometimes damage, property, livestock, trample feeding grounds, etc.
I live in Georgetown, Texas, eldest brother in San Antonio and two sisters in Dallas. During coffee hour after Church Worship service a church member said, “Aah, You were the owner of a lot of land..!” At 59 years of age I don’t want it, way to much work. I am not envious, jealous nor angry about your so called property. Taxes, upkeep, neighbors, big animals to take care of. Why? (Grin)
The large spherical object at the end is a NEXRAD Doppler Radar for the National Weather Service. I believe that's the KDFX Radar. The spherical part is the protective dome to shield the Radar from the elements.
I was going to say weather radar. In Australia the BOM radars are almost the same as that. In Cairns we have one identical, but it is located quite far from the road so it's interesting seeing one close up. By the way BOM stands for Bureau of Meteorology.
I was born in Eagle Pass, then my parents moved to Del Rio, Texas when I was 5 months old with 5 other siblings. Grew up and schooled in Del Rio. I was in Cordoba, Spain at the Mosque in 1997 where I saw a relatives sarcophagus dating 1390. I come from the Visigoths, Burgundian French, Spanish Conquistadors and Floridian Seminole Native Indians. Whole lot of history hidden in the middle of nowhere…! Cheers
The Visigoths were a tribe that, along with others, brought about the destruction of Rome in 410. Rome’s territory had been spread too far, and the Romans couldn’t defend all of it. The way Rome paid its vast army was to invade an area, steal all of its money, and then demand tax money from the peasants (protection money). Aleric, king of the Visigoths, said “No”, raised an army, and… well, Google it. Anyway, Mr. Montemayor, you come from some hardy, hard-fighting, wealthy, and royal bloodlines. 👍
My wifes extended family is from Brackettville since 1890. We moved to Fort Clark Springs in 2019 after i retired, cuz I loved it so much after visiting her family. There's so much history here that I can't write it all. Love small town TX life. Everyone is so friendly and knows one another. Economy is mainly ranch/farm and tourist based incomes here. 1600 people at last census, and most live on the Fort. We mostly shop in Del Rio, but there is a small grocery and 2 hardware stores, a few restaurants, gas station. We have a central post office where everyone in town comes to pick up their mail. Overall, its a slow,boring, easy going lifestyle. I love it. Please come back again to do a full video if you can, of the entire area, including the Fort, as well as a few of the farm roads. The Seminole and Brackettville cemeteries,etc.
Tell everyone about getting run off the roads from failure to yields and smugglers shooting at motorist to make police stop to help the productive citizens that the criminal scum, that entered illegally a few weeks ago, do to get away. Not that they will be punished for either crimes under marxist democrats.
I was born in Acuña! Good memories in Del Rio !! We used to walk on the bridge and then take a bus to go to HEB and do our groceries there 15 years passed and I returned just this summer, everything looks different now but the same at the same time lol
I was born and raised in Del Rio and worked for the phone company for 36 years. All that area around Carlos Grocery and UETA was fairly nice. Like someone already posted. The fence pretty much shut them down. I haven't been down there in many, many years. It's really kind of depressing.
Yes I went there this summer, and I remember going to UETA all the time with one of my aunt's she would always stop to buy her big packs of cigarettes there when we were heading back to Acuña. It's so depressing now, everything looks different and smaller lol
Yes..I remember that all was wide open way back when. It was a big thing to walk the bridge back and forth. I was always partial to Eagle Pass but had great times in and around Acuña/Del Rio
Aussie here. What a fascinating place and I love those signs, so retro!! Similarly, in Australia in country towns far from urban centres antique stores often contain valuable and highly prized items. Being from a country with no land borders it's always fascinating seeing different frontiers especially when culturally the countries are so different.
The white ball on the platform is a Doppler Radar station. Next time here head West to Lake Amistad, Comstock, north to Juno then west to Pandale and back south to Langtry, home of Judge Roy Bean, Law West of the Pecos. Back east on Hwy 90 to the Pecos River, old railroad bridge and back to Comstock. You would love the town of Langtry. Great reports !
Towns certainly invest in their courthouses. The stretch of the RG was beautiful. Loved the Rexall sign. It’s amazing the town allows the trash to pile up. Great to see the goats owning the roads! Thank you for another great video!
How interesting your border videos have been. Rather quiet too, which is good. I'm sorry, but I find the different fencing in Del Rio hilarious. Different administration - different fencing?! Like you said, some look "sample" like.
Carlos groceries closed back when the internacional bridge got re-build and it took part of the street that would lead us to the old toll-booth. The store UETA also had to move (relocate) for the same reason.
Surprised you didn’t go to the oldest winery in Texas, which is in Del Rio. There are also cave and wall paintings in the area, which are thousands of years old. Spanish missions as well, which are interesting given the missionaries taught the local apaches Spanish and now many of their ancestors have Spanish surnames
There is a Detention Center on the edge of Brackettville, Fort Clark Springs is there as well. Lots of ranches in Kinney County, entire county has less than 4000 people. I have a small ranch close to Brackett, it’s just past that big golf ball you were wondering about, it’s a National Weather Service Radar Station. Lots of history in that county, you just barely scratched the surface.
Bracketville is where the Alamo movie with John Wayne was filmed. The Alamo set with the buildings is there...pretty neat to go there several years ago ...
Thanks for sharing Del Rio Texas my dad was stationed at Laughlin Air Force Base. I know I’ll never get back to see Del Rio Texas so you sharing made my day. Thanks Like to give a shout out to Janis Mannard Del Rio law enforcement. Keep up the good work and stay safe
Some of the movies filmed at Bracketville, TX are The Alamo (john Wayne 1960 and Alamo still there), Arrowhead (1953), Two Rode Together (1961), Bandolero! (1968), Barbarosa (1982), Lonesome Dove (1989), and Bad Girls (1994). It was abandoned but still there intact as all old film locations are left after the movie.
Ciudad Acuña (Ah-coo-nya). Thanks for visiting our small city, Del Rio. I wish you had shown the park where you ended that portion of the video. It's called San Felipe Creek. People have been coming to these waters for thousands of years. Cold water year round. Especially helpful when we get up to 100+ degree weather. That "ball" at the end is the Doppler radar station.
Brackestsville is the location of the original movie “The Alamo” with John Wayne. They had the entire Alamo along with the Fort built outside of town snd that is where the movie was filmed. Alamo Village was opened to the public when I was a kid (i will be 70 next spring) and my father took us there on vacation. Also Del Rio has a Air Force flight training base there. Lots of Top Guns running around. Merry Christmas and lots of blessings in the new year!
Belive it or not. I use to know the owners. There last name was Cortes. I stayed in that house back in 1999 0r 2000 something. That house was the owners of the meat market and the gas station and that black metal fence was not there. It is crazy to see my friends houae 20 years later. RIP George Cortes
I would be careful those wires hanging down should be telephone wiring in most states anyway the lowest wires are telephone, then next up is cable lines then above that is electricity I learned that as a Cable TV installer years ago! Be safe out there and love your videos especially the Texas border town ones they’re awesome!
Your videos are taking me on a road trip of america !!!! Fantastic . . . I appreciate you taking us along and showing us what the u.s.a. looks like at the time of your video filming . . 😊👍
Hello and thank you for covering this. Much appreciated……. i’ve just watched Jonathan Lee Richards. He covers the migrant crisis really very well and I just love watching him go round these little cute towns pretty much what you’re doing ….my ancestors immigrated to some in New York some in Louisiana, some in Texas And some in Idaho…. Obviously they came in the right way so obviously a lot of my cousins are in these places ….not only that my Daughter lives there too she was married there ….. I would love to visit some of these little places, and I’m out there in the middle of July for holiday …. Kim🇬🇧
Del Rio has an Air Force Base. It is not a large base but important for USAF pilot training. My point on your travels you usually ignore the presence of military bases. They are significant because they do contribute to the economy and culture of the host communities.
Thanks for acknowledging Laughlin Air Force Base My dad served in the Air Force and was stationed here in Good old Del Rio Tx. The Blue Thunderbirds were one of my many memories as a kid.
I'm originally from Eagle Pass, i don't know if it's still there, but Bracketville hada replica of the Alamo. John Wayne filmed it there. My uncles and grandfather played Mexican soldiers in the film. If you revisit it go and check if it's still there!
I remember the powerful AM radio station we picked up all the way in the Ark-la-Tex to the northeast.Station was across the border in Mexico and Wolf man jack dee jayed there in the 60s☺
During August 1979 I was travelling with a group of friends from the UK on a journey from New York to Los Angeles through the southern states. After a couple of weeks on the road we pitched up in Del Rio. We decided it would be a nice idea to walk across the Rio Grande bridge into the town of Acuña for dinner. We showed our British passports to an immigration official in a tiny office and then walked across the deserted bridge into Mexico. We were the only people around, the bridge was empty. We had a lovely time in Acuña, a few drinks in a very dark bar and then moved on to a very friendly restaurant where we enjoyed our dinner, and then walked back across the bridge. We had to show our passports again to the same officer who dealt with us only a few hours previously, he was very thorough.This is why I find your video so surprising. I know I am talking about a visit that took place almost forty four years ago, but looking at Del Rio now in your film, it is totally unrecognisable, both the town, and the horrendous situation concerning the enormous number of immigrants at what’s looks like a different bridge from how I remember it, trying to enter the United States.
30 years ago I crossed into many of these border towns often. It has changed, drastically. We went from Brownsville into Matamoros a couple months ago and was shocked at how different it was. Once thriving and vibrant, the area is now a decrepit wasteland.
Your pertinacity revealed yet another break in the porous armour of a generally chaotic immigration policy; but, in doing so, we all got to view close up the gently rippling surface (with cat-o-nine tails in the foreground and old men with fishing poles in the distance) of the legendary Rio Grande. Also appreciative of being shown around Del Rio, yet another, gritty, bent-on-surviving small border city-and the bonus of entering Bracketville with its bold family of four goats! Your videos mesmerize.
“Pertinacity”?😳 Boy, there’s a word you don’t hear very often. I’m not sure it’s a fitting description of his tenacity in making these videos, but okay… In any event, your most eloquent comment has philosophical implications of enormous magnitude. I salute you, sir.
I was born in Asherton Texas and haven’t been back since we left that was 68 years ago. We used cross the border at Eagle pass to go int Mexico. You did a video on Eagle pass and was wondering if you drove through Asherton
Interesting ride. Loved seeing all along the border. The sleepy-looking towns have a charm all their own. When you come thru Mississippi get off I-10 at Franklin Creek Road to go thru Grand Bay and Bayou La Batre. The Bayou has a tremendous shrimping/fishing fleet. Boats built there are delivered all around the world. Follow Coden Shell Belt Road to the west. The Mississippi Sound will be 2 steps from the passenger door! A couple of beautiful old homes too. You'll come back out on Hwy. 188. Go west to Hwy. 163 and turn south to Dauphin Island. When the road dead ends go left. Follow signs to the Shell Mounds. Can you imagine eating so many oysters? Ft. Gaines is at the west end. Ride the ferry across to Ft. Morgan, another civile war fort.
Hi Lord Spoda Thanks for this another interesting video. Bracketville is really cool, peaceful small town. @31:25 nice looking courthouse, 31:48 fascinating store fronts with old trees surrounding. Curious to know about those typical tropical sprawling trees. Hope someone will supply information about those trees. All these small towns lined along border are so unusual and interesting! Enjoyed and got to know something more. Best!
If your talking about those palm trees 🌴 they are native to the southwest and are naturally grown in Texas . I think it’s the Mexican palmetto or something like that
@@pussbeaver1218 Thank you for your reply. But I am referring to sprawling, branched trees, not the Palm trees. Could they be Azadirachta Indica with bitter leaves? They are common in tropical regions.
Outside Bracketville there used to be...maybe still is....a place called Alamo village. It was a replica of the Alamo and the buildings near it, all of which you see if you watch John Wayne's movie titled The Alamo...which was filmed there.
Yes, Alamo Village is north of Brakett a few miles, although it's closed to the general public now, Alamo Village was financed entirely by John Wayne and it almost bankrupted him, a portion of Lonesome Dove was filmed there as well, the bar seen scene in particular where Duval slammed the bartenders head into the bar, as well as numerous other movies
Some of my wifes extended family were extras in the film in their younger days before they passed away. Wayne and some of his film crew stayed at the barracks which is now a small motel at Fort Clark Springs, where I have currently been retired for several years now at the HOA.
1:47 It look exactly the same on google maps Lord Spoda 'crazy eh, yep i love my google maps as it helps me find n investigate n look at so many places not just heir in greater Sydney but around the world.
Wow! That Carlos Grocery has seen better days. Looked like a pretty large store. Crazy. Wonder if the store owners lived in the adjacent home? Wonder what he story is with all that trash piled up at that old gas station. Looks like the city would make them clean it up. Looks like the road might have been rerouted?? Not sure. One things for sure You're not scared to go the farthest you can go. Even up to the river. Pretty countryside. Thanks for such a great video! I've really been enjoying these border videos!
No disagreeing on that. Ever since US became the sole superpower in 1991, the world has seen more deaths, wars and killings. Something to think about and ask, why does the defense budget need to be $850B when we see the sole superpower?
LOL, so bc a grocery store went out of business, you think the government should save it? We’re capitalists, buddy. The first REAL HEB was in Del Rio. Look at that font. That’s from the 80s. Ergo, Carlos Grocery and Meat Market went under for the same reason as other grocers in the 80s and 90s. Wal Mart crushed em.
I love your videos just a idea maybe in some of the small town you stop in try to stop and talk to someone at the county court house to find out more about each place you stop. For example in your video of north TX the town of Paducah TX has some really cool old bank doors inside the building.
Dude, you never beg for likes like other youtubers. I freaking hate when they do that and usually dislike their vids. Since you don't and your videos are awesome, I always like your videos.
Thank you, Rockey. I look at its this way - people who watch videos already know that stuff. It's stupid, in my opinion, to hassle your viewers for things like likes, etc. :)
On the outskirts where in your video you see where the Rio Grande is closer, you can actually see the sand where very little water passes at the Mexican/American border at the Rio Grande. Less than half an inch deep.
Wow, the houses on the Rio Grande side of Vega Verde Road. I really am struggling to understand the border fence that leaves them on the other side. Beautiful area, though!
Great video's!!..so interesting, "everything"..what a way of life down there , but the people that are from there are so used to way it is..simplest of living,. Safe Travels!! Keep Safe, thank you for sharing with us.🌼
My late brother , Ron Elsey started a hunting club, Pecos Valley Hunting Club back in 1984, just outside of Comstock TX. It was 50, 000 acres on the Pecos River. Still goes on today. Oh the times we had in Acuna. I miss them all.
As a border town Texan (west) it's bittersweet to see this. You know how it was versus what it's become. Very sad but it was a needed decision to make the fence. Still sucks that it turned out this way due to people that won't follow the laws of the land.
@@jbncnow i disagree. Because those illegal won't be crossing over if this texas belong to mexico. You have to understand the real reason why they choose to cross over. It is because the way of life is different. Why is it different. Ever think of that. Sadly american let too many unamerican thinking change their govern method.
@@jbncnowMexicans need their own revolution to take back their country from the cartels and corrupt bureaucrats. Then they wouldn't need to come to the US for jobs, etc.
Buddy, you missed the last man pulled ferry in Los Ebanos, TX. It fits three cars, and on the Mexican side is the town Diaz Ordaz. There is Customs and Border Protection personnel there, it is a Class B port of entry.
Sou do Brasil gostei muito do vídeo . interior do TX . E muito dos comentários do pessoal alguns que moraram lá , e outros etc.. muito bom continue fazendo esses vídeos. Posso dizer que amei ver os vídeos do Texas 👍👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Obrigado meu amistade, muito respeito pra vc. Yo sou do Eagle Pass y me encanta Los videos de sua paez. Leblom Beach y Buenos Aires es la Maryville, deus abencoe.
I'm amazed you didn't get pulled over at all by border patrol or military people I'm from Del Rio born n raised I know my town pretty well I worked for the Trash for 4 years and delivered the Trash Cans as well I know all the streets by names throughout the city and outside the city limits....I even have footage on my cell phones during all that Haiti Problem I was over there under the bridge where you wanted to go due to my job
Ñ is pronounced ny, and so Acuña is pronounced Acunya. I like the vine with the pink flowers @2:40 - do you know what it is? @6:50 the river looks almost like a lake because the water is so calm - it must be very flat there.
I live 30 miles east of Bracketville in Uvalde. I know everywhere you went and everywhere you didn't go. Ft. CLARK SPRINGS might make for an interesting video. It's nested in the center of Bracketville and can't miss it. I recommend that you do a video on the Concan, TX area 23 miles north of Uvalde. The Frio River runs through it and it's in close proximity to Garner State Park. It's a tourist attraction in the summer months. Uvalde has cool history apart from the nightmare that happened on May 24th and would make a great video. It is home to the most successful train robbing gang The Newton Brothers, hometown of actor Matt Mcaunahey, and one of the largest Indian massacres in history by the US Army. It is also the home of former Vice President John Nance Garner next to Lyndon B Johnson. The town was established in 1859 and was home to Billy the Kids best friend Tom Offoliard and was one of the regulators. Pat Garrett lived here in Uvalde for some time and owned a cemetery lot and the man who wrote the first book on Billy the Kid as Garrett's ghost writer is buried here. Pro football player Van McElroy lives here and the Award winning Tejano band Los Palominos are from Uvalde. As you can see there is lots of cool history here.
Brackettville sort of supports Fort Clark Springs retirement community . If you look at Rusty 78609 videos he's got quite a few videos up driving around brackettville . I stayed in del rio once about 10 years ago on the main drag near the walmart and I got the impression it was not secure area, then maybe 3 years ago I went back and if anything it looked worse although IF you go a few streets North it cleans up a bit.
I somewhat know him. He lives in the older units of FCS. I love the Southside myself, it has alot less "mobile home" looking homes, and more permanent foundations on slab foundations.
Downtown Del Rio is pretty dead, the main bulk of commerce largely takes place along and around Veterans Boulevard. Del Rio is small, but not that small. The downtown is not an accurate portrayal of the rest of Del Rio.
Hey there born and raised in del rio tx that would be the old toll Bridge the fence pretty much changed everything cause my mom works at that toll bridge
I recall visiting family out there when I was a kid 25 years or so ago Camping out at Garner (remember the dances) Aside from the huge fences doesn't seem like much has changed
That big round ball on a tire is a Doppler radar brackettville is where the movie The Alamo was filmed fella's name was happy shahan and he promoted the place back in the seventies
When I was in Del Rio in June, '19 you could ether drive into Mexico at the crossing (looks like a turnpike toll both) for I think $15, or you could do like I did and walk across the bridge for a .25 cent toll. May have changed a lot since my day. The tree at :37 looks like the I parked under, and got a slow leak. :)
Radar ball, likely military aviation but possibly civilian aviation, weather, or a defense contractor. Regarding Bracketville, TH-camr Rusty78609 has some videos about it. He is a retired RVer who moved to Fort Clark Springs (former fort, now a gated community which is part of, or adjacent to Bracketville?) from Llano, TX, and has a little house there as a home base for his RVing.
Lord; Thank you for the eye opening video’s, it is sad to watch, what once was a country to be proud of, now makes me sick to think, we may not get it back! Thanks again.
I’ve not been to Del Rio,I will take your word,it’s a nice community. The point I attempted to make, is the direction our country is headed. Certainly in a direction that doesn’t give one confidence in our future. I hope I’m wrong.
John, Del Rio sucks. Don’t kid yourself. 32 Luxury buses pick and and transport illegals 24/7 bro … paid for by YOU and me. Have you been to the local Del Rio mall lately? The buses take up the entire east side of the mall.
I was born here in Del Rio and I still live here. I kinda hate it here because of the lack of shit to do, but it's still my home. I honestly don't believe the 1400 number. I live pretty close to the border and I know the area you were looking at and I've yet to see anyone hop the fence in my 18 years of life.
yeah that's not to say it doesn't happen. I've heard people who live real close to the fence complain that, they hear people running through their yards. but that's like once every few months. I really doubt the 1400 number.
I used to live so close to this you captured footage of one of the lots I was on. I can share details of immigration strategies. The dumpster behind Carlos Grocery would have black bags get dropped off near it such that starter supplies were hidden in the for immigrants crossing the border. In these black bags would be changes of clothes, food, back packs. Someone was always replenishing the supply disguised as trash
I think some of those fences lean over a bit to make them more difficult to climb. The fence being on the other side of the road is due to the treaty w/ Mexico to not put fences right by the Rio Grande river. The U.S. puts them about 1 mile away, which does trap people on the Mexico side of the fence and even cuts some properties in the middle.
i believe the big ball tank at the end isnt a tank at all looks like a balloon release unit for the national weather service. i painted a couple in wa state
Hi there! I actually worked on the fences at 14:30. They were put up to protect Civilian Land, not necessarily to fully stop crossing. This is so the land owners may prosecute trespassers that would sometimes damage, property, livestock, trample feeding grounds, etc.
Interesting. Thank you for the info.
I live in Georgetown, Texas, eldest brother in San Antonio and two sisters in Dallas. During coffee hour after Church Worship service a church member said, “Aah, You were the owner of a lot of land..!” At 59 years of age I don’t want it, way to much work. I am not envious, jealous nor angry about your so called property. Taxes, upkeep, neighbors, big animals to take care of. Why? (Grin)
@@benitomontemayor873 From Georgetown also. Lived over by Southwestern University. 🖐🤠
@@benitomontemayor873 some people just want to own a small amount of property.
@@benitomontemayor873Why do you say "so called property"? Do you not support the rights of individuals to own property?
The large spherical object at the end is a NEXRAD Doppler Radar for the National Weather Service. I believe that's the KDFX Radar. The spherical part is the protective dome to shield the Radar from the elements.
Cool, thank you for the info. I have never seen one of those.
I was going to say weather radar. In Australia the BOM radars are almost the same as that. In Cairns we have one identical, but it is located quite far from the road so it's interesting seeing one close up.
By the way BOM stands for Bureau of Meteorology.
Oh my goodness. You hit two for me. My great grandmother’s farm before she moved to Eagle Pass was here. Thanks so much for showing this one too.
I was born in Eagle Pass, then my parents moved to Del Rio, Texas when I was 5 months old with 5 other siblings. Grew up and schooled in Del Rio. I was in Cordoba, Spain at the Mosque in 1997 where I saw a relatives sarcophagus dating 1390. I come from the Visigoths, Burgundian French, Spanish Conquistadors and Floridian Seminole Native Indians. Whole lot of history hidden in the middle of nowhere…! Cheers
Interesting. :)
Me too disgracefully..
The Visigoths were a tribe that, along with others, brought about the destruction of Rome in 410. Rome’s territory had been spread too far, and the Romans couldn’t defend all of it. The way Rome paid its vast army was to invade an area, steal all of its money, and then demand tax money from the peasants (protection money). Aleric, king of the Visigoths, said “No”, raised an army, and… well, Google it. Anyway, Mr. Montemayor, you come from some hardy, hard-fighting, wealthy, and royal bloodlines. 👍
Mosque is the which scares me to the core.
My wifes extended family is from Brackettville since 1890.
We moved to Fort Clark Springs in 2019 after i retired,
cuz I loved it so much after visiting her family.
There's so much history here that I can't write it all.
Love small town TX life.
Everyone is so friendly and knows one another.
Economy is mainly ranch/farm and tourist based incomes here.
1600 people at last census, and most live on the Fort.
We mostly shop in Del Rio, but there is a small grocery and 2 hardware stores, a few restaurants, gas station.
We have a central post office where everyone in town comes to pick up their mail.
Overall, its a slow,boring,
easy going lifestyle.
I love it.
Please come back again to do a full video if you can,
of the entire area, including the Fort,
as well as a few of the farm roads.
The Seminole and Brackettville cemeteries,etc.
I am actually planning one doing that.
Tell everyone about getting run off the roads from failure to yields and smugglers shooting at motorist to make police stop to help the productive citizens that the criminal scum, that entered illegally a few weeks ago, do to get away. Not that they will be punished for either crimes under marxist democrats.
My family is from Brackettville as well. I miss the way it was when I was a kid. I'll miss ALAMO CITY!!!!! And swimming at the fort!!!!!!
I was born and raised in Del Rio. I love the San Felipe creek/springs and the Amistad Lake. Wonderful swimming spots and fishing spots too.
Where do you live now?
@@enigmatheangel Now I live in the Valley...Rio Grande Valley, 6 hours away from Del Rio.
Love this idea of you exploring different towns and states .
Love your videos! Just came to say that the "ball on a platform" you saw outside Brackettville is a NEXRAD waether radar.
I was born in Acuña! Good memories in Del Rio !! We used to walk on the bridge and then take a bus to go to HEB and do our groceries there 15 years passed and I returned just this summer, everything looks different now but the same at the same time lol
I was born and raised in Del Rio and worked for the phone company for 36 years. All that area around Carlos Grocery and UETA was fairly nice. Like someone already posted. The fence pretty much shut them down. I haven't been down there in many, many years. It's really kind of depressing.
Interesting. Yeah, you could tell that the road to the international bridge had cut them off.
Yes I went there this summer, and I remember going to UETA all the time with one of my aunt's she would always stop to buy her big packs of cigarettes there when we were heading back to Acuña. It's so depressing now, everything looks different and smaller lol
@@paolacrown868 It looks so sad now.
@@oldsalt7534 it makes me sad too 😢
Yes..I remember that all was wide open way back when. It was a big thing to walk the bridge back and forth. I was always partial to Eagle Pass but had great times in and around Acuña/Del Rio
Aussie here. What a fascinating place and I love those signs, so retro!! Similarly, in Australia in country towns far from urban centres antique stores often contain valuable and highly prized items. Being from a country with no land borders it's always fascinating seeing different frontiers especially when culturally the countries are so different.
Thank you for the great comment, Jason!
The series is interesting...but tempting people to steal old retro signs for buck$ rubs me the wrong way. ( 23:54 ).
Australia doesn’t have any land border crossings!
The white ball on the platform is a Doppler Radar station. Next time here head West to Lake Amistad, Comstock, north to Juno then west to Pandale and back south to Langtry, home of Judge Roy Bean, Law West of the Pecos. Back east on Hwy 90 to the Pecos River, old railroad bridge and back to Comstock. You would love the town of Langtry.
Great reports !
Towns certainly invest in their courthouses. The stretch of the RG was beautiful. Loved the Rexall sign. It’s amazing the town allows the trash to pile up. Great to see the goats owning the roads! Thank you for another great video!
I JUST STARTED FOLLOWING YOUR VIDEOS YESTERDAY AND THEY BRING ME PEACE AMD JOY..I FEEL LIKE IM THERE EXPLORING WITH UOU
Thank you, John.
How interesting your border videos have been. Rather quiet too, which is good. I'm sorry, but I find the different fencing in Del Rio hilarious. Different administration - different fencing?! Like you said, some look "sample" like.
Carlos groceries closed back when the internacional bridge got re-build and it took part of the street that would lead us to the old toll-booth. The store UETA also had to move (relocate) for the same reason.
Yes, eminent domain has killed or forced relocation of quite a few businesses along the RG.
I see.
C'mon, dont try to show the ruins of Mexican places, Mexico is not what you show
Surprised you didn’t go to the oldest winery in Texas, which is in Del Rio. There are also cave and wall paintings in the area, which are thousands of years old. Spanish missions as well, which are interesting given the missionaries taught the local apaches Spanish and now many of their ancestors have Spanish surnames
There is a Detention Center on the edge of Brackettville, Fort Clark Springs is there as well. Lots of ranches in Kinney County, entire county has less than 4000 people. I have a small ranch close to Brackett, it’s just past that big golf ball you were wondering about, it’s a National Weather Service Radar Station. Lots of history in that county, you just barely scratched the surface.
Bracketville is where the Alamo movie with John Wayne was filmed. The Alamo set with the buildings is there...pretty neat to go there several years ago ...
Thanks for sharing Del Rio Texas my dad was stationed at Laughlin Air Force Base. I know I’ll never get back to see Del Rio Texas so you sharing made my day.
Thanks
Like to give a shout out to Janis Mannard Del Rio law enforcement. Keep up the good work and stay safe
Some of the movies filmed at Bracketville, TX are The Alamo (john Wayne 1960 and Alamo still there), Arrowhead (1953), Two Rode Together (1961), Bandolero! (1968), Barbarosa (1982), Lonesome Dove (1989), and Bad Girls (1994). It was abandoned but still there intact as all old film locations are left after the movie.
Ciudad Acuña (Ah-coo-nya). Thanks for visiting our small city, Del Rio. I wish you had shown the park where you ended that portion of the video. It's called San Felipe Creek. People have been coming to these waters for thousands of years. Cold water year round. Especially helpful when we get up to 100+ degree weather. That "ball" at the end is the Doppler radar station.
do you still live in Del Rio, this video made me curios about the city!
You doing an important work !!!! I watch your videos almost every day 😊
Brackestsville is the location of the original movie “The Alamo” with John Wayne. They had the entire Alamo along with the Fort built outside of town snd that is where the movie was filmed. Alamo Village was opened to the public when I was a kid (i will be 70 next spring) and my father took us there on vacation. Also Del Rio has a Air Force flight training base there. Lots of Top Guns running around. Merry Christmas and lots of blessings in the new year!
Belive it or not. I use to know the owners. There last name was Cortes. I stayed in that house back in 1999 0r 2000 something. That house was the owners of the meat market and the gas station and that black metal fence was not there. It is crazy to see my friends houae 20 years later. RIP George Cortes
Wow, crazy. How cool that someone who knows the house saw it in my video. Thank you for the comment.
Rip to your friend George
At 17:00 that’s Vega Verde, there are cameras behind you and border patrol on hills just watching. My aunt has a ranch there.
I am addicted to your content. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for the kind words!!
I would be careful those wires hanging down should be telephone wiring in most states anyway the lowest wires are telephone, then next up is cable lines then above that is electricity I learned that as a Cable TV installer years ago! Be safe out there and love your videos especially the Texas border town ones they’re awesome!
I went to that rexall with my grandfather as a child I was born in Del Rio in 1966. Thanks man this was fun.
Awesome! :)
Your videos are taking me on a road trip of america !!!! Fantastic . . . I appreciate you taking us along and showing us what the u.s.a. looks like at the time of your video filming . . 😊👍
Hello and thank you for covering this. Much appreciated……. i’ve just watched Jonathan Lee Richards. He covers the migrant crisis really very well and I just love watching him go round these little cute towns pretty much what you’re doing ….my ancestors immigrated to some in New York some in Louisiana, some in Texas And some in Idaho…. Obviously they came in the right way so obviously a lot of my cousins are in these places ….not only that my Daughter lives there too she was married there ….. I would love to visit some of these little places, and I’m out there in the middle of July for holiday …. Kim🇬🇧
Del Rio has an Air Force Base. It is not a large base but important for USAF pilot training. My point on your travels you usually ignore the presence of military bases. They are significant because they do contribute to the economy and culture of the host communities.
I drove by there but couldn't get any good footage.
it's where I learned to fly jets. Probably the most significant thing within 100s of miles
Thanks for acknowledging Laughlin Air Force Base
My dad served in the Air Force and was stationed here in Good old Del Rio Tx. The Blue Thunderbirds were one of my many memories as a kid.
I might add , your commentary is spot-on !!!! . . Just enough and good facts 👍
I'm originally from Eagle Pass, i don't know if it's still there, but Bracketville hada replica of the Alamo. John Wayne filmed it there. My uncles and grandfather played Mexican soldiers in the film. If you revisit it go and check if it's still there!
I remember the powerful AM radio station we picked up all the way in the Ark-la-Tex to the northeast.Station was across the border in Mexico and Wolf man jack dee jayed there in the 60s☺
During August 1979 I was travelling with a group of friends from the UK on a journey from New York to Los Angeles through the southern states. After a couple of weeks on the road we pitched up in Del Rio. We decided it would be a nice idea to walk across the Rio Grande bridge into the town of Acuña for dinner. We showed our British passports to an immigration official in a tiny office and then walked across the deserted bridge into Mexico. We were the only people around, the bridge was empty. We had a lovely time in Acuña, a few drinks in a very dark bar and then moved on to a very friendly restaurant where we enjoyed our dinner, and then walked back across the bridge. We had to show our passports again to the same officer who dealt with us only a few hours previously, he was very thorough.This is why I find your video so surprising. I know I am talking about a visit that took place almost forty four years ago, but looking at Del Rio now in your film, it is totally unrecognisable, both the town, and the horrendous situation concerning the enormous number of immigrants at what’s looks like a different bridge from how I remember it, trying to enter the United States.
30 years ago I crossed into many of these border towns often. It has changed, drastically. We went from Brownsville into Matamoros a couple months ago and was shocked at how different it was. Once thriving and vibrant, the area is now a decrepit wasteland.
Y’all def went to taco grill I’m 28 and I they lasted until my 20s
Your pertinacity revealed yet another break in the porous armour of a generally chaotic immigration policy; but, in doing so, we all got to view close up the gently rippling surface (with cat-o-nine tails in the foreground and old men with fishing poles in the distance) of the legendary Rio Grande. Also appreciative of being shown around Del Rio, yet another, gritty, bent-on-surviving small border city-and the bonus of entering Bracketville with its bold family of four goats! Your videos mesmerize.
Thank you, David. The goats definitely had the attitude that they owned the place!
“Pertinacity”?😳 Boy, there’s a word you don’t hear very often. I’m not sure it’s a fitting description of his tenacity in making these videos, but okay… In any event, your most eloquent comment has philosophical implications of enormous magnitude. I salute you, sir.
Bracketville Texas was where the Alamo was filmed. Starring Marion Morrison. It’s still standing although the public isn’t allowed there anymore.
I was born in Asherton Texas and haven’t been back since we left that was 68 years ago. We used cross the border at Eagle pass to go int Mexico. You did a video on Eagle pass and was wondering if you drove through Asherton
Interesting ride. Loved seeing all along the border. The sleepy-looking towns have a charm all their own. When you come thru Mississippi get off I-10 at Franklin Creek Road to go thru Grand Bay and Bayou La Batre. The Bayou has a tremendous shrimping/fishing fleet. Boats built there are delivered all around the world. Follow Coden Shell Belt Road to the west. The Mississippi Sound will be 2 steps from the passenger door! A couple of beautiful old homes too. You'll come back out on Hwy. 188. Go west to Hwy. 163 and turn south to Dauphin Island. When the road dead ends go left. Follow signs to the Shell Mounds. Can you imagine eating so many oysters? Ft. Gaines is at the west end. Ride the ferry across to Ft. Morgan, another civile war fort.
Sounds interesting. I may do just that.
That ball as you called it is a Radome or a house for a radar. It could be a weather radar or aviation radar watching for aircraft.
Hi Lord Spoda
Thanks for this another interesting video. Bracketville is really cool, peaceful small town. @31:25 nice looking courthouse, 31:48 fascinating store fronts with old trees surrounding. Curious to know about those typical tropical sprawling trees. Hope someone will supply information about those trees.
All these small towns lined along border are so unusual and interesting! Enjoyed and got to know something more. Best!
Thank you, Rajeev. Great comment as usual. :)
If your talking about those palm trees 🌴 they are native to the southwest and are naturally grown in Texas . I think it’s the Mexican palmetto or something like that
@@pussbeaver1218 Thank you for your reply. But I am referring to sprawling, branched trees, not the Palm trees. Could they be Azadirachta Indica with bitter leaves? They are common in tropical regions.
I've in brackettville
That ball is a Doppler radar for the airport and weather alert system
Its a Doppler Weather Station Radar for this area.
Covers 3 county's I believe in SW TX.
Theres another outside San Antonio too.
Hey Joe&Nics love watching your videos very educational I was wondering if you guys have ever done a video on Plum Grove Texas
Del Rio once had one of the busiest post pffices in Texas because of XERF radio in Acuna...
Outside Bracketville there used to be...maybe still is....a place called Alamo village. It was a replica of the Alamo and the buildings near it, all of which you see if you watch John Wayne's movie titled The Alamo...which was filmed there.
Really? I'm going to have to make a trip back there to see that.
Yes, Alamo Village is north of Brakett a few miles, although it's closed to the general public now, Alamo Village was financed entirely by John Wayne and it almost bankrupted him, a portion of Lonesome Dove was filmed there as well, the bar seen scene in particular where Duval slammed the bartenders head into the bar, as well as numerous other movies
Sadly, Alamo Village is closed and has been closed for a number of years. We used to go there all the time and thoroughly enjoyed it.
Some of my wifes extended family were extras in the film in their younger days before they passed away.
Wayne and some of his film crew stayed at the barracks which is now a small motel at Fort Clark Springs, where I have currently been retired for several years now at the HOA.
Lonesome Dove, Bad Girls,Bandolero, Barbaroso, Centennial, Streets of Laredo, and numerous other movies were filmed here in Brackettville TX too.
1:47 It look exactly the same on google maps Lord Spoda 'crazy eh, yep i love my google maps as it helps me find n investigate n look at so many places not just heir in greater Sydney but around the world.
Wow! That Carlos Grocery has seen better days. Looked like a pretty large store. Crazy. Wonder if the store owners lived in the adjacent home? Wonder what he story is with all that trash piled up at that old gas station. Looks like the city would make them clean it up. Looks like the road might have been rerouted?? Not sure. One things for sure You're not scared to go the farthest you can go. Even up to the river. Pretty countryside. Thanks for such a great video! I've really been enjoying these border videos!
Thank you for the kind words, RR.
The 18 wheelers and the companies that made the new additions to the bridge left there trash. Del Rio is about to get another bridge.
I'm in Scotland and I've thoroughly enjoyed your trip down Mexico way to the Rio Grand!
Awesome!
Those goats are Texas lawn mowers.
I am a native Acunense and knew Del Rio as a child. Last visit to my hometown was in 1982 and have never been back. Greetings pal.
America would look much better if its vast resources were used back home instead of overseas. Eye-opening videos.
Water tower
No disagreeing on that. Ever since US became the sole superpower in 1991, the world has seen more deaths, wars and killings. Something to think about and ask, why does the defense budget need to be $850B when we see the sole superpower?
Yep
Naive comment.
LOL, so bc a grocery store went out of business, you think the government should save it? We’re capitalists, buddy. The first REAL HEB was in Del Rio. Look at that font. That’s from the 80s. Ergo, Carlos Grocery and Meat Market went under for the same reason as other grocers in the 80s and 90s. Wal Mart crushed em.
I love your videos just a idea maybe in some of the small town you stop in try to stop and talk to someone at the county court house to find out more about each place you stop. For example in your video of north TX the town of Paducah TX has some really cool old bank doors inside the building.
Thanks for another great job, LS. Stay safe.
Thank you. :)
Dude, you never beg for likes like other youtubers. I freaking hate when they do that and usually dislike their vids. Since you don't and your videos are awesome, I always like your videos.
Imagine this ... some other TH-camrs even beg for money. Just dumped one channel, I was subscribed to, for that reason.
Thank you, Rockey. I look at its this way - people who watch videos already know that stuff. It's stupid, in my opinion, to hassle your viewers for things like likes, etc. :)
I would never do that. It feels tacky to me. :)
@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip That is because you are the man!
@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip It's like they think we're so stupid, we do not know that we can like and subscribe. lol I really am sick of hearing that.
That ball you saw by Brackettville its the Dopler Radar controlled by Laughlin Air Force Base thank you
I really enjoyed this series. I live in the Great Plains of Texas and always interested in the border.
Thank you, Renee.
The thick black wires are telephone lines, the 3 on the very top are the power electrical lines, FYI
Why did you not go into the history of Brackettville as well as Fort Clark Springs?
You wouldn't get half way across the river before ur stopped. I live about half a mile from where you were.
On the outskirts where in your video you see where the Rio Grande is closer, you can actually see the sand where very little water passes at the Mexican/American border at the Rio Grande. Less than half an inch deep.
Wow, the houses on the Rio Grande side of Vega Verde Road. I really am struggling to understand the border fence that leaves them on the other side. Beautiful area, though!
My hometown Del Rio TX
Thanks missed this the first time around. Came up on my time line.
Fascinating to watch. From the UK. The fence at 15:00 is completely in the wrong place.
Great video's!!..so interesting, "everything"..what a way of life down there , but the people that are from there are so used to way it is..simplest of living,. Safe Travels!! Keep Safe, thank you for sharing with us.🌼
Thank you for that, Jenny!
Most people in Bracketville work for the border patrol or the Air Force base
That makes sense.
My late brother , Ron Elsey started a hunting club, Pecos Valley Hunting Club back in 1984, just outside of Comstock TX. It was 50, 000 acres on the Pecos River. Still goes on today. Oh the times we had in Acuna. I miss them all.
I was wondering if at any point along your journey have you been pulled over because the authorities thought you might be picking people up?
Nope. I've never been pulled over. Amazing, really.
As a border town Texan (west) it's bittersweet to see this. You know how it was versus what it's become. Very sad but it was a needed decision to make the fence. Still sucks that it turned out this way due to people that won't follow the laws of the land.
This land was once Mexico if anybody should get out its us
@@jbncnow i disagree. Because those illegal won't be crossing over if this texas belong to mexico. You have to understand the real reason why they choose to cross over. It is because the way of life is different. Why is it different. Ever think of that. Sadly american let too many unamerican thinking change their govern method.
@@jbncnow we fought a war for that land, the Mexicans lost
@@jbncnowMexicans need their own revolution to take back their country from the cartels and corrupt bureaucrats. Then they wouldn't need to come to the US for jobs, etc.
@@jbncnow was!!! Get over it!!!
Buddy, you missed the last man pulled ferry in Los Ebanos, TX. It fits three cars, and on the Mexican side is the town Diaz Ordaz. There is Customs and Border Protection personnel there, it is a Class B port of entry.
Sou do Brasil gostei muito do vídeo . interior do TX . E muito dos comentários do pessoal alguns que moraram lá , e outros etc.. muito bom continue fazendo esses vídeos. Posso dizer que amei ver os vídeos do Texas 👍👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Obrigado meu amistade, muito respeito pra vc. Yo sou do Eagle Pass y me encanta Los videos de sua paez. Leblom Beach y Buenos Aires es la Maryville, deus abencoe.
Power lines are on the very top of those poles. Lower lines are for cable tv and telephone.
I see.
You were in the older parts of Del Rio. Go down Veterans and you will will see a whole different city.
I only visit older areas near downtown on this channel.
I have swam in the River. It was cool but you have to Be aware there is quick sand in parts of it. So you have to be careful.
I'm amazed you didn't get pulled over at all by border patrol or military people I'm from Del Rio born n raised I know my town pretty well I worked for the Trash for 4 years and delivered the Trash Cans as well I know all the streets by names throughout the city and outside the city limits....I even have footage on my cell phones during all that Haiti Problem I was over there under the bridge where you wanted to go due to my job
No one gave me a second look. :)
Ñ is pronounced ny, and so Acuña is pronounced Acunya. I like the vine with the pink flowers @2:40 - do you know what it is? @6:50 the river looks almost like a lake because the water is so calm - it must be very flat there.
Yay for bonus footage!! :)
I live 30 miles east of Bracketville in Uvalde. I know everywhere you went and everywhere you didn't go. Ft. CLARK SPRINGS might make for an interesting video. It's nested in the center of Bracketville and can't miss it. I recommend that you do a video on the Concan, TX area 23 miles north of Uvalde. The Frio River runs through it and it's in close proximity to Garner State Park. It's a tourist attraction in the summer months. Uvalde has cool history apart from the nightmare that happened on May 24th and would make a great video. It is home to the most successful train robbing gang The Newton Brothers, hometown of actor Matt Mcaunahey, and one of the largest Indian massacres in history by the US Army. It is also the home of former Vice President John Nance Garner next to Lyndon B Johnson. The town was established in 1859 and was home to Billy the Kids best friend Tom Offoliard and was one of the regulators. Pat Garrett lived here in Uvalde for some time and owned a cemetery lot and the man who wrote the first book on Billy the Kid as Garrett's ghost writer is buried here. Pro football player Van McElroy lives here and the Award winning Tejano band Los Palominos are from Uvalde. As you can see there is lots of cool history here.
Thank You LS-Great Video-Great intel-No Border No country!
As they used to say in East Germany. lol
That goats had a work. They're mowing the backyard hehe
Brackettville sort of supports Fort Clark Springs retirement community . If you look at Rusty 78609 videos he's got quite a few videos up driving around brackettville . I stayed in del rio once about 10 years ago on the main drag near the walmart and I got the impression it was not secure area, then maybe 3 years ago I went back and if anything it looked worse although IF you go a few streets North it cleans up a bit.
Interesting. Thanks, Mark.
I somewhat know him.
He lives in the older units of FCS.
I love the Southside myself, it has alot less "mobile home" looking homes, and more permanent foundations on slab foundations.
Downtown Del Rio is pretty dead, the main bulk of commerce largely takes place along and around Veterans Boulevard. Del Rio is small, but not that small. The downtown is not an accurate portrayal of the rest of Del Rio.
That’s the Doppler radar for the Air Force base
Nope, for the National Weather Service.
I lived in Del Rio 64 to 74, I wished U had went to San Felipe,mom still lives there.❤
Hey there born and raised in del rio tx that would be the old toll Bridge the fence pretty much changed everything cause my mom works at that toll bridge
Those goats in Brackettville were hired by the town and have a very important job, lawn mowers.
I recall visiting family out there when I was a kid 25 years or so ago
Camping out at Garner (remember the dances)
Aside from the huge fences doesn't seem like much has changed
That big round ball on a tire is a Doppler radar brackettville is where the movie The Alamo was filmed fella's name was happy shahan and he promoted the place back in the seventies
When I was in Del Rio in June, '19 you could ether drive into Mexico at the crossing (looks like a turnpike toll both) for I think $15, or you could do like I did and walk across the bridge for a .25 cent toll. May have changed a lot since my day. The tree at :37 looks like the I parked under, and got a slow leak. :)
Radar ball, likely military aviation but possibly civilian aviation, weather, or a defense contractor.
Regarding Bracketville, TH-camr Rusty78609 has some videos about it. He is a retired RVer who moved to Fort Clark Springs (former fort, now a gated community which is part of, or adjacent to Bracketville?) from Llano, TX, and has a little house there as a home base for his RVing.
Lord; Thank you for the eye opening video’s, it is sad to watch, what once was a country to be proud of, now makes me sick to think, we may not get it back! Thanks again.
Del Rio is actually a quite nice place. Go visit and see for yourself.
I’ve not been to Del Rio,I will take your word,it’s a nice community. The point I attempted to make, is the direction our country is headed. Certainly in a direction that doesn’t give one confidence in our future. I hope I’m wrong.
John, Del Rio sucks. Don’t kid yourself. 32 Luxury buses pick and and transport illegals 24/7 bro … paid for by YOU and me.
Have you been to the local Del Rio mall lately? The buses take up the entire east side of the mall.
Amazing video my friend that little town looks like CALEXICO California. 👍
Thank you, Jose. :)
I was born here in Del Rio and I still live here. I kinda hate it here because of the lack of shit to do, but it's still my home. I honestly don't believe the 1400 number. I live pretty close to the border and I know the area you were looking at and I've yet to see anyone hop the fence in my 18 years of life.
Those daily immigrant numbers were always very suspect. I'll take your word over political nonsense with your first hand knowledge.
Yeah that number sounded insanely high
And that’s why left but I still miss my hometown
yeah that's not to say it doesn't happen. I've heard people who live real close to the fence complain that, they hear people running through their yards. but that's like once every few months. I really doubt the 1400 number.
I used to live so close to this you captured footage of one of the lots I was on. I can share details of immigration strategies. The dumpster behind Carlos Grocery would have black bags get dropped off near it such that starter supplies were hidden in the for immigrants crossing the border. In these black bags would be changes of clothes, food, back packs. Someone was always replenishing the supply disguised as trash
This was 2004
Or 2002
I think some of those fences lean over a bit to make them more difficult to climb. The fence being on the other side of the road is due to the treaty w/ Mexico to not put fences right by the Rio Grande river. The U.S. puts them about 1 mile away, which does trap people on the Mexico side of the fence and even cuts some properties in the middle.
i believe the big ball tank at the end isnt a tank at all looks like a balloon release unit for the national weather service. i painted a couple in wa state
Doppler radar …
The huge white ball in the air looks like it could be a water storage tank for the area! Just a guess!
Is there any place you've been too so far that you'd consider relocating. I think I heard you say you currently live in Dallas
South Padre Island.
Will you be hightailing it back to the lower RGV ... Brownsville? Didn't anyone mention that John Wayne filmed The Alamo near Brackettville?
Eventually. Yes, someone mentioned it, and also said that you can't access the location.