Jeff Roche
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 20 Dec
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Everyone will own their own business.
And this kind of booster ideal becomes a model that small towns all across Texas, the South, the Great Plains, the American West, adopt.
That sort of city commission where the role of city government is to promote the local economy.
Yeah.
It was for, you know, it's like a lot of towns on the Great Plains and the Southern Plains in particular.
It's fallen on harder times.
But man, in 1914, 1915, it was one of the cutest towns in America.
Post designed all of the houses.
I mean, all of the architectural drawings are available.
You can look at them at the Southwest Collection at Texas Tech.
He's got a team out there.
They're building a house every 11 days.
They're just these adorable little California cottages.
You could order almost everything to spec.
He had 20,000 trees in the town.
He had a special greenhouse built so he could get the trees going, nice wide streets.
Yeah, it was very much a planned community, and it was built out really in less than a decade.
Yeah, I think it's the central event in the history of West Texas.
I don't doubt that for a moment.
For a couple of reasons.
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