Travel & Outdoors
June 1, 1980
An Insider’s Guide to San Antonio
There’s more for the traveler in San Antonio than meets the Alamo.
Travel
The best of Texas travel including news, trip guides and destinations.
Travel & Outdoors
May 31, 1980
Three’s Company
Not even a freak April snow could keep the glittering multitude from the Y.O. Ranch’s one-hundredth birthday party.
Travel & Outdoors
May 1, 1980
The Good Life
You can still find it in these great small towns.
Travel & Outdoors
April 30, 1980
The Women Who Came to Dinner
Bringing the world’s most controversial feminist sculpture to Texas turned out to be no picnic - but a rare feast for connoisseurs of the outrageous.
Travel & Outdoors
April 1, 1980
I Want to be a Star
You do? There are some people right off Dallas’s Central Expressway waiting to help.
Travel & Outdoors
March 1, 1980
Alias Miss Moonlight
For Maxine, Texas’ leading gossip, life is all work and no playcation.
Travel & Outdoors
February 1, 1980
Flipping Out
When big-time gymnastics came to Fort Worth, half the contestants were steely-eyed little girls with the bodies of children and the wills of fanatics.
Travel & Outdoors
January 1, 1980
Doing the Greenville Avenue Boogie
By reputation Dallas is a staid city. But there is one strip where Dallas is fevered, excessive, and lascivious, and where every night is party night.
Travel & Outdoors
December 1, 1979
The Best Little Hotels in Mexico
We’ve found them: nine of Mexico’s best colonial inns and lodges. All you have to do is make reservations.
Travel & Outdoors
December 1, 1979
Tiny Texas
If you want big, we’ve got big. If you want small, we’ve got that, too.
Travel & Outdoors
December 1, 1979
Zandra and the Laughing Elk
Al Neiman’s Fortnight the attractions varied between eccentric Americans and somnambulant British.
Travel & Outdoors
November 1, 1979
Funky Hotels
Why subject yourself to the dreariness of impersonal, prefab hotels when these country hostelries are just down the road?
Travel & Outdoors
November 1, 1979
East Meets Wet
The Dalai Lama encounters Houston. He finds it good.
Travel & Outdoors
September 30, 1979
Titles Texans
Beneath certain Stetsons lies a crown.
Travel & Outdoors
August 31, 1979
The Beautiful and the Damned
Town and Country magazine came to Texas to record our sophistication, wealth, and savoir faire—and all hell broke loose.
Travel & Outdoors
August 1, 1979
Down to the Sea in Buses
Grab your beach towel and bathing suit, but leave your car in the garage.
Travel & Outdoors
July 31, 1979
Next on Dallas: J. R. at the Ball
Dallas is both a television show and a city, but at the Cattle Baron’s Ball you couldn’t tell which was which.
Travel & Outdoors
June 30, 1979
Haute as a Pistol
A Paris fashion show and the cotton-eyed Joe, nowhere but Texas.
Texas History
April 1, 1979
Fiesta!
Whether you drink champagne or beer, wear diamonds or rhinestones, one thing about Fiesta San Antonio is the same for everyone: it’s fun.
Travel & Outdoors
March 1, 1979
A Tale of Two Coasts
The best thing about a trip to Florida is coming back to Padre Island.
Travel & Outdoors
June 1, 1978
Happy Trails to You
Why let Roy Rogers have all the fun? Waltz across Texas this summer along these eleven good-time trails.
Border & Immigration
February 1, 1978
The Streets of Laredo
The real Nuevo Laredo isn’t George Washington’s Birthday, Boystown, or throngs of tourists; it’s the street life.
Travel & Outdoors
May 31, 1977
Cheap in the Heart of Texas
A family vacation, almost a contradiction in terms, is still possible at these old-fashioned resorts.
Travel & Outdoors
April 1, 1977
A Long Weekend in Houston
A tour of Houston that will take you off the beaten freeway.
Style & Design
March 1, 1977
The Great Border Bazaar
We walk the line for you—from Matamoros to Juárez—to bring you the best of Mexican shopping.
Travel & Outdoors
November 1, 1976
Why Texans Make Lousy Gamblers
This information may come as news to you, but casino owners have been banking on it for years.
Sports
October 1, 1976
It’s All Downhill From Here
In the world of skiing, one man’s mountain is another man’s molehill.
Travel & Outdoors
July 31, 1976
Hostel Territory
Even in the barren wilderness of West Texas there are a few places where you can feel at home on the range.
Travel & Outdoors
June 30, 1976
Making Tracks
The great Canadian railway bizarre.
Travel & Outdoors
May 31, 1976
How Suite It Is
If there’s no room at these inns, you might as well stay home.
Travel & Outdoors
February 1, 1976
A Homesick Texan’s Guide to New York
The Bronx is up and the Battery’s down and there are little bits of Texas all over the place.
Travel & Outdoors
September 30, 1975
European Passage
Will there always be a Europe?
Travel & Outdoors
September 1, 1975
Mexico on Five Words a Day
The best places to study Spanish in Mexico.
Travel & Outdoors
August 31, 1975
Mexico: An Introduction
Four hundred and fifty years ago Texas was claimed for Spain by an adventurer who was washed ashore, naked and starving, on the beach at Galveston. Cabeza de Vaca was promptly made a slave by the vile, cannibalistic, and otherwise inhospitable Karankawa Indians. For the next 300 years (more than
Travel & Outdoors
June 30, 1975
AH Current
Cool off this summer with a dip into one of the state‘s best old-fashioned swimming holes.
Being Texan
April 30, 1975
The Greatest Experience of Your Life
Climbing the social ladder, and other exercises at Hill Country summer camps.
Travel & Outdoors
September 30, 1974
Visit Beautiful Austin (Quick)
Austin is trading old houses for new offices. The City Council calls it progress.
Travel & Outdoors
July 31, 1974
Why I Like to Ride the Train
Enthusiastic railway passengers maintain that fast is not necessarily the same as best.
Travel & Outdoors
June 30, 1974
Among the Ruins
Across Yucatan on pennies a day. An intrepid traveler reports.
Travel & Outdoors
June 30, 1974
Forgotten Places
Four seldom visited areas of Texas prove to be proudly beautiful and almost inaccessible.
Travel & Outdoors
April 30, 1974
Innocents Abroad
You can travel with children. A whole world out there is waiting ... with a smirk.
Travel & Outdoors
March 31, 1974
Texas Monthly Reporter
JUSTICE IN EL PASO Southern California mystery writer Ross McDonald in his best book, The Goodby Look, has his world-weary private eye hero Lew Archer lament, “I have a secret passion for mercy . . . but justice is what keeps happening to people.” Richard Wheatley’s justice for filing
Travel & Outdoors
January 31, 1974
San Francisco: An Offbeat Guide
Try something different next time you head West.
Travel & Outdoors
January 1, 1974
Guide for Big-City Kids
Mothers and fathers in Dallas, Fort Worth, and Houston can explore an exciting concept with their children: the city as playground.
Art
December 1, 1973
Touts
Future-Shocking ExhibitionHouston’s Contemporary Arts museum takes the prize again for the new and different in experimental art. Beginning sometime in mid-December (the opening date had not been selected at press time) the museum will present the combined efforts of the futuristic-oriented Ant Farm, NASA, and the Texas Medical Center, in
Travel & Outdoors
December 1, 1973
Border Towns: What to Do and Where to Do It
Our travel guide, in search of the perfect taco, wanders along the 1248 mile border between Texas and Mexico. He wines, dines, and occasionally sightsees.
Books
September 30, 1973
Touts
Some recommendations on what to do, see and buy this month.
Travel & Outdoors
September 30, 1973
A Grand Tour by the Gulf
October is the month to pack up your troubles in your old kit bag and head to the sea.
Art
June 30, 1973
Touts
Fiddle-FaddleFiddler’s festival? A hillside field and a lake would be the perfect setting. But now they’ve covered it over with a shopping center and a parking lot.Seminary South isn’t country heaven, but it’s all right for a shopping center—it has lots of grass and flowers and trees and fountains. And
Travel & Outdoors
May 31, 1973
Scene Change, Please
Try one of these extended weekend trips. You'll know you've left home.