Author: Matthew McDaniel

REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK While researching the history of garbage in San Angelo, a few people asked me about the smokestack associated with the Way Back In Club, later known as Jack Daniel’s Old Time Eatery, situated on the side of the Mertzon Highway heading west out of town. For decades the brick tower was the first thing travelers would see of San Angelo after passing by the Twin Buttes, but its exact origins were somewhat shrouded in the mists of history. History of the City’s Incinerators As a major inland shipping point for cattle on the railroad, beginning in the 1890s,…

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