If you, like me miss the way Kemah was (Yes, I'm one of those who cried when I saw what it had became. ) you can blame it on Ben Blackledge. I know it's not proper to speak ill of the dead, but he took something that was beautiful to those of us who lived there and turned it into a tawdry tourist trap. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/2472500.html Yes, the buildings were rundown and made mostly of used lumber, but why build for permanence when it's all going to be wiped out every few years by a hurricane? After Alicia we all joined in rebuilding. Unlike people elsewhere we didn't wring our hands and wait for the government to take care of us. We were a community and there was lots of used lumber available for the taking. Did you know that there is a lovely ballad about Kemah-That-Was? Go here: http://joelees.com/history.php Click the record in the upper right hand corner.
Like the Count of Monte Cristo, OldGuy silently plotted his elaborate revenge on this thread for nearly a half decade...finally, after marshaling his evidence and resources, he hath registered....and NOW HE IS REVEALED LIKE A TERRIBLE AVENGING ANGEL OF OLD KEMAH -> THE KEMAH YOU THOUGHT WAS DEAD. HE HAS KNOWN DEATH, AND YOU SHALL KNOW IT TOO.
T-Bone changed ownership after the hurricane and the food quality has dropped off a little. My wife and I use to eat there every week, now just once every couple of months.
Was I the only who actually opened OldGuy's Ballad of Kemah, & had it playing in the background while reading SamFisher's post in a Paul Sparer type voice? The emotional juxtaposition was incomprehensible.
Many years ago, when I was a young lad of about 12 or 13 I knew a state legislator, and he gave me an insight into people that I have found to be, with very few exceptions a truism. I was sitting in the gallery watching the antics of those who had been elected to represent us and he came up, sat down next to me and said, "Son, watch down there on that floor. Never once will you hear someone say, 'Now I know that this is bad for me, but I don't have the intestinal fortitude to not do it so let's make it against the law so I can't do it.' " "No, no no! What you will hear is, 'Now I know this is bad for me and personally I would never do it, but my neighbor might not be as smart as I am so let's make it illegal so that HE can't do it!' " My point is that just because you don't like something, think it's dirty, a bunch of rundown shacks or a waste of good land does not mean that others don't like it just the way it is.
