How many of you remember The Ryon Store of Seadrift? It was on Main Street. One store had Dr. Oscar Ryon’s office in the back of the building. In front of his office was the Drug Store with Philip Ryon filling prescriptions for Doctor Ryon. Then there was the Post Office with Lucille Byon, the […]

Port O’Connor News Excerpts from The Port Lavaca Wave, April 15, 1954 by Mrs. P.L. Lewis Mrs. A.E. Hawes who has been away with her husband, who has been undergoing treatment, flew home from Freeport with her son last Tuesday. She says it was a little scary up there but they made it O.K. She […]

A Few Fish Despite the Cold in Army Hole by Mrs. Penny Young Port Lavaca Wave, January 1959 from the collection of Mrs. R.H. Harrison PORT O’CONNOR- A cold norther that hit Port O’Connor Saturday afternoon resulted in frozen pipes and water pumps throughout the town and temperatures were recorded as low as 21 degrees […]