Earth Travel Guide

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Earth is a town of just over 1000 located in the Panhandle Plains portion of Northern Texas. When I saw the name on my road atlas, I had to stop. Earth had a small; but nice historic district with a few buildings of historical and/or architectural interest.

The only restaurant I saw open in Earth was Dairy Queen. The Dairy Queen had a lot of cars parked there.

Favorite Dish: Most DQ's are the same. I like oreo blizzards some times in Summer.

In this photo I tried to take a picture of the road shoulder covered in cotton. For miles around the roads had this cotton along both sides. According to one of my uncles, who is a farmer, in 1973 a farmer was paid $4.00 for a bushel of wheat. Currently farmers are paid $2.70 for a bushel of wheat. Although the prices for the corn and wheat have not gone up the prices for machinery and irrigation have gone up. For that reason many farmers in this part of Texas have switched from growing corn to growing cotton. Cotton does not cost as much to irrigate. If some thing does not happen to help rectify the situation many farmers will not be able to afford to grow crops at all.

DIP!!! They are not kidding. I found out there is one sign for 'dip' at the edge of town but half the intersections past this sign have a dip. You don't want to hit one going too fast.

Listen In!

Just in case you want in on all the real juicy radio traffic that a metropolis like Earth has to offer, how about some scanner frequencies?




Freq.(MHz)


Description




37.1800


City of Earth




155.8350


City of Earth




461.0250


Charlie Bailey




463.3750


Federal Licensing, Inc; Tony Barton




463.7250


Earth Pump Machine Inc




466.0250


Charlie Bailey




468.3750


Federal Licensing, Inc; Tony Barton




468.7250


Earth Pump Machine Inc



Can you tell that there just really isn’t a whole lot going on in a town this size? But let me assure you of this – I would have rather grown up in a small town than any major city you can name. While my hometown is not exactly known for saintly behavior, you grow up with a different set of sensibilities and priorities than you do growing up in the city. Your neighbors know you and are genuinely friendly (although there’s a fixed percentage of jerks in any crowd LOL), and I think you learn a closer sense of family. But maybe that’s just my family...

Fondest memory: One of the things I've noticed about small towns in my home state is the smaller the town, the more likely you are to find murals, but I didn't expect the artistry I found on a couple of the buildings in Earth. Their theater is a great example and I thought it was very ironic that a theater decked out in 50's scenes was showing 'The Blob' for their Saturday matinee.