Did you know?

1. Preston E.Smith, Governor of Texas 1969-1973, is a native of Dawson County and graduated from Lamesa High School in 1930
2. The Colorado River heads in Dawson County and flows 600 miles to Matagorda Bay in the Gulf of Mexico.
3. Dawson County provided more men and women for military service in WWII per capita than any other county in the United States.

The Great Chicken Fried Steak Controversy

James Donald Perkins didn’t know it that cold windy day in 1911 as he walked to work, but he was about to become the creator of perhaps the world’s tastiest dish.

Perkins, known to his friends as Jimmy Don, was a short order cook in Lamesa at a small restaurant known as Ethel’s Home Cooking. Actually, the restaurant was run by Luther McGilvary. When a customer would enter, noting that the place was named Ethel’s Home Cooking, and ask, “Where’s Ethel?” McGilvary would reply, “Home Cooking”.

Fifty Years of Memories Down at the Sky-Vue

Old Lamesa landmark still going strong

By JOHN WISE
Avalanche-Journal

LAMESA - It sits alone, smack in the middle of a cotton field.

Lamesa entrepreneur Skeet Noret built the Sky-Vue Drive-In 50 years ago, and people came. In fact, they're still coming.

Noret wasn't hearing strange voices. Nor did anybody think he was crazy for building it, as folks thought of Ray Kinsella, Kevin Costner's character in the 1989 film "Field of Dreams" who plowed under his corn field to build a baseball diamond.

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