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To: tejek who wrote (310254)11/10/2006 8:01:45 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1574216
 
"It was Lyndon Johnson's congressional district........it was the late 1930s I think.....they had no electricity."

My grandparents didn't get electricity until the late 1950s. Indoor plumbing came later. And that is about 35 miles from where I live now.



To: tejek who wrote (310254)11/10/2006 8:13:57 PM
From: bentway  Respond to of 1574216
 
Lyndon Johnson was a big fan of the TVA under Roosevelt, and got a similar thing going on the Colorado river that runs through Austin, the Lower Colorado River Authority, or LCRA. Austin also used to suffer from periodic horrible floods. The damns and rural electrification Johnson was instrumental in getting built as a congressman solved the flooding and provided electricity to millions of people in central Texas.


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