Exploring Plainview Texas

Event Center

 

Everything is moving along nicely at the Cantu event center out on the Marshall Formby Freeway access road in West Plainview.

 

 

 

Now, Dasher!

 

"Now, Dasher! Now, Dancer! Now, Prancer and Vixen! On, Comet! On, Cupid! on, Donder and Blitzen!

 

We are loving the late 1940s Santa's Chamber of Commerce parade float.

 

 

The Chamber representatives met with the Downtown Plainview representatives, and they selected the 2024, 2025, and 2026 holiday open house and parade themes.

 

2024 Christmas Under the Stars!

2025 Feliz Navidad ~ Wishing You a Merry Christmas!

2026 A Storybook Christmas!

 

New Look

 

Dairy Queen Plainview is getting a new look!

 

 

 

What's your favorite DQ eats?

 

New Look

 

Dairy Queen Plainview is getting a new look!

 

 

 

What's your favorite DQ eats?

 

Names

 

Plainview has had several names through the years. A few are Athens of the Plains, The City of Parades, and Home of the Cows. Plainview is known for its cultural diversity and the number of parades held each year in Downtown Plainview. Of course, we do have a cow herd, too!

Here is a 1902 parade photo...

 

 

1912

 

Card 4, A Shower Day, April 1912, from 3rd National Bank, located at 6th and Broadway Streets.

 

 

Barber Shop

 

The Hilton Hotel Barber Shop in 1930, located on the west side street level. Pictured are barbers Shorty & B.B. Winkles.

 

 

New Business

 

There is a new Zumba business in Downtown Plainview!

 

 

Cart Path

 

The Plainview Municipal Golf Course is getting much-needed updated cart paths!

 

 

New Year

 

It is the second month into a new year. Did you eat your black-eyed peas for good luck? What is the story behind the black-eyed pea folklore? It is written that this tradition began when the pea went from being used as food for livestock to a food staple that saved the people in the South. The Union Army troops of General Sherman ignored the fields of black-eyed peas while taking or destroying other crops during the Civil War. During the cold and hard winter, the Confederate soldiers survived on the black-eyed peas, propelling this once unworthy yet nourishing legume into a symbol of fortune and prosperity in the American South and today, across the country.

An early black-eyed pea can label for Plainview, Texas, production.