After many years of doing research on the subject, I have come to the conclusion that no place other than Bandera would have been better suited for me to grow up in. The big city world with it’s bigger populations was distant enough to only have limited influence on the youth of Bandera in the 50’s and 60’s. The catching up on the latest fashion, fads and trends was slow in comparison to what today’s high tech communication environment provides. While we have always had a weekly local newspaper during those time periods, it wasn’t on the scale of what the San Antonio ...