Dropped by Texas Jacks Sunday afternoon

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A lady friend and I made a day tríp to Luchenbach and Fredricksburg to see the sights and get some Germán food. As is typical for any weekend the town was packed with tourists. I came across a number of leather shops with passable holsters and one shop had a good assortment of Denix non firing réplica revolvers. After buying a really wide brim "GUS" styled palm hat and stampede cord and doing both sides of the main street, we decided to head home. We went around the block to head back to Austin and there was Texas Jacks. We went inside and checked it out: tons of CAS clothes, holsters, hats and of course 6 shooters and long guns.
If you get down this way, a trip through the Hill Country and around Capn Jack Hays's old haunts, winding up at Texas Jacks is worth it.
 
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I didn't know about them when I visited Fredericksburg, Texas but while the family shopped, I was at the Nimitz Museum! A must see after picking up some sixguns and threads at Texas Jacks!
 
+1 on the National Museum of the Pacific War. Very much worth the time. And you should take the time.
 
Hey there Mykeal where have you been? Glad to hear from you.Yeppers I have visited the museum of the Pacific many times. I donated a seabag full of my dad's dress blues and white uniforms and decorations from his time on a gunboat before ww2 in the China Sea and from his time on the New Jersey during the war to the museum when it first opened. They added a oversize bronze statue of Adm. Nimitz just last year out front on the main drag. The best time I had down there was A few years back when they had a huge parade of ww2 vets riding ww2 vehicles followed by a full scale renactment on a cleared mountain outside of town of the storming of Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima complete with tanks, quad mounted Ma Dueces, Marine renenactor live flame thrower and rifle and machine gun squads firing blanks in vintage weapons, firing and bliwing up of defensive pill boxes, Asian reenactors from the US, Japan, Korea, and China performing Banzai charges as the Japanese defenderse, Corpsmen evacuating the wounded with Weasels and plenty of Hollywood pyrotechnics....and both of the raisings of Old Glory on top of the mountain. Ollie North and the author of Flag of Our Fathers were in attendance. A flyover and bomb run was planned by the Commemorative Air Force, but grounded due to bad weather. I've also been to a couple of ww2 style hanger dances at the airport and Hanger Hotel there. Me and my best gal would dress for the period and jitterbug the night away when I was younger.
 
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Sidenote: Hayes Street in San Francisco was named after Capt. Jack Hayes.
 
Fredricksburg, Texas Jack, National Museum of the Pacific War, Nimitz Museum, so many places so little time. No that far from South West Florida. Must add to my places to see, things to do list. Nice trips for an old pensioner.

Did most of the civil war sites on vacation trips while raising a family.
 
I thought there was some kind of connection, when I was looking for a squareback 51' Navy Cimarron Arms was out of stock and I seem to recall they mentioned something about the Texas Jacks store. I can't seem to remember what exactly it was as it was about ten years ago.
 
I have been fixin to see their store for years but just seem to always run out of time. I will make an effort to get it next time "buy".

Thanks for the review.
 
Yep. You can spend ALL your money in Fredricksburg and not even get drunk.
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Oh, with over a dozen wineries in the area I bet I could! :)

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Going to a WWII era swing dance in period dress sounds like good fun!
 
I used to be a CAF hanger on er with some friends that were official members and collected real and replica a-2 and g-1 leather flight jackets and uniforms, squadron patches, crush caps, greens and pinks, the whole tamale. It was fun at the time. I played drums growing up and would spell the drummer in the swing band doing my best impression of Gene Krupa while in my WW2 costume.
 
Awesome! I always wanted to show up at one of those dances in a '41 Ford convertible and wearing Army Pinks & Greens with captain's rank; my girl with period dress and hairstyle (I love the lady's hairstyles of the early 1940s).
 
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