- History·Brewster County
Marathon Motel
The Marathon Motel is a survivor of the auto court, the form American roadside lodging took before the motel chains arrived: a low run of cabins around an open court, built for people coming in by car…
- Entertainment & Sports·Presidio County
Marfa Burrito
Marfa is a town where a gallery dinner can cost a day's wages, and the most beloved food in it comes out of a small kitchen on South Highland Avenue. Marfa Burrito is Ramona Tejada's place, and the pr…
- Entertainment & Sports·Val Verde County
Memo's Restaurant
Memo's has been a Del Rio restaurant since 1936, opened by Guillermo Calderon, whom everyone called Memo, and moved in the 1940s onto land on the bank of San Felipe Creek near Brown Plaza, where it st…
- History·Presidio County
The Hotel Paisano
The Hotel Paisano was built for an oil boom that never arrived. Marfa raised the money by subscription, Trost and Trost of El Paso drew the plans, ground broke in October 1929 days before the crash, a…
- Industry & Science·Val Verde County
Val Verde Winery
Frank Qualia came to Del Rio from Milan in 1881, when the town held about two hundred people and the San Felipe canals had already been watering thousands of acres for a decade, which is a large part …