Anyone live up here? Might be moving there for work in the surrounding area and was trying to find any info about the town or ideas on places to live

My wife and I both grew up there and our parents still live there. Tough time to find housing right now with the oil being like it is. My parents have two rent houses that aren't really nice at all but I will ask if they are empty right now. The usually have a waiting list though if someone moves out.

Golf course is actually really nice for a small town. La Casita for breakfast and get a bacon burrito. I think they put crack in it because I crave them and eat about 5 or 6 every time I'm in town.

Email me at davidclayharder at gmail dot com if you have any other questions.

Just a little bit of geographical trivia.

Perryton is the northernmost county seat in Texas.

It's also closer to the capital cities of 5 other states than it is to Austin:

Oklahoma City, OK - 235 miles
Santa Fe, NM - 373 miles
Topeka, KS - 394 miles
Denver, CO - 421 miles
Lincoln, NE - 473 miles
Austin - 528 miles

(And I lived there for a year over 30 years ago, working for Harold Hudson when he was publisher of the Perryton Herald. So any information I could give you would be very badly out of date. They were having a bit of an oil boom back then and housing was at a premium (a lot of people were living in Silver Streams in parking lots, as I recall).

Haha way to make me feel even more isolated!

Thank God I'm still in Texas, technically..

Housing is crazy..pretty much impossible to find a place to rent. Theres also no zoning regs, and people have trailers, rvs, add-ons etc. all over the place.

The good news is that you're close to some pretty country. It's not that far to Colorado, etc. Some interesting things not too far from you are: Airplane museum in Liberal
Dodge City, museums and western town
Santa Fe Trail ruts in several locations, including Dodge City
Dry Cimmaron and Johnson Mesa in New Mexico.
Capulin Volcano.
Spanish Peaks area, Colorado.

One of the biggest outdoor rodeos is in Guymon, OK each spring. They use big pasture steers for team roping instead of the usual coriente roping steers.

Cow chip throwing contest in Beaver, OK each year. Never been, but heard it's 'interesting'.

You can catch flights to Denver & KC from Liberal, KS. VERY big plane collection at the museum next to the airport.

Oh, and if you go to Liberal hospital & they can't handle it, they put you on a jet to Wichita.

Good luck with housing. I was in Guymon for 1.5 years with work. Now, I'm in Snyder, TX. The rental & housing market is a mess in both areas because of oil.

You are also closer to Cheyenne, WY (Wyoming's capitol) at 518 miles, than you are to Austin, TX.

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You are also closer to Cheyenne, WY (Wyoming's capitol) at 518 miles

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Nice catch, I missed that one ...

btw, when I was there I ended up living in the basement apartment of a small house on S. Eton Street (right across from the Middle School); it was rented out to me by the woman who was the bookkeper at the PH at the time ... nothing fancy (in fact, it had a tendency to flood if it rained hard enough); I looked on Google maps street view and it appears that the house is still there (there's now a parking lot directly south of the house where there used to be many mobile homes) ...

Thats pretty funny.. I'm living off S Drake and turn off Eton to head to 9th to get to work everyday!

Moved here to work for Baker Hughes. I'm from a big city so its been an adjustment haha. Everyone has been nice so far though.

Thanks for all the suggestions of places to check out! I will definitely be looking for things to do when I can on my days off.

Go watch a movie at the theatre in Canadian. It's an incredible theatre (completely serious). Also have a good steak place down the street too and amazing breakfast place called the
Bucket.

Speaking of Canadian, if you drive south from there you can find the intersection of FM 1268 and FM 48, where the final scene of Cast Away was filmed ...

Link

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Haha I actually went out on a job on Monday by Wheeler I believe it was, and my boss told me about the Cast Away scene! Thought that was really cool!
I saw the steak place in Canadian too. I'll look for the theater! Most of our jobs are in that area so ill have time to look around and learn the roads.

Good Steak Restaurant in Wheeler too!

Red River Steak House in McClean is pretty good, too.

Canadian is fascinating, the Abrahamson (sp?) family has made lots of money in various ventures, and is plowing tons of money back into the community. The patriarch's former home, which was originally an old church, is now a world-class art gallery. They've had Concurs level antique car shows there, etc.

Canyon,

Actually the church/house is owned by one of the sons of the Patriarch. I know a little about the family because one of my fish married a granddaughter of the old man.

This fish was also a Hale Center boy BTW.

I wish some one with more knowledge than me could come on here and tell us some stories about Mr. Abraham. He was quite a character.

He loved to go to Vegas. The story goes that he was having a party at the ranch and decided to go to Vegas. He invited everyone and many accepted the offer to go, so he supposedly chartered a Southwest Airlines and took the group to Vegas for a few days. It may just be legend, but I have heard it from a few different sources.

Know exactly who you are talking about K. His folks are great friends of my Mom and my Dad before he passed. They drove my folks from HC to Colorado Springs for my daughter's USAFA graduation and wedding, among many other things. Mom and Dad went to Canadian for K&W's wedding and got to meet the old man. My wife taught high school math in HC for a year and K was one of her students.

Also have some distant relatives named Hufstedler who work for the Abrahamson family.

I'm unsure about the current state of the house. I thought it had already been converted to a museum, but obviously I'm not certain.

Test

When I lived in Childress K was a coach there. It was great having an Aggie buddy in town. His parents are really great people as is he.

He's still coaching in Childress as far as I know. His folks bought some property near Childress for family recreation, though they still live in Hale Center.

If you saw the thread on the sale of my Dad's antique tractor collection, K's dad bought one of them. Here's a picture of K's brother driving it in HC's 4th of July parade this year. We still own the trailer he's pulling.

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Red River Steak House in McClean is pretty good, too.

Canadian is fascinating, the Abrahamson (sp?) family has made lots of money in various ventures, and is plowing tons of money back into the community. The patriarch's former home, which was originally an old church, is now a world-class art gallery. They've had Concurs level antique car shows there, etc.

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Haha I actually did the valet parking for the car shows with a friend of mine since we were the only seniors they trusted that could also drive stick. Did it for tips an wouldn't you know it all those rich people are tight *******s. Made $20 all night. Salem (hedge fund, commodity trader) has definitely put a lot into the town. Graduated with his oldest daughter who is at Harvard now and Jason Abraham's daughter graduated with us too. When we went to Jason's daughters birthday party out at their ranch in junior high, Jason showed all the guys a video of him castrating a horse!

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Summer of '85 - spent summer there working for TXDOT living in a camper with 2 grumpy old men. GF would come up (we were from Pampa) and we would hang out on the greens on the golf course and watch the lightning. Got to know local PD by name as they caught us several times. They were good natured tho - would give us a little warning they were approaching so we could put things back in order..... Good times - and I thought I was getting rich saving my per diem money

Paging meatball...

What I can tell you about Perryton is it was a ***** of a ride for a Friday night football game from Tulia. They also accepted our girls basketball coach, who was fired for not playing the black girls, with open arms.

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What I can tell you about Perryton is it was a ***** of a ride for a Friday night football game from Tulia.

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I feel your pain. When I was in high school at Canyon (mid-1970s), Canyon & Perryton were in District 1-AAA (along with Dumas and Levelland). I'm grateful that I only had to make that bus trip once.

And to think, Canyon was the halfway point (more or less) for Levelland kids travelling to Perryton and vice versa ... (270 miles, each way)

Killer and Canyon

Small world, I was K's qb for his first football team, the 93 7th grade bobkittens. We could always tell the weekends that K took a trip south to see W (pre marriage) as he would be all smiles for a day or two and let us goof off in class...good times.