It’s getting bigger now. New gas stations, fast food establishments, and there was been talk for a couple years now that an interstate is coming through here.
I was born in Lamesa, moved when I was 12. Still have family there. My grandfather came to Lamesa in a covered wagon, when there was 1 dirt road and a blacksmith. He was a cotton farmer.
Back in 2003 I took a pic of that big cheerleader statue (the "Bethel Tire Lady", as Joy notes below) at Bethel Goodyear (2:50). I think it was *Reid Tire* back then. I sent the pic to _Zippy the Pinhead_ creator Bill Griffith, and he used it in his comic strip ("Looking Up", 2/28/03). That was pretty cool. I was in Lamesa for a week or so as a field technician for AT&T.
This was a good video drive into Lamesa. Would suggest meeting a local and looking up info about towns before visiting. You drove right past important parts of town, like the museum, the Bethel Tire lady, Spurlock's Drive-In, and many other notable places. My Granddad Johnnie Merritt was the foreman on a crew that laid the bricks in the downtown streets and was there before Lamesa was a town. My Granddaddy Odes Anderson owned the local Chevron station for decades that started on one side of town and ended up on Dallas Ave. There is a lot of good history missed by just driving through with no knowledge. Would be worth it to talk with some locals and drive back through. :) And....Lamesa is one word, not La Meesa. ha ha
I lived in Lamesa about 32 years ago, lived there the majority of my life. Attended school there & graduated the year 1990 along side my friend Candy Harris who commented below 2 days ago. Lamesa is a small rural town with not much to do. Growing up we basically had to entertain ourselves and as you can see, Lamesa really has not much to do. It does have a public swimming pool, it had a sky view theater but it burned down a couple of years ago and it wasn't rebuilt. The community gathers on the nights the golden tornadoes play football or an occasional carnival might come into town and that is always fun. Since Lamesa has a large hispanic community, Saturday's you will find the few rental halls full of people who will attend the occasional sweet 15 or wedding. We do have a chicken fried festival every year! Lamesa also has church festivals and those are fun to attend, other than that. The thing to do when I was in high school was drive around the town square where the court is located in the heart of Lamesa where the streets are made out of red brick. The town has a lot of vacant buildings and people have moved to neighboring towns where there is more to do. Still, I go visit my home town of Lamesa every once in a while to visit family, drive around and reminisce about the good old days.
The mural is a senior student tradition going back to at least the 1970’s when my dad painted it. I was married to my sweetheart there at the county square.
There’s always the Chicken fry festival coming up on the 26-28. We also have the car show that already happened. We serially gotta get more events going here
Live here. We've never found anything to do to be honest. We aren't into football. Kids are too young. Food is ok, when anyone is open. Lots of abandoned things in town. People are dying and their kids aren't staying. That's part of it. We don't even have a Walmart anymore. They closed before we moved here. It feels like it's dying, as sad as that is. Now there's a toot n totum and a tea2go that are new since they announced the I27 expansion wld come through Lamesa and split in two directions from here.
Court house is where we hold our car shows. Just happened about a week ago We also have Chicken fry festivals on 26-28th of April. Getting ready for that. Always birthdays going on at the staring rink near the on the other end of the parking lot near United super market. We gotta get more events going here
I was born and raised in Lamesa… left at 18 and promised to never return. When I was a student there I always felt a subtle racism, but I guess that’s normal for small rural towns. Funny that this video came up in my feed.
I’m in la mesa for an oil job coming from Dallas and I like it here due to all the friendly people and great services for a fairly sized town.
It’s getting bigger now.
New gas stations, fast food establishments, and there was been talk for a couple years now that an interstate is coming through here.
I was born in Lamesa, moved when I was 12. Still have family there. My grandfather came to Lamesa in a covered wagon, when there was 1 dirt road and a blacksmith. He was a cotton farmer.
it's nice to see my hometown getting some attention. keep up the good work.
Back in 2003 I took a pic of that big cheerleader statue (the "Bethel Tire Lady", as Joy notes below) at Bethel Goodyear (2:50). I think it was *Reid Tire* back then. I sent the pic to _Zippy the Pinhead_ creator Bill Griffith, and he used it in his comic strip ("Looking Up", 2/28/03). That was pretty cool. I was in Lamesa for a week or so as a field technician for AT&T.
This was a good video drive into Lamesa. Would suggest meeting a local and looking up info about towns before visiting. You drove right past important parts of town, like the museum, the Bethel Tire lady, Spurlock's Drive-In, and many other notable places. My Granddad Johnnie Merritt was the foreman on a crew that laid the bricks in the downtown streets and was there before Lamesa was a town. My Granddaddy Odes Anderson owned the local Chevron station for decades that started on one side of town and ended up on Dallas Ave. There is a lot of good history missed by just driving through with no knowledge. Would be worth it to talk with some locals and drive back through. :) And....Lamesa is one word, not La Meesa. ha ha
You got it Joy!!
I lived in Lamesa about 32 years ago, lived there the majority of my life. Attended school there & graduated the year 1990 along side my friend Candy Harris who commented below 2 days ago. Lamesa is a small rural town with not much to do. Growing up we basically had to entertain ourselves and as you can see, Lamesa really has not much to do. It does have a public swimming pool, it had a sky view theater but it burned down a couple of years ago and it wasn't rebuilt. The community gathers on the nights the golden tornadoes play football or an occasional carnival might come into town and that is always fun. Since Lamesa has a large hispanic community, Saturday's you will find the few rental halls full of people who will attend the occasional sweet 15 or wedding. We do have a chicken fried festival every year! Lamesa also has church festivals and those are fun to attend, other than that. The thing to do when I was in high school was drive around the town square where the court is located in the heart of Lamesa where the streets are made out of red brick. The town has a lot of vacant buildings and people have moved to neighboring towns where there is more to do. Still, I go visit my home town of Lamesa every once in a while to visit family, drive around and reminisce about the good old days.
The mural is a senior student tradition going back to at least the 1970’s when my dad painted it. I was married to my sweetheart there at the county square.
True. Cool to see it’s still used.
I live in Lamesa. Lamesa is a good town. I've lived here all my life. Graduated here and born here.
There's nothing much to do here other than go to the walk-in movies.
We have no auctions, as far as Friday nights there is nothing to do on a Friday night other than a football game if it's football season.
There’s always the Chicken fry festival coming up on the 26-28.
We also have the car show that already happened.
We serially gotta get more events going here
Live here. We've never found anything to do to be honest. We aren't into football. Kids are too young. Food is ok, when anyone is open. Lots of abandoned things in town. People are dying and their kids aren't staying. That's part of it. We don't even have a Walmart anymore. They closed before we moved here. It feels like it's dying, as sad as that is. Now there's a toot n totum and a tea2go that are new since they announced the I27 expansion wld come through Lamesa and split in two directions from here.
This is my favorite town so nice to live in and so small 💝💝💝💝💝💝💘💘💘💘💘💗💗💗💓💓💓
Court house is where we hold our car shows.
Just happened about a week ago
We also have Chicken fry festivals on 26-28th of April. Getting ready for that.
Always birthdays going on at the staring rink near the on the other end of the parking lot near United super market.
We gotta get more events going here
Lamesa Texas it's my hometown
I moved to lamesa 6 years ago from odessa tx.
Nice town
Lamesa is also the home of the actor, Barry Corbin.
I was born and raised in Lamesa… left at 18 and promised to never return. When I was a student there I always felt a subtle racism, but I guess that’s normal for small rural towns.
Funny that this video came up in my feed.
I was born in Lamesa Texas my hometown
The never ending road construction is still happening..... ;)
Even in Odessa 😂
Sick
My mother lives there