Jerry Reed
Jerry Reed
Jerry Reed Hubbard, known professionally as Jerry Reed, was an American country music singer, guitarist, and songwriter, as well as an actor who appeared in more than a dozen films. His signature songs included “Guitar Man,” “U.S. Male,” “A Thing Called Love,” “Alabama Wild Man,” “Amos Moses,” “When You're Hot, You're Hot”, “Ko-Ko Joe,” “Lord, Mr. Ford,” “East Bound and Down”, “The Bird,” and “She Got the Goldmine.”...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth20 March 1937
CityAtlanta, GA
CountryUnited States of America
The Purple Cow had a barber shop. There's just a ton of history here. It's kind of reliving itself again.
Merchants and restaurants can't serve all of the people properly. If you have a quart jar and give me a gallon of juice, I'm going to sell a quart...you cannot give proper service when inundated with too many people at once.
We have other special projects in mind for the property that will ultimately be driven by the needs of both tourists and locals. In the meantime, we're working hard to keep our visitors happy and to bring in more visitors to Bandera, which helps out everyone.
He's able to talk to anybody, whether it's a grass roots advocate, a member of Congress or of the (Bush) administration, ... And he not only talks but he acts.
Celebrities like John Wayne and Willie Nelson used to stay here, so we took that idea and ran with it. Our visitors really like staying in rooms with a unique ambience rather than the bland cookie-cutter chain hotel rooms we've all seen before. We replaced just about everything except the walls to give the rooms a whole new look and feel.
I got my first guitar at age of 7 and never laid it down. Momma taught me G,C, and D. I was off to the races son!
She knew everyone in town and everything that was going on. And she was probably the best proof reader I ever saw in my life. She could spot a comma out of place, a period out of place or a misspelled word. She was just phenomenal.
Times like this you think, 'Well, we can't help 100,000 people or over a million,' but if you can take one truckload and knowing it's going directly into the hands of those that are needing it now.
Times like this, even though tragic and devastating, bond us together as neighbors.
Tourism in Bandera has suffered from the slow economy that resulted from the 911 attacks, the Bandera flood and the Iraq war. I waited until I felt confident that we were once again getting enough visitors to justify the costs and labor of a major renovation.
Young parents are working and busy raising their kids. Frankly, I'd like to see us focus more on the empty nesters and the baby boomers (in their 50s and early 60s).
Our ultimate objective is to find artisans who create something that people will want to leave San Antonio to come see.
You can have music and it will stand alone by itself, but you can't have a movie without it.
We want Old Town Square to be a focal point for fun in Bandera, a place where locals can hold their special events and meetings, or just visit us for a relaxing dinner with friends on the patio. Likewise, tourists can use Old Town Square as a home base during their visit to Bandera. They can stay overnight and dine with us, but also explore all that Bandera has to offer. This was the place to come to. We want to make it that kind of place again.