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re: What is the story with Vidor Texas?
Posted on 6/6/23 at 1:30 pm to lake chuck fan
Posted on 6/6/23 at 1:30 pm to lake chuck fan
That was Jasper you fool 
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Posted on 6/6/23 at 1:30 pm to TIGERHOLD
I think catfish Cooley lives there
Posted on 6/6/23 at 1:32 pm to lake chuck fan
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It's always been known as a place not welcoming of blacks. It cemented this reputation in 1998 when 3 white men drug an older black man behind their truck until he died.
completely different town.
Posted on 6/6/23 at 1:37 pm to TexasTiger89
Posted on 6/6/23 at 1:40 pm to Sam Quint
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It's always been known as a place not welcoming of blacks. It cemented this reputation in 1998 when 3 white men drug an older black man behind their truck until he died.
completely different town.
Your right. My bad. Sorry for the bad info.
Posted on 6/6/23 at 1:42 pm to TIGERHOLD
Listen to daryl wright on vidor texas.
Claims they were openly racist and yet oddly nice to him
Claims they were openly racist and yet oddly nice to him
Posted on 6/6/23 at 1:52 pm to TIGERHOLD
Every time I think of Vidor I think of the Thin Blue Line documentary
Posted on 6/6/23 at 1:57 pm to jdd48
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Many years ago there was a guy in Lafayette named Darrell Flinn with a public access tv show on Acadiana Open Network
Oh shite I had completely forgotten about this guy and his show until reading this. I was in shock the first time I saw his show.
Posted on 6/6/23 at 2:04 pm to TexasTiger89
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Pretty sure it is still up. Maybe a different version.
Thanks for sharing that. Always pissed me off driving past it with no action. Anything come of the case?
Posted on 6/6/23 at 2:05 pm to Jimbeaux
Most do have tattoos and piercings. Wild crowd.
Posted on 6/6/23 at 3:08 pm to TIGERHOLD
Vidor has a reputation.
It’s also safer for blacks than any US inner city is for whites.
It’s also safer for blacks than any US inner city is for whites.
Posted on 6/6/23 at 3:19 pm to TIGERHOLD
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On a side note, I liked Beaumont. It has a cool downtown area, almost frozen in the early 20th century. Texas has never struck me as a vacation destination, I guess that's why I have never really been there despite living fairly close to it.
A lot to unpack here
Texas has a shitload of things to do for a tourist. I mean, it’s a huge state. I can only imagine what you’d find interesting if you likes Beaumont. That place is a shithole, but I can appreciate the same stuff you mentioned about a place being stuck in time. Hell, I’m the guy that liked going to Detroit and Cleveland.
Posted on 6/6/23 at 3:22 pm to stout
quote:I can remember being in Vidor in 1989 and several locals referring to a part of town as the zoo.
I do remember that when they built Government housing in Vidor and put a fence around it the locals allegedly called it their zoo.
Posted on 6/6/23 at 3:27 pm to TIGERHOLD
Interesting thread...I grew up in Vidor...apart from the media reputation, it's no different than several other largely segregated communities that are in SE Texas.
Posted on 6/6/23 at 4:07 pm to TIGERHOLD
Country singer George Jones lived there. My uncle Lloyd liv d in Beaumont and knew George back in the 1960’s.
Posted on 6/6/23 at 4:11 pm to TIGERHOLD
Yeah, never been there, but from what I understand it is one of the more infamous "sundown towns." There's several of those in various states, but Vidor was well known.
Posted on 6/6/23 at 4:31 pm to AUstar
I taught at Vidor High School for 24 years and I can honestly say that the people of Vidor are some of the nicest I have ever met. Sure Vidor was known as a Sundown town 40 years ago but that era has long gone. One thing that has not been mentioned is the fact that Vidor has a large Mormon population as well as more churches than any city its size per capita.
The citizens of Vidor are the first to roll up their sleeves and help others in times of disasters. After both hurricanes and the flood of 2019 in Lake Charles Vidor families came over in droves to help with supplies, money and manual labor.
I have nothing but love for Vidor and wish its reputation would fade away because it’s not the same city anymore.
The citizens of Vidor are the first to roll up their sleeves and help others in times of disasters. After both hurricanes and the flood of 2019 in Lake Charles Vidor families came over in droves to help with supplies, money and manual labor.
I have nothing but love for Vidor and wish its reputation would fade away because it’s not the same city anymore.
Posted on 6/6/23 at 4:42 pm to TIGERHOLD
Buddies grandpa was the mayor at one time. That’s all I got.
Posted on 6/6/23 at 5:21 pm to sidewalkside
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It's known as the most openly racist city.
Harrison, Arkansas enters the chat
Posted on 6/6/23 at 6:51 pm to stout
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Vidor used to be a sundown town
The older people tell me there were actual signs warning some people not to let the sun set on their arse in town.
eta: The sign even used the hard R.
This post was edited on 6/6/23 at 7:19 pm
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