A 24-year-old talked his father into bankrolling a comedy club in 1986, and four decades later it is the longest-running comedy club in Texas. Bart Reed's Comic Strip opened on 18 February 1986 at 6633 North Mesa in El Paso, moved to Gateway Boulevard after its first twenty years to follow the city's eastward growth, and now operates at 1201 Airway Boulevard in the Airway Junction Shopping Center, minutes from El Paso International Airport. The club is a showcase room in the classic sense - pro.....

When it was dedicated on 21 May 1942 - with a chuck-wagon dinner of barbecue and beans for nearly 7,000 guests - the El Paso County Coliseum was reckoned the largest and finest structure of its kind between Los Angeles, Denver and Fort Worth. Architect Percy McGhee designed the building and contractor R.E. McKee raised it for 321,000 dollars at 4100 East Paisano Drive, opening as the El Paso County Live Stock and Agricultural Exhibition Building with the Sheriff's Posse Rodeo as its first event......