Public Works and Parks Department

Billy and Clara Maynard, Pat and Sandy Mitchell, and Rosie and Monty Blackmon went to Austin on Wed., the 17th of July to former Congressman J.J. "Jake" Pickle's house to get his handprints for the City's sidewalk project.

He showed them lots of his memorabilia that he's collected over the years, one was his autographed organ; it has many famous people's autographs. He entertained them with many stories including one about playing "The Eyes of Texas" on his harmonica on the Great Wall of China. Pat Mitchell is shown holding a picture of Jake taken at the Great Wall of China doing that very deed.