Archived Feature:
Waco, Texas
Waco, Texas earned a special place in modern American culture when it became the scene for the standoff between Branch Davidians and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. You can visit the site of the standoff, a few miles outside of town, where a small memorial has been placed.
Other points of interest in Waco include the Dr Pepper Museum and the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame & Museum (not the baseball team, but the law-enforcement unit). While visiting Waco, be sure and have lunch at the Elite Cafe. It's been in business since 1920, and still looks almost exactly the same as it does in the vintage postcard reproduced below.
Waco is in central Texas, on I-35 between Fort Worth and Austin.
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