Down in Texas comic poem card, Texas, 1954

Subject: Comics & Humor
Card type: Linen
Date: c. 1954 (Chrome)

Back of Down in Texas comic poem card, Texas, 1954, Miss Elaine Steele, WI, USA, c. 1954 linen postcard — Back

About this postcard

A novelty comic card titled "Down in Texas," printed in blue with cartoon vignettes — a saguaro cactus in a desert landscape, a red Texas star entwined with bluebonnets, a cowboy on a bucking yellow horse, a small red mission-style building with palms, and a figure riding a horseshoe — surrounding a long tall-tale poem about Texas boasting, gunplay, heat and sleet. The verse is a piece of mid-century Western humor playing on the state's rough-and-tumble reputation. The card was copyrighted by the E. C. Kropp Co. of Milwaukee, a prolific publisher of linen-texture view and comic cards from the 1930s into the 1950s.

Postcard Details

Message · English

If all of you and of Bobby, We but they look mighty nice so We want to come to Cal. Monday if possible all depends on weather they wanted to fly here and go to Cal. with us, we didn't hear yet. We were at the museum yesterday and saw Curt Elaine's home, love to all, Grandma

PublisherE. C. Kropp Co.

DOWN IN TEXAS We're down here in old Texas, Where you never have the blues, Where the bandits steal the jitneys And the Marshals steal the booze; Where the buildings horn the sky- line, Where the populace is boost, Where they shoot men just for pastime, Where the chickens never roost, Where the stickup men are wary And the bullets fall like hail; Where each pocket has a pistol And each pistol's good for jail; Where they always hang the jury, Where they never hang a man If you call a man a liar, you Get home the best you can; Where you get up in the morning In a world of snow and sleet And you come home in the evening Suffocating in the heat; Where the jitneys whiz about you And the street cars barely creep; Where the burglars pick your pockets While you "lay me down to sleep;" Where the bulldogs all have rabies, And the rabbits they have fleas; Where the big girls, like the wee ones, Wear their dresses to their knees; Where you whisk out in the morn- ing Just to give your health a chance; Say "Howdy" to some fellow who Shoots big holes in your pants; Where wise owls are afraid to hoot And birds don't dare to sing, For it's hell down here in Texas, Where they all shoot on the wing.

PostmarkedEl Paso, TX, January 7, 1954

Addressed to

Miss Elaine Steele

217 Walnut St. Oconomowoc, WI

Postcard record

Postmarked	January 7, 1954, El Paso, TX
Publisher	E. C. Kropp Co.
Series	T42 12582
Condition	Good
Place addressed	Miss Elaine Steele, 217 Walnut St., Oconomowoc, WI
Place mentioned	Texas, TX
Stamp	2c John Adams, red, perforated on all sides
Notes	Linen-textured stock; paper loss and scuffs along the top edge, light corner wear. Copyright line and number T42 printed at lower left.

Cite this card

Down in Texas comic poem card, Texas, 1954, postcard, c. 1954. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/down-in-texas-comic-poem-card-texas-1954. Accessed November 2, 2026.