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2 unusual facts about DeSoto


Jamal Williams

In 1999, Williams married to singer-songwriter Surel Williams (née Sureldie Rycha Davis) of DeSoto, Texas.

Ludwig Kieninger

As he grew older, he desired a studio more closely located to his home in DeSoto, Texas.


Biophone

This Biophone radio can be seen throughout the series of Emergency! being carried by the fictional characters John Gage and Roy DeSoto.

Dennis Freeman

The seat, which covers all of DeSoto and ten precincts of adjoining Caddo Parish, went to a Republican, Richard Burford of Stonewall, the easy winner of the November 17 general election.

DeSoto Parish, Louisiana

Public schools in DeSoto Parish are operated by the DeSoto Parish School Board.

DeSoto Powermaster

A version of the long wheelbase model was used as a basis for the DeSoto Taxi, seen in many Hollywood movies from the late 1930s through the mid-1950s.

DeSoto Records

DeSoto Records is an American record label based in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1989, it is run by Bill Barbot and Kim Coletta, both formerly of the band Jawbox.

Duncanville Independent School District

This can be due to the Hispanics moving in from areas such as Oak Cliff and South Dallas, and African Americans moving to areas such as Cedar Hill, DeSoto, and to a lesser extent, Midlothian.

Kewanee, Illinois

A Kewanee boiler is also the dwelling place for the character Suzie DeSoto, played by Debra Winger, in the 1982 film version of John Steinbeck's book Cannery Row.

Popular Library

The cover art became more eye-catching and vivid with the addition of illustrators Rudolph Belarski, Earle K. Bergey and Rafael DeSoto.

Stonewall, Louisiana

Richard Burford is the Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from District 7, which includes DeSoto Parish and the adjacent southern portion of Caddo Parish.

The Life and Times

Since August 2005, The Life and Times has played over 200 shows in support of their debut full-length release Suburban Hymns (DeSoto) on US tours with bands like the The Appleseed Cast, Murder By Death, Pelican, Mono, Sparta, Pinback, Engine Down, and William Elliott Whitmore.

The Little Old Lady from Pasadena

Part of this lore was that many an elderly man who died in Pasadena would leave his widow with a powerful car that she rarely, if ever drove, such as an old Buick Roadmaster, or a vintage 1950s Cadillac, Ford, Packard, Studebaker, DeSoto, or La Salle.


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