Jack’s VW

http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hnv16

VINEYARD, TEXAS. Vineyard is at the intersection of U.S. Highway 380, State Highway 114, and Farm Road 1156, on Beans Creek, two miles south of Wizard Wells and thirteen miles southeast of Jacksboro in eastern Jack County. The current community of Vineyard is the second of that name to be located in Jack County. The original community of Vineyard, sometimes called Old Vineyard, was founded by George Washington Vineyard in the 1880s. Water found on the property was unfit for drinking, but cured G. W. Vineyard’s chronic leg sores and eye disease. Vineyard received a post office in 1882, and in 1914 the name was changed to Wizard Wells. In 1890 the community had a population of 100, a general store, blacksmith, and a barber. A new community was formed two miles south of Wizard Wells, around the depot of the Chicago, Rock Island and Texas Railway, eventually called the Chicago, Rock Island, and Santa Fe, when it was constructed in 1899 from Bridgeport to Jacksboro. In 1915, when old Vineyard was renamed Wizard Wells, the new community centered around the depot took the name of Vineyard.

https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2013/11/21/new-2/

OMG: VWX Town!

One singular thalamus has the ‘v-shape’…2 together make the ‘w-shape’.
The literal peoples car…Volks-Wagen….’STUVWXYZ’ (VW alphabet order and XY 23 chromosomes)

The Man Behind The Curtain.

The Wizard Cube; VW conjunction to the east again; involved W is first letter of WIZARD.

Directly east of Jack County, Texas we have Wise County, almost the same size and dimensions of Jack but with over 6 times the amount of people per the 2010 census.

Jack Nicholson (Devil). Ray Wise (Devil).

Wise has also be compared with Wizard here.

Important here may be the town of Runaway Beach (close to Vineyard + Wizard Wells) on the west side of Jack, and also Chico and Alvord. Okay, maybe not the latter two, but still: Runaway Beach, which I think may refer to the song “Runaway” by Del Shannon, referenced in Tom Petty’s “Running Down a Dream”.

2 versions of a Petty, Texas have already been highlighted in this blog.

Tom Petty’s “Running Down a Dream” might make a nice alternate soundtrack for Jack’s initial trip to the Overlook Hotel during the movie’s opening scenes, driving his yellow VW through the beautiful Montana mountains toward his caretaker position interview. And in fact, this is what happened.

Songwriters: Lynne, Jeff / Petty, Tom / Campbell, Michael
By Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne and Mike Campbell

It was a beautiful day, the sun beat down
I had the radio on, I was drivin’
Trees flew by, me and Del were singin’ little Runaway
I was flyin’

Chorus
Yeah runnin’ down a dream
That never would come to me
Workin’ on a mystery, goin’ wherever it leads
Runnin’ down a dream

I felt so good like anything was possible
I hit cruise control and rubbed my eyes
The last three days the rain was un-stoppable
It was always cold, no sunshine

(Repeat Chorus)

I rolled on as the sky grew dark
I put the pedal down to make some time
There’s something good waitin’ down this road
I’m pickin’ up whatever’s mine