Remember the Milam! (Building)

 Recently there was an op-ed article in the McKinney Courier-Gazette (Ken Byler - a real curmudgeon. I like him.) that mentioned the Railroad Commission as the most mis-named office in the world. I think it said that 80% of Texans have no idea it has nothing to do with regulating railroads.

 http://www.rrc.state.tx.us/

A nice little history:

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_Commission_of_Texas

 The Wikipedia article mentions that the TRC offices were located in the Milam Building in downtown San Antonio.

That was the building where my Dad started his CPA business in the early 50's. I remember visiting his office with him, and also going to the studio of KTSA radio, which was in the same building. I believe he did some accounting work for them. 

That reminds me of the time I went with him on his bubble gum machine route . We drove all around downtown SA in his Cadillac Coupe (old used - 1941, I think. I kind of remember it was a year newer than our 1940 Chevrolet sedan. It was a kind of moss green color).

We stopped a all kinds of shops and stores, reloading his gumball machines and collecting the pennies from them. He would roll the pennies at home in the evening. I believe he used a postal scale to weigh them, rather than count them. I still have a couple of Indian Head pennies he gave me from those machines. 

I had access to all the gumballs I wanted; they came in boxes that were about 12 inches on each side. (It wasn't long until I was sick of gumballs.) Towards the end of his ownership of the route, he introduced the latest thing - chlorophyll gumballs. They were green and tasted like a sweet plant. It wasn't too long after that when he sold the route.

At one stop, a shop of some sort (maybe a clock shop?) the proprieter took us upstairs where he kept some pigeons, to show us the baby pigeons that had just hatched.