Talk:Port Aransas, Texas

Semiarid?

According to the chart, Port A gets avg 32 inches of rain per year. That qualifies as semiarid? The semiarid article states 10-20 inches per year. The entire Texas Gulf Coast from Port Arthur to Brownsville is most accurately described as "humid subtropical." --stonetlee 3/29/2008 13:20 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.245.68.187 (talk) 18:20, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

History section

The history section is WAY too long. It needs to be shortened or have its own article, but there is absolutely no need for such length and detail in this article. Frecklegirl (talk) 07:12, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Nickname

Being a native Texan I have heard Port Aransas referred to by the nickname "Port A." Anyone else hear this before? --ProdigySportsman (talk) 17:18, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Yes, it seems to be a fairly common nickname, at least in central/south Texas. -Nv8200p talk 03:39, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Yes. 71.40.207.8 (talk) 20:01, 19 December 2023 (UTC)

As a person from Port A. we all call it Port A. The reason is Port A. is an easier to say and code for you belong.Marylonestar (talk) 01:30, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Roosevelt at the Tarpon Inn, Port Aransas, TX

[The following discussion has been copied here from the Humanities Reference Desk]

In your article about Port Aransas, TX, it states that Franking Roosevelt stayed at the Tarpon Inn in 1937. Not true. He never left the Presidential yacht and never put foot in Port Aransas. He was in Port Aransas for a fishing trip and the guides picked him up daily from the yacht, went fishing and returned him to the yacht. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.108.234.53 (talk) 12:09, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

The published reference given for the statement in the article is the Tarpon Inn's own website, which states:

"The Tarpon Inn was made famous by the likes of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Hedy Lamarr and Duncan Hines, who all used the Tarpon Inn, as their island retreat while big game fishing in the surrounding waters."

Firstly, there is some ambiguity in that statement - it could cover Roosevelt using the facilities at the Inn (guides, food and drink supplies, jetty or moorings, etc) while not actually setting foot in it. Secondly, it's true that the Inn's own publicity is not an entirely disinterested and therefore "reliable" source, but it's better than nothing. To justify modifying the statement about Roosevelt, we would ideally need another published, more reliable source confirming what you say. Incidentally, the Inn's website can't be the only source for the article's text at that point, as that mentions additional personages not included on the website.

Unfortunately, people often make unfounded claims, so we can't just take the word of an anonymous poster without corroboration. Please tell us how you know about Roosevelt's movements 74 years ago - your own eyewitness (and did you keep him under observation 24/7) or other people's stories (did they)? - if so we can't weigh them above something published and hopefully checked at the time of its publication. If however you can refer us to newspaper accounts of the period, or a book about (for example) Roosevelt or the history of the Port or the Inn or the Yacht, or other such researched sources that state Roosevelt didn't enter the Inn, we can.

Incidentally, the best place to bring this up would have been on the 'Discussion' page of the article itself. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.197.66.55 (talk) 12:49, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

I only bring this up because the nature of the discussion is relevant to the mission of the reference desk— you're right that the Tarpon Inn's website is not a reliable source, but I disagree that it is better than nothing. Sources don't get first-mover advantage on Wikipedia. I agree that to modify the statement, a source should be given, but the claim can also be removed altogether and doing so would be entirely within policy, especially considering that the claim has been challenged. Regards, Orange Suede Sofa (talk) 18:38, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

I wouldn't particularly quarrel with the claim being removed, but I'd first like to have seen a little more detail and ideally a reference from the OP challenger to explain the basis for their bald assertion. Also, as I said above, the current actual wording in the article (and for that matter, on the website) covers the possibility that the Yacht utilised the services of the Inn without FDR himself necessarily going ashore, which given his effective confinement to a wheelchair and the consequent difficulties involved would have been quite understandable.

I think the OP is over-interpreting the wording by thinking it necessarily means he actually entered/slept in/whatever the Inn. I am of course assuming no argument with the Yacht having visited the vicinity on one (or more) of FDR's game fishing trips in it, which are attested elsewhere, but it might be that a biography or other such reference details all of those trips and excludes such a visit.

If this discussion were copied to the article's discussion page (as I shall shortly do) perhaps one of its past editors or someone else with interest in these matters (I myself live on a different continent and had never heard of Port Aransas before now) will be motivated to track down relevant information. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.193.78.12 (talk) 18:43, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

Aransas Pass Light Station

I would like to explore moving content to the main article (especially the history), leaving enough that would not affect the integrity of this article, yet placing it where it belongs. This article is about a city so needs to focus on that and not so much specifics on one place. Otr500 (talk) 02:42, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

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