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kepdawg
03-07-2008, 02:31 PM
Anybody know anything about Port Acres?
WOS87
03-07-2008, 02:43 PM
Are you referring to the neighborhood in Port Arthur ?

...or to the now defunct Port Acres High School which became Port Arthur Stephen F. Austin before it merged with Lincoln and TJ to form Port Arthur Memorial in 2001?
shankbear
03-07-2008, 02:45 PM
It's a part of Port Arthur just west of the city proper. It was home to Stephen F. Austin High School until the merger of all of the Port Arthur high schools into Pt. Arthur Memorial HS.

Some of the best crawfish in southeast Texas are to be found there.
kepdawg
03-07-2008, 04:22 PM
Originally posted by WOS87
Are you referring to the neighborhood in Port Arthur ?

...or to the now defunct Port Acres High School which became Port Arthur Stephen F. Austin before it merged with Lincoln and TJ to form Port Arthur Memorial in 2001?

I don't know. I was referring to whoever it was that Jasper played way, way back in the day.
marler1972
03-07-2008, 05:26 PM
It was SFA how far back is back in the day?
kepdawg
03-07-2008, 05:28 PM
Originally posted by marler1972
It was SFA how far back is back in the day?

Way back in the day before SFA.
j_dog
03-08-2008, 03:43 PM
Originally posted by shankbear
It's a part of Port Arthur just west of the city proper. It was home to Stephen F. Austin High School until the merger of all of the Port Arthur high schools into Pt. Arthur Memorial HS.
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And yes that is the "Port Acres" Jasper used to play "way back in the day". They were always a very tough opponent.
WOS87
03-08-2008, 06:17 PM
I haven't been able to find when exactly the high school began being commonly referred to as SFA rather than Port Acres... it appears they were used interchangeably through the late '50's and most of the '60's.

I would assume there would have been an "official" name change whenever Port Acres was annexed and became part of Port Arthur. The only info I could find was at the following link:

Port Acres entry in the The Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/PP/htp18.html)
kepdawg
03-08-2008, 06:26 PM
Cool. I was just wondering because I had never heard of them before.