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Only in Texas: Po-Po Family Restaurant
By Mark D. Roberts | Saturday, January 12, 2008
In the Texas Hill Country about 30 miles northwest of San Antonio you’ll find a Texas original: Po-Po Family Restaurant. Here you can find authentic Texas cuisine, wonderfully prepared. The restaurant was named by a former owner who had made several trips to Mexico and was impressed by Popocatepetl, the famous Mexican volcano. 
Part of the fun of “Po-Po’s,” as the locals call it (and we qualify as locals in that we live only about five miles away), is the collection of plates adorning the restaurant walls. There are about 2000 plates in all, covering virtually every square inch of wall space.
If you’re ever in the Hill Country, be sure to check out Po-Po’s.
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January 15th, 2008 at 9:53 am
Seeing all those plates in that family restaurant made me wonder if that section of Texas ever gets any earthquakes. Yikes!
January 15th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
AZDean: You got me wondering. Is there a risk of earthquakes in the Texas Hill Country. So I did some research. For example:
http://www.ig.utexas.edu/research/projects/eq/faq/tx.htm
Even though the Hill Country was created by the Balcones Fault, the odds of a significant earthquake in this area are tiny, according to scholars from the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics.
January 15th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
I’ve lived in Texas all my life — Dallas, San Antonio, College Station, Houston — never been through an earthquake. The faults are there, but they haven’t been active in a long, long time.