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 istakebroad
    
Location: Arkansas
Gender: Male
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< on 7/19/2007 2:37 PM >
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This is a ton of reading, but the history of the guy that once owned this place is too interesting to pass up!
Today this place is active... but at one time, it was abandoned. Before that, it was occupied by Tony and Susan Alamo.
Tony Alamo (born Bernie LaZar Hoffman, September 20, 1934 in Joplin, Missouri, is a controversial American preacher, singer, entrepreneur, and religious evangelist. He and his then-wife Susan are best known as the founders of a fundamentalist organization currently known as Tony Alamo Christian Ministries and based in and around Texarkana, United States, and frequently referred to as a cult.
Hoffman was born in Missouri to Jewish-Romanian parents in 1934. As a child, he moved with his family to Montana, where he was briefly employed as a delivery boy for Helena's Independent Record newspaper.
As an adult in the early 1960s, Hoffman moved to Los Angeles, California, assuming the name Marcus Abad, and pursuing a career in music. He was briefly incarcerated for a weapon-related offense. It was there that he met aspiring actress Susan Lipowitz (born Edith Opal Horn in Dyer, Arkansas), a Jewish convert to evangelical Christianity who was nine years older than Hoffman and married to whom Hoffman would later describe as a "small time Los Angeles hood". After Lipowitz' divorce, she and Hoffman were married in a 1966 Las Vegas, Nevada ceremony, and the couple legally changed their names to Tony and Susan Alamo.
Together, the couple established the Tony Alamo Christian Foundation in 1969 in Hollywood, California. They also manufactured and sold a line of "Tony Alamo" brand sequined denim jackets, a business that would eventually land Tony in prison, after he was convicted of tax evasion.
Susan Alamo delivered the sermons on the Alamos' syndicated TV program during the 1970s, while Tony appeared to sing a gospel song. She died on April 8, 1982, to cancer, and he claimed that she would be resurrected.
In 1985 Alamo targeted the Pope and then-president Ronald Reagan. "Did you know that the Pope and Ronald Reagan are a couple of Anti-Christ Devils and that they are selling us all down the drain?" asked a tract entitled Genocide. A federal grand jury in Memphis, Tennessee, charged Alamo with filing a false income tax return in 1985 and failing to file returns the following three years.
In February 1991, Alamo ordered his followers to bring along his wife's body when they evacuated the Tony and Susan Alamo Christian Foundation compound in Crawford County, Arkansas. The compound was about to be raided by federal marshals in the wake of a civil lawsuit against Alamo.
Alamo was ultimately arrested on tax-related charges and was convicted in 1994. He completed a six-year federal sentence, and then went to a halfway house in Texarkana.
Alamo's followers sometimes distribute his writings publicly. The tracts -- often in the form of a six "page" trifold pamphlet filled with relatively small type, have been found placed in the windshields of cars in shopping centers, for instance. The tracts predict impending doom and armageddon and invite the reader to accept Jesus as his or her savior. Tracts currently being distributed include a picture of Alamo circa 1986.
He still preaches at a church in my area. I've heard he only does it from behind a bulletproof glass for fear of assassination.
War is an intergalactic language. We're all fluent, but some of us speak it natively. |
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Allva
  
Location: San Antonio, Texas
Gender: Male
I have my moments.
| | | Re: Cult Conspiracy: Alamo Mansion
<Reply # 1 on 7/19/2007 2:58 PM >
| | | | Looks like another Jim Jones wannabe....
Life is hard, but it's harder when you're stupid. |
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istakebroad
Location: Arkansas
Gender: Male
| | | | | Re: Cult Conspiracy: Alamo Mansion
<Reply # 2 on 7/19/2007 3:03 PM >
| | | | Posted by Allva
Looks like another Jim Jones wannabe....
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"White knight... we've got a white knight, folks."
I agree, he just wasn't driven or smart enough to take it as far as Jones did.
War is an intergalactic language. We're all fluent, but some of us speak it natively. |
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Raticus
  
Moderator
Location: Tyler
Gender: Male
Ratus exploricus abandonae
| | Re: Cult Conspiracy: Alamo Mansion
<Reply # 3 on 7/19/2007 3:14 PM >
| | | | That's an interesting history on the man and the location. It always adds extra dimension to a location to know some of it's history like that. Thanks.
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools speak because they have to say something. |
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Happiedaze
Location: Galveston Area, TX
Gender: Female
| |  | | Re: Cult Conspiracy: Alamo Mansion
<Reply # 4 on 7/19/2007 6:13 PM >
| | | | Awesome! I love it when people add the history. For me, thats what makes UE fun. Great job 
'Our plans are all laid out,
take all these unmarked roads,
we blaze the trails to places no one goes, yeah!' -Rise Against |
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Explorer Zero
| | | Re: Cult Conspiracy: Alamo Mansion
<Reply # 5 on 7/19/2007 9:15 PM >
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That guy looks more like a New Jersey hitman than a pastor
Hey punk, you talkin to me?
[last edit 7/19/2007 10:06 PM by Explorer Zero - edited 1 times]
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Happiedaze
Location: Galveston Area, TX
Gender: Female
| | | | Re: Cult Conspiracy: Alamo Mansion
<Reply # 6 on 7/19/2007 10:41 PM >
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Haha.. you're right! I wouldn't mess with that guy.
'Our plans are all laid out,
take all these unmarked roads,
we blaze the trails to places no one goes, yeah!' -Rise Against |
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PsychoNJ
Location: Bordentown City, NJ - Laurel, MD - Sparta, WI
Gender: Male
You want me to crawl through that ????
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<Reply # 7 on 7/20/2007 3:54 AM >
| | | | Posted by Happiedaze
Haha.. you're right! I wouldn't mess with that guy.
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He is probably in the witness protection program. We just don't know it.
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Raticus
Moderator
Location: Tyler
Gender: Male
Ratus exploricus abandonae
| | Re: Cult Conspiracy: Alamo Mansion
<Reply # 8 on 7/20/2007 10:21 AM >
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You're right. When this turkey passes the plate, you better put at least a 20 spot in there or Rocko will be speaking to you after the services.
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools speak because they have to say something. |
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Trinas
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<Reply # 9 on 7/21/2007 3:50 AM >
| | | | Newbie here.
I'm from a small town east of the "Alamo Foundation", though I don't live there now. They used to send their members out to work in the community and they would turn their earnings over directly to the church. Very freaky people. They behaved as if they were "programmed".
Love your stuff, istakebroad. I've been in that Altus/Ozark/Alma area for many years. Have you made the trip to Monte Ne in NWA -- it's on Beaver Lake, I think.
(edited because I listed a private property ... sorry guys.)
[last edit 7/21/2007 3:53 AM by Trinas - edited 2 times]
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istakebroad
Location: Arkansas
Gender: Male
| | | | | Re: Cult Conspiracy: Alamo Mansion
<Reply # 10 on 7/22/2007 8:11 PM >
| | | | Turns out, a friend of mine bought an Iron Mike (Tony Alamo limited collection) sequined denim jacket from e-bay a while back. Sorry folks, forgot about it until just now.
War is an intergalactic language. We're all fluent, but some of us speak it natively. |
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