Yep. It used to be common to see the Calvert patrol officer with his car backed up so his rear bumper was almost touching the city limit sign.oohrah wrote: ↑Fri Jun 28, 2019 9:41 am Calvert is also a notorious speed trap for folks traveling SH6 between Waco and College Station, not exactly off the beaten path. The city limits signs are way out of town and set the 55MPH limit signs coming from 75MPH. Many folks get nailed speeding up too early, or not slowing down quickly enough. They vigorously enforce speed limits.
Years ago, I lived in Bryan, and we had a microwave relay site just outside of Calvert. Needed to make weekly visits to that site. On one of the first trips, my boss told me that I'd be going to a place that the Mayor of Los Angeles would like to go to as well. When I asked why, he said that the then Mayor of LA (Tom Bradley) was born in Calvert.
From Wikipedia: Bradley, the grandson of a slave, was born on December 29, 1917, to Lee Thomas and Crenner Bradley, poor sharecroppers who lived in a small log cabin outside Calvert, Texas.