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Mobile Manor’s good Samaritans

By Michael Corcoran | Sunday, September 17, 2006, 07:04 PM

While Barton Springs Road turned into a virtual swap meet of head shops and bottled-water merchants during ACL weekend, several residents of the Mobile Manor RV Park took it upon themselves to provide free water, food and a cooling station (a garden hose set to “mist”) to those attending the fest. “We were thinking of ways to make some money,” said David Sloan, who’s lived at Mobile Manor for 15 years, “but then we saw everybody else trying to capitalize and we thought, ‘Let’s just give stuff away.’ We’re having a ball, making lots of friends.”

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