[1949 Mercury]
Date: 1949
Creator: unknown
Description: 1949 Mercury owned by A.F.Weaver, Jr. when he sold Crazy Water Crystals after World War II in the Houston and New Orleans area that year.
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[Crazy Bottling Plant]
Date: 1940
Creator: unknown
Description: Crazy Water Bottling Plant and Crazy Water Tower. The plant was built in 1919 at a cost of $85,000.00 and is located at 300 N. W. 7th Street. The location was once the site of the Sangcura Sprudel Wells Pavilion. The Sangcura Sprudel Pavilion was moved and converted into a rooming house which burned in 1973. Notice the home in the background. Date on back of photo is 1940.
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Crazy Crystal Bottling Plant
Date: c. 1940
Creator: unknown
Description: Interior of the Crazy Bottling Plant. Ladies are bottling Crazy Fiz, a copyrighted beverage created by aerating cooled mineral water wiith Carbon Dioxide. The men shown here appear to be checking the carbonization process in preparation of the Crazy Fiz for bottling, while the ladies are bottliing and crating the finished product for shipment. The plant seems to very clean and all employes are dressed in white.
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[Crazy Gang Bus]
Date: 1940
Creator: unknown
Description: The Crazy Radio Gang's bus. The noon radio show advertising Crazy Water Crystals over the Texas Quality Network became so popular the gang was great in demand for personal appearances. To accomodate their appreciative audiences, the band traveled in their own bus. On back of photo is stamped A. F. Weaver Photography 4512 N.Oak Avenue Mineral Wells, Texas 76067. Dated 1940
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[Crazy Hotel Pavilion]
Date: 1940
Creator: unknown
Description: A handwritten note on the back of the picture identifies this as "Crazy Hotel Pavilion 1940 Cigar Stand and Shine Stand." Notice the "shoe shine boy" in the white shirt to the left of the Shine Stand. This pavilion is off the hotel lobby east and behind the elevators of the second Crazy Hotel which replaced the first Crazy Hotel which burned March 15, 1925. A fire started in the drugstore adjoining the bath house which in turn adjoined the Crazy Flats (second Crazy Pavilion), The fire destroyed all the related businesses in this city block. The second Crazy Hotel opened in 1927 and incorporated all of the previous enterprises into one building covering the entire city block. The drinking Bar is at the other end of the pavilion to the left of the shine Stand and Ciger Stand (the striped awning). Now inactive, the Bar is still in existence today. In its heyday during the health spa era of the "City built on Water," the bar served four different strengths of mineral water. The mezzanine around the drinking pavilion was lined with offices, primarily those doctors.
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Crazy Paper Box Company
Date: 1942
Creator: unknown
Description: In 1919, the Crazy Water Company built a plant to extract minerals from its water, box the crystals, and sell them nationwide as Crazy Water Crystals. Part of the crystal enterprise included a box factory. Following an action by the Food and Drug Administration in the late 1930s, crystal operations were reduced and box operation was diversified. On the back of the photo is written " 'Treetop' Erwin, left, was the driver of the Crazy Box Company truck." The photograph is dated 1940 and can be found in A. F. Weaver's book, "TIME WAS In Mineral Wells", First Edition, 1974, p. 28. Special note: By zooming in on the license plate the date "42" becomes visible, dating the picture.
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[Crazy Water Crystal Factory]
Date: c. 1940
Creator: unknown
Description: An interior view of the Crazy Crystals Plant. "Crazy Water" was evaporated, and the dissolved solids precipitated as crystals which were then packaged and shipped all over the United States, Canada, England and Australia. By dissolving the Crazy Water crystals in water, the purchaser was able to reconstitute "mineral water" and secure the benefits of one of our earliest "Instant" beverages without the added cost of shipping water.
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[First Air Mail Service to Mineral Wells]
Date: 1947
Creator: unknown
Description: First airmail to Mineral Wells in 1947 at 6:30 pm. Individuals from left: John Chamberlain, Manager of the Chamber of Commerce, Fred Parnell, Bill Cameron, of the Index, Fred Brown, Manager of the Baker Hotel, Mayor John Miller, Unidenified pilot, D.C. Harris, Postmaster (holding the mail bag) and R. T. Jones. The plane in the background was probably the one used to transport the mail. This appeared to be a cold day, as officials are in coats. (A negative accompanying this depicted a "Christmas rush at the old Post Office")
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KORC 1140 On Your Dial
Date: 1946
Creator: unknown
Description: KORC - KBS Microphne - 1140 on your dial. The radio station was founded and owned by Mr. Achilles Corcanges and aired its first broadcast on December 5, 1946. Radio station KMWT-FM began broadcasting from Mineral Wells in 1970. In 1983 Both stations' call letters were changed; to KJAS-AM and to KYXS-FM. Mineral Wells radio history dates back to the 1930s when Mr. Hal Co9llins, owner of the Crazy Hotel, began sponsoring broadcasts originating in the hotel lobby. The broadcasts were aired nationwide, at noon daily, over the Texas Quailty Network advertising Crazy Water Crystals. Many show business luminaries appeared on the show; Mary Martin of Weatherford got her singing/acting career start here.
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[Lake Mineral Wells]
Date: c. 1941
Creator: unknown
Description: View across Lake Mineral Wells after World War II. During the war the level of the lake was raised, covering a little island which had been in the middle. Fishing facilities are seen on the far shore. This is now part of the state park located just east of Mineral Wells in Parker County. One of 17 (4X4) negatives that were in an envelope from Charles W. Simonds, Route 5, Box 43, Norman, Oklahoma, 73069, addressed to A.F. Weaver Photography and postmarked Aug. 4, 1975. Also on the envelope, some phone numbers and "Father - C.W. Simonds (Clarence Winfield)."
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