Description: The Texas Carlsbad Well at 415 NW 1st. Ave., across NW 1st. Ave. and west of the Crazy Water Well and second Crazy Drinking Pavilion. The number on the picture appears to be a picture number and not a date. (The gasoline powered "Dinky Car" tracks which served this area of NW 1st. Ave. from 1905 to 1909 were still visible in some 1915 photographs. The city streets were paved in 1914.) A more modern brick building was added to this wooden pavilion in 1909; both structures are visible in pictures taken during a Woodmen of the World convention in 1911. (Note: when the second Carlsbad Pavilion shut down during World War II, the newer Carlsbad building was taken over by the Crazy Hotel for its Laundry and Dry Cleaning.)

Description: 1949 Mercury owned by A. F. Weaver, Jr., when he sold Crazy Water Crystals in the Houston and New Orleans areas after World War II.

Description: Aerial view of Camp Wolters looking north. Main gate is lower center of picture. Expansion of Camp Wolters began in 1939 as the nation prepared for World Was II. In the early part of the war this became the largest Infantry Replacement Traininc Center in the U.S. Nearly 500,000 troops went through the Railway Station in Mineral Wellls during WWII. During the Korean Police Action, the base was alaso used for troop training, and some 90% of the helicopter pilots during the Viet Nam War received all or part of their pilot training here. The camp (later Fort) is now the Mineral Wells Industrial Park with several large manufacturing and service companies. There is also a campus of a local branch of Weatherford College and a pre-release facility for State Dapartment of Corrections prisoners operated by Corrections Corporation of America.

Description: Aerial view of Downtown Mineral Wells, taken from the Ft. Worth Star Telegram, January 1954, at about S. Oak Ave. and S. 5th St. looking NNE. Some of the buildings identifiable in the picture no longer exist: the Damron Hotel at the middle left of the picture burned in 1975; the Oxford Hotel/First National Bank building, one block east --left--of the Damron, near the center of the picture burned in 1983 and has been replaced by Lynch Plaza; the Hexagon Hotel in the upper left corner of the picture, north and above the Crazy, was demolished in 1959; and the Convention Center behind the Hexagon was demolished in 1976. Landmarks still standing are: the 13-story (including the Roof Garden) Baker Hotel dominating the right middle of the picture, The Crazy Hotel (now a retirement home) at the upper left of the picture and the old Post Office in the upper middle of the picture, now the Woman'Club. The building across the street and south--this side--of the Baker was demolished to make room for the Mineral Wells Savings and Loan which in turn was replaced by The First State Bank.

Description: Panoramic view of Mineral Wells looking southwest from East Mountain. Poston Dry Goods store is in the middle left of the picture, and the West Ward and Rock Schoolhouses can be seen next to West Mountain in the upper right corner of the picture.