[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.
Holding Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library
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Camp Wolters - Texas
Date: 1945
Creator: Camp Wolters Studio
Description: Panoramic view of Camp Wolters, TX. Labels on photo identify (l to r) Area No. 4, Sports Arena, Service Club, Area No. 5, Area No. 3, Area No. 2, and Area No.1. Platoons of soldiers are marching on the left side of the photo.
Holding Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library
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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.
Holding Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library
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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.
Holding Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library
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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
Holding Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library
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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.
Holding Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library
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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.
Holding Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library
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[Crazy Water Company - Stock Certificate]
Date: 1948-09-23
Creator: unknown
Description: Certificate for 250 shares of Capital Stock in the Crazy Water Company belonging to Boyce Ditto.
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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.
Holding Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library
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[Firing and Deflection Conversion Tables]
Date: 1940-11-01
Creator: United States. Army. Ordnance Dept.
Description: This document includes two pages, each with a separate table. The first table is a chart that shows range and elevation for firing particular mortar shells. The second page includes a chart with range and deflection (presumably for the same kind of shells) as well as notes which give additional instructions.
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