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- [The First Air-Mail Service to Mineral Wells]
- The first batch of airmail arrived in Mineral Wells, 1947, 6:30 pm. Individuals from left are: 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, an unidentified pilot, D.C. Harris, Postmaster (holding the mail bag) and R. T. Jones. The airplane in the background, a Cessna 190, was probably the one used to transport the mail. It appeared to be a cold day, as the officials are all wearing coats. (A negative accompanying this picture depicted a "Christmas rush at the old Post Office")
- [The Crazy Hotel Pavilion]
- A handwritten note on the back of the picture identifies this as "Crazy Hotel Pavilion 1940 Cigar Stand and Shine Stand." Please notice Leon Cross, the "Shoe-shine boy", who operated the stand for years, in the white shirt to the left of the Shine Stand. This pavilion is off the hotel lobby, behind and west of the elevators of the second Crazy Hotel. A fire started March 15, 1925, in the drugstore next to the bath house of the first Crazy Hotel which adjoined the Crazy Flats (second Crazy Pavilion). The fire destroyed all the 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, from which Boyce Ditto served mineral water for many years, is at the opposite end of the pavilion, left of the shoe-shine and Cigar Stand, with its striped awning. In its heyday during the health-spa era of the "City built on Water," the bar served four different strengths of mineral water. The bar is still in existence today although inactive. The mezzanine around the drinking pavilion was lined with offices, primarily those of doctors.
- [The Crazy Gang Bus]
- A radio show, broadcast at noon and advertising Crazy Water Crystals over the Texas Quality Network, became so popular that the radio gang found themselves in great demand for personal appearances. To accommodate their audiences, the band traveled in their own bus, shown here. On the back of the photograph is stamped "A. F. Weaver Photography 412 North Oak Avenue Mineral Wells, Texas 76067." Dated: 1940. Please note: ZIP codes were not in existence in 1940. Its appearance here with the date of 1940 cannot be easily explained.
- [The Crazy Bottling Plant]
- The Crazy Water Bottling Plant and Crazy Water Tower are shown here. The plant was built in 1919 at a cost of $85,000, and is located at 300 NW 7th Street. The location was once the original 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. The date on back of photograph is given as 1940.
- Standard [Well and Amusement Park]
- Formerly the Vichy Well, it was re-named the Standard Well and Amusement Park. Note the large mineral water bottle sign in the lower right hand corner of the picture. The building was torn down during World War II, and replaced by USO Club. The North Oak Community Center is at this location as of 2008. Information about it was taken from A.F. Weaver "Time Was" page 67.
- [The Crazy Water Crystal Factory]
- Shown here is 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 the earliest "instant" beverages without the added cost of the supplying company's shipping water.
- [A 1949 Mercury]
- Illustrated here is a photograph of a 1949 Mercury that was owned by A.F.Weaver, Jr. when he sold Crazy Water Crystals in the Houston and New Orleans areas. Mr. Weaver's father moved to Mineral Wells in the 1930's to manage the Crazy Water Company's operations. Art, Jr. became a salesman for Crazy Water Crystals following World War II.
- [The Crazy Crystal Bottling Plant]
- A picture of the interior of the Crazy Bottling Plant, ladies are shown bottling Crazy Fiz, a copyrighted beverage created by infusing cooled mineral water with carbon dioxide. The men shown here appear to be checking the process in preparation for the bottling of the Crazy Fiz, while the ladies bottle and crate the finished product for shipment. Note the plant's scrupulous cleanliness, and the fact that all employees are dressed in white.
- [Lake Mineral Wells, 1 of 4, Flood Stage]
- Lake Mineral Wells, Mineral Wells State Park, is shown here in flood stage. Heavy spring rains dumped 7.2 inches of rainfall into the area over a violent week-end in March 1976, resulting in a flood that claimed 24 lives in fire- and water-related incidents. The dam is visible on the far left side of the picture, with water flowing over it. Flood waters cover a large part of the land between the photographer and the dam. The public boat ramp and fueling station are on the peninsula at the far right side of the picture. The picture is part of a group of films labeled "1977", but related news articles give the date as March of the previous year.
- Crazy Paper Box Company
- The Crazy Water Company built a plant in 1919 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 1930's, crystal operations were reduced and the box operation was diversified. A Mr. Breidling bought the machinery to construct boxes in 1940. He remained with the factory when it was sold to Pollock (A subsidiary of Regis). They added 22000 square feet to the plant, over and above the 56000 square feet already in existence.. They introduced two new machines into the plant, and got rid of the old ones. The plant continues (2016) to produced boxes for Christmas presents. Rumor has it (2016) that the Crazy Water industry plans to re-open the plant to produced Crazy Crystals again. "'Treetop' Erwin, left, was the driver of the Crazy Box Company truck" is written on the back of the photograph. The photograph is dated 1940, and can be found in A. F. Weaver's book, "TIME WAS In Mineral Wells", First Edition, 1974, on page 28. Special note: By magnifying the picture so as to be able to read the license plate of the truck, the date "42" becomes visible.
- [Mineral Wells High School]
- This view of Mineral Wells High School, taken from the east in 1940, shows the 1884 "Little Rock School House" (Mineral Wells' first public school) on the north side of the high school. The larger school was built at 101 NW 5th Avenue in 1915. The second high school in Mineral Wells, it still [2008] stands. Three other high schools have been built since the last class graduated from this one in 1955.
- Crazy Hotel
- The east side of the second Crazy Hotel in the 400 block of N. Oak Avenue is illustrated here. Across NE 3rd. street, to the left, is Renfro's Drugs (at 319 north Oak Street). The low building on the right is the Hotel's drinking pavilion, and has a sign on it proclaiming a public auction of homes, business sites and farm land to take place January 20-21-22. This is a rare view (from the North-East) of the north back side of the hotel. Cars, of the late 1930's, are double-parked and visible in the middle of the street along the east side of the Crazy. (Head-in angle parking in Mineral Wells was changed to parallel parking in 1938, shortly before America was drawn into World War II.)
- Palo Pinto County Star (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, February 9, 1945
- A weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that included local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- Palo Pinto County Star (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, October 27, 1944
- A weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that included local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- Palo Pinto County Star (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, September 15, 1944
- A weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that included local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- Palo Pinto County Star (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, November 3, 1944
- A weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that included local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- Palo Pinto County Star (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, July 31, 1942
- A weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that included local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- The Longhorn (Camp Wolters, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, July 7, 1944
- Weekly newspaper from Camp Wolters, Mineral Wells, Texas that includes news of interest to United States Army personnel at Camp Wolters.
- Historical and Pictorial Review: National Guard of the State of Texas, 1940
- Book describing the history of the U.S. National Guard in Texas including a written description of involvement in actions as well as lists of various important persons and locations. It also includes a pictorial yearbook of the members of the National Guard for 1940.
- Palo Pinto County Star (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, February 9, 1940
- Weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- Palo Pinto County Star (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, December 20, 1940
- Weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- Palo Pinto County Star (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, April 5, 1940
- Weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- Palo Pinto County Star (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, April 12, 1940
- Weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- Palo Pinto County Star (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, July 19, 1940
- Weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- Palo Pinto County Star (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, May 31, 1940
- Weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- Palo Pinto County Star (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, November 1, 1940
- Weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- Palo Pinto County Star (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, January 12, 1940
- Weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- Palo Pinto County Star (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, March 8, 1940
- Weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- Palo Pinto County Star (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, January 26, 1940
- Weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- Palo Pinto County Star (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, December 6, 1940
- Weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- Palo Pinto County Star (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, November 29, 1940
- Weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- Palo Pinto County Star (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, September 27, 1940
- Weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- Palo Pinto County Star (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, June 14, 1940
- Weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- Palo Pinto County Star (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, March 15, 1940
- Weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- Palo Pinto County Star (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, August 23, 1940
- Weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- Palo Pinto County Star (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, February 2, 1940
- Weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- Palo Pinto County Star (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, October 18, 1940
- Weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- Palo Pinto County Star (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, June 7, 1940
- Weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- Palo Pinto County Star (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 34, Ed. 1 Friday, February 23, 1940
- Weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- Palo Pinto County Star (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, July 12, 1940
- Weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- Palo Pinto County Star (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 35, Ed. 1 Friday, March 1, 1940
- Weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- Palo Pinto County Star (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, August 2, 1940
- Weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- Palo Pinto County Star (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, June 21, 1940
- Weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- Palo Pinto County Star (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, April 19, 1940
- Weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- Palo Pinto County Star (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, March 22, 1940
- Weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- Palo Pinto County Star (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, September 13, 1940
- Weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- Palo Pinto County Star (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, August 9, 1940
- Weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- Palo Pinto County Star (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, March 29, 1940
- Weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- Palo Pinto County Star (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, February 16, 1940
- Weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- Palo Pinto County Star (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, May 3, 1940
- Weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.