[The Best Courts in Childress, Texas]
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph of Best Courts in Childress, Texas. The tourist court is located on the corner of an intersection and stands next to residential homes. The tourist court is labeled with several signs.
Holding Partner: Childress County Heritage Museum
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[Vichy Well and Natatorium]
Date: c. 1910
Creator: unknown
Description: Found on page 66 of A. F. Weaver's book, "TIME WAS In Mineral Wells, Second Edition", the caption for this photo: "First known as the Vichy Well and Natatorium, later the Beach, and then The Standard Well. It was torn down and the USO was built during World War II (now the North Oak Community Center)." For a time the building held the Mineral Wells Senior Center. Still known as the Community Center, the building has recently been leased to the Crazy Water Festival Association, and is slated for renovation in the near future.
Holding Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library
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[Crazy Hotel in Winter]
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Description: The Crazy Water Hotel. It appears that season is winter, as snow is on the ground. The truck in the photo appears to be before 1939. Mineral Wells was a very popular convention city, and the bunting draped section of the hotel in the foreground probably indicates preparartion for a coming convention.
Holding Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library
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[D. W. Griffith]
Date: 1929
Creator: unknown
Description: On page 19 Of "TIME WAS IN MINERAL wELLS," 1974, by A. F. Weaver, is this picture of Mr. D. W. Griffith, famous movie producer and director, on the roof of the new Crazy Hotel in 1929. The new Crazy Hotel opened in 1927, replacing the First Crazy Hotel which burned in 1925. Mr. Griffith, who produced silent movies including the "Keystone Kops" comedies, and the classic film, "Birth of a Nation" was a guest at the Crazy Hotel while visiting here in 1929. A commemorative postage stamp was issued in his honor May 27, 1975. From the roof of the hotel Mr. Griffith was impressed by the "WELCOME" sign on East Mountain (the world's largest non-commercial, electric lighted, sign at the time.) When he returned to California, he developed the "HOLLYWOOD HILLS" addition, with other partners, and erected what is probably the most recognizable landmark in America - the HOLLYWOOD sign in Los Angeles. Both signs have survived similar difficult times in their histories. The Mineral Wells' WELCOME sign was the inspiration for Los Angeles' internationally known HOLLYWOOD sign.
Holding Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library
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[Carlsbad Well Building]
Date: c. 1909
Creator: unknown
Description: Found on page 63 of "TIME WAS In Mineral Wells" by A. F. Weaver, the caption on this 1909 photo, "*Note(s) the stained glass windows had not been installed as yet and the "Ben Hur" street car tracks were still running in front of the building." One of the earlier drinking pavilions, The Carlsbad was located at 415 NW Ist. Ave., directly across the street west of the Crazy Water drinking pavilion, Crazy Flats Rooming house and First Crazy Hotel complex; now the current Crazy Hotel. In the 1930s, the Carlsbad building was taken over by the Crazy Hotel and used as a laundry.
Holding Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library
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Crazy Hotel, Mineral Wells, TX
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Description: A postcard of the Crazy Hotel from about 1930. The "crazy" burned in 1925, and this is a view of the rebuilt hotel which opened in 1927. It was considered state of the art and built with solid masonry interior walls to make it fire proof. The facility is currently (2008) used as a retirement home.
Holding Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library
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"We lost our Job at Mineral Wells, Texas"
Date: c. 1920 - 1930
Creator: unknown
Description: Found in Mr. Weaver's collection and captioned "We lost our job at Mineral Wells, Texas." This type of advertising was used by most of the drinking pavilions in this popular health resort to tout the beneficial effects of Mineral Wells' waters Strangely enough, there were numerous testimonials attesting the truth of such claims. Regretably, when the Food and Drug Administration began to vigorously enforce the nations drug laws in the mid 1930s, there were no rigorous scientific test data to document such claims or to warn of the possible side effects the mineral water might cause. Consequently, this type of advertising was banned from the '30s on.
Holding Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library
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Worth Hotel in Ft. Worth, Texas in 1905
Date: 1905
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph of the Worth Hotel in Ft. Worth, Texas. The building is several stories tall with arched windows a balcony full of people. It is surrounded by a sidewalk and brick road that is full of horse-drawn carriages and groups of men, women and children. The men are wearing hats and the women are wearing dresses. Painted near the roof of the building is, "Hotel". Typed at the bottom of the photograph is, "Hotel Worth - Fort Worth, Texas."
Holding Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Libraries
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Delaware Hotel in Ft. Worth, Texas
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph of the Delaware Hotel in Ft. Worth, Texas. The building is four stories tall and there is a storefront that reads, "Winter Daniel Co." There are three horse-drawn carriages and two men in hats surrounding the building along with telephone poles and wires.
Holding Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Libraries
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E.L. Biggerstaff "The Rambler"
Date: 1913
Creator: Hiestand, J.G.
Description: Photograph from The Manitou & Pike's Peak Railway Tour. Four men are shown seated inside of a vehicle on top of rugged terrain.
Holding Partner: Childress County Heritage Museum
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