Bicentennial in Texas (Arlington, Tex.), Vol. [3], Ed. 1 Thursday, January 1, 1976 Page: 1 of 7
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BICENTENNIAL
January February 1976
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literary works written in America in
languages other than English since
before the Revolutionary era.
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With a desire to make the buildings include a dry goods store,
celebration appropriately important, post office, livery stable, blacksmith
and with a lot of hard work, the BBC shop, photography studio, industrial
under Chairman Vic Rogers, has building, pharmacy and doctor s
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contact Dr. Zyla at Texas Tech
University, Lubbock 79409.
The symposium, entitled "Ethnic
Literatures Since 1776: The Many
Voices of America,” will include
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University in Lubbock.
Ethnic scholars from major
universities across the country will
present papers at the symposium,
which is an endorsed Bicentennial
event of the University and the city of
Lubbock.
accomplished something remarkable,
the rebirth of a 75-year-old city as a
permanent museum.
At about 10 a.m. January 10, 1901,
the Lucas Gusher exploded at
Spindletop, spawning not only a new
age but a new town, Gladys City.
From Gladys City came Beaumont,
and Beaumont has returned the favor.
At 10 a.m., January 10, 1976
Governor Dolph Briscoe will dedicate
the Gladys City-Spindletop Boom-
town, an authentic recreation of 14
buildings complete with period
tertainment is planned, capped by the
72nd annual banquet of the
Beaumont Chamber of Commerce
with a keynote address by Governor
Briscoe. Rinky-tink piano music, a
barber shop quartet, strolling
guitarists, bands and a dramatic
reading will add more old-time flavor
to the event.
Souvenirs and Bicentennial patches
and medallions will be available with
concessions to help finance the
project and its continuation. Shuttle
buses will carry the expected large
turnout to the site, near the in-
tersection of University Drive and
Loop 251 (U.S. Highways 69, 96, and
287) on the campus.
Gladys City will live on as a per-
manent gift to the nation, with free
guided tours available seven days a
week, from 1 to 5 p.m. The Lucas
Gusher Monument Association will
move its Spindletop monument to the
site in the near future as part of a
new Spindletop Museum—Phase II of
this unique Heritage 76 project.
The opening of Gladys City was
picked as one of the 20 Top Bicen-
tennial events in the country for
January by the Bicentennial News
Service of the Discover America
Travel Organization in Washington.
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"American-Estonian Poets," "Worlds
Made of Dawn: Characteristic Image
and Incident in American Indian
Imaginative Literature,'' and "Who
Will Ever Hear What I Suffered and
Dreamed: Postwar Latvian Literature
in the United States.”
"The idea of linking inquiry into the
non-English literature of the United
States with the Bicentennial is
historically appropriate, and
culturally necessary," states Dr.
Wolodymyr Zyla, Chairman of the
Tech Interdepartmental Committee
on Comparative Literature.
Zyla continues, "It is true that
nearly every ethnic group in the
United States has some memorials of
its life and development in the form
of written works and historical relics.
"It is possible that some ethnic
works, as a result of this symposium,
will be later translated into English
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square, reproducing as closely as
possible the original city. The
When the Beaumont Bicentennial The Gladys City project was further
Committee decided to celebrate a honored by receiving a certificate of
75-year-old event that helped change merit from the Beautify Texas
the world — the Spindletop oil Council.
discovery — they decided a simple Gladys City is built around a
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Also included are the offices of
Nelson and White, engineers, the
Gladys City Oil, Gas and Manufac-
turing Company, public toilet
facilities, a barber shop, a building
housing brokers, attorneys and Minor
Oil Company offices, a general store
with boarding house on the second
floor, and the Log Cabin Saloon with
its brothel occupying the upstairs
section.
As an added attraction, an ob-
servation tower has been built off the
main complex to provide an overview
of the turn-of-the-century city.
All the buildings are completely
furnished with antiques of the era
generously donated by area residents
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